Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-30
THIS IS THE
DAY; VOTE FOR
GOOD ROADS
BOND ISSUE DEPENDS ON TWO
THIRDS MAJORITY
ONLY DANGER ovERcoNFIDENcE
OF sTAY-AT-HoME
Auto Owners Making Hard Fight for
Cause of Highways That viii
Benefit Residents and
Visitors

| Between o'clock this morning and 6
o'clock tonight the voters of Los An
geles county will determine whether
S35OO,OOO in bonds shall be issued to in
sure the immediate construction of
nearly 400 miles of modern highways
for the neighborhood of Los Angeles,
the worlds playground.
| This Is the day of the special cleo
ton, the windup of a whirlwind CAM
paign which will carry out theories
that have been advocated for years.
Never, perhaps, have automobiles
and their owners been such important
factors in a campaign. Auto owners
and dealers have been the principal
boosters for highways and today hun
dreds of machines will be in volunteer
precinct service.
Campaign committee members said
last night that they felt the bonds
would carry by more than the needed
two thirds majority. but recognized the
danger of overconfidence which might
operate to keep some voters at home
and thus defeat the issue.
! The advice to every voter is to go to
the polls and to bring another voter
with him.
Get Out the VoteII
The big fight for today is to get out
| the vote; that done, no alarm is felt
as to the outcome. But every one is
urged to vote early in the morning and
not trust to circumstances to DEFER
voting till later in the day The stay
at-homes form the uncertain element
| Many letters have come to headquar-
| ters from employers stating that they
had cheerfully given permission for
their employees to either report at tho
stores, offices or factories late, so that
their voting could be done early in the
day, or take an extra hour at noon so
that each could go home to vote.
Thousands of street cars, autos, bicy-
| cles and wagons yesterday bore the
yellow pennants bearing the slogan,
''Vote for Good Roads Thursday"
| The pennantS were constantly f1ut-
| tering reminders to all voters to go to
the polls today to cast a ballot in favor
of the $3,500,000 bond issue which will
insure for Los Angeles county its much
needed additional modern highways.
Eighty per cent of the three and
half millions of bond money will be
spent for labor, as practically all of the
road materials can be had close to the
proposed highways. The advantage of
the plan as stimulant of the business
conditions, therefore, Is one of the prin-
cipal arguments whereby the mass of
the voters will realize the practical
good results which will follow a sue
cessful election.
Let Everybody Work
Precinct workers of each party have
| been ordered to be at all the polling
places at O'Clock this morning. They
will bring the poll books and get out
the voters. Autos will be stationed al
each polling place to answer calls from
each precinct.
Any one who cannot reach the polls
may telephone good roads headquarters
In the Chamber of Commerce building
and an auto will be dispatched for him.
Although Los Angeles is making its
own arrangements for precinct work,
\ Long Beach, Pasadena and other cities
are not a bit behind proportionately in
arranging for assembling Of autos and
their complement of workers as well as
election scouts to bring voters to the
polls.
If anything, sections of Los Angeles
county are more enthuSed than the
cities, as the needs of roads are grave
ly apparent In the rural districts.
BY American Labor
Chairman C. D. Daggett, answering
inquiries, said yesterday that 1t will be
the policy of the highway commission
to have the work done by American
labor.
The bulk of the work will be in haul
ing stone and surface materials, hand
Hing scrapers and in team work. The
mere spreading of materials is only a
small proportion of the contracts to put
new highways over the face of the
country,
"The law makes certain specifica-
tions as to how the work shall be
done," said Chairman Daggett. we
cannot saw whom the contractors shall
employ, but most of the work cannot
be done by Mexicans and japanese.
"It ought to be the plan and it will
be the policy of the commission to em-
ploy our own people If the necessary
supply of laboring men Is to be had"
Returns from the election have been
ordered made by precinct workers to
good roads headquarters in the Cham
her of Commerce building.
Accommodations for the press ana
informants have been arranged there,
so that the result can be flashed early
in the evening.
Windup of Campaign
The campaign wound up last night
in the downtown section with parade,
red FIRE and demonstrations at Pico
and Catalina streets in Pico Heights,
and another on Fourth and Central av-
enue for the colored residents. En-
eineer A. e. Loder and Councilman r..
w. Dromgold were the principal speak
ers at the former meeting, ana j. A.
Coleman and j. ]. Gosper at tne latter.
| Garvanza also turned out IN large
numbers to cheer the cause at Micher' S
| hall on Pasadena avenue, where f. u.
Tyrrell and G. D. Whitcomb were the
speakers.
Harrisburg had the closing out-of-
town rally for the good roads cause last
night, the speakers being P. j. Bever-
idge, James A. Rowan and w. n. Cline. t
The party went to Lordsburg in autos
and picked up reinforcements at Po-
mona, where a stop was made for re-
freshments.