The San Francisco call., 1908-03-01
GROWTH OF LEAGUE
ALARMS MACHINE
contiuued from Paee il. Column 1

reported efforts Of fToNernoi' Giite4t ~
discredit the: league away from nome
source Of qualification.
Discussing .the Gillett : Washington
Interview Devlin' said.
I only hope that She press dispatches
telling of the. governors attack At
wa shington on the Lincoln Roosevelt
league. are true. for that would be
the best kind of evidence % the
strength Of the movement 10 crush the
Rerrin machine in California The ma
chine politicians began by ridicullng
the movement but the fact that the
governor Of the state has gone to
ETashin gton. and made an attempt TO
discredit ii shows that the 'organiZa-
.tionH is exceedingly alarmed and that
II has come TO regard the movement
against it in a INST serious light The
fact that Governor Gillett went TO
Secretary Taft with an appeal shows
. that. the machine IS afraid 10 fight it
out here at home.
4 must question the authenticity OF
the dispatches. for il seems unbeliev-
able. that Governor Gillett~ would an
d. nopnce himself 3 the representative OF
the organization I'm this state. That
would mean an open acknowledgment
OF fealty to the Herrin machine. with
which organization in California is
Synonymous. ] have always credited
the governor with more sagacity than
p. woold be displayed by such an ayowal.
.UNBECoMING IN GILLETT
The dispatch contained some gross
nisrepresenta tions. and I hope the gov
ernor IS not responsible for them His
styling tie Lincoln Roosevelt league
as the Pardee organization was abso-
lutely without justification, and if he
really did so, it ~ became the gov
,ernof. Pardee is no. larger. factor than
>.epybOdy else in this very good cause,
and intact has been no leading factor.
tPardee has never attended a meeting
OF 'the executive committee and has
had no voice in -itsaaffairs.
: ~Tle only time. ! have talked with
a Psrdee since the league movement was
started was at the initial. organization
meeting held in. Oakland. DR.. Pardee
~ S. working with the great body Of citi
gems TO bring about a. higher. standard
for our state government. We need
him, and are glad 10 have him.. but no
private interest of his or of any other
man rs heing served. Pardee is taking
no controlling part In the leagues
work. and to. suggest that the league is
'Pardee's organization. is to suggest A
gross Untruth.
" ~'As to the statement that Taft's man
agers have been bombarded with re
quests that the: management Of the
Taft campaign in California SHOULD he
given over TO Par6ee. 7 want TO say
that al no time, privately or at meet
tngs Of -our executive committee. has
Aach suggestion been. made. think
- no: one conn nected with the league ever
.-1hought Of making such a. suggestion,
sn6 7 believe that the statement com
ing from Washington has absolutely no
e basis of TRUTH
While Governor GiIlett, as the repre-
- sentative OF the organization" is en-
deaToriug to give. the Lincoln -Roose-
Welt league a black eye at Washington
bs' sneering at it as the organization
Of an individual. the lesser representa-
TiFes Of HeErin's Individual machine
are as ndtfstrioUslE. if less frankly,
working to- the same end at home
WILL OPEN IT'S BARREL
The 'Pardee- organization slogan of
the. mschine-does not. 20 in California
and the ma chine has been forced to
fan hack upen its one remaining source
the dough" IS.
The gathering of the hosts in San
Francisco is proceeding in a charac-
tsristic manner. Philly Crimmins has
been exhumed.. Arthur Fisk has
donned the paint and hahiliments OF
war and Francis Y. Keesling is an ad-
vance agent OF a promised. prosperity
wave in local politics. Crimmins was
dragged. out just about a year ago
He @1ndUstriousfy. enga ged himself in
the work Of Organizing the republi-
can party IN several burned. districts
The Herrin machine was forced into
giving the people Of San. Francisco
an honest apportionment of delegates
20 the local convention. PHILIPS or
ganization efforts deprecated in value
Immediately. He entered into the pre-
linffnary stages Of the primary fight;
started TO frame up several delegate
tickets and suddenly laid up
The confidential explanation for
Philly's cessation Of hostilities was
that Herrin had refused TO come
through. Tt was quietly given out q
few months later that Crimmins had
been separated from his. number on
the Southern Pacific pay roll because
he spent too much time at the Emery
Vile track. The suspension Of Grim
nlins' selary is an open question bui
St Is an odds on bet that If his South
ern Pacific income was cut off II was
because Phi1ly was numbered with the
politically dead and not because oi
his alleged sporting proclivities. Ir
any event the machine .sorely needs
every member OF its riffraf crew nov
snd Phiily is. again posing as 1--we
one with mission.
FISK TO RESIGN. OH! NO.
The announcement that Arthur. G
Fisk Is to resign his. berth as post
master 10 become a candidate for con
Kress is provocative Of mirth TIL.
beating Fisk got in the thirty-seventf
assembly district last year was an In
cication Of the esteem in which he I.
held BIZ the republicans Of the bigges
assembly district in the fifth congress
sionsl district 1t was also an earnes
showing Of the regard the voters o.
the district have for the Herrin ma
chine.
Fisk VIII not exchange a certainty
lucrative both IN point Of compensation
and manipulated patronage. for tn.
certainty or political defeat and oh;
security. He viii not be a candidat,
FOR congress- but he will attempt to re,
lhabflitste himself by fight for tn,
thirty-seventh district delegation
That he viii be able to present
ticket masked behind the respectable
ity OF some of the men he fooled las
year is highly improbable without tn
aid Of a certain amount of respecta
bility Fisk VIII scarcely be able t,
turn the defeat in every precinct suf
fered last year into a victory at tn
coming primaries, when he will b,
compelled TO meet opposition not alon