Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-10-29
M'LACHLAN NOT
CITRUS GUARDIAN
WHITE AND BARLOW ENTITLED
TO CREDIT
RUSH FIRES MORE SHOT AT
"ABSENT JIM"
Republican Representative Has Not
Lifted Hand or Voice in Con-
gress for Fruit Growing
Constituents

During the course of the speech which
he delivered last mig at Boyle
Heights, and later on at the labor
Temple, Jud Rush, Democratic candi-
date for congressman from this dis
trict, poured another broadside into
the enemy by taking up he latest
argument of the supporters of his OPP
ponent, Congressman McLachlan, and
exposing its falsity.
The apologists for Mr. McLachlan,
at loss to know how else to bolster
up his record, said that he had brought
about the protective tariff ON citrus
fruits, at least. They said this out at
Covina, and Azusa and at other points
where it was presumed that such argu-
ment would be effective.
But last night A4r. lush was able to
prove, by evidence that cannot be re-
futed-the old reliable Congressional
Record-that Mr.. McLachlan was not
a member of ngress when Ding
ley tariff bill was passed, Mr. Barlow
having been elected for that term in
1897 and therefore Mr.. ! cLachan
of that measure.
Nothing Doing
Since then there has been no meas
ure before the house in any way,
shape or manner effecting the citrus
fruit industry, and SO IL is plain to be
seen that Mr.. McLachlan's late argu-
ment goes the way of all the rest.
Upon this particular point Mr.. Rush
said:
1.-The investigation of his record, so
much desired by Mr. McLachlan, hav
ing utterly failed to show any work
of value reformed by him for the
people of this district, and the conten-
ton of his inspired apologsts that he
had been of great value to us as a lob
byist, having been utterly discredited,
they have now in their frantic efforts
to point to at least some small meri-
torious service performed by hin, have
asserted and scattered the assertion
BROADCAST, that the overwhelming fact
which will smother McLachlan's OPP
ponent is his record in congress for the
citrus industry. H. collaboration with
other congressman from this state he
succeeded in putting the tariff on cit
rus fruits
This means, If It means anything,
that Mr.. McLachlan, as a member of
congress, voted and worked to obtain
the present tart, on citrus fruits.
Not in Congress Then
1.-The fact is that this tariff is part
of the Dingley tariff bill, which was
passed by the special session of con-
gress in 1897, and that Mr.. McLachlan
die not vote for that bill for the very
good reason that he was not at that
time a member of congress.
$50 far as the tariff on citrus fruits
is concerned, that bill has not been
amended since that time, and Mr.. Me-
chlan has not proposed any amend
ment to it.
$50 we find from the same old rec
ord that Mr.. McLachlan's services as a
congressman in behalf of the citrus
fruit industry are just about on a par
with his services for the people of this
district in other directions and
amount to nothing.
Mr.. McLachlan. as a member of
congress, has never proposed, urged.
or voted for a tariff on citrus fruits
either high or low
"And during all the time of his Off
cial services he has not mentioned the
citrus fruit industry in the house of
representatives, or so far as we are
able to learn, before any committee,
even once"