Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-14

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for Mr.. Mushet. 1t is presumed by the
elevator starter of the Pacific Electric
and others that the solicitude of the
three other conferees for Mr.. Clot-
worthy's companionship will help to
make the weather map of the Southern
| Pacific doings at the Shrine convention
September 23. Mr.. Mushet was not in
his office yesterday and could not be
found to register his opinion of the
confab at the Jonathan club yesterday
morning.
DR.. ]. w. Jones, the "old timer can
didate" for mayor, makes the fifth in
the race. Uncle George" Smith was
the first to open headquarters, which
| he is maintaining at 20212 South Broad
way, room 205. o. E. Parish will have
headquarters in the Exchange building
at Third and Hill streets in a day or
so. Mayor Alexander's private secre-
tary, Frank Henderson, says the peo-
pie are managing the mayors cam
paign so satisfactory that the mayor
is not worrying about playing politics
as yet. In response to inquiries as to
Mushet headquarters, the auditor s
bandmaster, Mr. Clotworthy, made the
announcement that "Mushet is the sur
prise of the campaign"
Secretary of State Charles F. Curry
is stealing a march on all other candi-
dates for governor by getting in on
the fairs, where he is spellbinding.
After a look at Mr.. Curry, the San
Luis Obispo Tribune consoles its con-
| stituents with the ramark: But then
Lincoln and other good men were not
| long on good looks"
The Sixty-fourth precinct club Of the
Good Government organization Will
meet tonight at 1875 New England
street. A meeting of the One Hundred
ernment club will be held tonight at
2537 East Third street. The Good Gov
ernment precinct organization is being
rapidly extended in the territory for
merly in the Seventh and Eighth
wards.
The action of the state board of
equalization regarding the assessment
IN the south has caused renewed gossip
among Republicans regarding P. A.
Stanton as timber for the governorship.
Speaker Stanton says his condition
physically next year will determine
whether or not he will be candidate.
The maintenance of way employees of
the Republican political machine, who
will meet in convention at the Shrine
auditorium September 23, are likely to
have tried on them a new safety appn-
ance signal invented by Frank Domin-
guez, one of the machine Republican
division superintendents
Mr.. Dominguez tried out his device
at a meeting of Mexican workmen held
to listen to speeches by George A.
Smith, who hopes to be a candidate for
mayor after the maintenance of way
convention at the Shrine auditorium.
The safety appliance consists in having
tad wall down fbP
front of the stage with his more prom
inent hand, gracefully draped, In view
of the auditors. The operation is
automatic. When the speaker says
something that the faithful should back
up the hand of Mr.. Dominguez vibrates
rapidly downward from an imaginary
line drawn parallel to his knee. That
is the safety appliance signal for the
machine to let off steam.
When there is something said that
sounds good, but is not on all fours
with the policy of the machine-as
sometimes hapens at the best regulated
of machine gatherings-the Domlnguez
safety valve hand paws upward. and
there is no cheering. At the meeting
of Mexican 1aborers Mr.. Smith unfor
tunately spoke in English, but Mr. Do
ninguez' hand served as a most satls-
factory Spanish translation. so much
so that Mr.. Smith expressed himself
as greatly delighted with the profound
appreciation of his audience.
There is so much apprehension among
the traffic officials of the Republican
machine that their outfit may crack
n crownsheet and lose the municipal
election that the Dominguez safety ap-
plianee may be adopted to keep the
enthusiasm in proper shape at the
mass meeting" If that is done Mr..
Dominguez will sit on the platform.