Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-07
TAKE
. C. 0. P. MACHINERY
Meyer Lissner Is Made Chairman
of the Republican State
Central Committee
CHESTER R0WELL PRESIDES
Regulars Are Given Recognition
in New Organization Without
Fight in Convention
CHESTER RoWELL PREsIDES
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| ular state committee as symbol of
regular Republicanism in California,
| and to greet in yon the representatives
OF the regular Republican party of
| California. We have had our primary
| contest as the law requires we should
have 1t. That contest is settled and
ex-regulars and ex-insurgents join the
common cause under the banner of
progressive Republicanism.
| The Republican party is worth
standing for, worth working for even
worth reforming, If 1t ever needs it.
THE Republican party started in an
| insurrection against vested wrong, and
has gone on until 1t has stood sponsor
| for principles that have been adopted
and have made the past fifty years the
! greatest fifty years in the history of
any nation in the world.
PARTY OF DESTRUCTION
''The Democratic party has been a.
party of negation, party of destruc-
tion. But when 1t came in the nation
| and in California to a task of con-
structive destruction the people would
not trust to the Democratic party
even a negative task. They waited
until they could have Republican or
gan for its expression, because the
people trusted the Republican party.
I'VE can Join in sending to congress
a united Republican delegation of con-
| gressmen. No one but a few reac-
tionary Republicans want O. Demo-
cratic congress. Let us unite in elect
ing Republican governor, lieutenant
! governor, state officers, Republican
United States senator and @ republi-
| can delegation to congress.
0MnEf nf hox hod he ~
ence of being unpopular and most of
you have lived to see the day when
in the economy of American politics
it has become respectable to be de-
cent.
There is nothing more to do now
but to go home and work for the
election of johnson, Wallace and the
ticket"
THE COMMITTEES
Committees consisting of a chairman
and sixteen members were appointed
| as follows:
Credentials-Dr. w. w. Barham of
Siskiyou, chairman.
Permanent organization-Charl H.
Bentley of Alameda county chairman.
Platform committee-Harris Vein
stock, San Francisco, chairman.
Gus w. Bayrenther was appointed
sergeant-at-arms and given ten as
the subsequent developments demon
| strated.
While Chairman Rowell was select
| ing the committees Paul Bancroft of
San Francisco took the chair and
called on several party leaders for
| speeches. Lee c. Gates of Los An
geles in a ringing address said he was
authorized to tissue a general proc
lamation of amnesty to all offenders
within the party" The regulars"
greeted this with good natured laugh
ter.
LEE GATES SPEAKS
Mr.. Gates likened the direct primary
to marriage, wherein the husband
had something to say in the selection
of his bride.
When 1 was married." he said, at
cost me only $40. or SIS, but spent
several thousand in winning the nomi-
A. ]. wallace, candidate for lieuten-
ant governor, spoke Of Republican his
tory as being synonymous with that
of the nations progress.
Referring to the Panama exposition
in 1915 he pointed to the fact that the
Los Angeles chamber Of commerce was
the first organization to give solid and
unqualified support to the efforts of
San Francisco to secure the exposi-
tion.
1.-The southland recognizes he said,
''that the exposition is not San Fran
cisco affair, but an all-California pro-
ject.H
REPORTS ADOPTED
The reports OF the committees on cre-
dentials and organization were adopt
ed. The former announced that no
contests had developed. The adoption
Of the permanent organization report
included the election of Frank r. Dew
lin of Solano county. to be permanent
chairman, and he was declared the
unanimous choice.
"I am proud" said Chairman Dew
lin, in taking the gavel, ito preside
over a Republican convention that
marks an epoch in the state Of Cali
fornia. But in this. our hour of fell
citations and congratulations, let us
not forget that by gaining the victory
we have assumed obligations that must
be met and made pledges that must be
kept. Under the leadership of Hiram
Johnson the victory will be sure"
1t was provided by the report of the
committee on order of business that a
state central committee of 161 members
be selected, 1876 by counties, on the
basis of the vote cast for Republican
presidential electors two years ago and
twenty-five at large. The chairmen of
the county delegations were permitted
selected and a committee on organiza-
ton of the state central committee was
appointed by the chair, with Marshall
Stimson as chairman.
Pending the completion of this COM
mittees work the convention took
recess until p. m,
The convention was late in reassem-
bling, owing to delays in the perfecting
of the platform.
When the committee had filed into
the hall Chairman Harris Weinstock
read the platform, which was as fol-
lows:
THE PLATFORM
"The California Republican state
convention hereby declares the con-
tinued allegiance of the Republicans
of California to the Republican party
and to the progressive Republican pol
icies enunciated by President Roose-
welt and reaffirmed and already in part
enacted into law Under the adminis-
tration Of President Taft. We COM
mend President Taft in his efforts and
announced intention further to carry
out these policies, and look to our sem
ators and representatives in congress
to cooperate with him to that end.
PROJECTION
1--WE declare our answering adher-
ence to the Republican doctrine of pro-
lection, without which the American
standard of living cannot be main
tanned. We hold that the true measure
of protection is the difference in the
cost of production and distribution at
hopap and a QhrOan agc than fbic ic