The San Francisco call., 1908-08-18
DISCOVER PLOT TO
. STEAL S[NATORSH|P
Herrin Men Playing Crooked in
Santa Barbara=Ventura
District Again
Party Men Are Greatly Enraged
Because of the High Handed
Methods Adopted
SPECIAL p1spArcH no rHE GALL

SANTA BARBARA, Aug. 17.-Her-
rims machine is making desperate eff
fort to steal the nomination for state
senator in the district composed of
Santa Barbara and Ventura counties.
The machine has had covetous eyes on
the nomination for some months, and
when the convention meets in this city
August 20 it proposes to turn down Dr.
c. NJ Mott of Santa Paula, the Ventura
candidate. Mott is a clean republican
opposed to machine methods, and can
not be handled by the Herrin managers.
The machine men purpose to take ad-
vantage of what they call a peculiar
condition, but which is not at all pc
culiar, and hope to rush through the
job. Ever since Santa Barbara and
Ventura counties were joined in sena-
torial district 20 years ago the republi-
cans by agreement have alternated the
senatorial nominations between the two
counties. The plan worked very well
and the district always elected re-
publican. Santa Barbara played the
game fairly heretofore, though it had
nine delegates to Ventura's seven.
C. B. Greenwell of Ventura county
was nominated eight years ago. The
Santa Barbara republicans supported
him in accordance with the spirit of the
old agreement. Greenwell moved back
most of the years of his life and where
his parents lived before his term ex-
plred, becoming a resident of Santa
Barbara county again and voting here.
He was sent as delegate to the repub-
lican state convention. Greenwell asked
for the nomination again four years ago
and claimed it as belonging of right to
Santa Barbara He was indorseds in
convention by the republicans of this
county for the place Recognizing the
right of this county to name the candi-
date, Ventura acquiesced.i
Greenwich was reelected and moved
back to Ventura. AS a resident of
Ventura he announced himself as a
candidate for state senator this year.
The Santa Barbara machine men were
willing enough to accept GreenweIl, but
Ventura had grown weary of his office
hunting game of hide and seek and re-
fused to stand for him. DR.. c. NJ Mott
OF Ventura was urged to enter the race.
The Ventura machine men said then
that the nomination did not belong to
Ventura and trotted out Assemblyman
Pyle for the nomination. Pyle's death
spoiled that game and the machine
promptly developed other candidates.
Among them were Attorneys Carrier
and Roseberry. They contested the
primaries. Roseberry captured seven
delegates. Carrier landed two, but
dropped out of the race for the nom
ination, leaving Roseberry in the field
with seven delegates, while two were
unattached. These two the machine is
now making the most desperate efforts
to line up against the Ventura man.
The republican county convention at
Lompoc indorsed Roseberry, but could
not pledge the whole delegation to him
for the reason that the republicans of
the county outside the city of Santa
Barbara have come to view the claims
of Ventura for the nomination as en-
tirely valid, and they fear Ventura
county republicans will not stand for
the high handed proceeding of taking
the nomination away from that county
simply because Santa Barbara has the
most delegates The controversy has
been fought bitterly. Ventura county
has made its case an appeal for fair
play. Santa Barbara being unable to
meet that issue, the machine press de-
mands that the Santa Barbara dele
gates seize the nomination regardless
of the time honored agreement.
The reluctance of the county conven-
! tion to see an injustice perpetrated in
dicates that it is not altogether smooth
sailing for the machine. Ventura. il
is said, is determined to fight to the
end, and it is believed that by the time
the convention is held fair minded re-
publicans will insist that the nomina-
tion go to Ventura