Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-24

was running on his record, which, ac-
cording to Mr.. Black, was a residence
of more than forty years in Los An
geles, a grand reduction of the tax
rate to the lowest rate in history,
while at the same time saving the city
from bankruptcy, the arrangement OF
near crossing stops by street cars and
| the fender ordinance, the exclusion of
| liquor selling from the shopping dis
trict and the establishment of the
Owens river aqueduct. The speech
was carefully planned to steal the
thunder of Mr.. Mushet, and asserted
| that Mr.. Smith had done the same
things by which the city auditor
claims to have saved the city, and had
done them a long time before.
Again and again Mr.. Black had to
plead for a chance to fire off the Smith
platform. In vain he protested that
/ he had but one platform more
print it in The Herald" yelled
Sixth ward representative, and there
were similar unorthodoX observations.
Finally the thing was through with,
| and D. w. Casselman announced that
no more speeches were expected. Judge
! Ballard seconded the nomination, ac-
I cording to program except that he
said: 1--WE have been hunched and
punched and hot-aired over the ropes
and now we must eXtr!cate u.s."
Given Recognition
T. ]. Knoles, who fought the recall
in the Fourth ward and elsewhere, OBJ
tanned his reward by being allowed to
bob up and down on a few minor mo-
| tions.
AS soon as Mr.. Smith was formally
nominated, M. P. Light, his leading
manager. moved forward and took
charge of the steering committee, who
We're stationed nervously in the left
foreground. He was needed.
Reuben Heffelfinger and Z. F.. john
son were hurriedly placed in nomina-
| tion for treasurer and tax collector, re-
spectively, and without other incident
than the usual gloom and sorrow
which hung over the meeting. Walter
| Mallard and Robert f. Hayhurst were
nominated for assessor and j. e. Bost-
wick and Ethan r. Allen were put
| into the race for auditor, with Fred
| Stein mentioned for place somewhere
in between. These nominations were
put over for future consideration, as
ballot was required.
After Leslie Hewitt was slated for
city attorney. and a voice remarked
that che will be elected in spite Of it,"
the big noise came on.
Real Noise Begins
Steerer Casselman was programmed
| TO through d UedEly luuOT5elIlSHL
of the present members of the board
of education, but that was a number
! that got the hook. The noes" were
much louder than the "ayes," but it
was decided that the scheme was car
| ried. A roar went up from the ma
chine men, but when a rising vote was
called for Steerer Black ruled it out
of order because the man who made
the unseemly disturbance had voted
the way the machine did not want. T.
/ j. Wagner, an old politician, slipped
the demand through, and Chairman
Richardson was forced to say, 1.-The
eyes were the noisiest, but there
/ the worst bit of carburetor trouble the
machine has experienced in many a
day.
This procedure put the Republican
machine on record as condemning the
work of the board of education in en-
deaYoring to give the city more and
better schools and indorsed the reac-
tionary and obstinate policy of w. G.
Mushet. The band played I'm Afraid
to Go Home in the Dark"
After such a body blow, the con-
vention was not allowed to suggest
any board of education, although eff
forts were made by willing sufferers
to get in the running while the dele
gates and others were fixing up the
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A Bunch of Trouble
Jack Adams was asked to run, but
refused.
Wallace Wldeman got in the way of
M. P. Light several times, but could
not land a nomination.
doc" Houghton assumed his ia
vorite attitude of initiating Napoleon
with his hand in his vest at ST. Hele-
ma, but was unnoticed.
Then the outlaw convention turned
in sickly fashion to the Endorsements
for the council. The chairman's legal
sense prevented him from calling for
ward caucuses, but he asked the faith
full to assemble according to the nine
| divisions of territory"
In the First ward powwow there was
no trouble in selecting Charles ].
Let's. Only a small remnant of the
Second ward delegation remained, and
it was none too large at the outset.
! But to appease the morning machine
organ a rabid anti-union man. Will
| liam e. Mckee, was slated by the
bosses, although DR.. Silas Austin al
ready had been decided on. DR. Aus
| tin was thought to be too independ-
ent, anyhow, and Ed Clampitt notified
the delegates that they must take a
| dose, and when the orders were de-
| livered a large part of the Second
ward delegation arose and left the
hall.
More Trouble Predicted
The others who were supporting DR.
Austin remained and swore until the
air was sulphurous. They predicted
McKee's defeat and the loss of the