The San Francisco call., 1908-08-12
LEAGUE SMASHFS
RING IN ALAMEDA
Sweeps Four Out OF Seven Dis
tricts and Breaks Into
Another
Elects l35 Delegates Against 90
for Machine, and Beats
Senator Lukens

OAKLAND, Aug. 11.-After one of
the most desperately fought primary
elections in the history of the east side
of the bay. Alameda county was swept
into the Lincoln Roosevelt republican
league fold today by a decisive vote.
The county ring and the Herrfn gang
were smashed into splinters.
The good government allies will con-
troll the next county convention, hav-
ing elected .135 delegates to the ma
chimes 80, including seven appointed
delegates. The league won outright
in four of the seven assembly
districts, smashed into the fifty
first. the county rings stronghold.
by taking IL delegates out of the IS
in Cooks seventh ward, where one of
the stiffest fights of the day occurred.
Aitken, the machine candidate for
supervisor, was smashed by the Rowe
forces. John w. Stetson swamped Sem
ator G.. r. Lukens in the fifteenth SEN
atorial district fight. Lukens lost his
own precinct at Fourteenth and Web
ster streets by % votes.
Stetson's victory is most significant.
as 1t was made on league lines, with
Lukens backed to the finish by all of
the machine force. Stetson's majority
will be more than 1000. As the count
stood at midnight the league carried
the forty-eighth, forty-ninth fftieth
and ffty-second districts, with a strong
break into the ffty-first. The machine
carried the forty-sixth and forty sew
enth, with a chance of nominating an
assem- blyman in the fifty-first.
Besides this, the league carried both
the fourth and fifth supervisorial dis
tricts.
Two elements contributed to the vic
tory-frst. the throwing of the whole
strength of Mayor Frank K. Mott into
the fight In Oakland; the splendid or
ganization effected by leaders like DR..
H. B. Mehrmann, Charles E. Shook and
M. J. Kelly; the able handling of the
details of organization by Walter B.
Fawcett and the splendid organization
of the league IN Berkeley and parts of
Oakland.
HEARTBREAKING FIGHT
The election result proved that there
had been a popular uprising on this
side of the bay. The Southern Pacific
crowd made a heartbreaking fight in
the forty-ninth assembly district
Every man from Al Baker, the as
sistant division superintendent, down
to yard foremen who could be put into
the district was there. Thousands of
dollars were spent. But the machine
lost. This contest and that in the sew
enth ward go on record as the hard
The forty-sixth went to the machine,
as did the forty-seventh, which Is the
city of Alameda, by 1,191 to 609. In
the y-eighth James T. Feeley, the
good government candidate for the as
sembly, defeated Harry Borchert by
1855 to 527. Borchert lost every pre-
cinct in the district. Thousands of dol
lars were dumped into the district by
the machine. The forty-ninth, the Her
rim stronghold, was won by the John
w. Mott-John F.. Mullins combination
by slight majority over John F.
Kelly, the Southern Pacific candidate
for the assembly. The margin was
close, less than 100 out of a total of
2,100 votes cast.
The fiftieth district went overwhelm-
ingly for the league, insuring the nom
ination of Harry w. Pulcifer for the
assembly. The Rowe-Stetson league
ticket captured the all important IL
delegates north of East Fourteenth
street in the seventh ward by small
majority. The Cook. defeat here was
crushing, as 1t was on these IL dele
gates that the whole fight was concen-
trated. The machine took the six del
egates south of East Fourteenth and
the Is in Brooklyn outside.
SWEEP IN BERKELEY
In Berkeley, the fifty-second district,
the league made clean sweep. The
machines trickery was repudiated. In
central and north Berkeley the vote
was and to for the league. carry
ing 18 delegates there. In West Berke-
ley 1S delegates were won and In the
south end, combined with q part of the
first ward, the 10 delegates in the Wal
ter Woolsey supervisorial fight went to
the league end. All OF the machines $
dummy candidates were wiped off the
map. Following is a summary of dele
cations:
Regulars-Forty-s 80; forty
seventh. 30; f1fty-f1rst. 21; appointed
seven from various districts by machine
county COMMITTEES; total. 80.
Lincoln-Roosevelt league Forty
eighth, "a; forty-ninth. 23; fftieth, 81;
fty-frst, 12 fifty-second, AZ; total, l25.
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