The San Francisco call., 1910-03-27
NORTH STRONG
FOR JOHNSON,
DECLARES kUHL
Lincoln-R Roosevelt League Or
ganizer Returns With En-
thusiastic Forecasts
Asserts Independent Republican
Candidate Has Long Lead
in Country Districts
By GEORGE A. VAN SMITH

~ 91OANSS <As kA4N SXA L.
Pending the opening of the alibi
season. for which the managers of the
several republican gubernatorial cam
paigns are preparing, the primary
prophet has the center of the stage.
AS is customary with first crop fore
the order.
This was changed yesterday. Max J.
Kuhl. state organizer for the Lincoln
Roosevelt league, returned from his
Sacramento valley trip. He had some-
thing tangible in the way of claim and
forecast. His trip convinced Kuhl that
Hiram w. Johnson had long lead over
Curry and Anderson in all the towns he
visited and that in the rural districts,
uncontaminated by town influences.
Johnson will get more votes than the
combined poll of Anderson and Curry.
AS for Shasta and Siskiyou counties.
Kuhl said Johnson would carry them,
not by pluralities, but by bumper ma
jorities over the field. These calcula-
tions, Kuhl admitted, were made with
out reference to the 10 per cent of the
northern vote which Phil Stanton in
sists shall be reserved for him.
DELIGHTED WITH SITUATION
Kuhl was delighted with the situa-
ton as disclosed by his northern trip.
AT Yreka Johnson club was organ
lied. Another was organized at Red
ding and at Chico a temporary organi-
zation was perfected. A big club was
reported in from Aetna Mills and the
-.
Red Bluff A Red Bluff local commit
tee was put in charge of the organfza-
tion of Tehama. and Kennett was
turned over to a Redding committee.
The preliminary work at Sacramento
was done Friday night.
At Yreka and Redding the clubs have
engaged opera houses and bands for
the Johnson and Wallace meetings. The
nominating petition forms will be sent
Monday to all the towns visited by
Kuhl and it is believed that the leagues
petition will be started throughout the
northern portion of the state. within
week.
The first bay district gun of the
Lincoln Roosevelt leagues campaign
will be fired at Berkeley tomorrow
night 1t viii be no popgun play. The
heaviest of the leagues heavy artillery
is to be unlimbered for the edification
and inspiration of the electors of the
tcollege town.
WORKS WILL SPEAK
The original announcements for the
meeting included only Hiram W. John
son and A. J. Wallace as the principal
speakers. 1T was given out last night
that John d. Works, the leagues can
didate for United States senator, was
on his way north and would share the
platform with Johnson and Wallace at
Berkeley and join in their northern
tour.
The Berkeley meeting is to be held at
U-No pavilion in AlIston way west of
Shattuck avenue. The committee in
charge of the rally includes j. w. Foss,
j. Arthur Elston, W. ]. Mortimer,
Christian Hoff, w. E. Woolsey, Prof.
Frank Soule, III. ID. Irwin, L. HI. LeWars
and Perry T. Tompkins.
Secretary Charles r. Detrick of the
Lincoln Roosevelt state executive COM
mittee is convinced that some undis-
covered person who has butted into
the campaign is no gentleman. The
undisclosed person who is suspected of
something more than passing interest
in the fortunes of Alden Anderson, has
furnished every newspaper in the
northern portion of the state with a
manifolded copy of an editorial from
the Visalia Times, directed at john
sons condemnation of the manner in
WHICH lie llOS <AuSeiGS assessments
were boosted by the state board Of
equalization. Johnson was quoted as
saying at Los Angeles:
''Say for me that ] consider the ac-
tion of the state board of equalization
in imposing an excessive burden of
taxation on Los Angeles county to be
outrageous and unjust"
ATTITUDE ATTACKED
The visalia editor attacked that
portion of Johnson's speech as an ap-
peal to the prejudice and commercial
spirit of the people of Los Angeles and
vicinity" which might win votes in
the south but would weaken him north
of the Tehachapi, where it was believed
that the action of the state equalizers
was just and warranted.
The person who has incurred Det-
rick's disapproval evidently considered
the speech and editorial a good cam
paign document Tor northern consump-
tion. He had typewriter copies mani
folded and sent them out On plain sta
tionery. Detrick says Johnson must
stand for his public utterances and
that he has no quarrel with the editor
who objected to them, but he insists
that the anonymous circulation Of that
editorial by another was most unlady-
like
There is another Monday morning
IL.
This promise involves the burning of
no red fire or the blare of brass instru-
ments Nothing like that. The boys
are to go to work in the districts to-
morrow The headquarters in the Cur
taz- -Rochat building are to be opened
for business and not for pink teas or
receptions. That form of vote getting
lis to be left to the businessmen's club.
which C. c. Moore is expected to launch
at the proper time.
STANTON FORCES ARRIVE
Phil Stanton's advance guard has ar
rived to collect the 10 per cent vote.
which he insists is all he needs north
of the Tehachapi. Stanton began his
campaign in Alameda county by the
appointment of veriication deputy
in the person of George H. Hudson of
Niles. Anderson has named no Ala
media deputies, but since it is generally
understood that he wishes more than
10 per cent of the vote north of the
Tehachapi, he may be relied upon to
put formidable force in the Alameda
field when he starts there. Curry has
80 verification deputies in Alameda
county. They have been at work for
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