Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-08-22
OUR CONGRATULATIONS
TO THE CONVENTION

tive Democrat of the highest personal
standing and unimpeachable character,
whose name was a guarantee that the
proceedings of the convention would be
conducted IN the interests of honesty,
fairness and decency.
This action was followed by the APP
pointment of committees upon organ
ization. credentials and platform, who
in their personnel were thoroughly
representative of the best elements Of
the party. and that these committees
did their work efficiently. ably and
fearlessly is evidenced by the result.
The recommendation of the commits
tee ON credentials for the unseating of
certain delegates who by their actions
in the past had shown that they were
not Democrats upon principle, but
were merely operating with the Demo-
cratic party to serve the evil ends of
evil masters, and the thorough way in
which that recommendation was car
ried out, constituted probably the
greatest victory that clean politics
has ever gained in the history of the
local Democracy in this county.
The Herald fully recognizes the fact
that there were many honest and esti-
mable members of the Democratic par
ty who opposed the unseating Of these
delegates on what they believed to be
proper principles of party organiza-
ton, and while The Herald differs
from them as to their views upon this
matter, 1t does not for a moment at
tribute to nine-tenths of those who OPP
posed the effort to clear the party of
blance in character to the men of
whom the party was seeking to rid
itself
The Herald believes, however, that
the recommendation of the committee
on credentials was proper and that the
convention honored itself and did q
great service to the local Democracy
by casting out these men who have
never in the past hesitated to betray
the party at the command of the evil
political influences of which they were
the subservient tools.
If the Democracy is to be betrayed,
1t would better be betrayed out of the
party than in 1t. By taking the action
which it did in expelling members of
the party who in the past had used
their influence for the purpose Of load
ing up its ticket with weak and undesir-
able candidates, or casting the party's
influence in favor of Objectionable can
didates on the opposing ticket, the par
ty cleansed itself and gave proof not
only to the respectable element within
its own ranks, but to all decent citi-
gems of the community of Its deter
mination to make itself worthy of their
support.
If any doubt had been cherished by
anyone as to the character of the men
of whom the credentials committee. by
its report, was seeking to rid the party,
that doubt would easily have been re-
solved by the character of some of the
friends of these men and the acts of
which they were guilty when the adop-
ton of this report was under discus
sion. There is no question that the
hoodlum tactics that were displayed
disguised and disheartened the decent
members of the party who were, upon
principles which they honestly con-
ceived to be right, opposing the adop-
ton Of the committees report.
The truth of the matter is that the
evil influence of a certain small but
aggressive element in the party had In
the past become SO prominent that
many men of standing and character
in the community whose sympathies
are naturally with the cause OF
Democracy had been deferred from
openly allying themselves with party
In whose ranks this repulsive element
had attained such prominence.
Now that the local party has been
relieved of it's burdens, Los Angeles
Democrats can look the world in the
! face with the knowledge that their
party has nothing in the personnel of
its membership, and will nave nothing
in the acts of it's members at which to
blush.
Furthermore, The Herald believes
that the removal of this small but ex-
Il
ceedingly undesirable element in the
party's membership will tend in every
way to harmonic and strengthen the
great mass of Democrats in their eff
forts to carry the cause of Democracy
to success at the coming election.
1t is a notable fact that after the
settlement of the differences that arose
in the convention concerning the adop-
ton of the report of the committee on
credentials and the expulsion of half
a dozen. undesirable individuals the
members of the convention worked to-
gether in the most harmonious and eff
ficient manner for the purpose of plac-
ing in the field ticket whose candi-
dates are of such character and stand
ing as to enable the party to claim for
them the support of the best citizen
ship of the community.
AS to the candidates placcI in nomi-
nation by the various conventions, The
Herald will speak more at length and
in detail during the coming campaign.
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