The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 18, 1902, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, AUGUST 18, 1902. DELEGATES OPPOSING NOMINATION OF GAGE GANNOT BE STAMPEOED BY NOISY, JWAGGERING BUSHWHA CKERS BELONGING T o+ Lage Is Cripple by Southem Anti-Gage Forces i Possession of IGHT years ago the Republican | nominated tee, a good and Many Republicans n of Es for r. Budd, a Democrat, was rule, and when the election Governor. On the with Estee was another here was cted His overwhelming t of a quiet and ill- n the public mind that, he would be the creat- at was a L BbEe @ gAYy candidate for re- The powerful good e openly renominati and w principal reason is the fact that hind be forced upon the gave Gage 4000 major- | He will do well this publican the par 1 suicide ren And is 50 ¢ »mina when enl the file e head of the ticket 2 y ans in every voting precinct in | State openly opposed to him, it is not | necessary that one should be a pessimist | phesy the defeat of the State ticket | sible, even a probable, election | more Democrats to Congress | State Estee’'s defeat be a lesson to the , and let them pause and consider before they attempt to force upon ate convention the renomination of , W almost any other o head the Republican ticket is sure of election, and California’s Con- ressional delegation will be solidly Re- licaf. But with Gage renominated for | vernor his defeat will be almost cer- | and the ticket a whole will be in | t danger.—Oakland Enquirer. | | | | well the S G Gage Offensive to the Masses. Thanks to the 8. P. political bureau, the lavish use of coin and a primary law that s of virtue to vote lican primaries, the Gage for sento city, two-thirds -thirds of I Gage has les of Los Angele 108t of Sacramer i | | sy of o8 nd nearly all More | lect him are view manipulators ar e's votes will the better of 5 % | ing, the forces that are now behind 1 Burns | 14 d ble th Flint, in the ‘order n ave | ed forces,and if they can hold their the Governor will be defeated. | Kkly, we are suspicious that some of on’s strength is at the command of the mer F nry T. Gage is politically offensive to | m of the Republicans of the furthermore, he has not ex- He ne and ed The Call's charges Involving his ta honor as Governor. His family have ap- parently been beneficiaries, and largely, of corrupt transactions at San Quentin; indeed, the published evidence leaves no escape from conclusion that they have been, and the Governor's explanation is merely evasive. Every nominee on the State ticket who | Modesto Herald resuit of | same | | Gage. The records of the administrations | | of a com: ETURNS from every section of the State fully confirm the statement that the Gage forces are 121 votes short of the number required to nominate him in the Republican State Con- vention. The Gage strength on the first ballot is not likely to exceed 290. When the bosses beat the brush and bring out the hidden Gagelings it is doubtful if 312 delegates will be rallied to the machine. That the manipulators will have delegates staked-out here and there ¢ to change from some other candidate to Gage at a preconcerted signal goes without saying. This old trick will be reintroduced with the hope of creating a stampede from the forces of Flint, Par- dee and Edson. The dodge was tried several times during the Senatorial contest. The allied | bosses had the State Capitol packed with the push whem Wright and Simpson went over to the Burns camp. When the signal was given the army of the bosses howled and shouted approval of the change, but the stalwart Republicans who were engaged in the battle for - good ~principles treated the push demonstration with derision. The bosses who are now playing for-a stampede of delegates from Edson, Flint and Pardee will be fooled. The programmers evidently over- look, or fail to appreciate, the fact that the issue for or against Gage was fought out in, the various Assembly districts in the State when the delegates were chosen. There is a plain ‘rec- ord that at least 515 of the delegates to the convention were elected under direct or implied in- structions to oppose the renomination of Governor Gage. L 4 — DEMNATIORN ON owes his nomination to trading with the forces will be marked for slaughter. ge can drs otes from south of ket street, S co, through the ations of F Yorke, and if nated will very ely pull through, » defeat him will mean a disaffec- uble (and more) than that in the - campaign. But no other candidate on the State ticket can expect the support of Yo d his followers, and dates w instrumental in nom Gage, nsure their own nomin: will A E ket led by other ns tory for a to e doomed, Indications of Gage Defeat. he result of the primary election throughout the State would indi that Governor Gage has been defeated as a for renomination. It is to be hor such is the case, as the people do not want him re-elected and undoubt- he would be defeated All kinds of . ed and for fusion in the polls ions of strings bring order out of which will eventu: chaes. The Republi this time to m a mis must be to nominate 2 m: the confidence of the people. ces seem to afford a The who will Cire promi support- om his meets in Sacramento ten days case of his nomination Dr. Pardec | will be pursued by no antagonism and an | mpaign can be conducted in | dis- | | without pausing to in the party ran With d of the ticket the party united, confident and monious, ion that will gre of the Congres: ty tickets. ¢ promote the | , Leg zed to carry out da are nomt; not onl € suppor > to the ticket in this county as throughout the State. That is the sid, tum for tho: who believe is necessary to and good govern- Herald. Chances of Republican Success. In the campaign which is preliminary to the nomination of a Republican candi- | e for Governor there is one distinctive | important issue, on the settlement h depends the chances for Repub- s 2 > polls in Novembx r3 n for Governor. rs of Republican party history in California no Gov chosen by that Par.y bui deary i a2 has sought a renomination, and from Leland Stanford down to and including H. H. Markham not one but what de- served that compliment more than Mr. ernor | B are in proof of that statement. Henry T. Gage is a candidate ‘for re- nomination, and the entire machinery of | the State admini and the efforts | of the State officials—Republicans and Demeigrats—are being exerted tp the ut- most {0 secure his renominatior. Where | the organization is in their hands and they feel that they have the votes to win ona straight-out fight, they are publicly fighting for ge. Where the sentiment [ 3 1gainst Gage his par- tisans decline to run under his banner, but make the claim of being “unpledged.” The man who.will not say he is for or against Gag i put_down evades that The man who not against Gage. The Pajaron against the renom: 1 L ination of Henr: Gage, Because of his frequent and per: erference with the chofce for Governor at this stage of the campaign is not apt to know nis own | mind in the hurly-burly of the State con- would be: ent of our Si ¢ ahd Parde se of hi | vention Sacramento; is that | S Taae of the Legis kind of a delegate Who, into the | 40s; thossoer Sie D. M. Burns 1) | camp and arms of W. F. Herrin, Dan |ana is “not the most for United S | Martin Kelly and the allled camp | servative of iimants the re- connection in | bosses. ] | vised figures do at least full justice to Herrin, the voters of the Pajaro Valley can |his prospects.. According to this very of the | make up their minds on the Govern i eral estimate, the Governor will have contest without suggcstions from Herrin votes, lacking -61 of enough to nom- | or_ Burns or any of th —Watsonville Pajaro; Gubernatorial Claims. There will be 829 delegates to the Sta convention. Of these Gage claims 47 Flint 318, Edson 178 and Pardee 140. Add these, and you have 1111, which makes ‘ triumphant.—Fresno Republican, the combined claims amount to about | o B four-thirds of all the delegates. Since Gage Is a three-thirds is all they have to divide,| ° . Soayy evidently sofebody is fooled. The total | Ga8¢1s 2 loser. “That is apparent from | estimate, however, overlaps the total | Primary and convention returns. Santa | vote by a less fraction than is usually | Clara County for the first time in her po- | the case, and indicates that the esti. | litical history will send an anti-boss dele- | mates are at least not wildly extrava- | gation to Secramento. Fresno elects a majority of anti-Gage delegates. San Joa- s agant use of the o $100.000 bubonic plague fund in political work: . Because of the character of many of appointees to State positions—men who are not Republicans and who are bus@parasites on any organization with whom they are connected T. Gage, if And lastly, because Henrs nominated, cannot be elected. With this : clearly before the peo- ple, and at this critical point in the his- tory of the Republican party of Califor- nia, no masquerading delegates should be sent to the State convention, no men should be chosen to represent us at Sace ramento who are afraid to express their preference for Governor. A candidate for delegate who has no r representatives. | inate him, while the combined. opposition n. | will have 474 votes, 58 more than enough As it {s now certain that the opposition will_combine, and as it is obviously de- sirable for it to combine early on a Single candidate, it is evident that the anti-Gage forces have the advantage by a margin that is safe, but fails far short of being gant. Assuming that all the claimants ! doubt. quin County is in the anti-Gage. column. So are the couritics of San Diego, Butte, ,’}mavh cino, an Benit and . Montere, Yuba. Gag s, -i3_divided;and 10, mean mentb ke, stor Ney o g 280 Hacra t dark horse.—Napa Register Let Gage Go ‘to His Home. The contest: for thie nomination for Gov- ernor 6n the Republican: ticket s now on fn earnest, With the result very much in There are buf ‘two really- promi- nent candidates in the field—Dr. George C. Pardee and Governor, Gage. Between the two candidates there is no room for a question as to fitness and desirability, for the superior qualifications of Dr.’ Par- dec can be denled by no truthful man, but that he:will recéive the nomination because of that fact does-not by any means follow, for with upward of 2000 ap- pointees to.woérk in his favor, and the almost complete control of the “machine” which such a body of office-holders gives, Gage ‘occuples a strong position, notwithstand- ing the pretty general belief that he has not filled, and would not fill, the position to the satisfaction of the great majority of the peeple of the State. His nomination would, beyond question, be a blunder on the part of the Republican party, for in such an event a United Labor and Demo- cratic parties would almost certainly re- sult in the election of their candidate—a result that no good Republican desires to | see brought about, but which many would doubtless assist in coming through ‘‘voting for any one ju Gage.” Let us hope that he may be per- mitted to go to his “home” at Downey— with no further question as to the legality of his residence there vermore Echo. iy 9 e Not Flattering for Gage. According to the best figures obtain- able by the Mail at noon to-day Gov- ernor Gage is sure of receiving 306 votes at the Republican State Convention. The anti-Gage forces control about 350 votes, and -the remaining 173 are doubtful. Of the doubtful ones at least 45 are pledged to certain minor candidates to be used by them in making trades in the most advantageous manner, as the 9 votes of Stockton have been 'made the personal property of Orrin_S. Henderson to help him in his fight for the nomination for Rallfoad Commissioner. In order to win the nomination Gov- ernor Gage must have 415 votes, or 109 more than he is now sure of. That he will get them is not impossible, but the outlook for him is by no means flatter- ing. Even if he should win the nomina- tion he will have so strong and so bitter opposition that his election would hard- 1y be expected.—Stockton Mail. —_— Great Game of Bluff. From this time until the work of the Republican convention is done the politi- cal atmosphere will be filled with nothing but the bluster of bluff. That is the stock in trade of the push. “Oh! We've got it sure on first ballot. If you want any- thing you fellows must get into the band wagon, and that retty directly.” If enough credulous delegates can be made to believe this the push can win out; oth- erwise it cannot. That was the racket Dan Burns worked in his Senatorial con- test. - He insisted from first to last that he had all the votes required when the proper time came, and so frightened many wobblers who wanted to be in oa the winning side. But the showdown groved that he had been bluffing. The age forces are running a great game of bluff now and will keep it up to conven- tion day, but as likely as not Gage will flunk at the last moment and not allow his name to go to the convention at all.— Tulare Register. to ———— Judgments of the People. The caucuses last Saturday evening were more largely attended by representa- tive citizens than ever before in Pomona. and those representative citizens passed resolutions pledging the delegates to a first and last opposition to the nomination of Gage for Governor. Probably ag or very nearly all of them voted for Gage in 1808. Few, if any of them, asked or expected personal favors of Gage as Gov- ernor, but they did expect, had a right to expect and even demand of him an ad- ministration in the interests of the peo— ple’ in general, and their action at the caucuses shows_their judgment in the matt Gage has no one but himself to blame for such unanimous, patriotic and unselfish condemnation. The people gen- erally are just in their judgments of the public acts of their ‘officers.—Pomona Times. ————s The Promise to Pardee. The delegation to the State convention will be solid for George C. Pardee for Governor and Victor H. Metcalf for Con- gress. Mr. Metcalf will be nominated by acclamation and his election is assured. Dr. Pardee believes that he (Pardee) wili win. At the State convention four years ago he was promiseéd the nomination at this time. Since then the doctor has ren- dered valuable service to the Republican party, and it is conceded throughout Cali- fornia that Alameda County has claims upon the party.—Oakland Saturday Press. 0 THE REPUDIATED BOSS MACHINE Los Ang—eiégtuunly Repudiates the Lovernar Clams of Machme Accession Are Flimsy. ESTERDAY the five Assembly dis- tricts in Los Angeles County, out- side of this city, held conventions and nominated delegates to the Republican State .convention. Of the thirty-four delegates thus named, Senator, Flint secured twenty-three and Gage eleven. It may be. possible, however, that these figures will yet stand twen- j-six to eight. Yesterday's a tion in the outside Assembly districts completes the Los Angeles County dele- gation to the State convention, which, on the face of the returns, will stand as fol- lows; Anti- Assembly Districts— Gage. Gage. Sixty-seventh .« oe 11 Sixty-eighth o 11 Sixty-ninth 8 3 6 5 ° .- b § 10 . 7 5 Totals 45 Early in the campaign it was confident- ly claimed by the Gage “push” that the Governor would go into the State con- vention with “a solid delegation from his home count Later this extravagant claim was slightly modified, and the Gageltes declared that they would have not less than from 80 to $5 per cent of the Los Angeles County delegation. The drop from these fanciful figures to fifty-three delegates, or barely 5 per cent of the to- tal delegation, is in the nature of a thud r:ore or less sickening—from the Gage point of view. The actual result shows that the exaggerated claims of* Gage and his Heutenatns were mere bluff and blus- ter. Mr. Gage has been practically r pudiated by his own county. His failure to secure a pronounced majority of the delegates amounts to that, however hard his partisans may seek to make it appear otherwise. v It is an open secret, moreover, that Democratic votes in considerable Rumber were cast.for Gage delegates at the pri- maries In Los Angeles, the purpose b ing, of course, to induce the Republicans to nominate their weakest candidate, in order that the chances of electing a Dem~ ccratje candidate for Governor might thus be increased. It is a safe assertio that, had it not been for the Democratic votes cast for Gage at the primaries, Senator Flint would have carried nearly every precinet in Los Angeles—both in city and county. These Democratic votes which were given for Gage and his gang at the primaries would go solidly against bim at the polls in November, should he. be nominated. A careful review of the situation, based upon actual results and conservative es- timates, makes it apparent that Gage cannot secure a renomination. The num- ber of votes necessary to nominate will be 415. He will not go into the comven- tion with more than 30 votes, and it is doubtful if he has more than 325 on the first ballot. The anti-Gage strength in the convention will aggregate fn the neighborhood of 5. In the eveAt of a failure to nominate on the first ballot, Gage will gain little from the oppositic on succeeding ballots. It will then be practically the fleld against Gage, and i will not be long before the opposition will unite upon some good man and give him the nomination. It may be safely predict- ed that there will be no deadlock in the Eepublican State convention. ‘The Gage shouters and their ill-inform- ed, reckiess and unreliable organs, morn- ing and evening, are still attacking the corservative estimates of the Times, or claiming that there has been “a regular landslide” for Gage, that he “will be renominated on the first ballot,” ete., ete. The absurdity of these claims is appar- ent even from thir own figures—which are made to lie In a most outrageous and ridiculous manner. The verdict of the State convention will demonstrate the su- perlative folly and silliness of those bad- ly-beaten bluffers. What sane and sa- gaclous politician, not blinded by preju~ dice or seif-interest, belleves that Gage can be renominated?—Los Angeles Times. st S pa The Unfortunate Gage. The Call has published many duplicate shipping receipts for packages of furni- ture and other articles shipped from the San Quentin prison te the manager of the Governor’s ranch near Downey, Los Angeles County, to himself and to his wife, which he may be able to explain away, but it must certainly be difficult. He picks upon one receipt which was for an invalid chair ‘for his little son bought long before he was Governor. This, of course, is satisfactorily accounted for, but in doing this he has injured rather than helped his cause in public estim: tion, as it was perhaps of the least im- portance of them all and only one out of many. It would have been better for the Governor jf he had not made an excep- tion of this little one. And now, having made his statement, he threatens to bring another suit for libel against Spreckels and Leake, and Spreckels returns the compliment by su- ing the Governor for libel. It is a pretty mess all around.—Red Bluff News. Gage’s Repudiation at Home. “No candidate can expect nomination without the solld backing of his own county,” remarks a San Francisco news- paper editorially referring to the fight for the Governorship. Well, Dr. Pardee has solidly behind him the seventy-one votes of Alameda County, and they will stay there to a finish. It appears that Mr. Cage finds his home county almest equal- ly divided-between himseif and opposing candidates for the nomination. Take the 171 _delegates elected south of Tehachapi and it does not appear that Mr. Gage can hold over seventy-five of them. Thus the candidate who has been boomed so assid- wously by the machine is seen to be very weak amon%th: voters of his section of the State. ‘here is food for tho it in this, and no doubt the astute politiclans who control delegates elsewhere will not overlook the situation.—Oakland Enquirer.