The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1908-05-04
SCHEMES TO ELECT
OPPOSITION TICKET
AL Baker Threatens to Work for
Delegates and Defeat Reg
ular Republicans
Herrin Representative in Alame-
da County Plans to Spring a
Surprise at the Polls

OAKLAND, May al Baker, assist
ant division superintendent OF the
Southern Pacific company at Oakland
pier and for many years political repre-
sentative of Herrin in Alameda county,
is reported to have threatened TO put
a ticket in the forty-ninth district at
Tuesdays primaries in opposition to the
regular republican lists OF delegates to
the state and district conventions.
which have been Endorsed by the Lin
coin Roosevelt league.
This report, which has reached league
headquarters, caused no alarm. On the
contrary the men who have volun-
teered to represent the party in the
forty-ninth district declared today that
If a Herrin ticket should show up there
1t would be wiped off the boards
Reports were also circulated today
that an opposition ticket was being
framed for the fiftieth district, TO be
sprung at the last minute. Here. as
in the forty ninth district, the organ
ICED forces against the Herrin machine
have arranged a careful campaign for
primary day, by which they expect to
poll a heavy vote.
HERRIN INSPIRES DISTRUST
At the league headquarters the story
was current that efforts were being
made to induce several prominent men
to lend their names TO the Herrin move
ment, but thus far this had failed dis
astrously, so thoroughly have the peo-
pie been educated to the rottenness OF
the Herrin organization.
Utmost confidence was expressed to-
day among good government leaders
of the strength OF the various district
tickets. Astonishment was expressed
at the manifest enthusiasm with which
the completed tickets have been re-
ceived Notably was this the case in
the forty seventh district, a machine
stronghold. There every voter In Ala
media will receive lists of the dele
gates to be voted for, and a thorough
canvass of the town will be made TO
bring out a heavy vote Tuesday.
In the seventh ward, which COM
prises all of the fifty-first district
within the city of Oakland, the
leaguers and their allies feel confident
that they will defeat County Clerk Jack
I Cook and elect league delegates to the
state and district conventions.
The fifty-second district. Berkeley. is
| impregnable against the machine. The
delegations of good government men
will sweep the town and nothing like an
| opposition can be expected in view OF
the thorough organization of the
league forces.
Special events have been made by
anti-Herrin campaigners to bring out a
large vote at the polls Tuesday to make
sure that the machine shall lose control
of the state central committee.
Not only has the present campaign
aroused widespread interest among re-
publieans who have not given close
personal attention to politics, but 1t
has stirred an interest among the local
! leaders which is unusual in view of
the fact that no candidates for public
office are at issue. There has been no
difficulty in Alameda county in bring
ing together all the different elements
IN the party which have at heart the
public concern in good government.
STRONG TICKETS NAMED
| In the six assembly districts which
| the Lincoln Roosevelt league has or
|. ganized the tickets represent strong
personalities united against machine
control. while the election machinery
| is in the hands of the interests which
are dependent upon the Herrin organ
ization. The registration rolls and al
of the incidental work of arranging
| the precincts, polling places and the
like is handled by County Clerk Jack
Cook and the board of supervisors
| four members of which, including
Chairman John Mitchell, take Herriu
program.