Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-20
SPEAKERS ANNOUNCED
FOR RATIFICATION
TEN MINUTE SPEECHES AT
TEMPLE AUDITORIUM
REGULARS Still Fearful LIncoln-Roose-
welt Leaguers VIII Gain Express
sion of sympathy--New
Clubs Organized

Ratifying Taft's nomination is the
Republican program throughout Cali
fornia today. In every county ratifica-
ton meetings have been arranged and
Los Angeles is to have its meeting at
Temple Auditorium tonight.
Bradner w. Lee, chairman of the Re-
publican county committee, will call
the meeting to order and Judge M. I.
Allen of the California appellate court
will be permanent chairman. The list
of speakers and the probable order of
speaking is: Oscar LAWYER, Gen. Har-
rison Gray Otis, Seward A. Simons of
Pasadena, Lee C. Gates, w. G. Patter-
son, Col. Allen Allensworth, George
Niblack, A. J. Wallace and Judge Cur
tbs d. Wilbur. Each speaker Is to
occupy about ten minutes. The other
features of the ratification of Taft and
Sherman will be an organ recital by
Bruce Gordon Kingsley and several
numbers by the Catalina band.
Both elements of the Republican
party here are on the Qui vive as to the
shoot the meeting will take. The regu-
lars, who planned the ratification, had
hoped the Lincoln Roosevelt leaguers
would go to bed and sleep, but the
leaguers caught the machine mapping
and challenged 1t with an offer to CO.
operate. Reluctantly, but with show
of magnanimity, the regulars seized
the extended hand of the league and
added fifty of its members to the list of
vice presidents, which is supposed to
include all the honored and ambitious
of the party. In addition the names of
Lee C. Gates and A. J. Wallace were
added to the speakers list.
Leaguers industrious
So far all is well. But the ieaguers
have not been slow to urge their MEM
bers to attend the ratification. In fact
the unanimous attendance OF the league
has not been discouraged by its leaders.
And this possibility has caused anxiety
further north on Spring street than the
league headquarters for the fear that
the ratification might transform itself
into a league ratification with all its
horrid reform ideas. Pictures of the
Auditorium filled with leaguers wildly
applauding Gates and Wallace and
Taft and receiving the others in silence
or worse have filled the gloomy minds
of the regulars. and 1t was limited last
night that, when the leaguers reached
the hall they would find 1t pretty well
Allied with regulars. No packed meet
ings "agin" the regulars are wanted.
Besides the regulars are facing con-
test with the league for mastery in the
Republican league, the stalwart stand
iiiS dsliyt III <A09 49,. sNS -
the organization, and the Lincoln
Roosevelt members are planning toI
capture the organization bag and bag
gage. A demonstration for Gates and
wallace therefore would be a danger
GUS skirmish in this fight.
Another move of the regulars, has
been to set aside several boxes for the
Lincoln-Ro committee so as to
put them in the limelight. The boxes
will be filled.
Toby Newman Prompt
Fifty minutes after the nomination
of Sherman for vice president yester-
day President Toby Newman of the
Republican league had streamer bear
ing the names of Taft and herman
attached to the banner across Spring |
street in front of the Republican league
rooms.
New Lincoln-Roosevelt clubs have
been organized by Frank S. Forbes at
Lamanda Park with A. l.. Schofield
president ande I. M. Mills secretary, |
and at Belvedere with r. w. Fellows
president and Mr. Ritchie secretary.
Other clubs will be formed at San
Gabriel next Tuesday night with Lee
G. Gates and Mr.. Forbes as speakers
and at Azusa June ~. with Marshall
Stimson as speaker.