The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1908-02-28
.GILLFTT FIRES
F|RSTSHOTFOR
HERRIN MACHINE
Governor Quoted as Warning
Taft Against Lincoln.Roose-
velt League
Chester H. Rowell Says Tardy
Confession of Executive Is
Refreshing
Representing Organization
Can Mean Only S. P. Bu-
reau," Says Organizer

Governor James N. Gillett has
elected to fire the first shot for the
Herrin organization in its fight to re-
tain its corrupt domination of the re-
publican party in California. No less
parsonage than the governor OF
/ California was chosen as the ma
chimes cnissary in furtherance of the
! organizations scheme to throttle the
Taft and Lincoln Roosevelt move
ments in California.
According to the special Washing
ton dispatches printed by the local
machine organ, Gillett sought out Sec
retary Taft to warn him against the
Lincoln-Ro league Of California
as the private political machine Of
George c. Pardee, who, according to
| the same authority, had been vainly
petitioning for the right to manage the
Taft Campaign in California
Governor Gillett, according to his
interviewer, referred to the Lincoln
Roosevelt league as the "Pardee organ
ization." The republicans of California
know that the Lincoln Roosevelt league
is not a Pardee organization. They
know, too. that the league is not sub
servient to the interests of any offics
seeker.
TO ELIMINATE HERRIN
The Lincoln Roosevelt league was
organized to wrest the control of the
republican state central committee
from Herrin and place that control
where IL be1ongs-in the hands OF the
republicans of California The machine
daily organs and subsidized weekiies
gave over the attempt to fool the re-
publicans of California with a "Pardee
organization" scare long since.
1t has remained for Gillett to rejuve-
nate the worn out scarecrow in a new
field. Chester H Rowell, state organ
izer of the Lincoln Roosevelt league,
discussing the Gillett interview yester-
day, said:
THE dispatch in the Chronicle this
morning was evidently based on state
ments made by Governor Gillett, though
hope he was not responsible for all
the spirit of il. Certainly. II the phrase
that he is representing the organiza-
ton comes from the governor 1t is a
confession that is refreshing II unex-
pected For the word organization in
California has come to mean unequfvo-
cally the political bureau maintained
by the hired boss of a foreign corpora
tion. That Governor GiIlett, since his
election, has allied himself openly with
that organization is a lamentable fact.
That he should confess 1t is less
lamentable, since 1t clears the situa-
tion.
WANTON MISREPRESENTATIO
The filings against the Lincoln
Roosevelt republican league as Par
dees organization, If they were really
made by Governor Gillett in his con-
versation with Secretary Taft, We're
wanton Misrepresentation of the pur-
poses OF the one organized movement
on which the present reform of Califor-
mia politics depends. II they were
edited in by the Chronicle or it's corre-
spondent, then the wanton misrepre-
sentation was by them.
I'm either case nothing could be far
ther from the truth than the insinua-
tion that the Lincoln-Roosevelt league
is the personal organization of Cover
nor Pardee or anybody else. Equally
false is the suggestion that the Taft
managers have been bombarded with
communications regarding the desira-
bility of permitting Pardee to manage
Taft's campaign and regarding the un-
holiness of the state organization
II have myself written to Mr.. vorys,
Taft's manager, several times, and I
know what others have written. II
confess that I have said to Mr.. vorys
what 1 have said to the people of CAL
ifornia in regard to the .unholiness of
the state organization That organi-
zation is thoroughly .unholy,' and the
more emphasis that is placed on that
fact by everybody in California and
by everybody elsewhere who is inter-
ested in California politics, the better
it will be for the republican party in
California.
REPUBLICANS REPUDIATE 1T
THAT organization does not repre-
sent the republican party Of California; |
1t was not appointed by 1t; and the re-
publicans of California with one voice
repudiate the idea that Abe Ruef. Wal
ter Parker or George Stone should be |
regarded as representing even faction |
of the republican party. much less the
party itself.
The conditions by which these men
got into technical possession of the !
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