Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-10-31
LAY BARE RECORD
OF PHIL STANTON
CONSISTENTLY OPPOSED TO
PEOPLES INTEREST
Democratic Committee Scores Former
AssembIyman as One of the Most
Servie Creatures of the
Southern Pacific

Answering circulars issued by the
Republicans the Democrats yesterday
put out the following circular in behalf
of George Gushing Martin, assembly
candidate:
LOS ANGELES, Oct 3O.-J. M. FL
lott, ]. F. Sartori, George A. Mont
H. H. Yonkin, ]. ]. Gosper, Harry j.
Lelande, John H. Norton, H. Boettcher,
f. J. Thomas and others:
"Gentlemen-Our attention has been
called to a circular recently issued in
which it is stated that you have volun-
tarily taken upon yourselves to present
to the voters of the Seventy-first as
sembly district the record of p. A.
Stanton in the state legislature.
Considering what many of you gentle
men have said in the past as to reform
in civic matters we were not prepared
for what you had to say over and
under your signatures to secure votes
for a man who has been generally de-
nounced, particularly by the leading
journals of the Republican party of
California, as one of the most servile
creatures Of the Southern Pacific rail-
road and allied interests.
IA friend at our elbow whispers to us
that we should not be so surprised as
many of you are stockholders in public
nected Herewith; but even that status
of affairs it seems to us should not close
your eyes to the awful situation of aid
ing in the election of such candidate.
And mind you, gentlemen, we are
making no mere party charge.
1--WE take the situation as 1t stands,
and refer the voting public to the rec
ord by which gauge all such matters
should be tested in the battle of the
ballots of the American people.
''It is possible in preparing your state
ment to the public you unwittingly
omitted the shadiest chapters of Stan
toms malodorous record, and to aid you
in your presentation we submit a few
of the same herewith.
"It was Josh Billings who said "A
record is sometimes a very oncon-
venient thing
Democratic County Central Committee
of Los Angeles County.
by ALBERT M. NORTON. ;,
Here follows Mr.. stanton's record
thus:
STREETS TURNED OVER TO
RAILROADS.&C.. A. Stanton intro
duced a bill in the last legislature CIV
ing city councils, boards of supervisors,
etc., power to grant freight carrying
franchises to street and interurban
railroads. Chill No. 997.) And he in
introduced, turning the regulation of
traffic on street railways over to the
state board of railroad commissioners.
This latter bill, he voted for, and after
its Ubiquitous nature and purpose was
exposed and a motion for reconsidera-
tion was made, he voted against recon-
sideration. This was assembly bill No.
1884,
FAITHLESS TO MERCHANTS-Mr.
ka1 fr1cf fhn nnfT
demurrage bill, which was introduced
in the interest of California merchants.
This bill provided that a railroad
must furnish cars to shippers for the
transportation of their merchandise
upon q ten days notice in writing or
pay penalty of SIS a day for their
failure so to do. This law was aimed
at the abuses of the railroad COM
panies, particularly in reference to their
refusal to furnish cars to the oil and
fruit men of this state. By refusing
to furnish cars to everybody but the
Standard Oil company, for instance,
the Standard Oil company was given q
monopoly of the oil business during
the winter of 1906 and 1907 at an in
creased price, and the independent oil
men lost many contracts and suffered
great damages on account of their in
ability to deliver oil. This was assem-
bly, bill No. 225.
FAITHFUL TO RAILROAD-Mr
Stanton voted against assembly, bill No.
447, the purpose of-which was to COM
pei railroad companies to furnish room
and accommodations for passengers
who had purchased tickets on railroad
trains.
AGAIN FOR RAILROADS-When
assembly bill No. 52S. which provided
for gates at railroad crossings in in
cornortaed cities came IN for a vote
Mr.. Stanton found it convenient to be
absent.
This bill was introduced for the pur-
pose of protecting traffic on city streets
from the danger occasioned by running
railroad trains through the cities and
across city streets at a high rate of
speed.
AGAINST EIGHT-HOUR LAW
When assembly, bill No. SAT. which pro-
vided the limit of employment for