Los Angeles herald., 1890-10-13
Only This Week in Which
To Do It.
Get Your Name on the List Be-
fore the Sun Sets Saturday.
Your Vote Will Be Greatly Needed On
the Fourth of Next November.
Lethargy Tagging Lamely Losing Lots of
Votes for the Republican Party in
This County This Year.

Democrats, attention! Wherever
this strikes your eye stop right here and
ask yourself fyou have put your name
on the great register now in the printers
hands. in order that you may vote in
the coming state and local election on
November '4th. Why should you do
this? Because if you do not, you will
lose your vote, and it is needed by your
party. Will it do the party any good
Most assuredly it will. The state cam
paign looks we'll for the Democracy, and
there is fighting chance for the county
ticket. See how it stands.
In 1888 there were registered for the
presidential election little over 10000
voters. There were actually cast in the
county about $4,000 votes in that cleo
tion.l Subsequent to that for the city
election, and later on for special cleo
tions, supplements to the great register
were printed, until the total number ran
up to over "a 1000. Orange county has
been cut off from the territory thus
represented, taking away about 5000
votes, in which according to the
election returns of 1888 there is a Re-
publican majority of nearly 400.
At present the registration of this
county falls away short OF $4,000, and
registration closes with this week. The
total enrolment will not run to 10000
this year. The vote is not likely to run
above about $4,000. That would be
about IL 900 less than 1888.
What are the reasons for this? One
has been given in speaking of the cut
ting off of Orange county. Another is
to be found in the falling off in the pop
ulation that has taken place since boom
days, and another is in the lethargy
that pervades the Republican ranks in
this county.
What are the results OF these changes
in the voting population? One has
been stated. The cutting off of Orange
county took with it about one-twelfth
of the Republican majority OF 1888. In
other words, less than 5000 actual vot-
ers in the campaign of 1888 went with
the new county, leaving about $4,000
actual voters in the old one, and reduc-
ing the average majorities for the Re-
publican ticket to about 5000. Then
the falling off in population has been
very largely in such places as Pasadena
and Monrovia, where very large ma
jority of the people are Republicans.
1t would seem that OF those who went
away at least 80 per cent were of that
party.
If the vote this year should fall to
5000, as against $4,000 in 1888, loss
OF 5000, and there was a Republican
majority of ten per cent in that number,
it would give us net gain of so 0 votes.
But that is not all. There have not
1000 registered voters left the country,
nor have there 5000 actual voters gone.
The falling off this year is largely owing
to disposition on the part OF many peo-
pie not to register at all, because they
do not care to vote. The Democratic
party is organized. 1t is earnest. It
intends to vote in the main. The
indisposition to vote is with the
Republicans. That lethargy, it seems
very fair to say, will make difference
OF at least ten per cent. more, or 800
voters. That cuts away more than one
half of the majority Of 1885. But there
: is another line OF reasoning not to be
lost sight of by shrewd people. In 1888
there is no doubt a large number Of
people who usually vote the Democratic
ticket went over to the other side for the
time being. Every vote SO changed
counts two in the results. These all
haye come back, and each one returning
reduces the old majority by two. And
more than this, there are great many
Republicans in the county who this
year will vote the Democratic ticket,
each one of whom as in the other case
will make difference of two Per-
centages of ten, each one cutting off 300
votes, DO not need to be repeated often
to wipe out even such majorities as
5000.
Now here are the reasons why every
Democrat should 60 at once and regis
ter, and thus secure the right to vote,
and then 60 and vote ON election day.
1t is of course pre-supposed that he is
Democrat on principle, and thinks his
party ought to win. The object OF this
is to show that if all Democrats are true
to their principles they can win.