The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1912-02-20
Hearst YIELDS
PRESIDENCY TO
SPEAKER CLARK
Missourian Says Californian
Has Been So Good to Him
Won't Contest Field
GaIIantry, However, Eyokes the
Same Spirit of Reciprocity
and Clans Are Rallied

cept the presidency this year. He has
formally declined to permit the Califor-
MIA democracy to instruct its delega-
tion to vote for his nomination in the
Baltimore convention. He has refused
to permit Champ Clark to withdraw
from the consideration of the democrats
of California
These noteworthy political facts were
uncovered for public edification yester-
day through the medium of NJ i. Tar
pey. director general and chief get to-
gether" man of what has been called
the Hearst campaign in California"
The unveiling was done in no slipshod
manner. Indeed, the ceremonials in
volved preliminaries covering a period
of more than As hours.
First there was a telegram of several
hundred words from Champ Clark to
Tarpey. In that telegram the speaker
of the house told Tarpey that he could
not give his consent to the prosecution
of a Clark primary campaign in Cali
fornia. His reasons were set forth at
form of their expression The fact OF
the matter was, Clark wired. that
Hearst had been so good to him that
he was utterly opposed to contesting
with him for the honor of a California
Endorsement. which, as a matter of
right, should go to Hearst.
Tarpey Is Elated
In the absence of searching inquiry.
1t would appear that Tarpey was so
elated over the far away response to
the Come in; we've got to get to-
getherv invitation that he conveyed the
glad tidings to Hearst, who. in the
absence of evidence to the contrary,
was in entire Ignorance of the extraor-
finary regard in which he was held by
Clark s~ss--z-as e.
Refusing to be outdone in gallantry
by Clark, Hearst FASTENED TO indite a
Clark telegram, both in length and the
quality of compliment returned Among
other things. Hearst informed Tarpey
that most certainly and positively
he could not for one moment consider"
Clark's retiring from California in
CIark's politeness had more than ever
determined him to support Clark and
TO urge every friend of Hearst in Cali
fornia to support Clark.
In case presenting conflict of that
kind, Tarpey could be expected TO be
hv u-;r af
rather than the mandates of Clark
Wherefore Tarpey issued a statement
yesterday, in which he declared that
the Clark people should cheer up, since
they were assured of the active assist
ance of Hearst and his friends
Hearst and Bell United
All of which means that the fun
Marathon distance is only a sprint for
Hearst when he finds it necessary to
make a trip around a political wood
pile. Which is to say that kilograms
and interviews are the Hearst way of
confirming the public belief that Hearst
and Theodore A. Bell have "got to-
gether' for the 1912 presidential cam
paign in California.
Prior to the recent meeting of the
democratic state central committee il
was understood that Hearst, through
Tarpey and other California represent
atives. had demanded that Bell support
a resolution that would put the Cali
fornia democracy behind Hearst as
candidate for the presidential nomina-
ton. When that meeting was adjourned
and Tarpey had thrown his proxies
against Bells no preference column
proposition and voted them with the
Wilson contingent, il was permitted to
be understood that Hearst had been
avenged by humiliating Bell
The next day Bell and his immediate
followers on the state central commit
tee forgot about the no preference
scheme and launched the Champ Clark
league. Almost Immediately thereafter
Bell departed for the east. He is ex-
pected to return tomorrow. Undoubt-
edly he will be delighted, even If he
is surprised, to learn that he is to have
the cooperation of Hearst and Hearsts
friends