Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-06
BELL TO OPPOSE
CANDIDATE COLE
DELEGATION WILL SEEK AN
OTHER MAN
MoNAR PLANS TO BE FOUGHT TO
FINISH
Leader Declares Work OF Publication
Must 90 Forward-Throws
Down Gauntlet to
Tom Fox


Tom Fox
According to reports from San Fran
CISCO Theodore A. Bell Is opposed to
Nathan Cole of Los Angeles for ma
tional committeeman and that at the
proper time another Will be chosen.
The same report announces that II VIII
be futile for Gavin McNab to attempt
to prevent the election of Judge Raker
of Modoc county for state chairman,
and that on the whole Bell Will fignt,
with positive assurance of success, the
furtherance of the McNab plan In the
state organization.
The meeting" of the state delegates
was, as was suspected at the time,
meeting of 4 minority. 1t was held
during Bells absence on trip to Sc
attle and was a McNab machination.
In this Cole participated and had the
authority of /. b. Dockweiler and Mil
ton X. Young to vote for them. From
reports 1t seems that when the dele
gates meet for their trip to Denver
July there will be a reorganization of
the delegation, though this reorgHniza-
tion may not affect some of the selec-
tions made at the San Francisco meet
ing.
Mr.. Bell, on his return to San Fran
cisco, has made plain his position on
the state organization. He wants the
reform work begun at Fresno carried
forward.
Read Out Fox
He declares that It is just as inn
portant to read Tom Fox of Sacra-
mento out of the ranks as 1t is some
others. He believes the 'higher-ups,"
as they are called, should be treated
on the same basis with other party
His utterances have met with warm
approval by the Democrats OF several
districts, who had been
confused by the reports sent out from
San Francisco by the McNab literary
bureau. These reports made Bell
candidate for chairman of the Denver
candidate for national COM
mitteeman, candidate for the United
States senate to succeed Senator Per-
lSins, a candidate for governor, die
tator of the nomination of Senator
Sanford for congress, OF Senator Cart
wright for the same position In the
Sixth district and a few other things.
subordInates Personal Ambition
But Mr.. Bell has cleared the at
saying that he puts the matter Of
party publication above anyone's per-
sonal success. AS concrete expression
he says:
II would rather see Tom Fox read
out of the party than be elected ma
tional chairman.
1T wish that those Of the delegation
who are hostile to me would disobey
the instructions. There Is nothing I
would rather have than a thorough
smoking out of the men In our party"
Light has been shed on the "situa-
tion" that led Los Angeles to resent
Mayor Harper as candidate "by ac-
clamation" at the Fresno convention.
Mr.. Cole declares the delegation found
on its arrival there that McNab wanted
Geary and Bell wanted Sanford for
chairman. Los Angeles offered Har-
per as a candidate to settle the differ
ence II he could be agreed on by both
sides.
Light on ChairmansI1ip
Here is the Eight" Before the dele
gates left Los Angeles Gavin McNab.
who realized that he was going UP
against hard fight at the convention,
wired Nathan Cole asking him how
Southern California felt toward Geary
for chairman. He wanted to know II 1t
could be united" for the former con-
gressman. Cole consulted Mayor Har-
per and others, 1t is now related by
members of the delegation, and sent
McNab a wire that the Southern
Democracy could unite on Mayor Har-
per" That was why the McNab lit
erary bureau at San Francisco knew
the Saturday before the convention
that Harper was talked of and why
McNab was for him when he landed at
Fresno at midnight Saturday.
But now McNab feels that he was
buncoed. The manner in which Los
Angeles delegation united" is an i'm
portant part of the history of the
Fresno convention. Twenty-three Los
Angeles delegates refused to support
the mayor and all the rest of Southern
California voted solidly to support
Bells candidate, Senator Sanford. In
fact, many of the delegates resented
being pledged by Cole for this story
and others were known to the dele
gates while the convention was In
session.
Toland for Chairman
It appears that Bell and his sup
porters are now fully aware of an un-
derstanding between Cole and McNab
before the convention and that any con-
cession on the Craftsmanship fight
would have put McNabs hand on the
throttle.
Southern California Democrats who
are with Bell in his fight to cleanse
the party OF Southern Pacific barnacies
are urging Thomas o. Toland of Ven
tura, who was their candidate for
chairman of the Fresno convention, but
who withdrew to insure the victory of
the Bell reform program to become a
candidate for chairman of the next
state convention in August. Judge To-
land was the candidate for lieutenant
governor on the ticket with Bell, two
years ago, ana is held in high regard
by all Southern California Democrats.
He Is promised almost solid support If
he permits the use of his name.
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