The San Francisco call., 1908-08-11
VOTERS rally TO
WIPE OUT MACHINE
Decent Republicans Gather to
Free Alameda County of
Corrupt Ring
Jack Cooks Gangsters, as Her
rims Tools, Head Push
Ticket in FOrty-ninth

OAh14AND, aug. lU.--hepuDllcanS OF
Alameda county will have their oppor-
tunity Tuesday to drive the corruption
and rottenness out of the party by
smashing the Herrin machine at the
primaries from o'clock to o'clock
That the agency through which the
Herrin organization does business in
this county is the county push headed
by County Clerk Jack Cook, needs no
| further proof than an analysis of the
railroad machine ticket in the old Her
rim stronghold. the forty-ninth assem-
bly, district This ticket which the ma
chine has put forth for republicans to
swallow contains the names of five
deputy county clerks, including Jack
Cooks chief deputy; nine Southern Pa
cific company employees and two MEM
bers of Governor Gillett's official state
family.
Here is the concrete evidence: For
delegates in the forty-ninth on the al
! legged regular ticket-Chief deputy
county clerk, A. E. Johnstone; deputy
county clerk, A. B. Moffitt; deputy
county clerk, w. NJ. Owen, deputy
county clerk, ]. J. Connolly; deputy
county clerk, L. A Rudolph. From the
railroad rolls are F. Nussbaum, Joe
Redington, Dan Robertson, Frank Will
-@AAAcs ASOOCAL dtCS, e. ". SOTEIS L.
t. Stevenson, John Crossman and F.
j, Monahan.
Most of these men have been jammed
on the ticket by AL Baker the as
sistant division superintendent of the
western division of the Southern Pa
cific, and the local representative of
William T. Herrin in Alameda county
politics.
Further, the governor has been
drawn upon and unfortunately Colonel
Theodore Gier felt compelled TO obey
the order to march with the machine
Gier is member of the governor s
staff. ]. H. Burnham. superintendent
of the state harbor commissioners belt
railroad in San Francisco. is another
name on the Herrin ticket in the forty
ninth. The rest of the machine ticket
is composed of a few old line poll
! ticians, defeated candidates for office,
filled with grudge and representative
of nothing but a personal animus or a
hope that they might get back into
line.
Against this ticket is the good gov
ernment allies lists in the forty ninth.
| Comparisons are all that will be re-
quired to determine which ticket rep
resents the real republican party Read
this list of names-the league ticket:
State-Edwin Meese, John ID. Gallo
way. John f. Towle, w. s. Baxter, John
f. Mullins, w. vi. Watson.
Third Congressional Distrfct-Edsvin
Meese, oliver Ellsworth, John II. Bell,
Ben o. johnson, Charles r.. Elder, A. p.
Stiefvater.
County-OIfycr Ellsworth, Edwin
Meese, John T. Bell, William Walsh.
w. C. Wilkinson, A. p. Stiefvater, VIII
liam Perry, Charles r. Elder, Thomas
ScOxzafava. George A. Parker, John Me-
Kiernan, Matt r.. Bronner, Charles
Lochran. Joe Raymond, Martin HanIey,
w. II. Sibbett, William Dolan, James
Long.
| This story can be repeated in every
| assembly district in the county. It is
the old guard, the machine, the push
and the gang against the republicans
who are determined to sweep away this
corruption and put the party upon the
same basis as that which Theodore
Roosevelt and William H. Taft demand
shall be the standard of the new poll
/ itics-the politics of the people.
The story of the forty-ninth can be
repeated with little variation in every
assembly district in Alameda county.
A fake good government league in
the seventh ward circulated an eleventh
hour attack on Supervisor Rowe today.
Rowe's alleged ownership of saloons
was the basis of the nasty stab In the
back which was sent out under cover
! VI hight. IbOW6 SdlQ.
The leaders of the Lincoln Roosevelt
republican league were long ago ad-
vised of the true status of this matter.
l have no control over the property,
as it is leased on ground rental. l in
vite comparisons of my official record
with that of Aitken on the saloon ques-
tion.''
Indignant over the false charges, urged
him fa demand that on ri To-,
concerning Councilman Aitken's re-
markable change of attitude in the
telephone franchise fight be given.
The circulars attacking Rowe were
issued to distributors from the seventh
ward campaign headquarters of the
Cook-Pierce machine in Washing ton
hall, East Oakland.
The Herrin crowd has badly tangled
itself in the supervisorial fight in the
fourth district. Aitken is the man
/ picked out for the nomination If the
machine wins, but knowing that Ait
ken was impossible throughout most OF
the district the Herrin bunch has rung
| in dummies like Ed Griffth TO fool the
voters. Under no circumstances would
Griffith be given the nomination, for
Aitken has been slated. Republicans
who desire to hammer this down. must
vote in the fiftieth assembly district for
the league ticket.
The fifteenth district state senatorial
| fight is virtually settled Stetson an
nounced tonight that he felt positive
of victory. Reports were entirely sat
| isfactory throughout the day as to the
outcome. The issue has been made so
clear that republicans have been able
to eliminate personal candidates. and
to stick to the one fight-defeat of the
machine.
The stringent provisions of the gem
eral election law will be fully enforced
at af~tomorrow's election. If any heeler
or hired thug attempts intimidation
of party voters under the mistaken idea
that it is only a primary and that he
can get away with the trick without
/ interference, he is due for a painful
! awakening. He will learn before his
experience is over that the primaries
have been invested with a gravity that
makes them every bit as important as
general election and that old fash
/ ioned chicanery Will have no place.
District Attorney Everett J Brown
has instructed Chief OF Police Wilson
/ to see that the conduct of the primers,
conforms in every essential with tba
conduct of the most important election
Arrest has been ordered in every in
stance where any person overlooks the
fact and endeavors by unlawful means
TO influence voting. Persons solicitinr
votes within 100 feet of the polling
will ha ct,bio1foI ~. =, -