Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-14
REPUBLICANS IN
BATTLE ARRAY
PRIMARIES TODAY DECIDE
CANDIDATES FATE
Hard Fights to Be Wsged In Numerous
Precincts, but Triumphs
for Machine Men Are
Predicted

delegates to the state, congressiona
and county conventions will be held ir
Los Angeles today, the polls beins
open in the various precincts from
o'clock In the morning until 5 in the
evening. Although contests against the
Republican caucus nominations fol
county delegates in several of the pre-
cincts are certain the indications are
that the machine will control from 81
to 30 per cent of the men elected.
At the same time, anti-machine
voters are determined to make as
strong a fight as possible. In many
instances they claim to have been pre-
vented from showing their full strength
or were altogether outwitted by the
push" at tn caucuses held last Sat
urday night. but at the primaries they
will have an "even break" with the
opposition, and they propose to take
full advantage OF the opportunity af-
forded them by an election held under
the state law.
In the 139th precinct there is a revolt
against the Parker machine which
promises to make itself felt today. The
anti-machine ticket in this precinct is
made up of the following delegates
Charles Leach, Thomas H. Brice, M.
w. Wray. William j. Welshans, Hadley
w. Gross and B. f. Combs.
Fight Against Werdin
In the Fifty-ninth precinct the Home
Improvement association is back of an
organization which is
making a fight on Werdin. This is
Werdin's own precinct. The delegates
named by this organization are Frank
w. Blair. George Ward, Charles S. Tay-
lor and Frank P. Whine.
The fight in the Eighth precinct
will continue at the primaries
today. In this precinct Carrigan, the
Committeeman, is accused
of high-handed methods in running the
caucus last Saturday night, as result
of which a delegation favorable to
Keyes for county clerk was shut out
1t was expected that a protest would
be made at the assembly district eau
Gus yesterday, but the protestants al
lowed the affair to go over. and pre-
sumably will try to overthrow the 9TH
er faction at the primaries.
Interest in the primaries centers
largely in the fights being made for the
offices of sheriff and supervisor. Ham
meps friends yesterday claimed that
the caucus results were largely in his
favor, and the prediction now is freely
made that he will lead on the first
ballot at the convention. 1t is said that
so confident are the Hammel men of
the outcome that wagers are being Of
fered at 1 to 2 on Hammel against the
field. On the otter Land, it is ON
ceded that the Werdin-W White combina-
ton is likely to prove troublesome, for
many believe each one stands ready to
throw his strength to the other in the
convention.
Threaten Dark Horse
The fight on Graham for supervisor
is another interesting feature of the
Several of the precincts in
Graham's district have gone strongly
against him. both in the city and
country, but he is backed by the ma
chine and a strong effort will be made
to land the nomination for him. Gra-
hams two opponents are DR.. Lamb
and S. T. Eldrige, the latter a con-
tractor. Eldridge is supposed to be
backed by what is known as the "fed-
eral brigade" and this element. It is
said. is so determined to defeat both
Graham and Lamb that if it finds it
cannot land its own candidate 1t will
bring forward dark horse" Ascot
park is an issue in the campaign in
both supervisoral districts, but more
in the Third. DIR. Lamb rep
resents the element that is opposed to
gambling at the track and which is
determined to remove Graham from
the board of supervisors.
In the First supervisoral district an
contest also is being waged
with Brady and Manning apparently
the chief contestants. Brady. the in
cumbent, carried practically the entire
Pomona delegation, but a number of
other delegations seem inclined to favor
Manning. leagues position in the
race at present does not appear to be
a particularly strong one. The returns
from San Dimas, his own precinct
show that he carried the primaries
there by only one vote.
Democratic delegates to the state
convention elected at the primaries to-
day will also act as delegates to the
congressional convention.