The San Francisco call., 1908-05-12
LEAGUE IS ASSURED
OF GOOD MAJORITY
Members OF Executive Body
Tell of Gains in All Parts
of the State

Positive assurances that the Lincoln
Roosevelt league will have a comfort
able working majority in the republi-
can state convention, which will con-
vene in Sacramento Thursday. and that
IL viii organize the convention in ia
vor of the candidacy OF William H. Taft
for president. were conveyed to the
league headquarters in this city yes
terday.
These glad tidings were brought
from all parts of the state by the mem
bers of the executive committee of
the league and by the district
organizers, who assembled in the
kamm building, III Market street
to make plans for the approaching fray.
The leaguers who took part in the
conference were from all sections OF
California, and they came backed with
facts and figures which would have re-
moved the last vestige of doubt had
any existed, as to the ability of the
league to wrest control of the conven-
ton and consequently of the state GEN.
tral committee from William f. Her
rim and his staff of Southern Pacific
machine politicians
Just how overwhelming is the senti-
ment in favor of the league and in
opposition to the brand of republican
politics which the railroad organiza-
tion has handled during its years of
despotic control was not realized by
the local members of the Lincoln
Roosevelt league until the men from
up and down the state gathered at
headquarters yesterday TO compare
notes and to make returns from their
districts.
TIDAL WAVE HITS MACHINE
That the movement to clean out the
evil influences In the party and to
restore ii to truly Representative and
independent basis has assumed the pro-
portions of tidal wave can no longer
be denied by any but the biased cham
pions OF the expiring organization.
who refuse to face the facts oe their
crushing defeat.
Plans were made at this meeting for
an aggressive campaign in the conyen-
tion from the moment when General
George Stone, the chairman of the pres
ent state central committee and one of
the darlings of the whipped organiza-
ton, calls the delegates to order until
the time when the motion TO adjourn
is made.
Not satisfied with their majority of
delegates and their ability to carry
everything before them against the OPP
position OF the machine the leaders of
the league are resolved to resort to
whirlwind tactics with the purpose of
so humiliating and disheartening the
faithful retainers of the Southern Pa
cific standard that their spirit will be
broken for the August primaries
The meeting was a most enthusiastic
one and the spirits OF those present
mounted higher and higher with every
new arrival who bore news of gains
In league strength, not unfrequently
from quarters We're they were least
expected.
TO UNITE ON DAVIS
1t was reported that the league
forces in the convention would unite
on w. r. Davis of Oakland for perma- :
nent chairman. Davis name and repu-
tation are we'll known throughout the
state and the leaguers from all parts
are we'll satisfied that he should pre-
side a { Sacramento. Davis himself is
not an, active candidate, in the sense OF
seeking the honor of the gavel. being
well content to serve on the floor If
another man should prove more ac-
ceptable to the delegates. But he is a
splendid parliamentarian. has rendered
great services to the cause OF the Lin
-Rooseyelt league and in all prob
ability VIII be chosen to preside.
FOR delegates at large to the national
convention in Chicago many men have
been discussed Unlike the organiza-
ton, which has few men available for
this high honor and those not above
cr,liclsn, the league is embarrassed by
a long list of fit men, any four of whom
would reflect credit on California in n
gathering OF the republicans Of the ma
tion.
In the southern part of the state the
league has former United States SEN
ator Thpmas r. Bard of Ventura. who
looks a likely candidate. Not so far
south is that stanch republican. DIR.
Chester H. Rowe1l of Fresno. Here
IN san francisco the league has elected
Jacob III. Neff as a delegate to the state
convention from the thirty-eighth dis
trtct, and it is extremely probable that
Uncle Jake will be chosen as dele
gate at large. His record as a true
and independent republican is long
and enviable one and his popularity ex-
tends from Siskiyou to Imperial. being
especially great in the mountainous
mining region
MAYOR WHITE DISCUSSED
Colonel E. A. Forbes of MarysviIle is
another Lacquer who is being discussed
Tor delegate at large, and so is Mayor
Clinton L. White OF Sacramento who
made one of the first winning fights for
the league and against the machine.
Both OF these men are strong with the
party and are likely timber for dele
gates at large
congressional district delegates to
the national convention We're not dis
cussed at the gathering of leaguers
yesterday. as their election rests with
the district conventions. 1t seems prob
able, however that Harold II. Powers
or Auburn will be delegate from the
flrst district. The Sacramento delega-
tion is united on Colonel Z. l.. Hawk
of that city as its candidate for ma
tional delegate from the second district,
while In the sixth district they are
taking of Chester II. Rowell and Tom
Flint
Three contests at least will be filed
with the Sacramento delegation on be-
half Of the Lincoln- Roosevelt league.
They will be from districts In Sacra-
mento, Siskiyou and San Diego coun-
ties.
In sacramento the league will contest
the seating of the Organization dele
gates from the nineteenth district This
is country district of Sacramento
where the popular demand for pri-
mary election was refused by the
push politicians, who named the FIVE
delegates The Lincoln Roosevelt