The San Francisco call., 1908-08-07
INDORSE KNOWLAND
AND BALk MACHINE
Lincoln-RoOseveIt Leaguers in
Alameda Draw Clear Line
of War on fIerrin
Southern Pacific Bureau Puts
Forward Members of Gang
as Primary Nominees

ALAMEDA, Aug. 6.-With Congress
man j. r. Knowland eliminated as a
factor in the coming primary election
the Lincoln Roosevelt league having
indorsed .the candidacy of the repre-
sentative for another term and pledged
It's nominees TO the third district
congressional convention to vote for
his denomination. the line of battle be-
tween the exponents of government
Tor and by the people and the strikers
Tor misgovernment by the Herrin ma
chine has been clearly drawn in Ala
media, which comprises the forty sew
enth assembly district.
The Lincoln Roosevelt league has
named its nominees for delegates to
the several conventions and the ma
chine gang has done likewise. Com
PARSONS of the personnel of the tick
cts have not added strength to the
hopes of the machine crew for success.
On the other hand, the delegates NOM
mated by the Lincoln Roosevelt league
are all men of standing and not one of
them is an office holder. !
CANDIDATES FOR MACHINE
The machinists have placed on their
tickets many feeders at the public
crib and others who hope to assist in
digesting the money of the tax payers
II the machine does not slip a cog and
it out of the going.
Among the. veteran machinists and
Herrinite public job holders who are
on the boss dictated primary tickets
are Coroner Charles l.. Tisdale; Joe
Lanktree, school director and broker
to the county officials; Justice of the
Peace Elmer e. Johnson, Constable AL
kim, Police Commission AL Latham;
T. c. Fielding, a Southern Pacific rail-
CnDHnptnr- R1t1-
lock; Councilman w. H. Noy, who. it
is rumored, is to be the machine can
didate for mayor at the spring cleo
tion; Deputy Sheriff George Sturtevant
and Deputy District Attorney w. H. L.
Hynes.
CORONER SCENTS DANGER
The activity of the Lincoln Roosevelt
league members and the supporters of
the organization, which stands for the
riddance of the republican party in
California of the corrupt control of the
Southern Pacific's political bureau, has
alarmed the machine gang. Coroner
c. L. Tisdale, who knows all the sig
nails that are sounded and displayed
by the Herrin political engine, took oc-
casion last night, at the meeting of the
machine element held to nominate del
egates, to warn the faithful job holders
and job chasers that he scented disaster
III the energy OIL the Lincoln -fNOOSeN0lI
league. He impressed upon those pres
ent that there was a great danger that
the league would gain a strong foot
hold in Alameda if he and his kind
were lukewarm in their efforts to
carry the primary election Tuesday.
MACHINE TRICK DEFEATED
The coroner politician declared that.
should the Lincoln Roosevelt movement
grow stronger here and throughout the
county, defeat would face the old line
regulars" two years hence
The trick played by the machinists
to have it appear that the league in
Alameda city was opposed to the re-
nomination of Congressman Knowland
has failed of its purpose, which was
to deceive voters into casting their
ballots against the leagues primary
candidates. Knowland has been in
dorsed by both the league and the ma
chine and there is no fight centering
about his candidacy