The San Francisco call., 1910-07-19
union LABOR
PARTY OUT Of
1910 CAMP AIGN
Organization Leaders, Acting in
Conjunction With Machine.
Effect Withdrawal
5000 San Francisco Electors
Must Change Their Regis
tratiOn Within Nine Days
By GEORGE A. VAN SMITH

concerned the union labor party does
not exist. 1t has been put out Of the
running by its own governing body.
There win be no union labor party pri-
mary ballot. Nor any union labor
party column on the official general
election ballot voted in San Francisco
at the November general election.
Approximately 5000 san Francisco
electors. who. under oath, have en-
rolled themselves as members of the
union labor party. must change their
registration within The next nine days
or submit TO primary disfranchisement
at the ha nds of the men intrusted with
the mana cement and direction OF their
party affairs. The suspension of union
labor party animation was decreed AID
brought about by the directors Of the
union labor party organiza ton working
1n combination with the Herrin repub-
lican machine 1t was given legal
effect yesterday by the board OF cleo
lion commissioners.
The election commission formally di-
rected yesterday that all political par
ties that had complied with the law in
the matter Of petitions and calls for
party conventions be given official pri-
mary election ballots and places on the
general election ballot. The adoption
OF that resolution excluded the union
labor party. The governing body of
that party had not filed petition for
a place on the ballot nor had il filed or
issued call for 4 party convention as
prescribed by law
ENROLMENT UNCERTAIN
Thanks 10 the fact that the totals of
partisan enrolment have not been
segregated by the registrar of voters
Tor several weeks, the enrolled strength
OF the union labor party can only be
estimated Based on the last segre-
gated total and a general daily avera ge
enrolment the union labor registra-
tion was estimated by the election
commission officials as upward of 5000.
Conservative employees Of the election
commission in close touch with the
registration We're of the opinion that
the total would be close to 5000
BE il 5000 or 5000. every citizen en-
rolled as A member of the union labor
party must change his afidavit of par
Iisan af1liation on or before July % or
be barred from participation in the di-
rect primary election. Politicians gen
orally are of the opinion that the fail
ure of the union labor party committee
20 secure place on the local ticket was
q part Of the working agreement be-
tween the union labor organization and
the Herrin machine 10 deliver the union
II bor party vote TO Alden Anderson the
Mayor Mccarthy said last night that
the union labor party did not attempt
10 participate in state politics as q
party because at the last general state
election +. r. Haskell. the union Ia Dor
candidate for treasurer. had failed to
poll the per cent of the total vote of
the state necessary TO maintain party
status. That the mayors memory was
faulty in at least one particular was
disclosed by the election returns for
1906 Haskell. the union labor party
candidate for treasurer, polled 1853
votes or nearly twice as many as the
prohibition party total. The prohibition
party is legally alive and Will have a
primary ballot and column on the
genera election ballot
ACTION PREARRANGED
The action or failure 10 act on the
part Of the union labor party commit
tee was in accord with the policy
agreed upon At the last convention of
the state building trades council. That
convention virtually placed it's political
affairs in the hands Of its president,
Mayor Mccarthy, and he announced
upon his return to San Francisco that
the union labor party would not pre-
sent a state ticket this year. Prior TO
that convention he had announced that
in state and national politics he was a
republican.
On behalf Of the municipal organiza-
zion and the Herrin organization Sher-
III Tom Finn and John c. Lynch have
completed a republican legislative
slate. subject TO the approval of Jere
Burke and Mayor Mccarthy Appar-
entity the delivery of the union labor
party vote 81 the republican primary
election is deemed Of greater impor-
famce than union labor party indorse
nent OF nomination for the legislative
and state candidates of the combine.
N~.r..-
such is out of business for the state
campaign and something like 5000 or
5000 electors who have registered in
good faith as members Of the union
labor party must hasten to the regis
trar's Office and change their partisan
coats If they are to participate in the
selection Of candidates for state, legis-
lative and judicial Office.
CANDIDATES on BALLOTS
The election commission acted yes
terday in the matter of the dispute over
the proper place of filing for candidates
for legislative Office by ordering all the
candidates who had filed with the reg
5strar placed upon the official ballots of
their respective parties. The commits
sion. acting upon long report from
Registrar Harrington and upon the ad-
vice OF President Gator, held that the
provisions of the direct primary law
we're plain. in that they required leg
fslatfve candidates in districts wholly
within the boundaries of single coun
sr 10 fle with the county clerk or reg
isfrar of voters in a city and county.
The commission did not take issue with
what has been described as the in
formal advice" of the appellate court at
Sacramento. IT merely decided that the
question had not been passed upon reg
,tlsrlAy by any court. Be that as il may,
an the legislative aspirants who have
filed in san Francisco viii be on the
ballots of their respective parties.
Superintendent of Schools Roncovieri
was visibly perturbed yesterday by the
election commissions refusal TO strike
from the democratic primary ballot
tbe name of William de Bell, who
asnires TO Roncovieri's job. Roncovieri
declared that De Bell was not quail
fed candidate in that he had not lived
in san Francisco five years. Ise main
tained that De Bell had lost his resi-
dence after the big fire by maintaining
an establishment and owning property
across the bay. President Gator. Regis
trar Harrington and Deputy Registrar
yenansky told Roncovieri that the elec-
ton commission had no judicial powers
and that IL in the opinion of Roncovieri
De Bell had sworn falsely in his affida
Nit as a candidate it was up to Ron
covieri to consult the district attorney
and the criminal courts.