East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-08-16

San Francisco, Aug. 16-California's
next governor will be decided by the
primaries in progress today through
out the state. Candidates will also be
nominated for all other state offices,
for two associate justices of the Su-
preme Court, district appellate judges,
railroad commissioners, represents
tives in congress and United States
senator The entire state assembly
and senators from even numbered dis.
tricts are also to be nominated in to-
days primaries. The fight between
the insurgents" known n Californis
as the Lincoln Roosevelt republican
league, and the regular republicans,
cided today one long to be remem-
bered and of national interest.
Theodore Bell will head the demo-
cratic state ticket, without opposition,
while J. Stitt Wilson of Berkeley,
lecturer and writer of international
reputation will carry the red banner
Of socialism. In the republican camp
however, harmony is the scarcest
thing imaginable. For months the RI
val candidates of the G. Q. P. have
been campaigning, until the entire state
is aroused politically as never before
Five candidates are in the field for
the republican nomination for COVER
nor: Hiram w. Johnson, insurgent,
of San Francisco; Alden Anderson, Of
Sacramento, alleged by his opponents
to be the favorite OF the Southern Pa
cific machine; Charles Curry, Of San
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Lincoln r Roosevelters to be acceptable
to the so-called bosses" Phil Stant-
on of Los Angeles and Nathaniel FL
lery, of Sacramento, who are dark
horses and quoted in the advance odds
as "also rans''.
With such a field, the republican
voter has a wide range Of choice, and
it is futile to attempt to forecast the
result, although admittedly the race b
beween Johnson, Curry and Anderson.
The S. p. Octopus.
Whether the state shall continue
to be the appendage of the Southern
Pacific railroad, owned body and soul
by a grasping and grating corpor-
alton, the prey of politico-b business
hierarchy which for forty long and
weary years has held the state with
in its octopus-like tentacles-this II
the issue before the voters today, ac-
cording to the Roosevelt-Lincoln re-
publican league candidates.
On the other hand the regular re-
publicans denounce these charges as
the feverish vaporings of those who
ride a nightmare after nothing. The
republican voters are called upon to
put the stamp of their everlasting dis
approval upon the muckrakers who
have maligned the fair fame of Cali
fornia. to damn eternally the political
mercenaries and soldiers of fortune.
who, to encompass their own selfish
ends, are willing to disgrace before
the nation and the world that great
and glorious state Ger which still float
the stars and Stripes. beneath whose
fields men are and forever must be
free.
Three republican aspirants to a
United States senatorial toga will al
so be voted on today. They are John
d. Works of Los Angeles, A. c.
Spaulding of San Diego, and Edwin A.
! Meserve of Los Angeles.
They are both regular and insurgent
candidates for congress in the first,
second, fifth. seventh ana eighth dis
tricts. In the first, Congressman
Englebright is opposed by John L
Childs of Crescent City. Congressman
Duncan McKinlay, who represents the
second is opposed for the nomination
by William Kent, of Kentfield. In