The San Francisco call., 1908-08-10
WORRIED MACHINE
ADOPTS TRICkERY
Herrinites Circulate Letter
Claiming Endorsement of En-
tire County Committee
Regular Republicans Always
Opposed Corruption and Graft
ing" Says Document

Realizing the impossibility of win
ming in a fair fight against the Lin
coin Roosevelt league, the leaders of the
Herrin-Lynch push have resorted to
trickery in their attempt to gain sup
port for their delegate tickets.
Relying on the general unfamiliarity
of voters with the more intricate COM
plications of the campaign and 1.-THE
wheels within wheels of the party ma
chinery, they have sent out from their
Headquarters a circular letter in which
they claim for their delegate tickets in
all the districts the Endorsement of the
republican county committee.
The names of all the county commit
teemen are blazoned at the top of this
choice piece of campaign literature,
notwithstanding the fact that half of
the body, including the chairman. F.
H. Dam. have declared their allegiance
to the Lincoln Roosevelt league and are
Eactively engaged in fighting the tickets
for which their names are unwarrant-
ably and unfairly made TO stand spon-
sor.
The push" members of the county
committee, the men who willingly fol-
lowed the beckoning finger of John C.
Lynch when he started out to win the
primary for his master. William F. Her
rim, are Billy Bell, Jerry Lucey, John
T. Pidwe1l, Jack Butler, Bob Strahle.
Johnny Daily, Harry Worthington, Tim
Sullivan, Rudolph Gercke, Benny Levy,
Charles II. Forbes, Hamilton Bauer.
Oscar Greenebaum. Fred G. Cartwright.
William T. Kibbler, Dominic Beban.
Mamie Strauss and Ed Buckley To
these the push" has, illegally added
Walter Dyer of the fortieth district.
I'M
committee are fighting for the delegate
tickets put forth by the Lincoln Rose
welt league. They have declared war
on the push" and have repudiated the
attempt to deceive decent voters by the
use of their names.
The circular in which this decep-
tion is practiced is a specious plea for
the cause of Herrin and Lynch, clumsi-
ly masked behind an appeal for the
election of Taft and Sherman, whose
candidacy is not affected one way or
the other by the present primary fight.
The regular republican organization
has ever stood for good government,
for clean government and for able gov
ernment,'' declares the circular letter.
1T has steadily opposed corruption and
grating
This in the face of the fact that the
money to pay for this circular came
from the railroad sack opened for. this
campaign by John c. Lynch, political
agent of the Southern Pacific, the most
vicious corrupting influence this state
| has ever had.
| The Lincoln Roosevelt league is styled
"a SMALL disgruntled portion of the
democrats, again trying to defeat the
party
This is exactly the language which
Julius Kahn, Red Hayes, Eddie"
| Wolfe and other machine aspirants for
| further political dishonor have been
uttering since the campaign began. 1t
failed of its purpose-iu fact, it reacted
on the men who used it-and it is not
calculated to impress the sober, intelli-
| gent voters who have studied the issues
OF the fight and who have made up
their minds that the future of the re-
publican party as an independent polit-
| ical organization in this state rests with
the kind of republicans nominated by
| the Lincoln Roosevelt league.
| In many districts throughout the
city attempts have been made to take
advantage of the Lincoln Roosevelt
/ league sentiment by the placing of
names of men known to be identified
with the league upon the machine
| tickets. These tickets were held back
until the last hour so that it would
be impossible for the names to be with
drawn. In an endeavor to deceive the
voters of the thirty second district into
| the belief that the league ticket, headed
i by Senator r, J. Welch, is not in SYM
pathy with the principles and purposes
| of the Lincoln Roosevelt league the
circular sent out by the machine end OF
the county committee says mo ticket
in the thirty-second district, although
a railroad opposition ticket is in the
field and will receive the machine sup
port. For the same reason statements
have been made by the push in the
| thirty-fift district that Welch is back
ing the DAILY ticket in that end of the
senatorial district
II am standing fairly and squarely
on the Lincoln Roosevelt league plat
FORM" said Senator Welch, mot only in
my own district. but in the thirty-fiftf
and throughout the city. Wherever
can help the fight against the Herrir
machine / am doing it, and my friends
If they are my friends. will help tc
win this fight for decency. The state.
ments that have been made that l an
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