Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-08
TO SELECT DATE
FOR CONVENTION
DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEE To|
MEET TOMORROW
Nominations for County Officers Ex-
pected to Be Made September 25.
City Employees Warned Against
PernlcIous Activity

Members of the executive committee
committee will hold a meeting tomor-
row to decide upon the date for the
county convention, and also to arrange
for the assembly district primaries to
be held outside of the cities of Los An
geles and Pasadena.
The convention in all probability will
be held September 25. BY that time
the Republican slate will be fully made
up, and the delegates to the Demo-
cratic convention will be in position
to determine upon a policy with re-
spect to Endorsement of an independent
ticket.
The assembly district primaries out
side of Los Angeles and Pasadena prob
ably will be held within the next two
weeks. At these primaries delegates
to the state convention will be elected.
For the Bryan Celebration
The Democratic executive commit
tee also will act on the recommended
ton of the committee in charge of the
Bryan celebration that a public meet
ing rather than a banquet be held The
expectatio is that this reconnmenda-
ton will be adopted.
Republican caucuses will be held in
the country districts this evening for
the purpose of selecting candidates for
delegates to the county convention to
be voted for at the primaries next Sat-
urday. In Los Angeles and Pasadena
the caucuses will be held next Satur-
day and the primaries next Tuesday.
The Republican county central COM
mittee has issued instructions to all of
its precinct committeeman to file the
returns of all of the caucuses Satur-
day night, so that a roll call for the as
sembly district caucuses, which will
be held Monday evening, can be made
up At these assembly district cau-
cuses delegates to the state convention
will be nominated.
"Pernicious Activity"
A ruling Just made by the civil ser
vice board is likely to interfere seri-
ously with the political aspirations
and ambitions of number of men en-
ployed by the municipality. 1t is to
the effect that any mixing up with
the county campaign will be construed
as pernicious activity and will be dealt
with accordingly. AS this means de-
capitation, a good many employees
under civil service rules who were
preparing to take a more or less active
part in the county campaign are get
ting out from under.
This ruling strikes directly at several
employees in the street department who
had expected to go to the county con-
vention. A. L. Haley, a sprinkling
cart driver, appeared before the board
yesterday and asked how far the board
would permit employees under the civil
service rules to go. He was told not to
go to the convention as delegate or
to act as a precinct committeeman.
Commissioner Young said that when
ever there was sufficient evidence to
convince the board that any civil SER
vice employe was actively engaged in
politics he would be called to account.
Denies Having Aspirations
Willard Goodwin, who has been men,
toned as candidate for councilman
from the Fourth ward. was asked to
make a statement on that point. In
q communication to the board Goodwin
declared that he had no present aspi-
ra tions in that direction.
E. w. Hevle, deputy in the city as
SCISSORS office, in reply to a similar
question, explained that he had intend
ed to be a candidate for one of the
county offices, but that he would give
1T UP.
Senator Flint is expected to arrive in
Los Angeles from San Francisco this
morning.