Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-05
LEAGUE ADVISES CARE
IN DELEGATION CHOICE
Secretary Campbell Issues State
ment to Republican Voters
in City and County

Kemper B. Campbell, secretary of tbs
Los Angeles Lincoln-R Roosevelt league
yesterday issued statement to the Re-
publican voters of the city and county
calling their attention to the impor-
tance of the pending primary election
of which one feature, he believes, seem'
to have been generally overlooked.
This feature, he says, is the election
at the primaries of delegates to the
county convention. The delegates elect
ed to attend this convention Will elec'
a new county central committee, anc
as it is important that the county cen
tral committee be taken away from the
Southern Pacific machine push, the
leaguers are anxious that the voters
should be careful whom they designate
to attend.
Mr.. Campbel's statement to the Re
publican voters is as follows:
The feature of the primary elec-
ton to be held August 16 which Is
of extreme importance and to which
particular attention does not seem
to have been directed UP to the
present time is the election of dele
gates from each precinct to the
county convention to be held in the
city of Los Angeles on August q!
The whole control of the regular
party machinery of the state is
practically determined at this pri-
mary election, because as either the
progressives represented by the
Lincoln Roosevelt Republican
league or the reactionaries repre-
sented by the Southern Pacific po.,
litical machine adherents control
the county conventions, so will the
control of the state committees or
the party be determined; and there
is much more involved in this prop
osition than this bald statement
would indicate, as will appear from
the following:
The delegates elected to the coun-
tv convention from the various pre-
3 cincts (there will be eighty-ive in
the aggregate for Los Angeles coun-
ty) elect the county central COM
mittee, which has control and man
agement of the party campaign.
The county central committee elects
the county executive commlttee'
and the county executive committee
elects the chairman of the county
central committee and the other OF
fcials who have direct charge and
supervision over the work of the
party in the county. The county
convention also has the right to
pass resolutions, adopt platform,
and fill any vacancies that may oc-
cur in the party ticket. The county
convention also elects delegates to
the state convention, which selects
q state central committee, consist
ing of not less than three members
from each congressional district,
and this state central committee
selects the stateCexecutive commit
tee, adopts the state platform, and
has the further extremely impor-
tant function of electing the dele
gates to the next national conven-
tion. which will nominate the next
Republican candidate for the pres
idency.
The mere statement of these facts
should be most impressive to those
loyal, progressive Republicans who
take an active interest in the well
fare of their party. 1t is extremely
important to Republican electors to
see that good men are elected as
delegates from each precinct IN
their county in the state, and we
urge that particular attention be
paid to this matter. The provis-
ions relating to delegates at conven-
tions are found in section "a of the
primary election law