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sustained by a majority of 57,565; but San Francisco and 

 northern California wiped it out with a game extermi- 

 nating majority of 66,719, or a net adverse state majority 

 of 8,154. 



Commissioner Newbert's indiscretions defeated us in a 

 great campaign. Hereafter his support for any wild life 

 cause will be more dangerous than his opposition. We 

 have formally called upon him to do the only thing that 

 remains for him to do, which is to resign at once. This, 

 of course, he never will do. He is surrounded by "crack 

 shots" and game killers, like himself, who will urge him 

 to stand fast. 



In war it is the rule that every general who brings on a 

 defeat by blundering shall at once be deprived of his com- 

 mand. Late in December, Professor Henry Fairfield Os- 

 born, as President of the American Museum of Natural 

 History; Mr. Madison Grant, Chairman of the Executive 

 Committee of the New York Zoological Society, and Wil- 

 liam T. Hornaday, Campaigning Trustee of the Permanent 

 Wild Life Protection Fund, each wrote to the Governor of 

 California, calling upon him to remove Commissioner New- 

 bert, and appoint in his place a man who is in sympathy 

 with the real protection of wild life. Mr. Newbert is now 

 a human millstone around the necks of the real wild life 

 protectors of California, and it is reasonably certain that 

 no progress will be made until he is unloaded. Whether 

 he performs it or not, it is the duty of Governor Johnson 

 to remove him. 



The people of northern California who killed the no-sale- 

 of-game law may now look in the glass and see the real de- 

 stroyers and exterminators of the wild bird life of the 

 Pacific Coast. Henceforth that game will be destroyed, as 

 heretofore — regardless of decency, regardless of the ex- 

 ample of other states, regardless of state comity and the 

 plain rights of Oregon and Washington. But blow high or 

 blow low, the San Francisco game-dealer's majority must 

 answer to Posterity for California's step ten years back- 

 ward in 1914. 



