The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1908-05-05
PERSONNEL OF
RINGS TICKET
PROVES JOKE
S. P. Employees and Courthouse
Gang Are Nominated
in Forty-ninth
Framed as Last Desperate Eff
fort of Herrin Crowd to
Hold District
"Old Guard Sees Handwriting
on the Wall, but Fights
Against Fate

OAKLAND, May 4.-The Southern
Pacific company's political bureau in
Oakland, headed by Al Baker, assist
ant division superintendent of the
western division, and former District
Attorney Allen, has put ticket in
the republican primary fight in the
forty-ninth assembly district. As fore
casted by The Call that ticket was
framed as last desperate attempt
on the part of Herrin to keep control
of the district. That it was the eff
fort of desperation was manifested to-
day when the personnel Of the ticket
was made public.
OF the twelve names on it, four are
Southern Pacific employees. and others
atoms with Allen and the courthouse
gang.
Among the Southern Pacific employees
who have been compelled to take the
Herrin program by allowing their
names to be used on this ticket are
brother in law of Allen and roadmaster
for the Southern Pacific; Robert Yates
and J. F. Kelley. Two OF County Clerk
Jack Cooks deputies are on the ticket
with Deputy Andy tombstone and John
]. Connolly.
W. M. Owen, another brother in law
of Attorney Allen, is aboard, as is r
G. Graham and former Assemblyman A.
A. McKeen, both of whom have jumped
to the blast of the whistle.
Bob Yates. Corrigan and all that
crowd of Southern Pacific henchmen
swing little influence nowadays in the
forty ninth. The fact that their
names appear on the ticket proves con-
-clusively enough that the machine was
driven to desperate straits to make up
a ticket Another name on the ticket
Is that of Colonel Theodore Gier.
member of Governor Gillett's staff 1t
is understood in the forty-ninth that
Gier was forced to go on the ticket or
lose his epaulets in the service of the
chief executive of California. also chief
beneficiary OF the infamous sale of the
San Francisco delegation In the repub-
lican state, convention at Santa Cruz.
Still another name is that of Henry
P. Dalton, county assessor.
Republicans who want to smash the
machine should vote the following
names in the forty ninth district:
Delegates to the republican state convention
Edwin Meese. w. F. Knoll, Oliver Ellsworth
Frank n. Dalton. John D. Galloway, Martin
Hanley.
Delegates to third congressional district re-
publican convention--W. S. Baxter. Ben o.
johnson. J. +. Mullins. John F. Towle. John T.
Bell. A. p. suefvater.
These are the regular republican
nominees and any other ticket which
purports to be such is a fraud upon
the republican voters Of the district.
The machines ticket in the fftieth
assembly district Is headed by E. G.
Lukens.
In the forty-seventh some of the old
guard got together and rugged up a
ticket which will be in opposition to
the good government republicans So
hard was the blow at the machine when
the names on the good government
ticket were made public that an at
tempt was made to befuddle the situa-
ton by dragging Congressman Know
lands name into the contest.
In the ffty-first district. the battle is
squarely between the Lincoln Roosevelt
league and allied good government re-
publicans on the one side and County
Clerk Jack Cooks gang on the other.
There will be no fight in the fifty
second, Berkeley. the league and its
allies being impregnable there.
I Rcports'from all of the districts point
I to the complete rout OF the machine.