Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-06-11
POLITICAL POINTS.
Registration of Voters i'm
the County.
GET ALL OUR FORCES OUT.
An Urgent Appeal to the Democratic
County Central Committee
for Action.

street and asked them how things were
going in the political camp in prepara-
ton Tor the campaign 30 soon TO open in
dead earnest.
One of the sagacious leaders Of the
peoples party said:
"Well, do not know that much of any
thing is done. So far as there has beei,
any thing to do, we have done il. and
done 1t well. The lroquois Club is going
to be power in the land. 1t is so now.
Did you see the big turn out at
the ratification meeting? That was just
the biggest whoop-up ever seen in this
city. At no other time did the roundup
on the night before election call out such
crowd. 1t cost us some 500. The
lroquois men collected that, planned the
demonstration, got good speaking, drew
out over B COO pt o lie, had procession n
mile long, held the crowd 10 the last. and
had the best ratification meeting on the
Coast. That was something. The Iro-
quois Club will number 500 members in
a little time"
That is true, I" said another,
leader of the Historic Party OF the Re-
public, which has always stood for pop
ular rights and never lowered its banner
in the sight OF foe; "but that is not all.
There are other clubs being organized
in the city which will cut big swath in
the political events Of the next six
months. The City Central Club is one
OF them, and it has big membership
which is growing every day."
The speaker stopping to get breath, an
other OF the party managers said: "But
you have not told all the story. Every
ward in the city is getting up club, and
the faithful are coming in like sheep after
the bell.wether, enrolling their names,
getting on their war paint and arming for
the fray. We are going to have the best
organized county in the State; and we
will do or die TO wheel Los An
geles county into line, and make her
as Mr.. Lynch said at the ratification
meeting, AS she used to be, the banner
Democratic county of the State The
enemy Gains the county as their own,
but we will show them when the smoke
Of battle clears away that no victory is
secure until it is won."
There was young man in the party
on whose lips the down Of dawning
manhood was just appearing He rubbed
upon his upper lip the hairy nothing
which he fain would give local habita-
tion and the name OF moustache, and
remarked:
"The young men are with the Demo-
cratic party this trip. We have reorgan-
lied the Cleveland Cadets, and there is a
big list OF embryo politicians on the roll.
The party will hear from the young men
this year"
The pencil .pusher stood mute all this
while, and after the ''kid" had spoken
he modestly thought it might be his put
again. He therefore arose to the de-
mands OF the hour as well as his lack Of
self assertion would permit and said
"This is go far SO good. But all the
organization in the world is no good un-
less it leads to something more, to some
results OF the organization. You do not
suppose that the mere fact of having
clubs, or the iurther fact that these clubs
have torchlight professions will carry the
National election?'
An old time Democrat, grey with the
service he has rendered the party, who
WAS OF the company, good d-naturedly pat
ted the scribe on the back and said:
Now you are talking sense. The
clubs should be organized. They should
reach in their ramifications every pre-
cinct in this city, and in the county as
well. They should turn out in demonstra-
tions, burn oil and powder, and roar their
lGiyDx raw. But they have much more
important work than this to do. Regis
tration is going on all the time. The
machinery is in tile hand Of the enemy.
1t was shown two years ago that the Re-
publican managers will make the best
possible use OF any adyantage they may
have in this respect They will use
all legitimate means to set every
man OF their own political
bias on the Great Register,
and when election day rolls round they
will see that every one OF them gets out
and votes. That is the great secret OF
political success. | have been in the
thick OF many fight. have managed
more than one campaign. The party
that gets its vote out is the party that
wins the victory. In this State
an exigent perquisite OF ge:-
ting out your vote is getting it
on the Register. A great many
voters do not know the law governing
elections For instance, in the case OF
naturalized citizens, il man has taken
out first papers, two years must elapse in
. this State before he can become a voter
I by getting his second papers. But TO
vote next November these second papers
must be taken out before the first day oi
next August. II a man completes his
citizenship later than that day
he cannot be registered. There
are many questions like this which al
" Democrats should be posted on. The
2 Repu ,lcans have their men out all ovel
u the country. They will get every mar
enrolled. There are already, am told
J, about 5000 names on the Great Register
y That is half the total enrolment Of tn,
e county in 1886. For two months Repub
+ licans have been running in thei
It men with will. 1 do no
think our people have done much YET
There is plenty OF time still, if we i'm
prove it. But we should get to work q
once. The other fellow has a big star
Is OF us, and we will have to do some tray
S. cling to catch him. In the five month
~ to elapse between now and the electio
O. we can do it. Here is work fc
10 the County, Central Committee. Ii
Is them put rood men in the fiel
id at once. y Let the city, III
OF county, every precinct be searched on
A and every man tracked az by sleut
le hound. Let US get every man ON IL
as list. The County Committee is the on
IT. organization that can do this. The
should do it at once. The clubs ca
help, bu. the committee must do Il
!" heavy work"
ny At this point the reporter recalled Il
re- fact that he had only column Of spac
tie so he made for the Office to write
: these points.