The San Francisco call., 1908-08-02
REPUBLICANS
DOOM H[RRIN
MACHINE RULE
Revolt Led by LincoIn- Roosevelt
League Virtually Assures
Embossed Assembly
Fight for Free Party and Free
Slate Is Waged in Nearly
Every District
San Francisco Will Get Twelve
Decent Assemblymen and
Possibly Some More
By George Van Smith

~ 0COTSc Vdu SmftH
The revolt against Herrin led by
the Lincoln Roosevelt league of re-
publican clubs has attained proper
tons which virtually assure the cleo
ton of an assembly, a majority of
whose members will be free, Embossed
men, responsive only to the people
of California.
The good fight for a free repub-
lican party and free California is be-
ing fwaged in nearly every assembly
district in the state. In some districts
the fight viii be long and, so far as
the present campaign is concerned.
hopeless But from Humboldt to San
Diego decent republicans are aroused
as they have never been. The splen-
did successes won by the Lincoln
Roosevelt league in May In the COM
munities protected by the primary cleo
ton law demonstrated to the republi-
cans OF all the state that the corrupt
Herrin machine cannot Withstand hon
est organized opposition. The magnih-
cent stand taken by the republicans of
San Francisco. and their sweeping VIC
tory. served as q spur to republicans
throughout the state. The Lincoln
Roosevelt league. instead of proving
& fash in the political pan. has grown
steadily until there is scarcely a re-
publican assembly district in the state
that has not one or more clubs COM
posed of decent republicans fighting for
political freedom.
CITIES THREW OFF Yoke
The last state convention at Sacra-
mento was q revelation TO the repubii-
caAs OF interior California. They saw
San Francisco. Oakland and Los An
geles represented for the first time by
genuine republicans. republicans who
recognized no boss, who took orders
from no man nor from any special
Interest.
/ Republicans who had remained supine
under the Herrin lash, saw the big cities
Of the state throw of the shameful
yeke-saw one. brief campaign result
in a convention in which the Herrin
majority only through the disfranchise-
ment of thousands of republicans and
the most despicable political thievery.
They saw men seated as delegates
who made no attempt to conceal the
fact that their alleged elections were
fraudulent They were edifed by the
announcement of Herrin's temporary
chairman. Tom Dozier,s who admitted
the frauds, but declined to be nasty
more than $50 delegates chosen by the
republicans of California stand like free
men against the Herrin program. They
saw the convention stolen from the
people. They saw a peoples minority
within 20 votes of majority. They
saw that the bands which held that
minority together, which made Il scorn
every offer of compromise with corrupt
boss rule, were composed OF republi-
cans elected by the republicans of San.
Francisco, Oakland and Los Angeles,
the sink holes of political corruption,
wherein Herrin's Walter Parkers. Abe
Ruefs, George Hattons. Jack Cooks,
Eddie Wolfes and all their crew were
waIlowed and fattened of the people.
SAN FRANCISCO SETS PACE
San Francisco had set the pace. From
the Oregon line to Mexico clean repub-
licans said, What San Francisco has
done we can do" They are at work.
With q repetition of the good govern
ment victories won in San Francisco,
Oakland and Los Angeles the good
work OF the republicans Of the interior
will give California legisIa ture In
which Herrin's men cannot stalk about
no." ~F
The republicans. of San Francisco will
more than repeat the good work of
May. Enrolled with the Lincoln -Roose-
Welt league. the decent republicans of
San Francisco are fighting as they
never fought before. The Herrin ma
chine is making its last desperate stand
In San Francisco. Beaten in San Fran
cisco, Herrin knows his grip on the
legislature will be gone.
The Lincoln Roosevelt league carried
10 of the Is assembly districts in San
Francisco at the May primaries. 1t
has lost no ground in any OF the dis
tricts carried in May. which. with one
exception. were the big residence dis
trlcts. The twenty-eighth district was
put In the reform column for the first
time and that in spite OF the combined
efforts OF Johnny Lynch, Herrin's new
repu bfican dictator. and Tom Finn.
chairman Of the union labor county
committee, whose major attention is de-
voted to republican politics and whose
whole effort belongs 10 Herrin, in re-
turn for the promise of republican
senatorial nomination in the seven
teenth-
GROSS FRAUDS UNCOVERED
Wholesale colonization and gross reg
istration frauds have been uncovered in
the twenty-eig by the Lincoln
Roosevelt league forces. Theft organ
ltzattou has been splendidly strength
ened. The. union labor men who were
tricked by Finn and who saw Finn.s
delegate. Ed Havens, vote for Harrison
Gray Otis VIII not permit themselves
to be used again. and without them
Finn and Lynch Will make a sorrier
showing in the twenty eighth than they
did in May
The thirty-hrst was swung into the
Lincoln Roosevelt column IN May and
the league workers. led by William
and John Symons. are making the kind
| of fight that will keep the district 81
| line and result in the nomination and