The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1908-05-05
RINC'SPOWER
NOW IN HANDS
OF TIL VOTERS
Issues Sharply Defined and Good
Republicans Viii Ballot
for League
Question Before People Is,
"ShaIl Herrin Continue to
Rule State?"
LincOIn=RoOseveIt Ticket Head
ed by Men Who Will Work
for Civic Purity


Shall " 7. Herrin, through his cor
Supt Southern Pacific political bureau.
continue 10 dominate the republican
party and the government OF califor-
MA? That IS the single question to
be decided by the republicans OF san
Francisco al the primary polls today
All the Efforts Of Herrin. his strikers
OF the Fisk Wolfe. Bauer. Beban type.
and OF Herrins servile press to be-
fog the issue have been abortive. The
issue is single. the lineup clearly
and sharply defined.
On the one side arc the friends OF
free, representative government led
b. the Lincoln Roosevelt league CO.
operating with the Independent repub-
lican organizations Of san Francisco
and a majority Of the members OF the
county committee. On the other side
are all the strikers and heelers OF the
Herrin. Ruef. Maestretti. Crimmins.
Kelly push" contingents.
On the side Of political freedom and
clean government are aligned such re-
pubncans as Byron Mauzy. ". D. Fen
nimore Sheldon Kellogg. George L.
Center. Rolla Y. Watt. DR.. Hugh Lagan.
henry Day. Jesse steinhart, Albert E.
Castle, Jacob H Nen, Ralph Hathorn,
Charles L Field. Colonel J. G. Giesting.
Frank W Marvin, Charles H Bent
ley. Edward A Keil, a G. Boggs. Ma
tale Ferrogiaro. Antonio Babbino and
DR.. J. X Plincz.
On the other side are Arthur c.
Fisk. who achieved the height Of his
ambition when he served as Herrin's
spokesman on the fusion committee
IN 1905: Eddie Wolfe. Herrin's mouth
piece on the floor OF the state senate
for u years: Sammy Beckett. Nat
Coghlan and Mic Beban. Ruehing as
semhIymen, who voted for the contin-
session Of the legislature; Hamilton
Bauer Jake Shaen. Johnny Nelson and
All the push" crowd none Of whom
has ever attempted to slip the South
ern Pacific coupler.
NOMINATED IN OPEN
On the one side are the Lincoln
Roosevelt league tickets nominated in
the open by republicans. On the other
side are the delegate tickets put up in
push caucuses by Southern Pacific
strikers and including many OF the
men who were delivered to Herrin by
Ruef for a price at the Santa Cruz
convention.
On the one side are the Lincoln
with a clean record. who owe no alle-
glance 10 Herrin or any other boss and
who are bound by only one pledge
the pledge OF the league. That pledge
IS z promise 10 the people of Califor-
MA 10 work and vote for the emancipa-
tion OF the republican party from the
domination OF the corrupt political bu-
reau OF the Southern Pacific company.
On the other side are the Her-in
tickets made UP OF candidates the
majority OF who, have been Identified
with Herrin's politics. and who can be
relied upon to take the Herrin pro-
gram in the state convention, II the
decent republicans OF san Francisco
through their neglect to vote today
elect them.
While the machine is making vigor-
Gus efforts in all but the thirty-sec-
ond and thirty-1fth assembly districts.
its most desperate efforts are direct
ed to retaining the thirty-seventh
and thirty-eighth assembly districts.
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