The San Francisco call., 1910-08-30
COUNTY G. 0. P.
To Stand On
SOUND PLANkS
Republican Convention Adopts
Straightforward, Clean Cut, :.
Progressive Platform
San Francisco insurgents Pro-
gram Goes Through Without
a Hitch Anywhere
By GEORGE A. VAN SMITH


can convention completed its work at
? single session last night amid cheers
Tor Hiram ". Johnson and the repub-
lican ticket
Not in many years has republican
county convention accomplished the
work done by the 1910 convention so
rapidly or so smoothly. 1t was an in
surgent convention dominated by the
men who made Hiram ". Johnsons
campaign. They wrote the platform,
elected the convention officers, the
county committeeman and the delegates
TO the state convention. The whole
was accomplished without single bal
lot. The only roll cal was the first
reading of the registrars list OF dele
gates. The only suggestion OF friction
was at the close Of the convention. The
delegations from the Twenty eighth,
Twenty ninth. Thirtieth and Thirty
first districts expressed their disap-
proval Of the conventions failure TO
recognize them by walking out Of the
hau.
CONVENTION HARMONIOUS
Barring this single incident, the con
NentiOn was the most harmonious re-
publican gathering held in San Fran
cisco in many years. Party unity, party
success party progress and party free
dom were the nominant notes of the
convention. Those notes We're sounded
by William H Jordan. retiring chair
man Of the county committee. in his
opening address. They We're sounded
G every plank of the platform and in
every cheer of the delegates. and a big
s;3llery Of interested spectators, in
which were many prominent democrats
AS forecasted by The Cali. Thomas :.
Williams of the forty-frst district was
olected chairman; John II. McCallum,
;Airty-frst district vice chairman; DIN
H. Berry of the thirtN-ninth. secretary
and DR. NJ. T. Blanchard of the thirty
ioErtti, assistant secretary. Thomas T.
- flaven. Of the forty first was chairman
or the platform committee; Ralph J..
Hathorn, OF the committee on organiZa-
ton and order of business. and Paul
Bancroft, chairman OF the committee
on credentials.
WORKS NEW ORDER
The platform drafted by Thomas F.
Haven's committee and adopted by the
convention with a series Of cheers,
marks the ne worder OF things in the
republican party. local and state That
platform differs from its predecessors
in that II consists OF q series Of definite
oecEraiions and pledges running to the
ponc-es OF the republican party and the
acts OF its candidates after they shall
be elected 10 public Office
IL IS a fortnight document 1t deals
directly and forcibly with live sub
Jecls- II presents q genuine working
program Tor the republican nominees
ana II pledges the lew managers Of the
republican party 10 work for all re-
publican nominees in response 10 the
expressed wish OF the republican cleo
tors.
The introductory plank is a strong in
corsement Of the direct primary cleo
ton law which made the emancipation
Ts 10
gave the people Of California the op-
portlnity 10 select their own partisan
candidates for public office
>oNPARTISAN JUDICIARY
The platform pledges the republican
party to the removal of the judiciary
from partisan politics. And no single
incident OF the convention aroused more
enthusiasm than did the reading Of the
uonpartisan judiciary plank
BY its platform the republican party
stands pledged to tie work of simpli-
wing civil and criminal procedure to
the end that the trial Of criminals may
Ire speedy and that justice may not go
unsatisfed through the escape of Grim
irals on legal technicalities
The party locally is pledged to the
nonpartisan municipal primary scheme
providing for majority election of mu-
nicipal officers instead of the present
plurality scheme and for the short bal
lot. which looks to the reduction of
the number of elective public officers
The platform declares for improve
ment and simplihcation OF the initia-
tive. referendum and recall features of
the San Francisco charter and for the
establishment of a state reformatory
for first offenders
BOOSTS EXPOSITION
The platform pledges the republican
party TO work for the Panama Pacific
exposition; indorses the proposed state
tax for the exposition and commands
the California representative in con-
= gress for their efforts on behalf of
san Francisco and the exposition.
The planks touching more broadly
the questions OF party policy commit
the republican party Of San Francisco
TO the policies OF Theodore Roosevelt:
commend President Taft for his sup
port OF the Roosevelt policies: call
upon the California representatives i'm
the national congress to join with the
progressfves in aiding President Taft
to realize the accomplishment of more
Of those policies; commands the pres
loents tariff commission plan; asserts
= allegiance TO the policy of a protec-
tive tariff and declares suuarely for
the exclusive of Asiatic laborers.
+ JORDAN'S ADDRESS
The spirit of the convention and Of
the republicans of San Francisco was
exhibited by William II. Jordan in the
brief speech with which he opened the
convention Jordan is an old line re-
publican Of the highest type He has
always been considered one of the nil
lars in the regular orga nfzation. At
r the primary election he supported
Charles F. Curry for governor Last
might he sounded the ralIying cry for
All true republicans.
-.I This convention" said Jordan lis
assembled 10 carry out the orders of
the people given at the first state wide
direct primary election. In addition TO
indicating the men of their choice in a
most positive and Unmistakable man.
ner, the people very clearly indicated
that the republican party intends in the
coming years 10 be represented only by
clean men. The people have declared
for men who are exponents of clean
politics and that their laws shall be
forcibly and honestly enforced.
DUTY TO SUPPORT TICKET
1t is the duty of every decent re-
publican 10 fall in line and elect the
candidates nominated by the people,
from Hiram w. johnson down to the
last and lowest name on the republican
ticket. I have heard since the primary
. toll