Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-10-31

street railway employees except in
emergency cases, to be eight hours,
came up, Mr.. Stanton voted against it.
The law of this state permits street
and interurban railway companies to
work their men twelve hours a day.
This bill described what is known as
1.-THE eight-hour law"
MACHINE CONTROL OF ELEC-
TIONS-Mr. Stanton voted against the
bill to abolish party circle at elections.
His vote for the bill would have tied
the vote.
The bill to abolish party circles on
ballots was introduced for the purpose
of restoring the Australian ballot to its
original form, in part at least. The
adjustment of the party circle would
have had this result: that it would
have made it more difficult for corrupt
political machines to force the voting
of a straight ballot, and at the same
time it would have made it impossible
for political workers to ascertain, with
the reasonable degree of certainty now
possible, whether or not the voter voted
his ticket according to their desires.
1t is now possible, by noting the time
spent in the booth by the voter, to
know whether or not he has followed
instructions to vote straight ticket.
1t should be impossible to compel a
voter to vote a straight ticket. Voting
a llCkeI is the weapon OIL Il
political machine, and does not make
for tho best interests of the commun-
ity.
TO ABOLISH STATUTE OF
FRAUDS-The Los Angeles Times, in
its issue of August Z, 1904, said of Mr..
Stanton:
"a politician who is the creature of
the Espee machine, who takes his or
ders from it's bosses, who is a program
er in every political sense of the word,
and who represented not his district
but his political makers at the last Ses-
sion of the legislature.
"Stanton's Infamous real estate bill
was riddled in committee until he
couldn't recognize it. 1t is bill which,
if it becomes a law, would place prop
erty owners at the mercy of any I'M
scrupulous real estate shark"
The bill thus described by the Times
provides that section 1924 of the civil
code of California shall be amended in
such a manner as to take oral con-
tracts, made with real estate men for
the sale of real property, out of the
statute of frauds The result of this
bill would have been as follows: A
contract for the sale of land could be
substantiated by the testimony of more
than one witness, thus putting it in
the power of an INSCRIPTIONS real es-
tate man or other person, by procuring
dishonest testimony, to force man
owning real property to dispose of it
on terms testified to by said witnesses.
The present law is that a contract for
the sale of real property must be in
writing, signed by the owner of the
real property. The enactment of such
a law as proposed by Mr.. Stanton
might have involved every owner of
real property IN the state of California.
This was assembly bill No. 20.
VOTED FOR SCHMITZ AND RUFF
Mr.. Stanton voted for the change of
venue bill, which was described by the
San Francisco Chronicle as: "The bill
to help boodlers escape the peniten-
tiary"
Members who voted for this bill and
who are now up for election are Cogs-
well, Leeds, Harmon, Stanton and
Transue.
Is it possible that because Stanton
was largely instrumental in defeating
George Alexander for the Republican
nomination for supervisor in the Sec
ond supervisoral district you took up
Stanton's fight? George Alexander's
record as supervisor stands out as
beacon light. He knows no favorites
as public official, and you know that
the solid three in the court house and
their terrible Vaccinations have al
ways had his uncompromising opposi-
ton.