Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-01
MATHEWS DROPS
FROM THE RACE
WILL NOT SEEK REPUBLICAN
NOMINATION
Issues Signed Statement Withdrawing
From Contest - Belief Is Ex-
pressed That He viii Run
as an independent

william b. Mathews has withdrawn
as a candidate for the Republican nom
ination for member of congress. After
a lengthy conference with his support
ers yesterday afternoon, Mr.. Mathews
issued the following signed statement
LOS ANGELES, July 81, 1906
"To II. r. Lee, M. II. Newmark. and
Others-Gentlemen When I Announced
to you on July 12 my decision to be-
come a candidate for member of con-
gress 1 had in mind the fact that the
congressional primary election in the
cities of Los Angeles and Pasadena
must under the law occur on August
IA, and | assumed that the congress
sional committee would conform to that
date in calling the primaries through
out the county. The committee. how
ever by call promulgated July rs
designated August 2 as the date of
the last named primaries.
"a protest against the allowance of
only one week for the campaign in the
county was made to the committee on
my behalf, accompanied by the request
that it issue a new call appointing the
same day for holding primaries outside
the cities of Los Angeles and Pasadena
as that set for the primaries in those
cities, to wit, August IA. The committee
declined to- accede to this request, al
| though no one outside the committee
opposed it. The committee did. how
ever offer to postpone the primaries
to August 9, but upon conditions so
Objectionable as to forbid acceptance,
| and so the committee refused to grant
any postponement. 1t is manifest that
the time allowed by the committee was
wholly insufficient for the purposes of
a campaign in behalf of any one other
than the incumbent.
Under these circumstances I feel
that it would be unfair and improper
| to involve my friends in a contest for
which the necessary preliminary can
VaSs and organization cannot be made
II therefore beg to announce my
| Withdrawal as a candidate for the Re-
| publican nomination for member of
| congress from this district. Yours very
respectfully, w. B. MATHEWS"
May Run Independently
The action of Mr.. Mathews is consid-
cred in some quarters to indicate that
he will run as an independent candi-
I date.
There was good deal of speculation
yesterday as to whether the action of
! the congressional committee in refusing
| to change the date for the country pri-
maries to August IA had not only
opened the way for Mr.. Mathews to
make an independent campaign, but
| had practically made 1t incum bent on
him to take that course.
| One of the men close to Mr.. Mathews
intimated before Mathews issued his
statement yesterday that there was a
possibility that pressure might be
brought to bear on Mr.. Mathews to in
duce him to make an Independent race
| for congress. mo action along this line
has yet been taken" he said, "and all
discussion of the subject so far has
been of a purely informal character, but
a good many of Mr.. Mathews friends
seem to think he would be the gamer
| by such a. course. But L think it may
be accepted as a settled fact that if Mr.
Mathews does decide to run independ-
emily, announcement of such decision
will be made before the convention and
not afterwards.
Anticipates Difficult Task
I'VE objected to the action of the
| congressional committee in proposing to
change the date for the country pri-
maries to August 8 on the ground that
| it was not what we had asked for, and
| because we were asked to take some
thing we did not want and to say that
we were pleased. Furthermore, the
original proposition of the committee
was that the Mathews campaign COM
mittee share in the expense of issuing a
new call and posting notices, etc. Later,
however, this was changed, and we were
asked to pay half the expense of hold
| ing the primaries. 1t Is true that August
8 would have given us one more week
| til.
was not the date we wanted, and we
could see no reason why we should give
the McLachlan people an opportunity
to say that we were satisfied with that
change"
| No secret was made by Mr.. Mathews
supporters that they had a hard pro-
position before them. At the country
primaries which are to be held tomor-
row, forty-three delegates are to be
elected, and it was conceded that the
McLachlan forces will have an immense
advantage.
Delegates Allotted
There will be 126 delegates in the con-
gressional convention which will be |
held August 18, divided among Los An |
geles, Pasadena and the county as fol- |
lows:
Assembly Los Pasa-
| District Angeles dena. County |
ISixty-seventh -. =. 5
lSiXty-eighth ...... e. .. IL |
sixty-ninth ....., II
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