The San Francisco call., 1908-08-13
Los ANGELES WON
FOR THE MACHINE
Late Returns Show Herrin Del
egates Will Control County
Convention
Linc0ln-ROOsevelt Minority Will
Force Ring to Pick Decent
Class OF Men

Los ANGELES, Aug. 12-Late re-
turns from yesterdays primaries indi-
cate that the Herrin machine will con-
troll the county convention, although the
Lincoln Roosevelt league will have a
minority sufficiently imposing to force
the convention to nominate better
class of men than past conventions
have been wont to do. The league is
assured of 175 delegates from the city
and 325 from the county, a total of 400
in the convention. The machine claims
$40 in the city and ITO from the county.
There is reason to believe that many
delegates who have been elected on the
machine ticket will not submit to a ma
chine program in the election.
In the sixty-seventh assembly district
III. G. Cattell of the league has been
nominated. C. f. Cogswel (league)
has won in the sixty-eighth, and it is
believed j. G. Strine (league) has won
in the sixty ninth over Harry Barndol-
lar (machine).
Currier, the league candidate, is safe
in the thirty-fifth senatorial district.
The league has nominated Pridham for
supervisor in the fifth supervisoral dis
trlct. Other assembly nominations are:
Seventh district, Walter Leeds. ma
chine; seventy-first district, p. A. STAN
ton, machine; seventy-second, ]. N. o.
Reich, machine; seventy third, J. p.
Transue. machine; seventy fourth, w. j.
Hanlon, machine; seyenty-fifth, Percy
" Hammon, machine.
In the thirty-seyenth senatorial dis
trict II. H. Hurd, machine, defeated
Marshal Stimson.
The fight was the hardest the South
ern Pacific machine has ever had in
Los Angeles county. So close was the
contest that in many of the precincts
the returns show tie vote The total
vote cast in both city and county as
shown by the returns so far received
is about $4,000, of which about $500
Were for the machine.
An idea of the way in which the ma
chlne forces conducted the primaries
In several precincts may be gained
from the fact that the supervisors to-
day sent out summons to about rs
judges and clerks of election to ap-
pear tomorrow and explain irregulari-
ties of various kinds Several tally
sheets are missing. others were sent in
unsealed and still others were not
signed
1t is doubtful if the count will be
completed by the time the con-
gressional convention meets at Long
Beach Saturday.
Never was the need of direct pri-
mary more strongly emphasized than
in the elections of yesterday. Voters
who sought to cast their ballots for
the Lincoln Roosevelt league or the
democratic league. as the case might
be, We're given defective tickets or
slips bearing the names of men for
whom they did not wish to vote Many
in disgust left the polling places and
declared they would not vote.
Meyer Lissner, chairman of the
executive committee of the league,
declared tonight that machine poll
ticians had never resorted to baser
methods than in yesterdays primaries,
and his expression is substantiated by
numerous reports of skulduggery that
are coming TO light.
The anti-railroad faction of the
democratic party probably has four as
sembly districts safe and Is likely to
control the county convention. Frank
GoingS, who was read out OF the party
at Sacramento, was beaten for dele
gate. However, it is probable the ma
chine democratic vote did not appear
as such, many having registered as
republicans to help defeat the reform
forces.