The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1901-11-16
WORK GUT OUT
FOR THE LEAGUE
Primary Election Law
May Need Friends
in Court.
Allied Corporations Plan to
Herrinize the State
Conventions.

The Republican Primary League will
soon begin operations for the State cam
paign of 1902. The election next wear will
determine who shall succeed George c.
Perkins as United States Senator and
henry i. Gage as Governor. The chief
purpose of the Primary League is to en-
courage good citizens to take an active
interest in public affairs, to the end that
clean, progressive government under the
auspices of the Republican party may he
secured The league will put forth every
legitimate influence to uphold the primary
eiectlon law The bosses are already plan
nlng TO knock out the law in the Supreme
Court, and thereby open the way for ap-
po1ntment of delegates to the nominating
conventions. The Kelly-Herrin machine
gained gained c0ntrol OF the so-called Republican
county Committee through the agency of
the boss-ridden convention that nornin-
ated Asa R. Wells for Mayor, and COM
placently accepted Herrfn-s list of SrDer-
visors. The allied bosses secured a SMASH
Ing defeat at the hands of the people, but
they will make a final effort to Herrinize
the republican State Convention of 1902
through the machine COMMITTEES.
The first duty of the Primary League
Will be in the direction of district organ
:zatlon The new apportionment law goes
into ERECT on the first day of January
next, hence there must be complete reor-
ganizatfon of district clubs to conform to
new boundary lines. Citizens, for exam
pie, who have been active in affairs of the
TO the new apportfonment that they will
belong after January l to the Fortieth or
Forty-second districts Notable changes
have been made in the districts south of
Market street
The main effort of the Primary League
Will be devoted to bringing out the best
elements of citizenship in every one of
the new districts, so that creditable and
representative men may be sent to the
Legislature and State Convention In
every district a good ticket will be put in
the field to be voted for at the primary
cannot be oyerthrown by the allied corpo-
rattons the bosses will be compelled by
the logic of events to nominate some men
of good character. The outlook for a high
grade State Convention is therefore
suspicious. Better men for the Legisla-
usually presents are likely to be nomin-
ated.
The league has no candidate for Gov
ernOr, and no favOrite for United States
Senator. The idea of the organization is
that representative men chosen by the
ton of Republican for Governor and i'll
the election of a Republican to the United
States Senate. 1t ought to be pretty well
understood by this time that the indie
pendent Republicans, comprising a ma
jority of the voters belonging to the
party, will not accept programme pre-
pared by w. F. Herrin, Martin Kelly and
John c. Lynch.
Senator Perkins, who has a long record
of good luck in politics, seems to stand d
fair chance of reelection to the Senate,
but in his great balancing act he may trip
up when he least expects a mishap. 1t
is said that the Congressional delegation
is determined to make him take stand
one way or another on the proposition to
remove John G. Lynch