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rims republican state central committee
met in San Francisco January 10 TO
formulate its call for the state conVen-
ton which will select "a new state
central committee and elect four dele
gates at large TO the national nominal
ing convention and for the district con-
ventions which will choose 10 delegates
to the national convention. waiter
Parker, Herrin's man Friday. and Cen
eral Stone, Parker's mouthpiece, pre-
sented TO the state central committee
q call that was far too fair In prom
ise to be given popular creoence. &C
cording to the terms OF the cali' the
state central committee pretended 10
be in entire sympathy with the nauonal
committees call and TO be wiling 10
give the republicans or CaliIornla Luti
voice in the selection OF the repre-
seutstives in the state and national
conventions.
PACT ORDERED REPUDIATED
The following excerpts from the off,
cial call for the state and district con-
ventions constitute the promise to the
republicans of California, which Herrin
through his machine calmly announces
he never intended to keep:
ssDeIeKafes must be elected at pri-
mary elections the 5th day of May,
I0OS, by assembly districts or portions
of assembly districts, in all cities, cities
and counties, or other p0Iucai SUD
divisions in which the provisions OF the
election laws of the state of California,
relating TO and governing primary
elections are obligatory and mandatory.
seThe republican state central commit
tee directs that county committees call
primary elections I'm counties and as
sembIy districts or portions of assembly
districts where primary elections are
not required by law. Such primary
elections 10 be held Tuesday, May s,
IeOs. and SO far as possible TO be conJ
Quoted I'm accordance with the primary
election law.
~Attenffon is directed TO the follow
ing quotations from the call of the ma
tionaI committee; The delegates AT
large and their alternates shall be
elected by popular state and territorial
conventional and further, THAT In no
state shall an election be held so as TO
prevent the delegates from any con-
gressionaI district and their alternates
being selected by the republican elect
ors of that district"
In January Herrin's state central
committee promised the republicans
Of California that they would be given
an opportunity to select their own rep
resentatives in the state and national
for president and hoping to turn
slightly less brazen trick than the
Southern Pacific machine turned in
Nevada, Herrin's good boys" adopted
a iimflam scheme which purported TO
provide for an unofficial expression OF
popular choice of presidential candi-
date in further alleged compliance with
the fair spirit exhibited by the ma
tional committee. The public quickly
called the Herrin blun for unofficial
primaries to be held May and the
state central committee backed water
through q change OF date to May 8,
when, according to the terms Of Its call,
primary elections for the selection OF
delegates would be held in every as
sembly district.
WARNED, ABANDoNS BLUFF
A keen appreciation of the ven
geance to be wreaked by the people
has caused the abandonment Of the
second Herrin blun. It is announced
now by all the machine organs, and
the announcement is verified by the
actions of the machine committees, that
primary elections for the selection of
delegates will not be held except In
those cities where under the law they
must be conducted by the state. Her
rim knows that popularity elected
convention would drive his state cen
tral committee out Of the councils Of
the party and that his big four dele
gates at large slate would be incon-
tinently smashed. To preserve his
domination OF the party and insure
the election of De Young. Otis, Knight
and Gillett to the national committee
Herrin intends to relieve the majority
OF the republicans of California Of any
worry about the state convention and,
through his machine. appoint $50 Of the
629 delegates who will compose the
state convention at Sacramento.
Under the provisions Of the primary
election law Herrin cannot prevent the
participation of republicans in the Sc
lection Of 239 delegates to the state
convention And the machine forces
frankly concede that this minority will
be elected by the people working
through the Lincoln Roosevelt league.
The primary election law is obligatory
and mandatory in the city and county
of San Francisco. in the cities of Los
Angeles. Oakland, Sacramento. San
Jose. San Diego, Stockton, Alameda.
Fresno. Pasadena. Vallejo and the town
Of Berkeley. No county save San
Francisco is fully covered by the oper-
alton Of the primary law.
In all the counties of the state except
San Francisco. and with the further ex-
ception of the territory embraced with
in the corporate limits of the IL emu
meratec cities and towns. the primary
law is not obligatory. Under the ap-
portionment made as part of the state
central committees call 396 delegates
will be elected in the communities pro-
tected by the primary law. and 39S will
come from the communities in which
the law does not operate. The machine
is making desperate efforts to organize
its forces in those districts wholly or in
part affected by the primary law, but
its spokesmen frankly admit that they
cannot win in the districts where the
people will have an opportunity to vote.
ssFORGET DIRECTIONS" SAYS HER
Rim
To insure his control of the conveil-
tions. the continuation of the comit-
tee which takes its orders from Herrin
through Parker and Stone and to
thwart popular will by sending De
Young, Otis. knight and GiIlett to the
national convention, Herrin has advised
the spokesmen of his machins to forget
their grandiloquent directions for pri-
mary elections in every county" The
one way TO prevent control of their con-
vention and the machinery of their
party by republicans is to appoint g
majority of the delegates. Herrin pur-
poses to do the appointing.
Herrins third district congressional