The San Francisco call., 1910-02-25
CLUBS WILL MAKE
JOHNSON'S FIGHT
Local Campaign to Be Under
taken by Lincoln=Roosevelt
District Organizations
Independents Candidate Prom
ises Early Start and
Warm Battle

| The San Francisco fight on behalf of
league candidate for the republican.
nomination for governor will be made
by an independent republican club in
each of the IS assembly districts.
| In a majority of the San Francisco
districts the clubs organized by the
municipal league of independent re-
publicans are in existence. These clubs
will be made the bases for energetic
organization work and in those dis
tricts that have no clubs new organi-
cations will be started at once.
This scheme. which is in line with
the original agreement between the
! local Independent republicans and the
Lincoln Roosevelt leagues state or
ganization, was ratified last night at
meeting of the local executive COM
mittee of IS
WILL PICK OUT COMMITTEES
Chairman George E. Crothers was
authorized to appoint a subcommittee
of five members TO take charge of the
organization work; q committee OF
three on publicity and registration and
a finance committee. The proportions
of the finance committee, were left to
the discretion of the chairman. Each
district club will be asked to choose
one member of central campaign
committee. the duties of which will be
determined when the scheme of cam
paign is finally agreed upon.
John f. ellison. who was the only
objector when the agreement was made
by the local independents and the Lin
coin Roosevelt league objected last
night TO what he designated s an
other change in the program. He in
sisted that the districts were being
treated with scant courtesy and de-
clared that the league was exposing
itself to the charge of secret and ma
chine methods
"Are you going TO ignore the people
in the districts?" demanded ellison
This is another change in the pro-
gram. Where is your authority for 1t?
We agreed in Oakland upon plan. We
agreed upon a state conference of 43l
members which was TO select a state
ticket. Who did away with the state
conference? A few outsiders came in
here and picked a candidate for COVER
nor. You have cut San Francisco out
of this Now you propose TO cut the
districts out. We have been fighting
for years to get away from one boss.
Now we are getting another. That is
why we lost the last fight"
WILL AWAIT FINAL PLAN
AS the result of Gillsons oratory it
was agreed that the campaign commit
teemen chosen by the district clubs
should do nothing until all had been
chosen and the plan of campaign
worked out and agreed upon.
Among the representatives of the in
dependent organizations who partici-
pated in the meeting were: George Z.
Crothers, chairman; Max kuhl. secre-
tary; w D. Fennimore, Henry Day, A.
E. Graupner, Jesse Steinhart William
DoIn lot Rn0OS
John E. ellison. w. w. Watson and Su-
pervisor Paul Bancroft.
PERFECTING ORGANIZATION
State Organizer Max Kuhl and the
state executive committee are perfect
ing plans for comprehensive organiza-
tion of the state. In 25 counties new
central organizations must be started
This is due to the fact that the old
primary law did not affect any of the
small towns and none of the counties
outside of the few incorporated cities
brought within it's provisions.
Under the delegate convention system
the league could make no fight in ter
ritory where the staet central commit
tee through the local committees could
appoint delegates without reference to
the people. The direct primary law af-
fects every precinct in the state, and
the league will start at once upon the
two years ago.
Johnson has assured the league Of
f1ciaIs that he will make an early start
upon his campaign and that it will
sizzle from the start. His nominating
papers will be prepared by the leagues
local organizations in the several coun-
ties.
ENROLL THROUGHOUT STATE
The law requires that the nominat-
ing papers shall be circulated in at
least 10 counties and in the aggregate
must contain signatures equal to at
least l per cent of the party vote in
the state. Signatures in excess OF 10
per cent of the party vote will not be
counted in the official verification of
the petitions There is, however, no
restriction placed upon the number
that may be secured and 1T is probable
that Johnson petitions Will be circu-
lated in virtually every county in the
state. The circulation of the petition
is in itself good campaigning and an
excellent prod for registration, since
only the signatures of electors regis
tered since January l, 1910, may be
counted.
Niles claims the honor of organizing
the first new Lincoln Roosevelt club
on washington's birthday and as the
direct result of Johnson's consent to
make the race. The officers of the
Niles club are: President. E. B. Kientz:
vice president, w. B. Kirk; secretary.
f. D. Baldwin; treasurer, William
Catterlin.