The San Francisco call., 1910-11-29

San Francisco has is or more candi-
dates for every salaried place that will
be. directly or indirectly. in the gift OF
Governor Johnson, but Alturas has es-
tablished "a new record with volun-
teer who has been a candidate for 16
jobs since election day. when he failed
to land a seat in the state senate
Attorney Z. c. Bonner, who was de-
feated for the senate in the second dis
trict by T. W. Fl. Shanahan of Redding,
refuses to permit that repulse to in
terfere with his determination to serve
the public for a salary. In the three
weeks that have elapsed since the cleo
ton a which the people of his district
threw away the chance to enlist his
services he has applied for Is 5obs.
perfected a program for the reappor-
tionment of a district that will appre-
ciate a good thing when it is offered
and launched his campaign for the
state senate in 1914.
HIGHWAY JOB WANTED
According to the latest advices from
Alturas, Bonner is now an applicant
for a place on the new highway COM
mission, which he describes as going
he says, he purposes to launch a Wig
oroes campaign soon. Meanwhile he
has taken cognizance of the alleged
fact that the people are demanding a
change" / nthe matter of senatorial
representation and his campaign to ac-
commodate the epeople with that
change in 1914 is under way.
Before he decided to take on the job
Of spending $1s,000.000 Bonner had
slightly mixed as to the incumbents in
several instances; as to the salaries in
others. and he had overlooked the fact
that the old bank commission was q
thing of the dead past. These errors
may have been due to examination of
ar out Of date blue book. AS to his in
tention 10 serve in one of the II jobs
there was no room for Eaisunderstand-
ing
LIST OF POSITIONS
The diversity of expert knowledge
required in the places picked out by
the Alturas attorney modestly sug-
gested his versatility. His first choice
was the berth Of Code Commissioner
sion be picked labor commissioner,
president of the San Francisco harbor
commission, attorney for the state board
Of lunacy. attorney for the university
regents. attorney for the San Fran
cisco harbor commission. chief deputy Of
the game and fish commission, state
forester, building and loan commits
sioner secretary state board of exam
iners. deputy attorney general and at
torney for bank commissioners.
Who is 10 sit down with governor
elect Johnson for the apportionment
of the pie when he returns from the
east2 That question is Of even greater
concern to the local politicians-that is
to say. sleaders-than to the army of
local volunteers ready and anxious to
make Johnson's administration a great
success.
San Francisco expects much from
Johnson The San Francisco politicians
are entirely willing to permit Johnson
it comes to the matter of redeeming
the platform pledges, but the distribu
tion Of the jobs is a question of greater
delicacy.
ANVIL CHORUS BUSY
The air has been heavy with the re-
verberation of a great hammer chorus
ever since election day. The tuning up
began Immediately after the primary
election, and a few sounding knocks
had been put in even before that. Now
that every local leader has his own
troubles and those of a few score appli-
cants for jobs on his hands, each is
trying to figure out just how he stands