The San Francisco call., 1910-07-22
By GEORGE A. VAN SMITH
BaIiO0nfsf Promoter In
thi
Coming With Talk
MACHINE LEADERS
HAPPY IN THOUGHT
Spalding's Entry Into Race Puts
Meserye in the Backward
Boy Class

NeSefVe III the DdCkWdIu -,
Boy Class
vXTTLb the three candidates fore Tor re, vot
wv publican Endorsement for United
States senator aid the machine I'M
attempt to repudiate the direct primary In
law by falling to make vigorous cam an,
paign for primary votes? That question
is being answered affrmatively by the
Herrin machine men. who are bending
every energy to the nomination and 90,
election of machine men to the assem-
bly, and senate.
That the wish may be father to the
machine mems thought does not change cot
the fact that northern and central Cali ba,
fornia have no first hand knowledge OF
a senatorial contest Judge John D.
Works the Lincoln Roosevelt league
candidate for the United States senate In
accompanied Hiram Johnson on his first
northern trip. About that time some
student of higher thought literature
Theodore Roosevelt, drawn while the
Roosevelt was president. but before ~,
Works became candidate for the SEN
ate, presented by the organization that uii
uses Roosevelts name as the symbol in
of its policies and purposes Works ws
discovered that personal campaigning
with Johnson strenuous game.
He removed himself as a possible in IN
centive to awkward, questions, from the mi
center of campaign activities. the
THE SHELVING OF WORKS
With Works shelved, to the general
satisfaction OF both the Lincoln -Roose me
welt leaguers and the machinsts, the to
Herrln men began to count their sena- -
torial chickens again They believed
that with Works at home and unop 'io
posed at the primary election his vote or
would be so light that the assembly
they hoped to elect would find no diff
Guilty in louting the primary vote and
bringing Frank Flint out of the repub De
lican caucus the party nominee to
ceed himself.
Then Edwin A. Meserve OF Los Ange -
les who had taken the program with
or without salt for years but who de-
clined to permit it to stand between him
and the fat chance offered by the direct La
primary law and Judge Works, cut AZ
loose for the toga He made tour OF
siderable encouragement. He came to
San Francisco and received more en- dec
couragement. He declared that he car
would go home to attend to some per- -
sonaI business and hasten right back
equipped with an automobile and other
ammunition for a man to man canvass
of central and northern California.
Meserve's trip through southern Cali
foruia and north to San Francisco was
made at time when the southern re-
pubIicans who had been trying to get
A. G. Spalding into the race had about mo
given over hope of landing the San au
Diego man. When Meserve got back to BET
Los Angeles spalding's friends and
set of "impertinent" questions pro-
pounded by E. W. scripps had pushed up
spalding into the that he had four dis
times refused to make lau
MEsERvE STAYS AT HOME
Meserve has not reached San Fran
cisco on that promised return trip. 1t
may be that the advent of Spalding thf
inc to do a
home In any event, he has not arrived. ,,e
Works is in retirement at Los Angeles.
Whether or not he is engaged in editing
magazine articles the habits and
baneful tendencies of Theodore Roose
welt has not been disclosed but he is
not beating up the bushes for votes on
behalf of his senatoral ambitions
Spaldng in the affidavit that made 49,
him a qualified candidate declared that
he was candidate only because of the 70
insistence of his friends He also upt
affirmed that If he received a plurality he
of the popular vote that he would not
withdraw from the Neither in TO
person or by authorized messenger has pri
he advised the republicans of northern AZ.
California of any intent to solicit their
support 1t is understood that the re- tnf
publican leaders in the twelve southern not
counties that pushed Spalding into the
race will make state wide campaign
in his behalf. Less than one month gra
remains for the primary campaign and wit
virtually nothing has been done in the
north for either Spalding, Works or
Meserve. shl
Works expects to receive the Lin
coln-Roosevelt league vote cast for
Hiram w. Johnson. If the attitude OF
some of the most prominent of the