Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-27
ANDERSON OUT
FOR GOVERNOR
MAKES AN ANNOUNCEMENT OF
HIS CANDIDACY
State Bank Superintendent Enters the
Race Against Johnson, STAN
ton and All Conn.,

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 26.--In for
NAL statement addressed to the Re-
publican voters of this state and is
sued tonight State Bank Superin-
| tendent Alden Anderson announced his
| candidacy at the August primaries for
| the Republican nomination for COVER
| nor.
The announcement states that Mr..
Anderson has received petitions, COM
munications and personal requests urg-
ing him to enter the contest of the
Republican gubernatorial nomination,
and it is in answer to these that it is
issued. The statement declares that
many great public undertakings now
contemplated by the state call for a
business administration and that the
past official record of tie writer has
given him an opportunity for education
and observation that should prove
helpful in the executive office at the
present time. G.
Mr.. Anderson submits himself as a
candidate according to the statement
as a representative Republican whose
continued fidelity to that party entities
him to that right. Declaring his faith
in the decision of the majority of the
electors as declared at the primaries
he announces that in continuance to
the spirit of the primary law he will
spend money only for minor pur-
poses in his campaign
Leaguers Are Busy
The Lincoln Roosevelt leaguers are
preparing for a whirlwind campaign
which they purpose to start early and
prosecute up to the opening of the
polls in August. Hiram w. Johnson is
brilliant and magnetic orator. The
directors Of the leagues campaign hope
to perfect arrangements which will
IL Tll.. e. l~ IL
county in the state. If Lee C. Gates
of Los Angeles is the leagues candi-
date for lieutenant governor and the
wind seems to blow that way, the
league will have a powerful oratorical
team at the head of its ticket. Gates
is one of the best orators in Southern
California. He will not be a stranger
to the men in politics at least, in any
portion of the state. After the pri-
maries, win or lose. Gates has been
out for the Republican ticket.
If Gates is the candidate for lieu
tenant governor, A. j. Wallace of Los
Angeles will probably be sent in to
make the race for Frank Flint's seat
in the United States senate. Wallace
is an orator of no mean ability and is
a floor fighter of exceptional ability.
He has money and his business rela-
tions are such that he could afford to
go to the senate.
Well Organized
The Lincoln Roosevelt league lead
ers declare that they will have an or
ganization working for Johnson in
every county in the state within six
weeks. AS a matter of fact, the league
has organizations in one or another
state of activity in nearly one-half of
the counties, in some counties the anti
machine organizations are not called
Lincoln Roosevelt leagues, but they are
"ferninst the government, just the
same; witness the county central COM
mittee in Santa Clara county headed
by Charles r. Detrick, state secretary
of the league.
There is no Disgusting the fact that
Johnson's candidacy is not relished by
the machine men. Some of them are
frank enough to admit it. They be-
lieved that the league would be unable
to get Johnson into the fight. They
also believed that cross-firing by the
friends of other candidates or tentative
candidates had produced a situation
that would result in runout regardless
of who was chosen by the leaguers.
Johnson complicates the situation.
The expected big runout cannot be To-
Gated. The defections from the league
resulting from the disgruntled of Bel
shaws friends are apparently confined
to two counties. They involve no espe-
cial comfort for the machine men, since
the detection has been to Curry rather
than to the organization.
Alden Anderson has given it out cold
that he will not seek a combination
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