The San Francisco call., 1908-05-14
S. P. MAKES OPEN
WARFARE ON TAFT
Push" Politicians at Last De-
clare Flat Footed Hostility
Against His Candidacy
Lincoln-Roosevelt Leagues Cir
cular Will Expose Plot at
State Convention Today

At last the Southern Pacific organf-
zation has exposed it's hostility to the
candidacy Of William II. Taft for the
presidency
The fiat footed declaration of the
push" politicians who are trying TO
run the republican party in this state
in the interests of the railroad cor
porations controlled by E. H. Hartman
that they are against TAFT and will
oppose an instructed delegation IN ms
favor at the state convention which
assemblies today is made through the
Chronicle.
The Chronicles columns, editorial
and news, have been placed at the dis
posal of the Herrin Organization, TO be
used as Herrin sees fit. Part of the
price Of this right Of way to pub
licity is. this time, an appointment as
delegate at large for M. H. de Young.
In the Chronicle of yesterday the
Herrin organization put itself on rec
ord against Taft and an instructed
delegation, thereby sealing the proof
on all the charges which the Lincoln
Roosevelt league has brought against
the iniquitous railroad machine.
.PUsH. PROGRAM REVEALED
The machine. through the accom-
mo6ating, Chronicle, announces that it
is not for Taft or an instructed dele
position in its fight against the Lin
coin Roosevelt league where 1t consid-
ers indiscretion the better part of
strategy and it therefore reveals it's
program with unblushing efrontery.
This is done Notwithstanding the
hypocritical pretensions of the organi-
zation that it would bind itself by the
straw vote taken in some parts of
the state under ridiculous circum-
stances for the purpose, as was al
legged, of finding out what man the peo-
pie wanted for president
The returns of the straw ballot ac-
cording to the organization, indicated
a plurality in favor of the candidacy of
Taft, but the machine wishes 1t un-
derstood that its official primary was
n joke and it therefore takes occasion,
at the eleventh hour, to repudiate Taft
and to ask for an uninstructed dele
cation to Chicago.
EDITORIALS KNIFED TAFT
The Lincoln Roosevelt league under
stood all along that this was to be the
program of the push and made it's
lines OF battle accordingly. The first
hint Of the program became public
from the push" side when the machine
slippeda cog in an Eddie" Wolfe
meeting in the thirty-seventh district
and a number of push" spellbinders
VINO misunderstood the w OlIe-EISk IN
structions roundly denounced Taft's
candidacy. That mistake helped to lose
the thirty-seventh TO the push
Now comes the Chronicle, which has
been knifng Taft ever since its edi-
torial columns have concerned them
selves with the presidential situation.
and tries to deliver a blow at him In
the open.
To apprise the delegates to the con-
vention of the treachery which is be-
ing planned the Lincoln Roosevelt
league has issued and will distribute
in Sacramento today a circular letter
exposing the plot to knife Taft and
showing up the part in the push con-
spiracy played by the Chronicle. This
circular is reproduced in fac smile
herewith.
The fight for an instructed delega-
tion for Taft-not one ready to trade
on the second ballot, but to stay by
Taft first, last and all the time'-is
the leagues fight and 1t will be waged
on the floor of the convention until the
push" is driven to its corner and ac-
knowledges that it went too far In try
ing to do Harriman's will.