The San Francisco call., 1908-04-28
FIGHT FOR CLEAN
STATE IS CLOSING
League Presents Men Whose
=: Names Guarantee Pure
!. Government
Herrinites Offer Rueflings and
Representatives of Associ-
ated ViIIainies of BOsSdOm

With the formal announcement of its
district delegate tickets the San Fran
cisco committee OF the Lincoln -Roose-
velt league win enter upon the last
week OF its campaign for free repub-
.lican party today
The fight for the San Francisco del
egations in the state convention and
the fourth congressional convention
has assumed normal rscteristics. In
each Of the IS assembly districts there
VIII be presented to the voters delegate
tickets composed of representative re-
publicans, pledged to the principles Of
the Lincoln Roosevelt league and TO
represent the interests of the people in
their fight against the corrupt domina-
ton of the republican party and the
government of California by the South
ern Pacific company's political bureau.
In all but one or two OF the San Fran
cisco assembly districts there Will also
be presented the usual HerIin push del
egate tickets masking behind the mis-
nOmers regular republican" or reg
ular Taft republicans.
The Lincoln-R Roosevelt league tickets,
as evidenced in every instance by the
selections made by the district clubs.
will be composed of republicans who
can not be bossed by Herrin and who
owe no allegiance TO any OF the associ-
ated yillainies. sheltered beneath the
wing Of the Herrin organization. The
opposition tickets as usual will in
some instances include the names OF a
few respectable citizens, but without
. exception are so made up by the Her
rim strikers responsible for them that
the programmes viii be in control.
PUTS Up HONEST MEN
=. The ACKNOWLEDGEMENT league will
present as delegate candidates such
men as Thomas Z. Haven, Sheldon kel-
logg, Frank ". Marvin, Charles II.
Bentley. Henry Day. 5. A Clark, T. p.
Martin, Z. A. Keil. Charles l. Field,
David Girdwood, Joseph Anderson. L.
H Cosgrove, r. Rasmussen. Dr. Hugh
Lagan, w. 3. MetZner and :. G.. Symon.
The names OF these men are sufficient
guaranty Of the character Of the Lin
coln-R Roosevelt league tickets and the
degree OF trust that can be reposed in
them by the republicans Of san Fran
cisco and California Behind these
tickets and at the head Of the Lincoln
Roosevelt league movement in San
Francisco are men Of the type of Byron
Mauzy. " D., Fennimore. RoIia v.
Watt, George L. Center, Charles 5.
Wheeler Fred Sanborn and William
Adams.
The opposition tickets. and there will
probably be opposition tickets in all
but the thirty-second assembly dis
trict. VIII be made UP Of the regulars
who gave Ruef his delegation 10 the
Santa CRUZ convention, and who in
. their assumed capacity as represen-
fatives Of the people nominated the
Ruehings who misrepresented San
Francisco and the state in the last
legislature. These tickets viii be
sponsored and supported by Arthur @.
Fisk, Eddie Wolfe, Sammy Beckett,
Johnnie Nelson. Billy Bell. Joe Tuites.
Ed Buckley, Hamilton Bauer. Frank
Maestretti, Jesse Marks, Jesse Mayer
end all that aggregation of greater and
lesser lights who aspire to the distinc-
tion OF announcing, with Fisk, as he did
before the fusion committee. for the
purposes Of this campaign / am Mr..
tferrin."
FORCES LINE UP
On the one side are the men who
believe that the people should control
the machinery Of government and that
the republican party should not be a
bludgeOn in the hands of the demo-
cratic emplOye of a predatory corpora
ton On the other side are the men
who profit and glory in their share of
the infamous work of betrayal OF their
party and their state to the foreign
III Rc-c~NAS- Ht-ACAA AA<lS GCACNtCO 6OfclH-
ors, legislators. judges, postmasters and
federal Office holders, whose first duties
have been to obey the orders OF the
power that created them.
The record breaking registration in
dicates that the republicans of San
Francisco, in common with the repub-
licans Of California, are not only fully
alive to their shame but also to the
opportunity afforded them to free them
selves from the Herrin serfdom the
election Of the clean men fighting un-
der the banners OF the Lincoln Roose-
yelt league.