Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-25
REPUBLICANS SET
CONVENTION DATE
NOMINEE FOR CONGRESS TO
BE CHOSEN AUGUST 18
Congressman McLaehlan and city At
torney Mathews Are Conducting
campalon--lndependents
Worry Republicans

Members Of the Republican con-
gressional committee have fixed on
August Is as the date for holding the
convention to nominate a candidate for
congress. The convention will be held
in the rooms Of the Republican league,
11SM South Spring street. There will be
126 delegates, apportioned to the various
assembly districts as follows:
Sixty-seventh dlstrlct--To that por-
ton within the city of Pasadena, z; to
that portion outside the city Of Pasa-
dena. 3.
Sixty-eighth assembly district-11.
Slxty-ninth assembly district-To
that portion within the city Of Los An
geles, a; to that portion within the city
of Pasadena, 2; to that portion outside
said cities, II.
Seventieth assembly district--To that
portion within the city of Los Angeles,
o; to that portion outside the city of
Los Angeles, 10.
Seventy-first assembly district-13.
Seventy-second assembly dlstrict-12.
Seventy-third assembly district-12.
Seventy-fourth assembly district-To
that portion within the city Of Los An
geles, 10: to that portion outside the
city of Los Angeles. 6.
Seventy-fifth assembly district-14.
Total-126.
Two In the Race
The date selected for the convention
will give the candidtes four more
weeks for conducting an active CAM
paign, and both Congressman McLach-
Ian and w. B. Mathews are giving evil
dence of desire to avail themselves of
the opportunity to the utmost. Mr..
Mathews already has begun to make
the rounds of the country districts and
has established his headquarters in the
Westminster hotel. The congressional
committee will not assume to appoint
the delegates in the precincts outside
of Los Angeles and Pasadena, but will
leave their selection to the voters in
those precincts. There will be forty
five of these outside delegates, and it is
expected that lively contest will be
made by the two opposing candidates
for their control These delegates, to-
gether with those from Pasadena and
twelve from Los Angeles, would give
majority in the convention.
Congressman McLachland's friends
profess to see an easy victory in sight
for their candidate. They are proceed
ing on the theory that he is especially
strong in the country districts, and
they naturally expect him to swing the
delegation from Pasadena. Thev figure,
therefore, that he will have no diff
Guilty in securing enough votes from
Los Angeles to swing the nomination.
Mr.. Mathews, however, evidently is
not discouraged by these predictions,
and his supporters are promising to
give McLachlan q hard fight in the
convention, and possibly spring some
surprises on the opposition candidate.
The formal call for the convention
will be issued today. The congressional
IN mi G ms n q Inn
members: James Clarke, Pasadena.
chairman; Luther Brown, Los Angeles,
secretary; ]. H. Norton. Ferd K. Rule,
George L. Cochran, DR.. George w.
Campbell, L. R. Garrett, Oscar Lawler,
DR.. E. NJ. Palette, DIR. w. W. Beckett,
M. H. Flint ]. w. Summerfield, Los
Angeles; j. w. Vaughn, La Miranda;
F. NJ. Chapman. Covina, w. H. Wright,
San Gabriel.
1t Worries Republicans
Chairman Hunsa;Ser of the non-par-
tisan city central committee has not
yet announced his appointments of
members of the executive committee of
that organization. He expected to have
the list completed two or three days
ago, but he has been unable to reach
one or two men whom he was anxious
to place on the committee, and until
LnelT CONSENT CAN De SECURED the IlSI
will be withheld. Great care is being
exercised in the makeup of this COM
mittee. and only such men as can COM
mand the confidence OF the public and
who will be willing to give up good
deal of their time to the work in hand
Will be named.
The movement in favor of non-par-
tisan and Independent tickets this fall
is causing the Republican politicians
considerable concern. Although the
movement, so far as the county is con-
cerned, has not yet taken definite shape,
it is looked upon as foregone conclu-
sion that such a ticket will be sub
mitted to the voters at the coming
election, and it IS freely admitted that
this plan is likely to interfere seriously
with the organizations program"
Another thing that is worrying the
program" candidates and their friends
is fear that the organization itself
will not present quite so strong front
as it did two years ago. They point out
that Oscar Lawler and Leo Young
worth, who have both landed in COM
Portable federal berths recently, prob
ably will be too busy attending to the