The San Francisco call., 1906-07-27
TALK
Of HERR|N HAND.
Gossip Goes That Gillett
Is First Favorite of
the Railroad Machine
KNIGHTS VERSION
BY HUGH NJ. BURKE.

banquet in Washington, D. c., were in
dead earnest when they shouted for
Gillett as the next Governor of Califor-
MIA. Pardee and his friends were at
first inclined to view the occasion as a
convivial rather than a Significant
demonstration 1t is said that Con-
gresham Smith was the only one of
the bunch who did not tacitIy pledge
himself TO boom the Humboldt candi-
date.
Gillett is due in San Joaquin County
today, and the story comes that his
friends in Stockton are making a Wig
orous fight to elect the delegation fro,r
Stockton to the Santa Cruz convention.
The notion that the Congressman of
the First is the gubernatoriaI candi-
date of w. F. Herrin and the railroad
is spreading. John c. Lynch is OFFER
ing to bet another suit of clothes with
Billy Sims that Pardee will not be
renominated. Judge Dibble fancies that
the San Francisco delegation will be
programmed for Gillett. At the Union
League Club yesterday a leading pol
itlcian of the Republican camp put 1t
this way: isn't it about time for you
newspaper scribes to come out with the
word that Gillett is the railroads can
didate?"
a leW minutes later L met George
Knight on Franklin street and asked
him the straight question, rs Gillett
the railroads candidate?" George took
the center of the street at once and de-
clared himself.
II am for Gillett," he said, and he is
not the candidate of the railroad.
told Mr.. Herrin that Gillett could win
without the railroad influence. What
| is meant by the railroads candidate?
G f0 nd
| Is the Western Pacific One corpora
tiop may be for him and the other
against him. ] was not in at the in
cipient stage of Gilletts candidacy, but
after his friends in Humboldt had
ip6orsed him 1 saw him in Washington
and advised him TO come out openly
and make the campaign. The attitude
OF the railroads was not discussed. I
believed then, as l believe now, that the
railroads could not defeat him If the
people wanted him. I speak to Mr..
Herrin in this fashion, and I do not
know whether or not the Southern Pa
cific has a candidate for Governor.
do know that Herrin has more respect
for man who will speak his mind
freely than he has for a fellow who
will cringe Mind you, l am. not ad-
vising' a fight with the railroad. / am
only telling you that Gillett can be
nominated and elected without the as
SlStance OF the railroad.
Governor Pardee doubtless knows
that all along the railroad line the talk
is Gillett. The machine workers in
San Francisco predict that the city DEL
eEates will get a straight Gillett pro-
gramme from Herrin and Ruef I do
not hear that Pardee is walking around
with chip on his shoulder, but know
enough of his combative qualities to
say that II Herrin. Ruef. Knight. Lynch
and others OF the old political guard of
the Southern Pacific are looking for
fight with the doctor they can get It.
The idea that delegates to a Repub-
lican State convention should wait and
loiter around to get tip from railroad
headquarters is not inspiring. I am or
the list of DR.. Pardees personal friends
and expect to stay there, but I would
rather see him defeated a thousand
times for nomination than witness the
spectacle of the Governor of this COM
monwealth cringing for the political
favor of railroad corporation. have
seen too much of that in California dur
ing the past thirty years. 1t is to the
credit of the Republican party that very
many Of it's members have at all times
asserted their independence. When it
comes to an unresisting bow down the
Democratic party takes the yoke.
Senator George C. Perkins con-
tributes an article to the July num-
wherein he says:
unrestricted immigration from the
Orient would bring upon us. This is
particularly conspicuous in the case OF
trenched here there would be intro
duced a trades union system compared
with which the American system is
the guild principle is a necessary part
of the industrial system. 1t exists also
among the mercantile class as we'll as
What it is capable of doing, and how
silently and irresistibly 1t works, we
have had good reason to learn from
the boycott on American goods which
The Japanese will be always a jap
anese, and will never become an Amer
lean. He will maintain here intact
all the characteristics of the civili5a-
tion which is thousand or more years
older than our own, and between these
two forms of progress there are ir-
reconcilable differences.
The management of the North Amer
lean gave to w. D. Howells and Samuel
Bowles the distinction of contributing
to the number of the Review in which
Senator Perkins article was published.
The Phoenix Republican Club met
Wednesday night in Judge Hebbard's
courtroom at California and Webster
streets and elected the following dele
gates to represent the club at the Fifth
Biennial Convention of the California
State League of Republican Clubs at
Santa Cruz September and 4:
Charles f. Curry, delegate at large;
Frank MCGOWAN, J. G. B. Hebbard, A.
Ruef Samuel M. Shortridge, j. J. Nc
Carthy. John ]. Greif. Isadore Erb,
Fred Wallace. Albert Houston. P. Ker-
rigan, w. W. whan. Louis Clavaloux,
Joseph Merriam, A. j. Piercy, Myer
Jacobs, Colonel 7. v. Eddy, N B. En-
GLE Thomas c. Maher is vice presi-
dent and Colonel Thomas F. ONeil
secretary OF the club.
A meeting of the Republican Club of
the Thirty-eighth Assembly District
will be held this evening at Jefferson
Square Hall, Golden Gate avenue near
Octavia street Senator E. l. Wolfe
and Assemblyman Beckett will speak.
J. o. Hayes of San Jose was at the
Union League Club yesterday. He says
the Santa Clara delegation to the Re-
publican State Convention will be
unanimous in support of Justice Lor-
rigan's denomination for the Supreme
Court
Calls Meeting of Republicans.
the Ren,,hltea ,e ~