Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-11


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This will be week of valiant fight
ing against the Southern Pacific ma
chine influences in politics IL reports
from "up state" are to be believed.
With the Republican state convention
at Sacramento next Thursday and the
Democratic state convention at Fresno
next Monday the week will be full of
activity for the politicians of both par
ties.
AS the Republican convention Is the
first scheduled Its preliminaries will be
earliest In the public eye. That Taft
instructions will prevail is certain. The
first maneuvering between the regulars
and the Lincoln Roosevelt leaguers will
begin at San Francisco today when the
leaders of both elements will meet.
The executive committee of the
league will assemble to discuss It's Sac
ramento program and settle some
things with reference to the policy to
be pursued and the strategies that are
to be employed For the leaguers con-
cede that, on the face of the returns,
the regulars have the majority of the
delegates. But this does not mean, they
hold, that the regulars will control the
cOuNeutlOH. meyer LeSSIleIt LUIS All
geles' member. left for San Francisco
yesterday.
In the past the city delegations have
been the strong impediments to a sue
cessful fight on the Herrin machine.
Now the league finds itself In control
of the cities practically. and the un-
settled thing Is the attitude of the So
called country delegates.
If the country delegations are as they
have been In the past the league pro-
gram will have the support of the ma
+ jority OF the 500 delegates at Sacra-
mento. The leaguers assert that q large
part of those elected from the country
or named by the county committees
are public spirited men, independent of
Southern Pacific influence and will be
the friends of reform. With them as
allies 1t is hoped to defeat the machine
program.
Fears August Primaries
Besides, it is argued. the machine is
not ready for bruising finish fight be-
cause of the prejudice that might OBJ
tain against it's candidates at the
August primaries. Rather will 1t seek
to be classed as good and seek to in
trench itself at the second primaries.
The leaguers from Southern Califor-
MIA will leave for Sacramento tomorrow
evening. For the use of the Los An
geles leaguers fifty rooms have been en-
gagged at Sacramento by Col. Forbes,
one of the Sacramento leaders. Nobody
seems to know what the program in
the convention will be except that the
southern leaguers will attempt to se-
cure the selection of former Senator
Thomas r. Bard as delegate at large
in place of Harrison Gray Otis, who will
be the candidate of the regulars, and
will vote solidly against the machine
program as 1t developes.
A hn COY, ff11n 10 q ncrI1a Te nAf
ing In San Francisco the Herrin regu-
lars will get together in the Gate city
to arrange their program. Their dele
gates are M. Fl. De Young. G.. A.
Knight, Governor Gillett and Fl. G..
Otis, and it is understood they will not
permit break in this quartet. The
regulars also want Knight for chair
man of the convention, and against his
candidacy the league has not yet de.
eided on a man. This may be done at
the San Francisco meeting, or steps in
that direction taken.
McNab Against Instructions
The contest i'm the Democratic con-
vention at Fresno next Monday will
s also be over delegates and machine
control. News from other parts of the
state indicates that Gavin McNab, the
San Francisco boss, who claims forty
of the sixty-three delegates from his
structed delegation to Denver. This,
of course, is bound to throw the con-
yention into a contest, for many of the
cities and counties have instructed for
Bryan. The Los Angeles delegation,
with the exception of about nine dele
gates, is bound by instructions for the
Nebraskan, and the nine are all re-
garded as Bryan men. Delegates of
both clements are equally bound by the
strongest kind of instructions.
Chairman Schwamm of the Los An
geles county committee, who is dele
gate, is authority for the statement
that the delegation will be solid for In.
structions and that he does not believe
Nathan Cole would accept the place of
delegate at large IL the state did not
j--struct for Bryan. In addition the
fortunes of Theodore A. Bell, who as
pires to be chairman of the Denver con-
vention. are based on a solid instruced
Rryan delegation. And Bell, though
heading the McNab slate, due to tho
willy Scotchman's convention tactics, is
opposed to McNabs program and is
supporting Thomas o. Toland of Ven
tura for chairman against McNab's
candidate, Nicholas Bowden of Santa
Cruz.
Chairman Spellacy, who was in Los
Angeles yesterday, says there is no
question but that the delegates VIII
overwhelmingly instruct for Bryan. He
says the sentiment for the Nebraskan
is certain and that instructions cannot
be defeated.
Geary Administrations
Nevertheless former Congressman
Geary of Santa Rosa and State Senator
Miller of Visalia, who have been IN
fiuential in former conventions, are
quoted as favoring no Instructions.
their main contention being that It Is
a discredit to the delegation to tie its
hands. This however, is defaaded byl
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