The San Francisco call., 1908-08-03
LEAGUE LEADS ON
LAST LAP OF RACE
Closing Week of Primary Fight
Shows Herrin Machine
Falling Behind
Independent Republicans Force
Ring to Renoninate Honest
Men Despite Program

OAKLAND, Aug. with the last
week of the primary campaign opening
tomorrow the Lincoln Roosevelt repub-
lican league and it's allies for clean
politics and the smashing OF the Ala
media county Herrin ring. will make
driving fight in every assembly district
in the county. The principal centers
OF battle will be the forty NINTH. fifty
first and parts of the. fifty-second dis
tricts. In the forty-sixth the league
will carry Eden. township with IL dele
gates beyond a doubt. But Tor the
gerrymandering of the district by the
machine the entire district might have
been won by the league. AS it is WASH
ington township viii register strong
vote in protest against the ring and in
other portions of the forty-sixth 1t is
confidently expected that many voters
Will denOunce the Herrin program.
In the forty seventh district the
league has won a moral victory by
compelling the organization to take up
Assemblyman Frank Otis for renomina-
ton. This went strongly against. the
grain of the machine, because Otis is a
representative of the people. independ-
ent in thought and action. He was
slated by the ring to be turned down.
The gang put another candidate i'm the
field, but SO strong. was the protest Of
the league and the independent republi-
can voters of the district, which COM
prfses the city of Alameda, that, the
machine was compelled to back water.
Otis will be renominated.
In the forty-eighth the league will
take the "a delegates into the county
Feeley. The forty ninth will go to
John w. Mott, the league candidate,
The ffftieth will name a league man.
The fifty-first league candidate for the
assembly will be announced early in the
week. There the way has been cleared
of obstacles. The league will carry not
less than IL and possibly the entire Is
delegates from the seventh ward to the
county convention. With the delegates
who will be chosen from other parts
OF the supervisorial district Supervisor
H. ID. Rowe will be renominated and
Assemblyman John w. Stetson is as
sured of the nomination for state SEN
ator from the fifteenth district. State
Senator. G. r. Lukens is nonlinallY a.
candidate. for reelection. He. is out
of the state, being at Washington, D. G.
Conflicting reports have been received
as to his physical coudition. He is de-
pending entirely upon the machine pro-
grammers to make his fight. Stetson.
has developed strength which cannot be
overcome. His political record is not
only clean, but he has shown himself
to be aggressively against the Southern
Pacific railroad political bureau in his
legislative acts. He is an unyieldings
supporter of the direct primary and is
free from the suspicion of machine
domination. Berkeley will send IT'S
quota of league delegates to the county
convention.
On chief Importance to the voters Of
Alameda county is the wrestling away
from the Herrin crowd of the control
of the republican party in this county.
Alameda county is one of the largest
political divisions of the state. 1t has
been grabbed by the machine and the
public sentiment has been stirred TO
high pitch in LAS battle to restore clean
conditions To obtain that result the
county ring must be driven out With
that accomplished the league can go
forward with it's; crusade, the ultimate
purpose of which is to crush Herrinisrn
in California.