The San Francisco call., 1910-07-15
FLANNERY BACK
in POLITICS ON
BARBARY COAST
Enters TenderIOin Fight for AS
semblyman Charlie Lightner,
Advocate of Reform
Latter'S Associates on Machine
Slate Too Raw for Even
Budgey Nelson to Swallow
By GEORGE A. VAN SMITH

wholly satisfied by his brief if highly
spectacular occupancy Of the presidency
Of the police commission is indicated by
developments in the forty fifth assem-
bly, district From the Barbary coast
comes the cheering intelligence that the
sometime autocrat of the police depart
ment is in the game again as chief
hacker Of Assemblyman Charlie Light
ner who sspires 10 democratic nonii-
nation and reelection.
Iightner was put over in the forty
fifth two years ago by a combination of
circumstances in which the reformers,
democrats and republicans alike, and
The nomination Of Louis Parents by the
republican machine figured most promi-
nently. Flannery's hand did not show
in the election Of Lghtner, but it ap-
-. peared on the collar Of the reform leg
islator Immediately after he took his
seat at Sacramento.
WHEELAN OUT
Flannery's acknowledged legislative
prize package was Al Wheelman, whom
Flannery subsequently attempted 10
make A Judge and whose connection
with the little diversion which called
the attention Of the Marin county
grand jury TO Flannery was a more re-
cent mark Of distinction. Wheelan has
been located since the Marin county
unpleasantness. but it is understood
that he is considered unavailable as
legislative timber. Wheelan promptly
assumed the guardianship of RefOrmer
81 Lightner and collectively they unloaded
a bunch Of cinch bills raw enough to
dishearten Grove J.. Johnson. The
democratic reformers who We're rugged
into selecting Lghtner yelled for help
and swOre never more" Lightner for
them. Through circumstances over
which he could not be expected to eNer-
else control FlanneTY has been forced
10 dispense with Wheelan as a candi-
date but Lightner remains to him.
1t may be that Flannery is down on
:Idghtner. who has no opposition for the
democratic nomination. merely as an
: accident insurance policy to cover
legislative situation that would put Abe
Ruef to the blush and that has driven
.Budgey Nelson into the realm Of re-
form politics.
DENEGRI ON SLATE
The Finn-Lynch slate for the forty
fifth district carries the name Of y. NJ
% -DeneEri for republican nomination to
the assembly. Denegrf is the chosen ia
vorite Of Jim Griffin, the North beach
politician. whose legalized interest in
the Johnson-Jeftries mill was demon
etized by Governor Gillett.
Nor is Griffin the most prominent of
Denegri's supporters and sponsors. Joe
Barbetta and Butch" Geggus known
20 police fame as promoters Of certain
. harmless games for the edifcation and
financial enlightment of suckers and as
the hnancfers behind several CONNER
cisl street leases are for Denegri.
Tommy Dwyer cuts in with his friend
and partner, Griffin. Then there are
Louis stroll and Louis Parente- Stroll
was legislator once upon time.
When not enga ged in the business Of
ststecrafU. he did politics and signed
The payroll on the water front Most
Of those things he does yet. and some
Of them he did so we'll that he was
enabled to associate himself with
Parente in the promotion of a craps
game. subsequent TO the last munich
pal election. "Old Faithful" Ed Buckley
is there too. for DeneSrL but Buckley
Is not an active businessman and only
figures in the second flight OF rare
birds behind the machine candidate.
NELSON TURNS REFoRMER
The Denegri fash was so raw that
> Rudgev Nelson. who had always gone
the route with never a murmur. threw
IN his hands and refused TO partici-
.pate. Then he went that one better by
getting into the fight for L. @. Briz-
zolara. who stands to get the primary
votes Of the republicans who have
never been on the small book and
the reform democrats of the district.
Nelson has always been a power i'm the
district The combination against him
is almost as stiff as it is fragrant but
that he has a chance of beating il is
considered one Of the reasons for the
temperance of Flannery as sponsor
for Lgntner.
The situation in the twenty-second
senatorial district. including the thirty
ninth and fortieth assembly dostricts.
presents some well defined earmarks of
that double cross of which machine
r7anipulators are frequently accused
and infrequently convicted. Assembly
man Callan. the Lincoln Roosevelt
league candidate for the senate is op-
posed by Jack Cassidy of the United
Railroads forces; Edgar Levey, a young
attorney who was formerly a member
Of iDstrict Attorney Langdon's Office
staff and Edwin T. Murray. who got
away with q reformer. pose in the thir-
ty-ninth for several years.
NcMURRAY MAY WIN
Cashidy has been consistently de-
scrfbed as butter in and unWelcome
he had been a member of Langdons
official family although only a bond
and warrant clerk. McMurray undoubt-
cdly has the support of some of the
conservatives in the thirty ninth who
have not been machinemen and with
the machines support and Cassidy out
Of the way reasonably could be expected
10 win It was given out that Finn had
agreed to accept the erstwhile reformer
and that the combine was 10 go down
the line for McMurray.
Some of the strongest and cleanest of
the machine men in the fortieth wllis-
pered il around that McMurray looked
good" After the conference devoted to
the selection of the combines slate the
signal was hung out for "McMurray all
the way" on one side of the cab. and
Levey was notified that he was the
fair haired one from the other side.
Both signals may be good for some
general purposes, but if McMurray has
not been given the hook by his new
friends thy are playing an unusually
subtle game.
On Wednesday night the machine re-
publican club of the thirty ninth dis
frict whooped it up for Dawson for
congress and formally Endorsed Leyey I
for senator and Julius Frankel, the
combiRe's assembly candidate for the !
lower house. Last night the union labor |