Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-05
GET ACTIVE
SAYS GATES
EVERY VOTER OUGHT TO SHARE
POLITICAL BURDEN
ONLY WAY TO DESTROY RAIL-
ROAD MACHINE
New LincoIn-Roosevelt League In
Ninth Ward Hears Gates and
Tyrrell-officers Are
Chosen

Neglect of the duties of citizenship,
according to Lee c. Gates who oellV-
cred a speech to the newly organized
Ninth Ward Lincoln Roosevelt Repub-
ican league last night is the cause OIL
the unrest manifested over the country
and is stimulating the messages of plot
and violence that are coming from the
cities. Mr.. Gates, while expounding
the purposes of the league, made plea
for militant citizenship.
The fifty members who were in Kor-
bel's hall at the meeting cheered both
Mr.. Gates and Frank P. Tyrrell for
their speeches booming Taft as the
hereditary legatee of the Roosevelt pol
icies Both, too, made pleas for honest
franchise and the overthrow of South
arn Pacific domination. There seemed
to be no disagreement between the
speakers and their hearers
Mr. Gates placed. the responsibility
for the shameful disclosures in san
Francisco upon the heads of the indlt-
ferent citizens. They were the ones
who had no time for politics and they
submitted to a perversion OF govern
ment. surrendered their own govern
nent TO mercenaries, because they had
no sense of the high duty of Citizenship
and ''had no time for politics.
"In one-third of the precincts OF Los
Angeles" said Mr.. Gates, 1.-The best
ticket of delegates or officials ever put
in the field could not win. That thlro
represents the organized machine dls-
tricts. We are working with the other
two-thirds, and to succeed we must !u
awaken them to their sense of civic
duty"
He thought every man ought to be
active in politics, and the employers
who made it condition of employment
that there be mo playing politics was
a traitor. Intelligence, conscience ana
patriotism require the citizen to be
active, because if politics is left TO
those who make it a business there VIII
be no end to the corruption OF sehtl-
ment, the debauching of young man
hood and the rule of bosses, such as
has obtained for the last twenty-five
years in California. His solution of the
political and governmental problems
was TO get into politics and out vote
The mercenaries, see that proper prln-
,iples are enunciated and honest men
named to carry them out.
Incidentally he castigated the Repup-
iican state committee for answering
the appeal for a Taft Endorsement Dy
ordering an unofficial and Illegal pri-
mary three days ahead of the legal
,ne This, he warned his hearers, was
piece of political f1nesse, an auda-
,ious piece of chicanery that came
from the master mind of the Southern
Pacific who lives in New York and is
.Roosevelt's mortal enemy.
One of the hearers asked MIR. Gates
What he would advise league members
70 do-partieipate in the unofficial pri-
mary to express a presidential choice
or stay away.
Should Participate
Gates replied that there was differ
ence of opinion as to what should be
lone, but he believed the league MEM
bers should participate. The machine
would get great benefit from vote
1hat was adverse to the administra-
lion.
Mr.. Tyrrell declared the fight here
was no different from the one in Mis-
souri, that Folk brought to victory. In
Missouri the Democratic machine had
10 be destroyed, and in California the
railroad bureau Republican machine
must De overthrown. The Lincoln
Roosevent league through its success
could restore the party machinery to
the party voters and give the governed
voice in the government.
The organization was completed by
the election of w. H. Taylor president,
Henry Lazard secretary and E. S.
Paine treasurer.