The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1908-01-08
HERRIN MACHINE
MAKES Up SLATE
FOR NEXT JUNE
Selects Delegates at Large to
Republican National
Convention
GILLETT HEADS LIST
Otis. Knight and de Young
the Other Choices of
the Big Boss
STONE ISSUES CALL
State Central Committee to
Meet in San Francisco
on January Is
STONE ISSUES CALL
State Central Committee to
Meet in San Francisco
on January IS
BY George Van Smith

BY George Van Smith
Governor James N. Gillett, Harri-
son Gray OTIS of Los Angeles. Ma
tional Committeeman George A.
Knight of San Francisco and Hum
boldt and NJ. H. de Young of San
Francisco are said to be slated by the
Herrin machine to reflect their glory
on California by representing it as
delegates at large in the republican
national convention at Chicago on
June 10
General George Stone, chairman of
the state central committee. has sum-
noned that body to meet on Satur-
day. January IS. at the Hotel ST.
Francis. The purposes Of the state cen
trsl committee meeting. as stated in
Chairman Stone call, are THE con-
siderstion Of urgent and Important
matters. IS well as 10 consider tho ad-
Visibility Of fixing the time. place and
spportionruent for the state convention
to select delegates to tho republican
national convention and for action
necessary to be taken hx congressional
district committees
One Of the urgent sud important
ms tiers expected to re considered
rather 'ehsn discussed Is said to be tho
composition OF the slste for delegates
1T fsrse which IS TO he suggested 10
the members of the committee as an
insurance against unfortunate conpli-
cations that might arise from the am
bitions Of volunteer prominent citizens
throughout the state. symptoms of
unauthorized patriotism have been
discovered in several localities. These.
It is believed. can DC quickly allaved
when the committeeman go to their
homes in possession of the real blown
in the bottle program
PARpEE's. PRECEDENT
The selection or Governor cillett as
a delegate at large may probably be
excused on the ground of established
precedent Certainly the prestige of
the states executive Office will rot be
required to give tone to a delegation
which includes Knight of Humboldt
Otis of Los Angeles and De Young of
San Francisco Pardee went to the
last republican national convention for
no other apparent reason than to
demonstrate that he could go and pos
sibly to prove that the republicans of
California did things differently from
their brethren of the faith in other
states. If the machine picks up the
Pardee precedent by sending Gillett to
the national convention that will be
the only Pardeeism it has indorsed in
something more than a year and half
and that was one of the least credit
able things Psrdee did while he was
governor
Many OF Aldrich's senators in both
parties have successfully striyen to
represent their states in recent national
conventions, but for the most part
governors have been content with
their substantial honors and have not
attempted to grab the preferment that
properly enoegh belongs to party men
not in public office.
HOW OTIS EARNS REWARD
Harrison Gray Otis of Los Angeles
is the proprietor of one OF the few
republican newspapers in California
devoted to the defense of the Herrin
machine, Patrick Calhoun and the bribe
giving captains of Industry. His Sc
lection for delegate at large by Herrin
is a delicate expression of Herrin's
appreciation both of the forces lighting
for good government and of those
laboring men who vote the republican
ticket
The selection OF Knight is another
recognition OF faithful services an-
grudgingly rendered to the machine
It would be bad machine form not 10
send the national committeeman to the
convention Such action might cause
to use knight again as q senatorial
stalking horse. and while there is nc
reason to believe that knight would
buck under saddle. little sugar would
do him good and the boss OF the ma
chine no harm.
Knight has arranged to have no
trouble about the state convention by
removing his registration 10. Hum
boldt county. His change bf regis.
tration was not the result OF his ad.
vooacy Of the election Of Frank Nc