Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-05
ATTEMPTS
TO UNITE FORCES
Anderson Is Offered Chance to
Become Senator If He
Will Quit Race
PLAN TO DEFEAT JOHNSON
Machine Bosses Get Together to
Support Herrin's Man and
Ignore MeServe
PLAN TO DEFEAT JOHNSON
BY t. SHELLEY SUTTON

The Regular Republican club of Los
Angeles, which, it is charged, has be-
come the chief working organization
of the leaders of the old Southern Pa
cific machine, unquestionably will
come out with an Endorsement of AL
den Anderson as the Republican cam
didate for governor, according to a
prominent Republican who Joined the
club last week, but who, for obvious
reasons, withholds his name from pub
lication. This statement is confirmed
bv intimations that have been given
out by various other members of the
club, who have been sounding" the
friends of e. A. MeserVe, Charles
Curry and Phil Stanton to see what
the prospects may be of getting to-
gether."
The Republicans Of California real
ize they must join forces quickly II
they expect to defeat the Lincoln
Roosevelt league, and are resorting to
desperate measures to compromise on
one candidate for each office.
There seems to be little doubt that
Alden Anderson is the choice for gov
ernor of a majority of the machine
leaders, and that A. G. Spalding the
sporting goods magnate of San Diego,
is the majoritys choice for senator.
But the friends of e. A. MeserVe, VINO
has an unconquerable hankering Tor
the Republican nomination to succeed
Frank Flint, are working like beavers
to kill off the Spalding sentiment and
to save the day for Meserve. The fact
that such q strong opposition has de-
Veloped against Meserve in his nome
city, however, indicates that he can
hope for but little help from the South
ern Pacific leaders.
Stanton's friends, also, are working
industriously to kill off the curry
Johnson -Ellery- Anderson sentiment,
but it's a good deal like trying to
drain the ocean with dipper. and
Stanton, it is commonly predicted, VIII
not even get the support of his Los
Angeles machine constituency. In
other words, it is apparent that the
Regular Republican club of Los An
geles is going to do what the Parker
Herrin forces bade 1t do and, II ope-
dent to the higher ups" in san fran
cisco, will have to discriminate against
several home political products in IA
yor of Anderson, Spalding and Farmer;
hence there seems but little chance for
the push" to get together. Indeed,
all its efforts apparently serve only TO
widen the breach between the various
Republican factions, whose differences
have become so acute that each may
he said to have become a separate and
distinct branch of the Republican
party in California-as separate and
distinct as the Lincoln-RooseVelt
league from the machine.
CURRY MAKES OFFER
1t was reported on the street yester-
day that the promoters of the Curry
campaign made a proposition to the
leaders of the Regular Republican club
and to the friends of Alden Anderson
last Tuesday that the Curry forces
would get back of Anderson for United
States senator if the Anderson organ
izatlon would support Curry for gov
ernor. This. of course. doesn't sound
good to Meserve or Spalding, and If
their proposition receives public con-
firmation it is probable there will be ID