The San Francisco call., 1908-08-11
DICK WEIGH FLAYS
MACHINE TRICKERY
Leads Fight for League in the
Thirty-second and RepuG-
ates Herrin Gangsters
Effort to Deceive Voters Is
Nipped by Clean Govern
ment Candidates

81 am standing fairly and squareIy
on the acknowledgements league plat
form, not only in my own district, but
also I'm the thirty-ffth and throughout
the city. Wherever L can help the fight
against the Herrin machine i am doing
1T, and my friends, If they are my
friends, will help me TO win this fight
for decency. The statements that have
been made that 1 am opposing the
League ticket in any district in the city
are absolutely false and are plainly
meant to deceive the voters"
This fortnight statement from
Richard J. Welch, leader of the Lin
coin Roosevelt league fight in the
thirty-second district, was called forth
by the rumors, circulated by his enc
mics and the enemies of the league,
that Welch was on the side of the
Herrin organization.
Welch has Indignantly repudiated all
such insinuations and his activities in
behalf of the league tickets through
out the city give them the lie still
more conclusively.
In an effort to deceive the voters of
the thirty-second the Herrin machine
has pretended that 1t has no ticket
-
Notwithstanding that a ticket bearing
the 20. X" of Johnny Lynch has been
made up and distributed throughout
the district. This ticket, of course,
Will receive the machine support and
it would please the push" nightly
to see the decent voters Of the dis
trict stay away from the polls in the
belief that there was no contest and
that their votes were not needed to
help the league.
There is a contest in the thirty
second, but the result of the election
is almost a foregone conclusion.
Welch's record at Sacramenton is of
such a nature as to place him high
in the estimation of the republicans
of his district, and there is little
doubt that they will turn out today
to express their confidence in him and
in the league by an overwhelming
vote. The republican registration for
the district is 2,280; the estimated vote
is 1900.
Welch's influence is also felt in the
thirty-fifth district, where the league
ticket is opposed by Johnny Daily and
Abe Ruef All the Welch strength in
the thirty-fifth is cast on the side of
the Lincoln Roosevelt league, and there
is small chance of Daly's success.
DAILY, in fact, is making his last
stand in the Mission. Through many
CdHlpdiEuSs D9 lFlCkOTy ana slippery
methods, he has maintained his con-
troll, but there is abundant evidence
that his time has come. The .'old
man" of the Mission is about to be
retired from politics. In past cam
paigns Daily has controlled the Hayes
sack in the San Francisco end of the
fifth district, and. it is for this priv
ilege of the exchequer that he is bat
Ting in this primary fight.
The Mission nllkman is working
with wornout tools. He has enlisted
the assistance of Abe Ruef in the dis
trict and the ex-boss has thought 1t
worth his while to go out into the
thirty-fifth and line up his old friends
against the league. Instead of helping
DAILY this interference of Ruef, fresh
from jail. has had a reactionary effect
and the republicans of the district are
resolved to express their disgust with
Ruef and DAILY at the polls today
One of the strongest men of the
DAILY ticket was Henry Feige, we'll
known and respected throughout the
district. His name was used by DAILY
without his permission and Feige has
lost no opportunity of expressing his
opinion Of this sort Of political trick
cry.
Feige is a member of the Lincoln
Roosevelt league club in the thirty
fifth. and is on the league ticket. He
STANDS Squarely against Herrln ana
has declared in no uncertain language
his adherence of Ruefs interference
In the district.
On the league ticket are such we'll
known men as George Lunt, the under
taker; John Tunnecliffe, the grocer
A. ID. FretZ, the druggist; Frank
Neary, the butcher, DR.. Paul Cas-
telhun and others of equal standing
The republican registration for the
thirty-fifth is 2.05O, and it is probable
that the vote will reach 1900.