The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1907-07-18
FIGHT AGAINST
HERR|N WILL Be
WARMLY WAGED
Every Assembly District in
the City Preparing for
Resistance
OPPOSITION GROW S
Citizens Become Weary OF
Boss Rule and Show
Resentment
CAMPAIGN PLANNED
Struggle Will Be Carried
Into Burned Section
in August
CAMPAIGN PLANNED
BY George a. Ven Sr1,itr

BY George a. Van Smith
Herrin's control of the repub-
lican organization will be con-
tested at the primary election in
every assembly district in San
Francisco. The polls on August
Is will definitely decide whether
the honest republicans of San
Francisco or Herrin will nominate
the municipal ticket.
Forced to abandon his infamous
scheme to control the convention
through colonized delegates ap-
portioned to the burned districts
on a Partridge vote basis, Herrin
and his committee agents hoped
their surrender would chloroform the
opposition. The contrary effect resulted.
The backbone of the opposition to boss
rule has been stiffened The Herrin
outfit Is TO get run for It's money
all the way down the line. The scene
OF the fight for clean convention will
not be confined to the populated dis
tricts which Herrin failed to deprive
of their fair proportionate representa-
tfon in the convention. 1t will be car
ried into the burned districts A fight
will be made for the insignificant num-
Der of delegates accredited to the dis
tricts Herrin desired to place in con-
troll of the convention.
The anti-Herrin movement is being
engineered by the forces which stood
up for an honest apportionment. At
Wheelan and Perry H. Newberry. Ryan
is the recognized leader of minority
in the city and county committee, which
musters a total strength of about one
third of the committee membership.
The movement is in no sense to be
confounded with an attempt to or
ganize new or so called independent
Republican party. 1t is simply and
solely to wrest the control of the party
governing body from Herrin and place
the affairs of the party where they
belong-in the hands of the people
The men at the head OF the campaign
for an honest Republican convention
are the men who beat Ruef and his
organization at the primary polls two
years ago and they believe they can
again turn the trick They have not
assumed the task of naming delegate
tickets in opposition to those that will
be named by the organization They
have not presented and will not present
candidates for nomination by the con-
vention.
FIGHT TO END AT POLLS
Their fight, well under way now.
will end at the primary polls. In
seven of the populated assembly dis
tricts they have succeeded in securing
the organization Of vigorous clubs com
posed of republicans who are now more
concerned with securing honest dele
candidate or candidates shall be Sc
lected ~ represent the party at the
polls in November.
The seven clubs will be Augmented
during the week by the formal or
ganization ofsthose men who have been
quietly working in the other districts
and none of the burnt districts will be
permitted to go by default, though the
leaders of the movement tell me frank
ly enough that they do not expect to
win out in the burned districts.
The efforts of these clubs will be
centered first upon securing the regis |
tration OF all republicans and in fact
of all electors of whatever party. AS
soon as the registrars books are closed
July "a the clubs will turn their at
tentions to arousing the interest of all |
in selecting delegate tickets
in opposition to the machine tickets. |
Daniel A. Ryan said yesterday:
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