Los Angeles herald., 1909-03-26
"PUSH" LINES UP S0LIDLY
FOR WHEELER
FRIENDS OF GOOD oovERNM EMIT
URGED TO GO TO POLLS
Southern Pacific Political organIza-
ton Gets Behind Socialist Nomi-
nee and Hopes to Dlseredit
Recall

connected with the red Ugh"
business and every gambler and
race track man would be whipped
into line for the Socialist nominee.
The machine plans to vote at the
polls today 500 men from Santa
Anita and other suburbs who are
not entitled to vote.
The recall campaign commit
tees contention that vote tomor-
row for Alexander will be a vote
for decency is emphasized by the
attitude of the machine on the eve
of election. Every vote opposed
to decent city has been besought
for the Socialist candidate.
Machine Cornered
"The machine is in the corner
with Wheeler because it is fight.
ing for its very existence said a
member of the recall campaign
committee. at has been beaten
so badly at every turn in this fight
and the methods heretofore sue
cessful now prove so feeble that
the push is in desperation. They
take to Wheeler hoping to get in
out of the rain and to keep some
thing dry for next winter. Ma
chine leaders have admitted that
this is most serious situation in
which they find themselves. If
they lose by big vote today and
lose again at the next municipal
election, they recognize that it is
likely to be years before they can
control the city. :.
"But with Wheeler as mayor
the machine forces believe they
can make enough trouble for him
to kill the recall and strengthen
their candidate wonderfully in
December. An inexperienced
man would be just to their liking,
which Alexander most decidedly
is not.
Parker for Wheeler
"Some very significant straws
have shown which way the
push wind blows today. I
heard a strong organization
man say that Parker had told all
the faithful that Wheeler must
be elected, and that they might
leave the rest to him. The Gu
rious spectacle of Harry Chandler
of the Times electioneering for
Fred Wheeler, the labor union
president, was witnessed today.
Fred Maier sent word to all his
men, wholesale and retail, to
work for Wheeler. The Maier
strength is numbered at several
hundred votes, since his business
interests are supposed to control
12O of the 200 saloons in Los An
geles.
"Voters who run after the ma
chine will be led into the polls.
Those who favor decent govern
ment ought to keep this in mind
and vote for Alexander and the
principle of the recall"
The machine element has been
somewhat puzzled over the advisability
of attempting illegal voting today. A
stone wall like that presented today
by the recall movement and the men
behind 1t has never confronted the
machine before. The organization of
precinct workers and watchers has
been carefully noted by the opposition.
and its leaders are a trife dubious
about attempting crooked work hereto
fore worked openly. They know that
the organization committee OF the re-
call movement is loaded for any at
tempt to vote ballot for man who
is dead or who has moved away, and
it is doubtful whether they will at
tempt this to any great extent.
To Vote Dummies
One Of the machines undetermined
schemes most beloved by its manipu-
lators was this system of voting dunn
mics in the names of men who will not
come to the polls. The recall campaign
committee is well prepared to catch
any such attempts, and also those
who will represent themselves as being
voters when in fact they attempt
to vote on names registered for the
purpose of fraud.
Recall workers and precinct men
have been furnished lists of all names
of this kind, and any men attempting
to carry such q scheme through will
be apprehended. Election manipula-
ton will be detected at once through
the effective working plans devised at
recall headquarters. The machine is
aware of this. and 1t is also an cleo
tion feature which presents a new prob
lem.
lnstructs Precinct Workers
Meyer Lissner. chairman of the or
ganization committee of the recall
movement was busy from early yes
terday morning until late at night, as
sisted by other members Of the COM
mittee, in telling precinct workers how
to watch for illegal voting and other
schemes.
Mr.. Lissner has called attention to
the unpatriotic attitude Of the ma
chine, whose supporters were the first
to raise the cry of hurting business"
but who nevertheless are now shouting
for the election of a Socialist mayor.
Nothing would please the opponents
OF the recall MORE" he said, than to
strigmatize the principle of the recall |
by having the news sent out over the |
world that the recall had been re-
sponsible for the election of Social |
list mayor for the very city that first |
instituted the recall. In any event Los
Angeles cannot AFFORD to have the news |
go out that the city has elected So |