Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-22
CLINIC SHOWS
CITY GANGRENED
BY S. P. MACHINE
PLOT IS REVEALED TO THWART
HARB0R PROJECT
OUTLAW CLANS TO MEET WITH
ENEMIES OF PORT
Delegates to Illegal Convention Are
Chosen from Reactionaries and
Political Hirellnos Who op-
posed Consolidation

How insidious a disease the South
ern Pacific political organization is
for the city of Los Angeles may be
diagnosed by symptoms brought out
through the calling of the outlaw, il
legal convention set for the Shrine
auditorium tomorrow night. A symp-
tom which should show this with
startling clearness to the average
citizen becomes evident when the most
recent and most emphatic test of the
will of the people is applied
If the so-called Republican conYen-
tion is intended to determine the wish
of many voters as to candidates to be
selected, as is alleged by the organ
ization" political leaders, it would
naturally follow that the delegates will
be in line with the decisive opinions of
the voters generally. This should es-
pecially be true of the greatest fight
which has been waged in Los Angeles
that for a free harbor. 1t will be re-
membered that the San Pedro consoli-
dation election carried by vote OF
106 to l, thereby registering with that
emphasis the determination Of Los
Angeles to take up the harbor ques-
tion. The platform in that election
was the report of the Los Angeles
consolidation committee, containing
clear-cut pledges and a plan for the
building of a great municipal har-
Dor.
The Endorsement of the consolidation
plans was so strong by Los Angeles
that if the Republican convention Is
to be representative of the best sentt-
ment of the city, 1t should follow
naturally that the harbor delegation
to the Shrine auditorium convention
will indicate the Republican sentiment
on the harbor question. For good poll
tics, If not for support of the settled
policy of the city, the delegates from
San Pedro should sit in the convention
as representing settled policy on the
harbor question.
1t is evident from a survey of the
list of delegates that they do. repre-
sent a settled policy. No stronger evil
dence that the policy of the conven-
tion managers is that of Southern Pa
cific politics could be found than the
roster of delegates from San Pedro
precincts to the trump" convention.
Instead of standing for continuation of
the harbor plans, matured by the best
thought of the three cities concerned
and eliminating as the result of two
decades of the hardest kind of fight
ing for a great harbor of the people,
the delegation for the harbor repre-
sents to the fullest extent those in
fluences which have opposed this fight
which have thrown in its way the
most sinister and underhanded defama-
tion of San Pedro harbor, and which
have sought at the polls, before the
legislature and in the national capitol
to sew up the barbor for private in
terests.
Take the delegates to the convention
tomorrow evening at the Shrine au-
ditorium as reported for precinct 1,
San Pedro They are headed by SEN
ator w. H. Savage, always notorious
" fighting for the corporate interests
in their efforts to bottle up the harbor
as an outlet for the commerce of the
southwest. Senator Savage fought as
fiercely as his ability would allow
every effort to advance a public har-
Dor III Los Angeles county. He fought
the municipal harbor desperately at
the legislature instead of representing
the people His support of the cor
poration end of the harbor fight was so
vicious that it was evident his useful
ness was punctured, and he did not
appear in the consolidation election
campaign.
So much for the head of the dele
cation to the "rump' Republican con-
vention at the Shrine auditorium to-
morrow night. Now for the tail The
last name on the list as posted in Re
publican city central headquarters is
John c. Wray. the notorious mouth
piece of the push" fight against con-
SOlludllOU III san Etl u AS GullOI VI
a San Pedro paper he supported the
Southern Pacific attempts to defeat
consolidation and made all sorts of
efforts to discredit the work of the
consolidation committees
With William H. Savage at one end
and Johnnie Wray at the other the
delegates from precinct / may be
counted on to be properly herded ac-
cording to methods most approved by
the Southern Pacific political bosses
who will dominate the convention to-
morrow night.
w. C. Miller will handle the actions
of the delegates from precinct 2. San
Pedro, who come from the anti-consol-
idation ranks. Mr. Miller is the real
brains of the San Pedro News, the
sheet which spoke for the Southern
Pacific interests in the consolidation
campaign. He worked hard against
the interests of Los Angeles and is still
in the harness. The other delegates
from that precinct will do as Mr.. Mil
Ter directs, which will be according to
the general orders.
From precinct are delegates har-
messed up by T. D. Foot, Of "Foot's