The San Francisco call., 1908-04-02
DARCIE SETS SEAL
ON MACHINE GRAB
Rank Job Planned by Herrin
Crew Is Called Fair by His
Disreputable Sheet
Sad Plight of Push" Is Shown
by COwardly Tactics to
Steal Delegates

OAKLAND. April I.-Dargie and hi,
disreputabIe Tribune have set the sea-
OF approval upon the rank job OF ths
third congressional district republican
committee, socalied. TO grab the district
convention at which delegates to the
national republican convention will be
chosen Having obtained this indorse-
ment the committee feels that its posi-
ton is amply secured, IN view OF the
undoubted high character OF the in
dorser.
That Dargie should have approved the
committees 1obbery was TO have been
expected That the job was concocted
10 prevent republicans from exercising
a voice IN so important q matter as rep
resentation IN the national convention
goes without saying. The third district
committee IS bound hand and foot TO
the IEerrin machine. It is part and par
eel Of corrupt and crooked political
organization IT stands for everything
in politics that is program, and that
program which has been dictated by
Herrin and a band of political hangers
on who do not stop at anything to re-
tain control Of the party.
STRIVE TO HOLD CONTROL
II is tie purpose of the third district
committee TO control the primaries May
5 by arranging an apportionment which
means that out OF IS delegates the ma
chine is required to elect only is IN or
der TO hold control Of the district con-
vention. The call as promulgated pro-
Vides for the appointment by the COM
mittee Of - delegates Add is and
they hold a majority, and that majority
viii name whom IL pieases to represent
the counties OF Alameda, Contra Costa
and Solano. comprising the third con-
gressional district
with that sort of a. political job Dsr-
gies name has been appropriately
linked. de cries. the call is fair and
he attempts IN q lsbcred defense of il
10 L lister up the scheme. Republicans
who desire to assure themselves that
the men who go from California to the
national convention are not shackied to
the Herrin cart need nothing more
than a Dargie Endorsement 70 expose
the crookedness of this political job.
That the committee should have used
the timeworn political trick OF appoint
ing delegates is considered IN itself TO
be a confession that the machine dares
not 90 into the open IN z contest for
supremacy. Discredifed as the Herrin
outfit is, II neededS only Dargie and his
Tribune to settle in the minds Of the
Republican voters any doubt that might
have existed as TO the district commit
tees action.
MACHINE MADE DELEGATES
That the districts voters may know
how they have been disfranchised by
the committees action, the deal in Con-
ira Costa county alone is a fair sample
OF what has been done. Dargie SAYS,
the call is fair" To Contra Costa
county II delegates have been allotted.
Not voter in that county will have a
chance to say whether Tom Smith or
Jack Robinson shall go to the national
convention, for every one of the IL
delegates to the district convention
from Contra Costa county will be
named under this eminently fair call
by the machine district committee. In
Solano county not a voter outside of
Vallejo win have such opportunity, for
the six delegates in Solano county, out
side. will also be appointed by the com
mittee.
The other seven appointed delegates
are scattered through Alameda county.
The rottenness Of the job is the more
apparent when the fifty-first assembly
district is considered. Here the commit
tee allotted eight delegates, and four
Of these are 70 be appointed. Why?
Because the committee did not dare to
90 into the eastern end of the fifty-first
assembly district and give the or
gsnized Good Government league there
a chance to vote down its program.