Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-24
Republicans Admit S. P. Control
tsan Francisco Rulletlnl


The Republican state central COM
mittee admits that the Republican par
ty and the government of the state are
under the control of the Southern Pa
cific railroad.
Not only did the machine committee
admit what the decent people have
been charging for years, but after ad-
mitting the naked truth it didn't even
have the dency to rebuke the South
ern Pacific or deny that Herrin runs
the machine.
OF course, If Herrn had been there
no such blunder on the part of his state
central committee would nave Deen
left uncorrected, but Herrin WASH {
there and he didn't have competent
chairman in Phil Teller, so at last,
after many years of denial of rail-
road control, the Republican organiza-
ton of California now admits that II
Is railroad bound ard fettered.
Admitting this and knowing that the
voters of this state are trying to
throw off the yoke which encircles
their necks, the members of the state
central committee put themselves on
record as puppets of the machine, and
didn't seem to know that they were
doing it.
Chester H. Rowell, leader of the
Lincoln Roosevelt league, put one over
on Herrin. Nobody present except
Tom Dozier and William II. Jordan
appeared to notice that the committee
had been spiked to the wall and left
there exposed and barred as the right
arm of the much-despised Southern Pa
citic machine.
And Dozier and Jordan were too late
in tumbling to the situation. Phil Tel
Ter, short on parliamentary procedure
and still shorter on political acumeni
didn't come to their rescue as a true
Southern Pacific committee chairman
should.
Dozier and Jordan tried vainly to
signal the committee to let it know
what is had done, but no one saw the
red flag of danger, not even old faith
| full Grove l.. Johnson, who has assisted
in steering Herrin's machine off many
| rocky shore.
After the preliminary work of calling
a convention of 42S delegates to meet
in San Francisco on September at
o'clock. William II. Jordan introduced
"a resolution indorsing the Taft admin
istration, the presidents action in In
| dorsing the Payne-Aldrich tariff bill
and denouncing that form of insur-
gency, which, under the cloak of Re-
publicanism, refuses to support oul
presidents great work" The resolu-
| tion also heartily indorsed Governor
| Gillett's administration.
Chester Rowell moved to strike oui
that portion of the resolution referring
to the insurgents. He was voted dowr
by as nice programmed gathering as
ever sat for Herrin and Jordan's reso'
luton was adopted.
Then Rowell introduced the resolu'
| tion which nailed the state centra
committee to the cross. 1t reads:
| Resolved, That this Republican
state central committee hereby re-
| pudiates the influence heretofore
| exercised by the political bureau
| of the Southern Pacific company in
the councils of the party and in
the government of the state, and
calls upon all candidates for Re-
publican nominations to declare un-
eduivocally their opposition to this
influence and their purpose, If
elected, by all means in their
power, to remove it from further
influence in the politics and gov
ernment of California"
Your resolution is out of order.
said Chairman Teller. There is notn
ing to show that the Southern Pacin'
is in control of the state central com
mittee."
Teller saw that he had made breai
and quickly added that he would en-
tertain a motion to lay the resolution
on the table United States Appraiser
Jake Shaen, who knew his duty well
made the necessary motion DR.. Henry
Abraham came through with the sec
ond and the deadly accusation was
taken unto the bosom of the unholy
committee without so much as mur