The San Francisco call., 1908-05-31
MACHINE TO WORK
ITS ANCIENT GAME
cheer Up, We Need You at
Sacramento" Is Word to &
Line Up Faithful

a lively outcropping Of candidates
for the legislature is the feature Of the
political situation in the republican
party, with the machine showing the
most OF the activity at the present time.
From a source that George F. Hatton.
the paid manager Of Herrin and Per-
kins, could probably describe intelli-
gently the encouragement is being af-
forded that has induced numerous as
pirants TO look Sacramentoward. The
same old course is being pur-
sued OF speaking the cheerful WORD
10 as many OF the faithful as possible
IN the various assembly and senatorial
districts. giving each one to think that
y IS ne whom the railroad favors, and
thus have all of them working hand in
hano Tor convention delegates that will
take program. The process of elimina-
uon VIII come afterward and adjust
ments be made until everything is
cleared away from the man that Herrin
and Hatton want TO serve them in the
election of United States senator and
making laws for the imperious state.
After the late Sacramento convention
the machine men saw that there was
trouble in store for them in the August
primaries and county conventions. and
they determined to go to work right
away and with renewed vigor To save
their jobs the patronage brigades are
being mobilized in q manner that
eenoUnts TO admission that the cause is
desperate
The undercurrents continue TO con-
vey the tidings that Perkins is marked
for slaughter by the railroad. Rumors
that Perkins is TO be made the victim
OF Herrin's art with the double cross
are so persistent that many republicans
have come TO believe in them. This is
The best tip that the push" has up
70 date is that Secretary Of the Navy
Metcalf is the man Hartman and Her
rin want And IL may be only another
OF HerrinS stalls" adds the man who
spends much of his time trying to find
out what orders he is going to get
Some suggest that IL is United States
District Attorney Robert T. Devlin,
most ab5ect programmer OF all the rail-
readers. Devlin. who never voices an
opinion OF his own. is known 10 be
acceptable TO Herrin, even more so
than Lieutenant Governor Warren r.
Porter. another possibility who talks
too much and too openly about his 10y
atty. Looming behind them all is Asso-
ciate supreme Court. Justice F. w.
Henshaw as a fayorite possibility for
the machine
Even Senator Frank Flint is credited
with being in the deal to overthrow
Perkins. Why the railroad should not
favor the reelection of Perkins is not
made clear, except by the whisper that
stronger timber is desired at Washing
ton in'the trying times still TO come in
regard 10 railroad legislation.
Meantime the campaign is being car
ried on exactly as If it were in the in
terest Of Perkins. with the senator
helping TO land blow here and there
against the Lincoln Roosevelt league
The politicians frankly admit that they
are in a dense fog as TO what is going
70 happen at Sacramento next winter.
In the gentle method OF double
crossing" the Hayes brothers of San
Jose are the latest victims. J. 0. Hayes,
having been kicked out by the Lincoln
Roosevelt league for his treachery to
Il, has now been slemonized by the rail-
road machine with many loud outlaws
on its part When Hayes was caught
IN his perhdy at the late Sacramento
convention be had constantly been
cheek by gowl with General Stone,
George Hatton and other Southern Pa
cihc ,uminaries and had been indus
triously running out for them TO help
get votes for George c. Ross Of San
Mateo as delegate TO the national con-
vention. They not only had him vote
Lincoln-Roosevelt delegates from Santa
Clara for them in getting control of
the convention. but had keen sport in
sending him out TO work for Ross.
Ross has always helped my brother,
pleaded Hayes when he was stood up
by the Lincoln Roosevelt men he had
betrayed.
Now. after Hayes has been made use
OF so easily and successfully. the ma
chine turns about and puts Ross to the
fore as candidate for congress against
E. A. Hayes. Ross is making an active
fight and Hayes congressional career
appears to have reached its end. With
Abe Ruef in jail. the lincoln Roosevelt
league bitterly resentful. and the rail-
road machine aggressively supporting
another candidate, there seems little
opportunity for the Hayeses TO get sup
port anywhere.
REPUBLICANS AROUSED
The action of the Republican club at
Palo Alto in resolving itself into a
Lincoln Roosevelt league club is taken
as an indication that the republicans
of Santa Clara are thoroughly aroused.
Clubs are to be formed in other sec
tions and active campaigning carried
on for q clean party. State Senator
Marshall Black of Palo Alto is taking
q leading part and is awakening the
genuinely loyal party men to the
fact that the republicans must cast out
corporation dominance and bossism
everywhere If the reins of government
sre TO be saved from democratic hands
Rivalry between the two university
towns has apparently found its way
into politics. Berkeley claims the ban
ner league club in the state, but Palo
Alto will now attempt 70 take the hon.
ors away from IL. Berkeley is prompt
70 renew the campaign, for 1T will hold
a Lincoln Roosevelt rally Tuesday
evening. at which former Mayor w. r.
Davis Of Oakland will speak The ac-
tivities OF the club in San Francisco
will begin with renewed vigor this
week
The importance of the coming legis-
lstiye contests does not center on the
senatorship. although that will have
new and exciting features. There viii
be unusual efforts TO obtain important
legislation An attempt is to be made
10 have the state adopt for itself the
policy of conserving the natural re-
sources for which President Roosevelt
is contending nationally. The electric
power companies that have been assail-
ing the Roosevelt-Pinchot policies have
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