Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-21
BETTING EVEN IN
PASADENA CONTEST
ELECTION SITUATION SEEMS
CONTRADICTORY
sportina Element In Favor Of Strong
misunderstanding Webster
and Root Seem Likely
Winners
Pasadena Agency.
n North Raymond Avenue,
Phones: Sunset 1907. Home 212h


PASADENA, March 2O.-with the
city election Just ten days distant
about all that is talked about on the
streets is politics. For the first time
since the campaign started the odds
are even on the election result and this
brings to light a strange fact, that the
Waterhouse element, supposed to rep
resent the strongest church influence of
the east SIDE has been the side offering
practically all of the money which
woud-be bettors have to offer. There
has been practically no Farley money
up at all.
This would seem to indicate lack of
confidence on the part of the Farley
forces in the chances of their candidate,
but If this we're the case the odds
should be strongly in favor of Water
house AS a matter of fact, while
Waterhouse is a strong churchman
himself, he is really supported by what
semblance of a sporting element there
is in Pasadena, thus accounting for the
fact that there is so much Waterhouse
money ahoat.
The Waterhouse people are conduct
ing a gum shoe campaign and are
largely pandering to the working men
in the hope of swinging the labor vote
to their column. About the Grimes
pool room and cigar stand there is
nothing but Waterhouse talk and here
the floating element of the labor world
hangs out. However, some of the labor
ing people do not relish the fact that
most of the workers in the newly
created electrical department of the
city government were imported from
Prescott, Ariz., by Superintendent Glass
who abandoned a similar position in
the Arizona city shortly after suits
were started to enjoin the construction
of the electrical plant there.
There is strong talk that the Wafer
house people will attempt to spring q
coup in the Los Angeles morning
paper which is their organ. The story
goes that this coup will be run on Sun
day morning before election, the cleo
tion taking place on the following Mon
day, and thus deprive the Farley peo-
pie of chance to answer, as their or
gans are all afternoon papers. The eX
act nature of this coup is whispered
about, but it is only whispered, and
there is hardly enough upon which to
base a story.
The Farley people have attempted to
get the mayor and his supporters to
come out and debate the campaign is
sues, but aside from sending about
copies of letters which have appeared
in the Pasadena papers, the Water
house supporters have refused to be-
come involved in a debate, probably
because Waterhouse is no platform
speaker or debater
Altogether it now looks like a close
race between the two sides. Leaving
out of consideration the two candidates
for mayor, either of whom is likely to
be elected, it appears that H. G. Hotal-
ing, OF the Farley ticket, is a sure win
ner over Victor Marsh as councilman
at-large; that Tom H. Webster has a
better chance than Towle for council
man from the First ward, and that w
IT Root. Sr of the WaterhOuSe side is
favored for the council from the Fifth
waEd Webster is on the Farley ticket
and is making a strong personal cam
paign. These are all the offices to be
filled at the election on Monday, April l.
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