The San Francisco call., 1908-05-07
LEAGUES VICTORY
IS MOST SWEEPING
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ker. Herrins hired man, assumed the
management of the state central COM
mittee and the distribution of all the
patronage in southern California, Los,
Angeles made an effort TO throw off
the yoke and succeeded. Thanks to the
manner in which tho assembly districts
in Los Angeles county are partitioned
Parker and his push" were saved from
a complete rout. The aggregate vote
OF the county showed tremendous ma
5ority for the Lincoln Roosevelt league
tickets The Snug boss is in a fair
way to make good his oft repeated
promises to retire from politics
The San Francisco victory was most
comprehensive and most satisfactory.
The republicans of San Francisco never
voted in such numbers at a primary
before The fortunes of no candidates
were at stake. In so far as the emolu-
nents OF office were concerned the per-
senal equation did not figure in the
contest. There was single issue
Herrin. The republicans of San Fran
cisco fought for a principle and they
won.
Outside the burned districts not
single man who has worn the Herrin
collar survived the storm. The brand
of the Southern Pacific is plain. The
men who have worn the peoples livery
and served Herrin are all plainly
marked That the republicans of San
Francisco purpose to hunt down all this
crew was conclusively proved Tuesday.
WOLFE's LAST STAND
|ddie Wolfe. Herrins mouthpiece
- the floor of the state senate for II
years. made his last stand in the thirty
seventh and thirty eighth districts. He
was supported by Arthur Fisk, whom
the republicans Of the thirty
district repudiated last year, and in
the thirty-eighth by Sammy Beckett.
Max Goldberg, Jesse Mayer and all the
veterans of the Herrin-Ruef push"
The districts were flooded with machine
money. Hordes of strikers were on
duty at every polling place and the
state central committees men in cnarge
on the hocus pocus unofficial primary
ballot boxes attempted TO persuade
electors TO vote the Wolfe ticket, urg-
ing that il was the state central COM
mittee's choice. With the support of
all the forces of the state and federal
machine Wolfe's efforts were unavail-
ing. his record is his own 1t is by
no means an open book. but the re-
publicans Of the district know enough
Of it. They are done with Wolfe and
that they are done with Fisk was
demonstrated by his inability to carry
his own precinct.
LEAD MACHINE FIGHT
In the fortieth district Hamilton
Bauer, formerly q machine state sena-
tor and now a notary puolic by grace
of George F. Hatton; Hartley Peart,
Senator Gus Hartman. Milton Schmltt
and the eminent rough rider, Judge
TreadWell, led the machine fight.
Bauer entertains the most cordial
political hatred for Hartman. In fact
the iacA OF affection is mutual. but at
the sound of the whistle they Joined
forces 10 deliver the district TO the
master of the machine. hey had
money, organization, scores of workers
and they chose the election officers. The
trainers Of the delegate ticket did not
dare put the names of either Hartman
or Bauer on IL, but the retiring modesty
OF the two senators served little pur-
pose. The republicans of the district
knew what the ticket represented. The
league forces, led by Ralph Hathorn
and Colonel ]. G. Giesting. had neither
money. organization nor workers. The
voters Of the district had the records
of their opponents That was sufficient.
COOK ESCAPES SLAUGHTER
In Oakland the only push" repre-
sentative who was not slaughtered was
County Clerk Cook. who carried the
seventh ward. The home precinct of
United States Senator Perkins went for
the league ticket and Perkins has not
recovered his breath sufficiently to no
tify the league leaders that IL was by
HIS direction. He will undoubtedly at
tend TO that later.
Senator Russ Lukens went down in
his own precinct, and that was the
story in all parts Of the state where
the people had an opportunity to ex-
press their demand for freedom by the
ballot.
Tuesdays victory was but the first
engagement Of a war which viii be
prosecuted until California has govern
ment for the people. by the people. Men
who until now have stood aside for the
professional politicians have enlisted
for indefinite terms. They are not rest
ing on their laurels, and, unlike pro-
verbal reformers. they are not sitting
back to admire their first job. In vir-
tually every assembly district in San
Francisco the men who made the anti
machine fight Tuesday have already
begun the work preliminary to the
nomination and election Of a decent leg
islative delegation to displace the pres
ent aggregation of worse than incom-
petents who have served Herrin with
sickening servility.