The San Francisco call., 1908-07-12
TELLER YIES WITH
STONE FOR POWER
Complication as to Nominal
Head of Machine Bodies
III to Campaign
Leagues Energetic Work Holds
Herrin to Semblance of
Party Loyalty

The doubts entertained as to how
faithfully Herrins machine and it's
state executive committee will cam
paign in behalf of Taft for president
have been strengthened by the appear
ance of a complication as to who will
be in charge Of the committees activi-
ties. There are signs of conflict be-
tween Executive Committee Chairman
p. S. Teller and his predecessor, GEN
| eral George Stone, who is chairman of
the campaign committee of five from
that body.
The lack of esteem for Taft and
Roosevelt on the part Of L. II. Harri-
J man and Boss William F. Herrin does
/ not give assurance that they want their
/ politicians TO make any too strong q
! fight for the national ticket If the
/ Lincoln Roosevelt league were not pre-
pairing to make a vigorous campaign
/ for the presidential candidate the rail-
roads machine would unquestionably
/ be- l0kewarm its support. However,
it becomes a matter of survival of the
machine itself that ii shall make a
showing, and, spurred on by the pace
that the league will set in its advocacy
of Taft, the railroaders are expected to
bestir themselves with some show of
effort.
! LEAGUE BETTER EQUIPPED
IT seems that, as a matter of fact,
the Lincoln Roosevelt leaguers are
better equipped than the machine to
wage the cause of Taft. They will pro-
ceed independently, inasmuch as the
railroad machine has shut them out of
party councils, but they have a more
extensive organization of clubs and a
far greater number of republican news
papers affiliated with them, and can
carry on the campaign much more ef-
fectively.
According to the notices that are be-
ing sent out from the state committee
to the county bodies advising them as
to the filing of their petitions for place
on the primary election ballots, General
Stone is still 'it' in the direction of
affairs. Signing his name as chairman
of the campaign committee, he bosses
the entire job of the state body, just
as in the past when he was the chief
officer of the executive committee.
| Chairman Teller on the other hand
objects to this view.
No, l am going to have charge of
| the campaign" he asserts. stone is
| only chairman OF the subcommittee; /
am chairman OF the executive commit
! tee and of the central committee. Stone
is going to work under my direction.
He is not to be in charge OF the head
quarters. L am going to be in charge
| STONE PUTS ONE OVER
! It seems. however. that the general
/ has slipped one over on Teller. 1t is
| made to appear in the rural districts
! that it is General Stone who is still
running the state committee. He signs
! and sends out the official communica-
! tions as the man who is in command.
! He doesn't make it appear that he is
! working under Teller's directions
! Chairman Teller feels a high dig
nifty in his post. He says he is going
! to be in charge of the committees af-
| fairs Stone so far seems to be the
one who is looking after them.
Meantime the Lincoln Roosevelt
! leaguers explain that no matter what
/ the railroad machine does they will see
/ to it that an aggressive canvass is
made in behalf of Taft and Sherman.
They were in the main responsible for
! the crystallizing of public sentiment in
California that demanded the pledging
of the convention delegation to the war
secretary, and they will also make act
| i've efforts to roll up as big a majority
! for him as possible on election day.