The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 26, 1902, Page 1

all. VOLUME XCII—-NO, 87. SAN FRANCISCO, TUESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1902. STATE CONVENTION REPUDIATES GAGEISM PRICE FIVE CENTS. 4 BY THE ELECTION OF NEFF AS CHAIRMAN AND MACHINE FORCES ARE SHATTERED — - o C have tendered him free space in their columns for his explanation. long enough to go before the convention to-day. amounts to an abandonment of Pardee, in spite of agrcements. i i i ito i i ing hi i i i i ; Pardee on the Gage deal. solidly by their candidate and the man from San Benito is stronger than at any time during his candidacy.. Flint has gained a considerable numbef' of votes from ) ) ties outside of San Francisco and Alameda, and when he made his agreement with Gage nearly every one of these delegates went to Flint. Meanwhile Hayes of Santa Clara is rez}dy to .take advantage :)rfI etvery ogporttiu:lty ‘?:: the indications are that the fight will narrow down to Flint and Hayes, should the Short deal fail. The Solano County:delegation to-night broke from Gage and there are now five anti-Gage votes in that combination. ALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRAMENTO, Aug. 26, 2 a. m.—The situation at this hour has simmered down to this: Governor Gage, though defeated and ahsolutely out of the race for renomination, will remain in thte fitght It is the desire of the Governor to make an address in Which he will declare’ himself upon the San Quentin exposures. His original plan was to have his administration of San Quentin exonerated by the committee on resolutions, but this programme fell with the election of Neff, and now the Governor wants to tell his own story to the convention, although nearly all of the newspapers Late to-night Frank Short of Fresno was sent for and an effort was made to throw him into the fight as the mysterious dark horse. TI Pardee delivered his goods, but the famous compact between the two candidates seems destined to work only in the direction of Gage. The Flint men are standing Pardee Kern County delegation, counted solidly for Gage, is wavering. Desperate measures are being invoked to prevent a stampede from the camp of the allied bosses. Bosses Ready to Forsake Gage. Casting About | forAnother Man. Special T patch to The Call C\I.L HT \DQC \R the organ- TERS, SACRAMEN- ization of the convention was a TO, Aug. battle for fight along the whole line Del Norte to San Diego. e contest was even when all counties other than San Di- been called. When U. announced that the San districts gave their votes he noble pioneer, Jacob H. , the colors of Metcalf were The Congressman Third . District autifully and d It matters he was e little got into the mnt, on ditional he fact is 15 to the dullest observer e down and out, s lost prestige by sion of the candi- adds to the bitter- tion, fmm the as due to the weakness f the ma e trying to rife in the rces that ~ are >d to oppose the nomination n B ¢e Forces Arc Shattercd. renew the fight for th reasonable but the Gage 1 <en and demoral- It is the general talk to-| t Gage is sur e Trades and cannot help him Followers of the machine were hot aired with the no- that Gage was invincible perceive that he and Pardee y a de- tions officeholders of the “push” g are inquiring: “Will Ga,’ze out in time to save some- get thing, or must we all go down in| as we went| the wreck again, when Burns demanded another ballot on the Senatorship?” The deputies and attaches of | the State institutions and com-| missions are intensely eager to catch a straw indicative' of the changing breeze. If Pardee, shall be the residuary legatee of Gage, they will rush pell mell to | the Pardee camp. If they get a strong hint that Hayes may get the administration delegates, the| “push” will make a break to the camp where Abe Ruef and Jim Rea stand ready to give the glad hand to converts. It goes without saying that 25.—Thel , r cannot swing sufficient | th to control the conven- | | | IR, Burns Pleads| With Pardee for Aid. + — Tom Flint will never receive the| favor of the machine gang. He invaded the county of Los An- geles, organized a fight against allied bossism in Southern Cali-|%*— fornia, and practically smashed the southern ring of the machine. Flint is sustained by an aple | and powerful column of true and loyal fighters. There is no un- certainty Loncernmg Yis attitude. | He is against the bosses from |start to finish. All the bosses look alike to Flint. | ceives no difference in color be- | tween Martin Kelly, the fighting boss, Dan Burns, the bluffing boss, and Judge McKinley, the | typewriting boss. opinion -that. E. B. Edson, the | cattleman cf the north, is on the line of least resistance, and, de- | spite the ancient feud between the cattlemen and the sheepmen, the Gage votes could be trans- ferred to the northern candidate’s camp. Gage Asks Pardce to Withdraw. Boss Burns’ presence to-night in Pardee’s headquarters caused He per-{ 1 Many delegates incline to the| | |1 o+ PIONEER REPUBLICAN AND LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR, ‘WHO, AS THE CHOICE OF DELEGATES FAVOR- ING CLEAN POLITICS AND HONESTY IN OF‘FICE WAS ELECTED PRESIDING OFFICER OF THE STATE CONVENTION IN SACRAMENTO. people of California. many of the onlookers to suspect that Gage was inviting negotia- tions for the care of his appoint- ees by the next administration. Shrewd politicians, however, in- eliminate Pardee from the con- test in the hope of gaining some whipped into line voted for Metcalf to-day. sist that Burns is endeavoring to!'be ‘repeated. from the contest in. 1898 and. much-needed support fo‘; the ma- chine from Alameda: County. The “Alamedans to-night ‘are determined to stand by Pardee to the finish. The game played:on Alameda four years ago. cannot Pardee . 1 gave his support to Gage on the positive agreement that Alameda: . retired Gage’s Failure to Elect Metcalf Wu‘h Par= dee’s Help Shows His Weakness. ALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRAMENTO, ‘Aug.: 25.~*Every Gage man. that could . be Assuming that Pardee lias thirty votes outside of the Alameda delegation, making ror all told, there'is a basis to figure. on Gage’s actual strength when the balloting . for the gubernatorml nomination begiss. strength from the Metcalf vote of 406 and it twill be sean that-the Gage following wwill not exceed 305. The allied bosses must get 110" votes. from some: source-to fme the machine programme upon the The wisest political prophets predict ‘that the- “number, desired by the manipulators - cannot be won over tothe Gage camp by any sort of influcgce known to pohlws obstinacy may result in the inglorious and dtsa&traus ending of the "pmh” ‘campaign. QLWWWWWWWHH. * Subtract 101 as Pardee's Gage is mulish-and his County’s . candidate should' re- ceive the support of Gage in the next gubernatorial campaign. It is known to-night that the Gage managers will not respect this agreement as long-as the shadow ‘of ‘a chance remains for the allied -bosses to force the nomination of -Gage —¥ | throughout - the State. of Sacramento for State Printer. Push Resorts to Double Dealing. + + The superb delegation repre- senting San Diego County is re- ceiving messages of congratula= tion from stalwart Republicans Among the telegrams received was the following: “San Francisco, Aug. 25.—To E. S. Babcock, San Diego Dele- | gation, Convention-Hall, Sacra- | mento: Congratulate San Diego delegates for standing by their colors. “JOHN D. SPRECKELS.” Double Dealing of the Bosses. The Gage manipulators are playing double on two or three of the candidates for Superintend- ent of Schools. They are endeav-| oring to play the same false tac- tics. on candidates for State Printer. The ' perfidy, - however, has come to light. The bosses must say once and for all whether they prefer Greeley of! Orange or Barker of Humboldt | for Superintendent of Schools, and whether they prefer Shannon | of San Francisco or Al Johnston | This had some strength in coun- — Pardee Tells of Pledge by Gage. Governor i‘o Quit Early in Fight. Special Dispatch to The Call. ALL HEADQUAR- TERS, SACRAMEN- TO, Aug. 25.—Some of the individual members of the Alameda County delega- tion are accusing Henry T. Gage of having broken faith with them. Thfly feel that the vote on the chairmanship this after- noon was 2 vote against Gage, {and that now is the time for the Governor to keep his end of the |agreement and deliver his sup- port to Pardee. Instead of this, the Governor remains in the fight and the Alameda delega- tion is beginning ‘to wonder whether it has been given: the | same old gold brick. But while members of the del- egation might have their own opinion of the situation, the ex- | ecutive committee of the delega- | tion was very discreet. Its mem= bers declined to talk for publici- | tion, and declared that they were satisfied with the situation. Their |idea was that, while Gage would now not announce his retire- ment, this would come soon, and | Dr. Pardee would then fall heir to his votes. Pardee Tells of Compact. Metcalf arrived this morning and drove at once to the head- quarters of Dr. Pardee. A cau- cus of the delegation had been called for noontime, and, as soon as Mr. Metcalf arrived, he, as chairman of the delegation, called | it to order. Dr. Pardee made a little ad- dress in which he gave his dele- gates the first official statement of his agreement with Gage. He said that after the second ballot Gage votes would come to him. Here are his words: “If Alameda County will stand by me they will go home with the nomination for Governor. If Mr. Gage does not get the nom- ination on the first or second bal- lot, I believe I will be a winner.” Then Mr. Metcalf said: “I want to supplement what Dr. Pardee has said. I ask every del- | egate to stand by Dr. Pardee un~ i he says quit.” It was then decided the dele- gation should be voted solidly for Metcalt for chairman and Pardee for Governor, and an ex- ecutive committee was appoint- ed, consisting of John A./Brit- ton, C. E. Snoop and G. R. Lukens. This is the committee that will do business for the doc- tor. ¢ “I believe miore firmly than ever that I will be nominated,” said Dr. Pardee. “My agreement ¥ with Gage goes only on - the i chairmanship of the convention. In return I will get his del- egates, and under no circum- stances will any of my delegates ever go to Gage. That is a good deal for us.”