The San Francisco call., 1908-08-04
DANIEL A. RYAN IS
NOT CANDIDATE
Herrin Strikers Falsely Inject
His Name Into Their Fight
for Kahn
LincoIn-RoOsevelt League Has
No Man for Congressman
From Fourth

The efforts OF the Herrin machine
strikers 70 distract public attention
/ from their dght for julius Kahn and
befog the situation BY injecting the
name OF Daniel A Ryan as the Lin
/ Roosevelt leagues candidate FOR
congress in the fourth district were
I squelched summarily by Ryan yester-
I day.
The machine henchmen have en-
I deavored 10 conjure trouble with the
name Of Ryan from the day that the
/ Lincoln Roosevelt league attacked the
Herrin combination IN san Francisco
That their endeavors have been fruit
less IS due in a large degree TO the
fact that Ryan has refused 70 permit
! the public 10 be misled-
Ryan offered his resignation as first
vice. president Of the state organization
OF the league 10 that body Immediately
after the municipal election II 1907.
( The tender OF his resignation was made
for. the purpose OF securing that anti
machine republican harmony IN San
! Francisco which was seriously dis
turbed by the municipal campaign The
state officers Of the league did not see
+ IT 10 accept Ryan's resignation then
Il was subsequently rendered for the
sane reasons and accepted at the
! urgent solicitation Of Ryan, who made
Z the tender IN person He urged that
+ he be permitted 10 step back into the
ranks where he assured the leaguers
he would work as earnestly for the
cause as in an official capacity
WOULD HEAL BREACH
RYAN said that healing OF the breach
( between the anti-Herrin republicans OF
san Francisco meant more 10 him than
+ any personal preferment. His resig-
nation was accepted He never left the
II to-. ---A % :
ton were welcomed as heartily by the
/ republicans who had opposed him n
( the municipal election as by the mem
( bers OF the league who supported him
as candidate for mayor.
The machine organs announced that
the leagues support fer the nOmina-
ton for congress in the fourth district
was the price OF Ryans resignation.
Nothing could have been farther from
+ the truth Ryan promptly denied that
I he was & candidate for congress or that
I he so much as thought OF being can
didate. The Ryan congressional ca
nard was permitted 70 sleep until Just
( before the Nay primaries. when II was
{ dragged out again and 10 no purpose
With the fight going against them
Z in the fortieth district. which means
the defeat Of Kahn, the machine organs
seized upon the selection OF Ryan with
Rudolph SpreckeIs and r ". Dohr-
mann Sr as administrative committee
men BY the league 70 ring up the cur
tain again on Ryan as a congressional
candidate.
NOT A CANDIDATE
I an not q candidate for the repub-
Iican nomination for congress in the
fourth district" said Ryan yesterday
I denied similar rumors months ago
denied them emphatically and uneQuiv-
ocaIly. The persistent use OF my name
in connection with that nomination has
ii no wise changed my attitude Repe-
tition OF that denial can add nothing tc
congress then am not q candidate
now I an in the Lincoln-Rooseve
I leagues fight now. as was when the
movement was auncbed-because II is
right-because II stands for the rights
s OF the peopIe-for q free republican
party. and because I an unalterabIy op-
posed 10 the corrupt system BY which
I the railroad machine has dominated the
republican party and the government OF
/ California am working IN the ranks
along with the thousands Of republicans
! OF san Francisco who seek no Office
who want no Office I am not a candi-
/ date for congress. nor an I q candidate
/ for any other Office"
The Lincoln Roosevelt league as ar
4 organization has no candidate for the
+ fourth congressional district nomina-
ton II viii preseut candidates fol
I delegates 70 the congressional conven-
I ton IN every assembly district IN the
fourth. The leagues delegate candi-
dates viii be clean. representative. IN
bossed republicans. They will constitute
3 majority OF the district convention, and
, they VIII select q clean, capable, IN
bOssed republican as the districts can
didate for congress. Their selection
VIII be made without the assistance OF
coercion OF Herrin or his understrap-
pers- Several free republicans have
been mentioned IN good faith by their
friends as tentative candidates for the
nomination. None OF them IS attempt
ing 70 line up delegate candidates. OF
form trading combinations. IN fact
none Is an active or avowed candidate
or IS responsible for the presentation OF
MS name Among those mentioned in
that connection are Frank ". Marvin
and Ralph L Hathorn OF the fortieth
district, and Sheldon C. Kellogg. A. r.
Graupne- and Thomas E Haven OF the
torty-frst-
HENEY SCORES GRAFT