Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-06
PARTY REBELLION

IN HE stupid act of the Republican
state central committee (Which is
Il no longer regarded as represent
ing the rank and file of the party) in
refusing to pass a resolution declaring
against Southern Pacific influence in
politics has met with derision or
ribaldry all along the line. The inde-
pendent press has set up a chorus of
condemnation, of which a few examples
may be given. The Riverside Press
says:
The time would seem to be ripe
for q change of leaders in the Re
publican party in this state and the
voters who support Johnson and
Wallace will help make that much
desired change in leadership pos
sible. The men in control of the
state committee at the present time
seem to be eager to furnish the
Democrats all the campaign thun-
der possible.
OF like tenor is the comment Of the
Santa Barbara Independent, which
says:
No effort was made by the Re
publican state central committee to
hide the fact that the Southern Pa
lar" organizations of the party The
committeeman at the San Francisco
meeting publicly declared them
selves the property of the corpo-
ration.
The tabling of the resolution with
out ceremony, in the opinion of the
Tulare Register, is not open to two
constructions 1t declares:
was before. The old machine has
confessed its subserviency to the
Southern Pacific and no effort of
its bound newspapers can explain
it away. What are we going to do
about it? Let every Republican
voter ask himself that question and
answer it conscientiously.
To the Stockton Record it looks as If
the state committee may be trying ac-
tually to throw the game" by cutting
off the support Of the anti-machinc
members of the party for it COM
ments:
Is the Republican state central
committee of California working
for the success of the Democratic
state ticket? It's action in San
Francisco last Monday appears so.
The Republican state ticket can not
win without the votes Of the pro-
gressiVe Republicans or the insur- q,
gents, in California. !
The Modesto News thus declares that
the act of the committee was a confess
sion of railroad control:
The committee had been spiked to
the wall and left there, exposed as
the right arm of the much despised
Southern Pacific. At last, after
many years of denial of railroad
control, the Republican organiza-
tion admits that it is the handmade
of the railroad corporations.
The Red Bluff Peoples Cause says
great opportunity to score a clever
political coup was lost by refusal to
act on the resolution. In an editorial
it says:
That gave the convention a
beautiful opportunity to protest its O.
affection for the people and to
blazon abroad the statement that
it owed nothing to the Southern
Pacific political bureau and that it
was free and untrammeled body
of men.
Many more similar expressions of the
press in sections where the party is
strong when united might be added to
these. Against them not a machine
organ can be found that openly defends
the committee or replies to the charge
that it has exposed itself as under the
complete domination of Herrin. The
general opinion seems to be that the
committees act said the last word
in its own condemnation and takes
away the last hope of Republicans
who are down on the machine, but
would like to remain regulars" if
they could see a CLEAN of independence
on the part of the leaders.