The San Francisco call., 1910-04-26
LEAGUERS turn
TO LEGISLATURE
Ready to Take Part in Fights
for Anti=Machine Cam
didateS
Will Aid Beatty and Marc AM
thOny Without Public
Endorsement

The Lincoln Roosevelt leagues legis-
lative program has been given definite
shape by the announcement that the
executive committee viii. upon request
rom the several districts, bring out
candidates, assist in the election of
candidates who conform to the league
specifications and inform the people Of
any legislative district as TO the poll
cies. affiliations and fitness of all seek
ers after legislative honors.
The leagues articles of faith COM
mit it 20 the nomination and election Of
anti-machine republicans to both
branches Of the legislature The an
nouncement given to the public yes
1erday involves 70 departure from the
leagues original policies. 1t is merely
notice TO the world that the league is
ready 10 take up consideration of leg
islatiVe tickets.
WILL AID INDIRECTLY
The announcement does not mean
hat the league viii indorse candidates
iu every district As a matter OF fact
The league viii endeavor to assist some
candidates by refusing to indorse them.
Fnr instance. the leaEueLS IN the
eighteenth and twenty fourth senate
rial districts. respectively, will vote,
work and night for the nomination and
election Of Assemblyman II. y. Beatty
snd the reelection Of Senator Marc
Anthony.
A league Endorsement would do
Beatty no material good in the eigh-
icenth district. II might work him in
jury. Then, too Beatty is not
.oF
bly, he was a better and more effective
champion OF some of the leagues prin-
ciples than were a number of his col
leagues nominated and elected as
leaguers. The same might be said of
Marc Anthony, who represented the
iwenty-fourth district in the upper
house
The leagues announcement indicates
that it purposes TO insist that all legis-
latiVe candidates recommended by ii
shall pledge themselves TO all the prin-
Ciples announced by the league Taken
literally, that would involve a pledge
10 support Johnson for governor as
prerequisite 10 the leagues approval.
WOULD DEFEAT CANDIDATES
Obviously such policy could only
serve in some districts TO defeat the
leagues announced purposes. As a
matter OF fact there are many districts
80 L-4N4 4tAE ny AOA II ~ IL tic AbCl Id
torial conflict that TO tie a legislative
candidate to any gubernatorial cam
paign would insure his defeat. II were
better for the state If that were true
In every district. The people generally
viii DO better to find out what their
legislative candidates stand for rather
than who they stand for.
Local interest in the legislature is
being developed rapidly. In some dis
tricts the candidates have been selected
and announced by the representatives
Of the machine or the city administra-
;iOn as the case may be.
In the tWenty-fourth senatorial dis
trict the Herrin machine has served no
tice that Assemblyman Dominick James
Beban shall succeed Marc Anthony In
the forty-second assembly district T. V.
kingtOn is the fortunate or unfortun-
Ete beneficiary Of the machines inter
est kingtOn was put into the fight
by Jesse Hannah and all other machine
men were told to get mothbans for
.heir aspirations.
AENNEDY is CHOSEN
In the thirty-second assembly dis
srict William Kennedy. a painter, has
been selected 10 succeed Charles a.
Nelson. who is now one OF the mayors
right hand men on the board Of super
visors. That there might be no mis-
lake in this case, Nelson formally in
troduced Kennedy as his successor last
week at a meeting AT Maennerbund
hall The meeting was a gathering of
1rimmins. Lynch and Finn men, sum-
noned TO slate a list of election officers
Gus Hartman declares that Jere
Burke's opposition TO his desire to rep
resent the twenty senatorial dis
trict is a matter that gives him no
uneasiDess now. Hartman admits that
he was disconsolate when Burke first
turned him down. All is sunshine for
Hartman now. He says that Jerome
Bassity has decided that he viii not be
candidate for the senate and that
Hartman shall be the beneficiary of his
interest and support. Nor is that all
Of Hartman's good news. His bUlle-
tins include positive assurances TO the
public that Spider Kelly and Johnnie
bnd their respective armies for Hart
DIan.
JOHNSON RESUMES TOUR
At the Curry headquarters it is given
out that Curry is meeting with unex-
pected success and encouragement on
lis southern tour. Andersons board of
strategy is convinced that its fine work
las been effective in all parts Of the
state That opinion is based on letters
from far and near assuring the bank
superintendent that there Is nothing TO
st. in the respective bailiwicks Of the
writer's.
Johnson took up his road campaign
again yesterday. His schedule provides
for day trips through the smaller towns
with mass meetings each night in the
larger centers of population. He was
Al Woodland last night. He will visit
six small towns today and close the day
with mass meeting at Colusa. He
VIII speak at Willows on April 27:
Nacaville, IS; Suisun. %, and on Sat
urday ne viii deliver an oration at the
county May day festival at Dixon. Next
week he viii invade the san JOAQUIN
valley, opening al Stockton on Monday.
LONDON NOW CONSIDERS
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