The San Francisco call., 1908-08-14
LEAGUE PREPARES
TO TAKE CONTROL
Alameda County Republican Or
ganization Will Pass From
Machine Domination
Central Committee Will Meet
Saturday to Arrange Date
for Convention

OAKLAND, Aug. 13.-The republican
county central committee will meet
Saturday evening to call the county
convention at which the control of the
county party organization Will pass
from the machine to the Lincoln
Roosevelt republican league and its
allied good government forces. In
spite of the apologetic attitude of the
machine in decrying the Importance
of the result, the fact stands out that
at the primary Tuesday the old guard
was wiped off the boards. So thor
oughly was the job done that the en-
tire machine organization is in tur-
moil of excitement lest the fight be
carried further.
JUDGES PLACES PLEDGED
1t is not likely that there will be
any hitch in kthe county convention so
for as the denominations of Judges
Melvin, Waste and Harris are con-
cerned. The league executive commit
tee indorsed their candidates. in order
to remove the judiciary from the strife
at the primaries, but there are NUT
terings in political circles that abso-
lutte good faith was not shown by at
least one of the judges affected. In
some quarters the buzz of gossip indf-
Gates that the league will find con-
test within its own ranks over the
the good government movement feel
that the convention would stultify the
whole situation If it reversed the ac-
ton of the executive committee.
SEEK LEAvITT's SCALP
Hardly had the echoes of the pri-
mary fight died away Tuesday night
and the victory of the league made
evident than the politicians who had
watched the fray declared that the next
scalp which would be taken by the
good government allies would be that
of State Senator Frank Leavitt. He Is
a hold over, and could not be given
battle this year, but he made himself
over conspicuous Tuesday in the forty
ninth and fifty-first and other fighting
grounds. His known relations with
the Interests gave him some prestige
in the machine camp, but when the re-
turns were counted the league had
captured the districts included within
the lines of his sixteenth senatorial
district and Leavitt's finish as a legis-
lator will be among the results of the
next county primary. He is among the
last of the old liners to be counted
down and out.
REGULAR DEMOCRATS CONTROL
The date of the democratic county
convention has rot been definitely set,
county central committee, said today
that it would probably be called for
Saturday, August %. The central
committee has authorized the chairman
to set the date at his discretion.
At the primary election the ticket
nominated by the regular democratic
organization was carried without op-
position. There will be 144 delegates
in the county convention, and it
is expected that candidates will be
chosen for nearly all of the leg
islative and county offices to be
filled. Mcdonald says that there
will be straight democratic ticket
placed in the field, and he does not
anticipate that any splits in the ticket
Will be authorized. Among the prob
able candidates to be named by the con-
vention are Victor Gilarden of East
supervisors. and ]. J. O'Toole for as
BOURBONs AVOID DIVISION
There has been no alignment of the
democratic forces for either Bell or
McNab, and Chairman Mcdonald says
that he does not anticipate that there
will be any conflict in the convention
between the two bosses" of the party.
mo instructions have been issued to
the delegates in regard to favoring
either Bell or McNab,'' said the chair
man, and I do not think that 1t will
be necessary to issue any. The ques-
tion has not arisen in this county at
all. It is safe to say, however, that
the Alameda county delegation will
stand together in the event of a di-
vision of forces in the state convention"