The San Francisco call., 1908-07-11
HFRRIN PREPARES
TO OPPOSE DAM
By AIIuring Promises Gathers
in 10 Members of County
Committee
Plans Are Being Perfected to
Deliver Republican Govern
ing Body TO Railroad

Reaching out with aIluring promises
and rewards the ruthless hand Of BOSS
William II. Hcrrin has gathered III -
OF the 36 members of rhe repupucah
county central committee for has uses
ia the selection of men he wants 10
serve the Southern Pacific in the lesls-
lature next winter.
Unable 10 achieve his purpose on
SQUARE issue Of control Of the commit
tee. Herrin got a number OF the COM
mitteemeu into a caucus and lnouceu
them 10 sign a demand on Chairman r.
H Dam that he cali a meeting OF lhe
committee for July II, which ne mas
refused TO Go because the on-E oDJeo'
20 be accomplished at this stage W as 10
deliver The governing body over 10 llle
railroad. II ROW looks as II the 9ou1l-
ern Pacifcs boss VIII carry l--ou9I- u
his plot. and -he decent repubilcahs oi
sam Francisco viii see men WnolA 'i-es
chose a wear a-o on a pledge 10 staho
for .-asr r.rttf,s and against corpora
-for r--r. .s.en as Abe Euet has Deeh
enforcing Tor Tie railroad for so many
,-oa~s rrora furrcoacs TO the cause OF
good government and sell themselves 10
rsa man who is striving desperately
ooafrer The Lincoln Roosevelt ieagu
and its eu6eavors 10 make CaliIorhla
free.
The machine tried to steal the cenlrai
committee outright last TUESDAY even
ing. nlt il lacked one member OF op-
-afrfre a quorum. A rump session was
ro15 and Adjournment was taken.
Realizing that such procedure had no
LEGAL effect the gathering last night
was more carefully described as eau
ems" Committeeman Gercke was un-
willing ro participate in an open dellN-
cry OF the body To the railroad Dut was
cajoled into signing the demand on
Chairman Dam that he call meeting.
RAILROAD WILL CONTROL
once o. quorum gets together the rail
road viii take control by majority
vote. Chairman Dam is to be deposed
and the entire management Of the cam
paigu is to be delegated 10 a subcom-
mittee with full power 10 act Of
which Chief TurDcoaC Sullivan is to be
chairman. Then. with a chairman Of its
own iu place of Dam, the machine car
taI Ike control Of the preliminary organ
iza-i0u Of the convention. for the cOun-
ny committees chairman viii preside al
the opening of the gathering and ap-
point the committees that plan the per
maneut organization.
The meeting last night was full oi
fireworks directed at The Call This
paper came in for much denunciatiOr
because OF its vigorous attacks on the
Herrin machine and its advocacy ot
clean politics and the Lincoln Roosevelt
league Herrin's men have now turne ed
on The Call with al the wrath at their
command and VIII be in a thorough
state of exhaustion before the campaign
is mach older.
SULLIVAN ATTACKS DAM
"Tfm" Sullivan maze a bitter attacl,
on Chairman Dam Ralph Hathorn and
Ryan. telling a phantom tale Of how
they had been plotting TO inaugurate a
scheme 0f graft that would have done
credit TO even the former leader. Abe
Ruef. He said that IN the last cam
uaign the three men had formed a poOl
10 divide up municipal attorneyships
and share the salaries alike. BY three
10 one sullivan was emphatically de-
clared last night 10 be the falsifer-'as
usual" IL was added.
The caucus" was presided over by
II. l. Worthington. There was no roll
call because Dr kibbler. who had signed
the demand on Dam for q meeting. haf
left and a majority showing could not
be made The following are the com.
uitteemen who have gone over TO Her
rim Tim Sullivan, Charles II. Forbes
Hamilton Bauer. Ed Kelly. Domini,
Behan, Mamie Strauss. Ed Buckley
John D. DAILY Oscar Greenebaun. Johr
r. Pidwell. II. L. Worthington, Rudolph
Gercke. i. c. Cartwright, Billy Bell
DR.. kibbler. John Butler, Rober
Strahle. ! erry Lucey and Ben Levy.
The following are the cOmmitteemer
who are standing for decency in the re-
publican politics of the city: John J
Casss Peter J. Kelly, Thomas T. Dolan
John c. Welsh, Harry Beasley. Georg,
Kammerer. A. .. Fretz, T. P Martin
Perry IT. Newberry, r. H Dam. Mar.
shall Hale, H. EIwOod Gates, William H
HAZEL Thomas McGee, Ralph L Ha.
thorn, Samuel A. Clark and Warrer
Shannon.