Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-07
COUNTRY DISTRICTS TO MEET
HERE SATURDAY
OFFICIAL COUNT is TO DECIDE
TUESDAYS CONTEST
Regulars Claim Forty Delegates and
Democratic League Nineteen.
Dockweier and spellacy to
Be District Delegates

fve delegates to the state convention
at FRESNO. The remaining twenty-one
Will be elected Saturday afternoon at
district conventions at the Ilks' hall
in this city by delegates from, the
1ntry districts. They were selected
at Tuesdays caucuses and they repre-
sent portions of the Sixty-seventh, Six
ty-nintI, Seventieth and Seventy
fourth districts and all of the Sixty
eighth. The action of these delegates
will have much to do with the charac-
ter of the delegation that is to go to
Fresno.
According to the claims of Chairman
Schwamm of the county committee,
the regulars elected forty of the forty
four delegate from Los Angeles and
Pasadena. According to the Demo-
cratic league figures, the leaguers
elected nineteen of the forty-four.
Nothing but the official count will set
tie the result, as the vote was so light
and the difference in the votes so small
that few errors might turn the result
one way or the other. The leaguers
claim to have elected four delegates in
Pasadena, three in the Sixty-ninth and
six each in the Seventieth and Seventy
third. They also say they have pos
sibility of carrying the Seventy-fifth If
the vote is close enough to give them
the benefit of a contest over the Twen-
ty-seventh precinct-"Eddie" Morris
where they allege there were enough
irregularities 20 have the vote thrown
o1t.
Claim Harper's Election
Both elements count the ticket in the
Seventy third as their own. 1t was in
this district that the caucus indorsed
the league ticket. In the Seventieth
the leaguers claim to have defeated
Mayor Harper and his ticket, but
Chairman Schwamm, who says he veri-
fled the figures from the returns made
to the county clerk. declares Harper
led his ticket with 24S votes, while his
nearest opponent o. e. Parish, had
but .l3. The incomplete returns Tues
day night slowed a victory for the
lengue ticket Schwamm says there is
no doubt of Harper's election and the
whole ticket. too.
Whether the Democratic league will
contest any of the districts remains un-
settled until the official count is COM
pleted. The chances of contest are
regarded as best in the Seventy-fifth
because of several precincts where ir-
regularities may be shown, 1t is alleged.
The Pasadens delegates are claimed
by both elements and the regulars also
claim that two delegates elected with
Joseph Simons in the Sixty-ninth will
vote for Nathan Cole for delegate at
large.
At any rate without the country dis
tricts the regulars now control the
delegation. They will support Cole for
delegate at large and will also present
Mayor Harper's name for delegate at
large IL he desires the place. They
have been assured, Chairman
Schwamm says. that he may be dele
gate at large II he will consent.
Should he lot consent then the dis
trict delegation will be composed of
either Mayor Harper, /. B. Dockweiler
or Timothy Spellacy, chairman of the
state committee. The chance of the
mayor being a district delegate is re-
mote, as If he wants TO so at all he
can go, his friends say, as a delegate
at large. Therefore they believe that
Dockweler and Spellacy will be the
delegates.
didates elected on opposite tickets will
support them. So that. in the mixture
of claims, it will not be really settled
which element is in control until the
country districts have elected and the
delegation has organized and voted.
Country Delegates
The delegates selected by the country
precinct caucuses, as reported to Chair
man .Schwamm last night, are as fol-
lows:
MonrOVia. precinct 1--tieO. w. 6laCK, IL.
Barnes G. II. Dusenberry.
Lancaster precnct-E. A. Fannin. Henry
Specht.
El Monte precinct-E. C. Parrish, James
Basey, Frank Harmon, Jas. Freer, Jonas
Killian B. w. Dancer.
compton City precinct-H J. Mayo. r. L.
Cox Geo. Webb, Louis Page
Norwalk precinct-J. w. lnman' A. w. Nick
oils. L. l.. Burke.
La Mirada precinct-w. p. Eshom.
National precinct 2-James Mathews, Chas
F. Croft, Joe Dugan.
South Pasadena, precinct 1-Avery Truner
A. T. Gilbert, w. II. Nichols.
South Pasadena precinct 2-J. J. Cooper. W.
H. Lowry, ]. C. Newton.
Domnguez precinct 2-J. o. Burris. 0. E.
san Fernando precinct-R. II. Hille E. H.
schwinger, f. e. Strader, ]. Harps P. j.
Lopez. c. w. Judy.
Green Meadow precinct-Frank Haddock, c.
A. Holcomb, John B. Hurst, E. $. Kent. M
DeGrost.
santa Monica. precinct Al. C. Steele, E.
H. O'Brien. b. Sues
Watts precinct-Wm Diller, j. e. Belieu j.
santa Monica. precinct s-H. x. aoetz.
Richmond Plant.
San Dimas precinct-W. E. Mount. Vim.
Terry, Fred Pots.
Pomona, precinct All. Mock A. ]. Fry. W.
f. Martin, s. p. Twomey.
Pomona precinct 2-Moses Petty, w. A.
vandcrgrift, Ira F. White.
Downey precinct 2-J w. Mcl<illar. E. U.
Skdmore, NJ. It. Russell.
Pomona precinct 3-R. A. Burke, b. A.
Neitles John Duqua, ID. II. Osler.
Redondo Beach, precinct Pr. d. Smith, j.
Marion Brooks, A. M. Harter, ]. I. Lechner
Alhambra, precinct Fired G.. Stone, ]. E.
Wilson jr., C. H. Noyes.
Glendale precinct-Horace Overman, Joseph
Banker, Il. d. Goode.
Santa Monica, precinct 5-Charles II. Thorn
as, F. M Nickel, D. H. Ettien. t. H. Nc
Alonan Frank Richmond
Tropico precinct-D Griswold, II. A. Webb,
Alex Mitchell.
sierra Madre precinct-A. L. Caskey, J. w.
Nauselman, j. A. Madden.
Clendora precinct-E. E. Pollard Samuel
Scow j. W. Cullen
Rivera precinct-H. L. Montgomery, Jacob
Hanna T. L. Gooch
Los Nietos precinct-A. H. Gregg, #. A.
Sanchez, M j. Brooks.
Downey. precinct frank Burk. j. H.
Ards. C. Z. Smith.
Azusa City precinct-! r. Eldred' Ram
sam, W. S. Patterson, @. e. Gloner
Monrovia, precinct S-P. T. Seymour, T. w.
Patton, c. Z. Willetts. +. B. Glasgow.
Lamanda precinct-M c. Curtis, M. Rick
ard. w. T. Bush.
Altadena precinct-Theodore Kretchmar, j..
L. Simmons.
Soldiers Home, precinct 4-E. Z. Devore,
John Bruton. Henry w. Cradle.
Soldiers Home. precinct 5-Daniel Horton.
l.. Peterson.
SECRETARY WALSH SAYS