Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-03
Republican Machine
Will Work for
Harper
Word Given Out to Elect
Democratic Nominee
for Mayor
Party Bosses Driven to Desperation
by Following Acquired by Nom
Partisans and Resort
to Perfidy

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g An order from the Republican @
e machine yesterday was passed g
g down the line instructing precinct {.
g workers TO work for the election {.
@ of A. G. Harper, the Democratic o
@ nominee for mayor, and for George {.
@ Beebc, the Republican nominee {.
g for city attorney. @
@ a committee consisting of w. g
g Oscar Henderson. resident Baptist G,
@ minister; w. l.. Martin, pastor (.
@ Christian church. and w. II. @
g Workman, city treasurer. yester- {:
@ day Investigated the statement in @
I. the California Voice. the Prohibi- @
g fion organ, that property owned g
9 by VI. II. Collins, nOn-partisan and @
@ Democratic nominee for council {.
% man from the Ninth ward, WINS be- g
8. ing used for immoral purposes and e
@ made 81 sworn statement that the G,
@ charge was untrue. Z.
(: While the nOn-pnrtisans virtu- .
g ally closed their campaign Sat- @
@ urdny night, Mr.. Gates tonight 9
@ will address meetings held mt 9
G. Henderson hall, Twenty-third @
{. street and Union avenue, and at g
g Grace NJ. IL. church, Third and @
@ Hewitt streets. @
g Mr.. Gates. Secretary Lissner and @
@ others interested In the nOn-parti- {,
): san movement yesterday an (.
{: nOunced the greatest confidence g
G. In the favorable result of tOmOr- {.
G. rows election. G
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES s,<sAa%a@><A<a%<&&<S&
DR.. Walter Lindley has been thrown
overheard by the Republican machine
II is declared with extreme positive
ness that the order has gone down the
line to Republican ward men and pre-
cinct captains to work for the election
of A. c. Harper, the Democratic nom-
inee.
This order also includes an urgency
order to pull every string to insure the
election of George Beebe as city at
torney and defeat Leslie Hewitt at
all costs.
Apparently every nominee on the Re-
publican ticket, with the exception of
Beebe, will be compelled to shift for
himself as a result of the efforts to
be made to insure the election of Bebee.
Republican organization workers adj
nit that at least four non-partisan
councilmen will be elected, and it is
presumed that the organization man
ayers believe that as the council
would be virtually lost anyway, as
far as good work for machine inter-
ests is concerned. they might just
as well permit all the council to go
by the board, or at least to let the
Republican machine candidates do all
the hustling.
Il Is Done for Revenge
The action of the machine in throw
ing overheard the Republican nomi-
nee for mayor and coming out for
Harper confirms the prediction made
by The Herald at the time George a.
Smith, the organization candidate, WAS
compelled to make way for DIR. Lind
ley, and after Lee c.. Gates had ac-
cepted the non-partisan nomination
that the machine would endeaVor to
cause the election of Harper for the
purpose of killing two birds with one
store-defeating DR.. Lindley for his
presumption in forcing Smith out of the
race and defeating Lee Gates for ig-
noring the machine and accepting the
non-partisan nomination.
Their plan will work out success
fully only i'm one respect, and that is
the defeat of Dr. Lindley; but it will
not result in the defeat of Gates.
While Harper will benefit to some OK
tent by the order from machine man"
ayers. the better element remainln =
true to the Republican organization,
but having no use for the machine,
either will remain loyal to Lirdley CT
so to Gates. and the greatest number
will vote for, the non-partsan tickct
rs Il protest against the perfidy of
the Republican machine in pretending
TO work for Lindley and then slaughter
ing him at the polls
Non-Partlsans Confident
None of the non-partisan' nominees
or workers was at all disconcerte1
over the report that Dr. LindTtY had
been thrown overheard and that Har-
per had been taken on instead.
Every man interested in the nom
partisan movement declared that the
rank and file of the Republicans who
have clung to the Republican organi-
zation rather than to the machine
hear cf the order to knife Lindley at
the polls I'm order 10 defeat both Lind
ley and Gates and elect Harper the
majority of them viii vote for Gates
as a protest against such unscrupu-
lous work, while the remainder viii
remain true TO Lindley, and that the
additional votes Harper will receive
viii not materially increase the votes
that he otherwise would have received.
Under the new order Of things Gates
plurality over Harper will be nos less
than 1900 on a total vote of 30, 900, ana
II viii increase proportionately should
the vote be larger, until, il 10000 votes
shall have heen polled. Gates plu e
rality win not be less than 5000.
Mr. Gates took needed rest yester-
daV and tonight he will make two
speeches, one at Henderson hall,