Los Angeles herald., 1906-10-24
SPREAD OF NoN.PARTIsANsHIP

Take Missouri, for Instance.
A state wherein the Democrats are
rock ribbed and unyielding. and the
r. ublicans OF the forcest and most
puritanic variety.
And yet i'm old Missouri is occurring
n most remarkable Instance of nom
partisanship. upon the most sincere and
patriotic grounds.
jackson county, outside of Kansas
City has normal Democratic ma
jority Of 2200. which has not been
changed In many years. But jack
son county has a boss named Shannon,
who like Walter Parker has persist
emily named the Democratic county
ticket, in face of serious opposition
from all good citizens, but heretofore
with no apparent change i'm the vote.
This year the Shannon Democratic
ticket appears to have struck the honest
Democrats as unusually shameless, and
they are conducting vigorous cam
paign against it.
One day last week q great mass meet
ing was held at Independence, the
county seat of Jackson, vshereat ad-
dresses were made by Hon. ED. Il.
Yates former state superintendent of
insurance, and by Hon. f. N. Heit-
man, two as aggressive and eloquent
Democrats and party men as live any
where. The report Of the meeting, as
printed in the Jackson Examiner, a
Democratic newspaper, prefaced Mr..
Yates speech with the following para
graph:
ED. e. Yates is one of the most eff
fective campaign speakers He is an old
fashioned Missouri Democrat and has
served the party on the stump and as an
official. He was chairman of the city
committee of Kansas City for two sue
I cessful campaigns. Mr.. Yates told OF
/ the convention held at Independence,
and showed that it was dominated en-
tirely by one man, Shannon. He showed
that the Democrat who wished the well
fare of his party and of his country
was under no OBLIGATION whatever as
a partisan to support the Shannon tick
ct. which was in no way a Democrats
| ticket"
Mr.. Heitman, in the course Of an
eloquent speech against the Shannon
Democratic ticket, said:
1.-THE Democracy will succeed in rout-
! ing Shannonism and Sha nnon's ticket
this fall because it has the support OF
the moral sentiment of this community.
| The decent Democrats are going to vote
as one man against the Shannon-made
ticket, and in favor of the Republican
county ticket from top to bottom"
Think of that, will you? In Missouri!
Arl in a county where there is a
large and an unvarying Democratic
majority!
AS the Jackson Examiner we'll says:
such meeting would have been i'm
possible in this county up to a few
! years ago.
Precisely the SAME situation exists
in Los Angeles county, with the poll
tics reversed. Walter Parker, repre-
, senting the Southern Pacific railroad,
has for years dominated and brow
beat the Republican party until the
so-called Republican tickets are ac-
tually selected by him. and it has come
to pass that no man can become a can
didate for office without the distinct
and open approval of Walter Parker.
The Republican party is largely in
the majority in Los Angeles county,
and is therefore morally responsible
for the men placed in office and power;
responsible for the honesty, economy
and efficiency of county and city gov
ernment.
The Republican ticket, so-called,
named at Venice, was absolutely chosen
by Boss Parker, except in one or two
instances.
Will the Republicans of Los Angeles
be less patriotic than the Democrats
of Missouri? Can they afford to hard
en- their hearts, stiie their consciences,
and stiffen their backbones in an effort
to maintain the party bosses at the
sacrifice of decent government?