Los Angeles herald., 1906-10-20
To KEEP NAME
OFF THE TICKET
INJUNCTION PROCEEDINGS ARE
BEGUN
Effort Made to Prevent County Clerk
from Allowing S. 7. Eldridge
to Appear as Cam
dldate

Injunction proceedings 10 P'S., ,S"'
County Clerk G.. G.. kcyes from plsc-
Ing S. r. Fldrldge's name on ny u,e
Democratic ticket as nominee Tor INC
onlce of SUPERVISOR from the 'Ihird
sunervisoral district. were begun yes
terday i'm the superior court when An
thony SchWamm chairman OF llle
Democratic county central commlttee
flied petition for permanent lnJullc-
tion. denouncing the action OF the men
who named Eldridge as Dflnocratlc
nominee and declaring the euulS PiV
ceeding to be illegal.
The case was given immediate at
tention by presiding Judge Conrey ano
he assigned the petition for hearing pe-
fore Judge Wilbur of department elBht
of the superior court Monday AFTER
noon at 2:30 o'clock.
The proceeding against Eldi1uge
has beetl expected for some time, and
aside from condemna tion Of the action
of the members of the supposed
,.Democratic" committee by prominent
Democrats of Los Angeles county,
many statements have been made by
Tcldridge's most intimate friends ana
supporters among the Republicans VINO
nominated him on their ticket, TO the
effect that he Eldridge, should never
have allowed his name to be used as a
Democratic nominee and thus place
himself on the political fence to be
looked upon unfavorably by both par
ties.
Act Creates Much Talk
The story Of the putting Of Eldridge's S
name on the Democratic ticket, or,
rather, the attempt TO force his name
OH that ticket. has been public for some
weeks and has been much talked or
by politicians.
AtSthes Democratic county conven-
,I,or a greed
to allow the supervisorial conventions
To select a committee appointed to fill
vacancies on the ticket and another TO
do the auditing and handling of the
campaign funds. so that one committee
would be practically worthless unless
seconded by the finance committee
which was to supply the sinews of war
II was further agreed that the first
committee could be selected accord
ing to the will of the delegates to the
supervisoral convention while the
auditing committee selected by each of
the minor conventions should be this
same auditing committee as that
named by the county convention Those
men named for the latter committee
were were 70. Fl. wilson Anthony
Schwamm, J. r. kirkpatrick, s. G.
Long and A. T. Peterson.
According to orders those men were
accepted as auditing committee by the
Third district delegates while for the
committee on vacancies Peter Frolich,
A. r. Weiss, Eddie ]. Morris. f. ].
Ehrhart and r. v Day were ap-
pointed
The convention a that time named
Martin c. Marsh as candidate for SUI
pervisor and his nomination WAS regu>
larly accepted and signed by John Roe
der and J. y. Bellum chairman ana
secretary of the convention. His Ger
tiicate of nomina ton was presented
and filed by the county clerk on Sep
tember 90 During the early part of
October Marsh resigned and the COM
mittee on vacancies held hurried
meeting in private and promptly Sc
lected S. r. Eldridge as Democratic
nominee for the position. Not being
content with that proceeding in n high
handled manner to make nomination.
SIRE they selected n new auditing
committee.
Say Procec dings Are illegal
They presented certificate of noml-
nation to Clerk Keyes and he filed it
and II is to prevent him from putting
Eldridge's name on the Democratic
ticket at the coming election that the
proceeding Of-yes terday was taken.
Anthony Schwamm and E. s. Wal
dron. a citizen of the third district,
Yesterday in the petition claimed that
the certificate of nomination of Eld-
ridge was Illegal in that the supposed
vacancy committee had no right nor
authority to fill "A vacancy ca FUSED by
the resignation of a candidate: that
they had no right TO nominate Ed,
ridge on the Democratic ticket: and
that they had no right nor authority to
file a certificate OF nomination.
They allege that the committee on
finance as appointed by the county
central committee was not vacant. be-
cause he, Schwamm. and the other
members had not resigned and that
therefore the vacancy committee had
no right to declare the Offices vacant
and nominate other men: that no ac-
ceptance OF the appointments of the
new members nor designations of regu-
lar members of the auditing committee
accompanied the certificate and that
IN the certificate IL does not state Tld-
ridges place of residence. whether he
Is i'm the third or first or fourth dis.
trict.
The petitioners ask that T<eyes be
restrained from printing EIldridge's
name on the Democratic ticket for the
coming election and the case win he
argued Monday afternoon in depart
ment eight.