The San Francisco call., 1908-05-01
D[NOUNCES NELSON
AS HERRIN WORKER
Perry Newberry Says County
Committee Is Committed to
Lincoln=Roosevelt League

"'Budgy Nelson is a regular repub-
lican when it suits him. He was out
with Abe Ruef capturing the district,
but not for the republican party
.Budgy' is a republican when he wants
something He is Herrins man Friday
in the forty-fifth district
Speaking at the mass meeting called
by the Lincoln Roosevelt league at
knights of Pythias hall in the fortyS
berry, member of the county COM
mittee, denounced Senator Johnny"
Nelson for trying to appropriate for his
crowd of heelers and push men the
name of regular republicans.
Nelson owns that club which he
would like to call the regular repub-
lican club Newberry said, ''and Ed
terest in it, but the voters in this dis
trict, the decent independent voters,
don't even get a look in
The county committee. the speaker
explained, was the only body which
has the right to use the designation.
regular republican, and the county
committee has given no such right to
Nelson.
THE county committee" declared
Newberry, "is an anti-Herrin and anti
railroad organization and is committed
QY a Dig majority 10 the l-lLCOlA-1NOOSc-
Welt league. 1t has nothing in COM
mon with Budgy' Nelson and men like
him who report to Herrin. now that
Abe Ruef is out of the running.
THREE CLUBS HARMONIZE
A large crowd of voters from the
forty-fourth and forty-fifth districts
had assembled in the hall on Powell
street between Vallejo and Green, when
Anton Garibaldi, president, Of the Lin
oln-Roosevelt league club in the forty
fifth district, called the meeting to or
der. Among those present were Natalie
Ferrogiaro, DR.. ]. X. Plincz, f. l..
Jones and v. D. Virgilo, the league
delegates for the forty-fifth, and Emile
H. Humbert, delegate for the forty
fourth district.
AS chairman of the conference COM
mittee Edwin Emerson Jr., secretary
of the club, reported that three clubs
had been harmonized in the district
the eLincoln-Roosevelt league, the regu-
lar republican club, headed by I. w.
Parsons and DR.. J. K. Plincz, and the
Independent home rule club of Tele-
graph hill, headed by II. A. Laffier and
Perry Newberry. Emerson reported
that these organizations were all work
ing together under the auspices of the
league to defeat Nelson and restore
control of the district to the repub-
licans of the district.
Chester H Rowell, state organizer,
was then called upon and outlined the
work which the Lincoln Roosevelt
league has accomplished since the
memorable day when a band of indig-
nant republicans met in Los Angeles
and determined that such legislatures
as the last and such conventions as
that which nominated Gillett should no
longer disgrace the party. Rowel1 ex-
planned the iniquitous control which
the Herrin railroad machine exercises
over the party through its jealous con-
troll of the state central committee, and
pointed out how that control might be
ended by the primary election next
week
HERRIN WORKS DEMOCRATS
You cannot cure the Ills from which
the republican party suffers by voting
the democratic ticket the state organ
izer declared. THAT remedy has been
tried, but 1t is bad medicine, for the
simple reason that Herrin has control
of democratic, as well as republican,
politics
The remedy lies in getting rid of
the men who do the work for Herrin
in the party and putting independent
republicans In their places. That is
what we are trying to do and we ask
you voters of the forty-fifth to help
us by voting the league ticket t-on next
Tuesday"
L W. Parsons followed Rowell and
spoke more particularly of conditions
In the district. He said he was the
sort of reformer who believed in get
ting and giving a square deal.
This district has never got a square
deal from Johnny Nelson" he de-
clared, "and 1t is time that the inde-
pendent republicans got chance. Nell
sons political power ended when Abe
Ruef was put In jail and Johnny
couldn't ring him up and ask him for
favors. Nelson hasn't played square;
that's why he deserves to lose, and
that's why we are going to beat him
next week.
Newberry spoke along the same lines.
laying special stress on Nelson's at
tempt to misuse the designation of reg
ular republicans. He ended with an ap-
peal for volunteers TO watch the polling
places, and in response a number OF