The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1908-11-02
MACHINE OPPOSING
DECENT CANDIDATES
Herrin Organization Openly
Fights Men Whe VIII Not
Take Orders
Dick WEIGH Is Under Ban and
Is Opposed on India
Basin Act

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paign. machine men and machine in.
/, terest have come into the open in
! their opposition to the republican can
didates whom they have been more or
less secretly knitting from the time
! they were nominated IN opposition to
the wishes of the machine and the
| interests.
| His strenuous advocacy Of the India
basin improvement act has been made
the basis of scurrilous attack upon
| Senator Dick WEIGH, who was dis
missed from the berth OF chief whar-
| finger because he refused to take ma
| chine program in the state senate.
| WEIGH fought the India basin act
| through the regular session. The ma
chine was opposed to the measure, but
executed what appeared to be a lay
| down after a bug had been sneaked
| into the bill. WEIGH went back to the
fight at the extra session and demand
ed that his bill be corrected and re-
| passed. Then the private interests
which are opposing the acquisition of
valuable property by the state came
| into the open. They fought WEIGH and
his bill as such measures designed to
benefit the whole people are usually
| fought. WEIGH won out. The people
of his district and of San Francisco ap-
preciated Welch's work. They want
! him to go back to the senate to do
more good work for San Francisco and
| his district.
The private interests behind the OPP
position to the India basin act. hoping
| to be revenged upon WEIGH, are circuz
| lating cards upon which WEIGH Is pic
tured as a Chinaman. The people of
San Francisco will vote for the India
basin act and the people of the nine
teenth senatorial district where WEIGH
has both the republican and union Ia
Dor nominations will send him back to
| the senate.
| David Girdwood, republican nominee
for the assembly in the big thirty
] fourth district, is another beneficiary
| of machine spite. Girdwood was the
unanimous choice of the republicans
who drove the Herrin machine out of
power in the district in 1907, and who
have administered singing defeat to
| the push" twice since the 1907 pri-
mary fight. In the eyes of the mas
| tiers and men of the machine no man
| is a republican unless he wears the
Herrin collar. Girdwood, the choice of
| the decent republicans of his district,
! has been opposed and openly by the
most servile of the push" men.
Girdwood is a bona fide union man.
He led the fight for the unions against
| Harrison Gray Otis in the Sacramento
| convention, while such bogus union
men as Budgey Nelson voted their dele
cations for the man whom every union
In the state has denounced. Bogus re-
publicans and bogus union men tried
to swing a union labor Endorsement to
IGirdwoods democratic opponent. They
failed, as they will fail to defeat a
republican who has the confidence of
the republicans of his district and a
union man who has the confidence and
respect of all genuine unionists.
| In the thirty-ninth district e. j. Cal
Ian, a decent, capable, Independent re-
publican, was the unanimous choice
of his fellow republicans for the assem-
bly,. They will elect Callan and In him
| they will have a representative re-
sponsive to them and their interests
and not to the machine and it's hired
men who animate its puppets in the
republicans of the district ever ques-
toned Callan's republication or his
integrity
| Judge Aitkin and Abe Friedlander,
who enjoy the dubious distinction of
representing the firing line of the Her
rim organization in the thirty ninth,
after working openly against Callan,
the regular republican nominee, and for
SO called democrat of no uncertain
!
on the decent republican by consti-
tuting themselves tribunal to read
Callan out of the party. Callan at
/ tended the execution bee and the ex-
clusion act was not passed, but Fried
lander and his push masquerading
as republicans. are still making a
futile fight against the man they know
will not take orders from them or their
| boss.
In the forty-second assembly dis
trict George w. Lewis, the republican
who was nominated for the assembly
without the consent Of the machine,
has had his campaign dignified by the
strenuous opposition of the repub-
lican county committeeman from that
district. Kibbler, the county commit
teeman, is one of the gentry who as
sisted in the betrayal of the republicans
of San Francisco in the alleged reor-
ganization of the county committee
man and the delivery of the party gov
erning body to Herrin. Lewis is for
| tunate in his enemies.
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not been publicly consulted in the mat
ter.
These are the items OF his martyrdom:
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