The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1896-11-07
The Southern Pacific Unites With the
Water Monopoly
Endeavorlng to Obscure the Real Issue o.
the Contest
Business Men Should Rally to the Sup
port Of Snyder and Insure Bust
ness Administration of the City
Affairs and Waterworks.

in this city which is Of vital Importance
to the municipality and every inhabi-
tant within its corporate limits.
The Los Angeles City Water company
| and the Southern Pacific Railroad COM
pany have, through their authorized
agents and representatives. served no.
tice upon the people of this city that
Meredith p. Snyder shall not be elected
mayor.
The issue to be determined at the polls
upon the 7th day of next December is
whether or not the Los Angeles City
Water company. primarily, and the
Southern Pacific Railroad company, as
good second, shall dominate the city
government, control the council and
have in the mayors office man who will
do the bidding of these corporations for
the next two years or not.
The outcome of the contest lies with
the voters of the city. Whatever decis-
ion they render the people will be COM
PEELED to abide by.
1t is just as well, however, that the
issue be plainly stated and fully under
stood by everybody and then let the case
be passed upon.
In the council M. P. Snyder has for
two years last past stood for the people
and against the grasping demands of
the Water company. He made fight
to reduce the exorbitant rates the cor
poration has been charging the people
for water and he won victory.
The authorized representative of the
Water company then told him that the
corporation would do politics whenever
Mr.. Snyder was q candidate before the
people and that they would see to it
that he was defeated.
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endeavoring to make good. 1t has been
at work for sometime. 1t endeavored
by every influence 1t could control to
defeat Mr.. Snyders nomination. 1t
failed. Now it is endeavoring to use the
people to bring about what 1t could not
do in the convention-defeat Mr. Sny-
der.
Will the people permit themselves to
be used for any such purpose?
Mr.. Snyder was the first member of
the city council to take q bold, out
spoken and manly stand for municipal
ownership.
This further engendered the i'll will
of the water company.
They realize that if he Is elected they
will not be able to control him. They
also know that If Mr.. Snyder Is named
as the next mayor of the city they can
expect nothing of him, save and except
the treatment they are legally entitled
to- They will receive no favors. Only
an honest, square deal is all they can
look for from the mayors Office of Mr..
Snyder is in the chair.
For this reason and for the further
reason that they desire to finish Mr.
Snyder for opposing their unjust de-
mands in the past, the corporation has,
Is now and will continue to fight him to
the bitter end.
The Southern Pacific railroad company
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railroad company has a score to settle
with Mr.. Snyder. He was the only men,
Der of the city council to protest against
the passage of the Santa Monica harbor
resolution. He claimed then that it was
wrong and he still holds to the opinion
All of this he did in open session. The
railroad company, through its represent
tatives, then swore vengeance and it Is
now endeavoring to make the threat
good.
In the convention every delegate who
could be controlled or Influenced by the
railroad company cast his vote and
worked vigorously against Snyder. But
it was without avail.
The contest had been fought out at
the primaries. The people had express
ed a desire for Snyder and although the
opposition was willing to have the NOM
nation go to any one else no man could
be found who could break the forces
of Mr.. Snyder in the convention.
Now these two corporations forming.
with their influences, the allied villain
les of Los Angeles, are not going to
work openly for the defeat of Snyder.
This would be folly and the people who
do politics for the water company and
the railroad company are undeniably
slick politicians.
Their scheme is to obscure the issue
by effecting as many divisions of the
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in a measure obscure the real issue and
thereby increase the prospect of the
water company to slip their man in, who,
IS matters have settled down. Is julius
H. Martin, the Republican nominee.
Mr. Martins friends may make all the
explanations they desire. The fact re-
mains that the Southern Pacific railroad
and the City Water company desire his
election as mayor and are working to
that end.
Is it wise policy for the people to en-
dorse the choice of the allied villianies
for mayor?
Mr. Snyders friends have commenced
vigorous campaign for him and they
will carry it through to the end. They
propose to explain to every voter of the
city just exactly the situation.
If the water company elects its mayor
and three members of the council then
il will have won its fight.
If the people who are DESTROYS of mu-
nicipal ownership elect their mayor then
it will be necessary for the water COM
pany to have five councilmen.
The Los Angeles Times is the organ of
the water company. 1t will bitterly OPP
pose the election of Mr.. Snyder by it's
usual policy of malignant abuse, lying in
consistency and deliberate deceit.
1t will endeavor to lend it's aid to the
scheme of the water company and the
railroad company to defeat Mr.. Snyder
by obscuring the real issue.
1t will be noted that the Times has
never thus far taken a stand for munic-
ipal ownership of the water works. 1t
cannot do SO until the water company
officials give their consent and permit
1t to do so. That consent will probably