The San Francisco call., 1908-04-15

OTIS IS ring IN
1.-THE PUSH'S" NOSE
Organization Leaders So Con-
slider His Selection as
Delegate

The railroads republican machine is
peace in California, but there is no
peace. Frantic are the appeals to party
chieftains to intercede with the Lin
coin Roosevelt league, but there is
neither response nor sympathy. There
is imploring and protestation that the
organization" should not be held ac-
countable for what Dargie and Calkins
print in their fool attacks, and there
IS gnashing of teeth because every
thing is going wrong.
And on top of all the trouble that
the Lincoln-R -Roosevelters have caused
and the alarms they have created
comes a new element to bring a nerv-
Gus unrest, a new shadow In the fu-
tures murky outlook. 1t is the can
didacy of General Harrison Gray Otis
of Los Angeles for delegate at large
to the national convention at Chicago.
When Otis was put on the "organiza-
tion" slate for delegate with NJ. II. de
Young, Governor Gillett and Colonel
George A. Knight, and given the first
rank at that because of the valorous
dead mule episode in the Philippines,
somebody blundered so greatly that the
finger of blame points directly at Gen
eral George Stone. state chairman. un-
happy promoter of the unofficial straw
vote" and Herrins affection. 1t should
be explained that Herrin appreciates
Stones good intentions, but can't for
give him for his management of the
campaign four years ago, in which
Roosevelt got majority of more than
100, 600 in California.
Otis has brought on trouble that the
Organization" had never taken into
its reckoning. Innocently it's worried
chieftains profusely explain it wished
to rewards him for the energetic striv-
ings of his paper to help the machine
in it's straits in the southland. But
the machine now feels that 1t has
got itself into the worst kind of a
jam.
For several weeks past petitions
have been circulating among the labor
unions of the state inviting signatures
to a protest to the republican state
convention against the election of Gen
eral Otis as a national delegate. Some
of the labor bodies have been adopting
resolutions to the same effect in this
city and in the interior.
The reason is, of course, that the
general has been lighting union labor
in Los Angeles. That has long been
a well known fact, and Herrin must
have known of 1t. That he should
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inexplicable.
The following is a copy of the reso-
luton that the unions have been adopt
ing, to be supplemented by a monster
petition the warning labor men are get
ting up:
Whereas, Harrison Gray Otis, editor
and proprietor of the Los Angeles
Times, is aspiring to the honor of rep
resenting the republican party of the
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tional convention delegate at large,
and
Whereas, the said Harrison Gray
Otis is an avowed enemy of the work
ing people of the Pacific coast and
does not represent the sentiments of
those having at heart the best interests
of the state of California; therefore.
be it
Resolved, that we protest against
the election Of the said Harrison Gray
Otis as a delegate at large to the re-
publican national convention"
This hostility Is something that has
thrown the Organization" into a panic
OF course, the first impulse was to in
duce "the general" to withdraw from
the slate, to have him announce that
he did not want to endure the Chicago
heat in June. But so valiantly has
he been going down to defeat with the
machine in the south that even the
heartlessness of politics could not JUS
tify the making of such a suggestion
to the editor.
The worst misgivings that appear in
the dilemma concern the situation
right here in San Francisco. The labor
men are registering chiefly as repub-
licans. The machines push" is the
old Schmitz-Ruef push" and what it
can do to set itself right before the
unions is. a problem for which no "or-
ganization" leader has even suggested
a solution.