Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1907-08-18
PERKINS AND HERRIN

NITED STATES SENATOR GEO.
c. PERKINS said in a recent
interview: 81 cannot subscribe to
the declaration that the Republican
organization in this state has fallen
into the hands of the political bureau
of the Southern Pacific company"
Senator Perkins has been "close in"
on all the work the Republican or
ganization ever did in the past thirty
years, and no man ever in its ranks
since he has been an officeholder has
been closer to Republican campaigning
than he, and yet, in the face of all
men of all parties he practically denies
the control of the present Republican
administration by Herrin and the in
terests he serves.
The Herald, in the interests of edu-
cation and of CALIFORNIA; good name
at Washington Qt would never do to
have our senior senator laughed at for
a political ignoramus), will try to show
that the Republican throttle is in Her.
rims hands.
Who would unseat Comptroller Nye
Herrin, through Catspaw Gillett. Who
made the slate, including Gillett, at
Santa Cruz? Herrin and the Southern
Pacific. Who used the postmaster of
San Francisco to corner the Republi-
can machine in the recent election?
Herrin & Co. Who controls the state
board of equalization? Herrin & Co.
Who manipulated state legislation to
grab Oakland's water front privileges?
Herrin & Co. To whom will Perkins
look for reelection when his term eX-
pires? Herrin & Co. Who will get
the "doggondest political lambasting'
the world ever saw at the next gen.
eral election? Herrin & Co. Why?
Because the Republican party has
come to it's senses and sees that the
storm is about to come and to be safe
it's members must turn on the octopus
and come in out of the storm. Why
is storm coming? Because for 10,
these many years, the Southern Pacific
railroad political bureau, conducted by
Herrin & Co., has controlled the Re-
publican party, causing it's members
whom the people, honored with office
to break their promises and vote just
as Herrin demanded till the whole
state government is practically an adj
iunct of the railroad and Herrin is
de facto its executive head. Good men
and good measures are set at naught
and corruption of all the channels of
government is common and is shame
lessly paraded.
We will call in another witness, well
known to the senator, and place him
on the stand. The Sacramento Bee in
it's editorial columns of August said:
what aid, for instance, would a
graft prosecution receive from Cover
nor James N. Gillett, the bound thrall
of William F. Herrin?
what appropriation to carry on a
graft prosecution could be expected
from a Legislature owned, body, soul
and breeches by William F. Herrin,
as the last legislature of the state was
VIGOROUSLY owned?
what assistance could graft pros
ecution expect from the law depart
ment of the state of California?
what help could it look for from
the recent municipal authorities of San
Francisco?
us it not a fact that officialdom in
state and in city would be on the side
of the thieves and the scoundrels?
Suppose the prosecution of Ruef and
Schmitz had been left to state gov
eminent over which was one James N.
Gillett! Does not every man in Cali
fornia feel that the machinery of the
state would be used to shield and aid