The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-08-16
GENERAL PRIMARY
IN CALIFORNIA
Governor and All State officers VIII
BeDecided Upon at Election Be-
ing Held Today.
fBv Union Associated Press.)

primaries in progress today through
out the state. Candidates will also be
nominated for all other state offices,
for two associate justices of the SUI
preme Court, district appellate judges,
railroad commissioners, representa-
tives in Congress and United States
Senator. The entire Static Assembly
and senators from even numbered
districts are also to be nominated in
today's primaries. The fight between
the insurgents" known in California
as the Lincoln Roosevelt League, and
the regular republicans, makes the
political battle to be decided today
one long to be remembered and of ma
tional interest.
Theodore Bell will head the Demo
crat state ticket, without opposition,
while j. Stitt Wilson, Of Berkely, a
lecturer and writer Of international
reputation, will carry the reb banner
of Socialism. In the Republican camp,
however harmony is the scarest thing
imaginable. For months the rival can
didates of the G. o. P. have been cam
paigning 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 macrine; Charles Curry, Of San
Francisco, who is also alleged by the
Lincoln oosevelters to be acceptable
to the so-called "bosses;" Phil STAN
ton, of Los Angeles, and Nathaniel Ell
lery, of Sacramento, who are dark
horses and quoted in the advance odds
as "also rams"
With such a field, the Republican
voter has wide range of choice. and
it Is futile to attempt to forecast the
result, although admit ably the race is
between johnson, Curry and Ander
son.
Whether the state shall continue tc
be the appendage of the Southern Pa
cific railroad, owned body and soul by
grasping and grating corporation
the prey of a politice-business hier
archy which for forty long and weary
years has held the state within It's
octopus-like tenacles-this is the is
sue before the voters today, according
to the Roosevelt-Lincoln Republican
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 tc
put the stamp of their everlasting dis
approval of muckrakers who have
maligned the fair fame Of California
to damn eternally the political mer
cenaries and soldiers of fortune, who
to encompass their own selfish ends
are willing to disgrace before the ma
ton and the world that great and glor
ious state DER which still floats the
Stars and Stripes, beneath whose
folds men are and forever must be
free.
Three republican aspirants to 6
United States senatorial toga will also
be voted on today. They are John D
Works of Los Angeles, A. G.. Spauld
ing of San Diego, and Edwin A. Mes
erve, of Los Angeles.
There are both regular and insur
gent candidates for Congress in the
First, Second, Fifth, Seventh anc
Eighth districts. In the First, Con
gresham Englebright is opposed by
John L. Childs of Crescent City
Congressman Duncan Mckinley, who
represents the Second, Is opposed FOL
the nomination by William Kent, o.
Kentfield. In the Third, Congressman
Knowland -unopposed. Representa-
tive julius Kahn, of the Fourth, will
be renominated. In the Fifth, e. M
Hayes is opposed by Charles w. Dav
idson, of San Jose. Congressman
James c. Needham, of the Sixth, will
be renominated. Representative Jas
i McLachlan, of the Seventh, the LoI
\ Angeles county district, is opposed b!
William D. Stevens. Congressman
Sylvester Smith, of Bakersfield, in thu
4 Eighth district, is opposed for renomi
nation by Lewis R. Kerby, of Sal
Diego.
The contest among the republican
for minor state Offices is almost a
bitter as the gubernatorial fight Fou
Republicans are seeking the nomins
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