Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-08
PRIMARY BALLOT
FOR ELECTION Is
ABOUT PREPARED
PETITIONERS FOR PLACES ON
TICKET HAVE ONE DAY
ANY ONE WHO WISHES TO RUN
MAY FILE NAME
II Is Believed That All Who Are
Anxious to Serve Their City
Already Have Reg
istered

With the exception of a few scatter
ing names, all the petitions for places
on the primary election ballot are re-
corded.
Assistant City Attorney Emmett VIII
son decided yesterday morning the date
for closing the clerks office to peti-
tfoners is today rather than yesterday
He figured that although 1t is sixty
days from last night until election
morning, the law, properly interpreted
allows ambitious citizens to make thelr
desires known in the form of petitions
on the sixtieth day before the polls
open. He so informed the clerks OF
fice. and as a result any person who
has held back from running for coun-
ell has yet today in which to reach the
final determination to be one of the
400.
But it is not considered probable
there will be any further petitions or
Importance. The features of yester-
days numerous events were the hing
of the petitions of Oscar Parish ana
DR.. ]. w. Jones for mayor, of John 5.
Myers for auditor. of the present mem
bers of the board of education for re-
election and of a series of six petitions
by men who desire also to be noml-
mated for election as directors of the
board for the education of the youth of
the city.
The latter petitions were filed by a
man of mysterious bearing and with
face of Sphinx-like impenetrabllity,
who gave the name of Theodore La
fayette and who laid his fingers on
his lips with a warning full of sugges-
tion.
Refuses to Give Information
Mr.. Lafayette refused to tell who
his men are or whence they come. He
says he may have something to say
today and again that he may not. Dill
igent search of the blue book, the mar
riage licenses and the long distance
telephone directory failed to disclose
anything as to either Mr.. Lafayette or
his candidates.
Today the dark recesses of Mr.. La
fayettes unfathomed mind may be
pIumbed for the benefit of the eager
and awe-struck public. His candidates
are Fred Dalton, G. P. Cook, S. Fink
enstein, G. H. Kelch, w. W. Dennis
and w. A. Mann.
The petitions asking the names of
Joseph Scott, Francis Steddom, Field
ing j.. Stilson, James M. Quinn, Mel
vile Dozier, Herman w. Frank and
Roger S. Page be placed on the pri-
mary ballot for nomination for mem
bers of the board of education We're
filed in behalf of these men by friends
of good government who desire to see
them returned to the places they have
filled with such acceptability for the
last two years. 1t was found rather
difficult task to induce some of them
to consent to the use of their names
again, as they have been put to much
trouble, exposed to a great deal of
criticism unjustly and borne on at all
times by the pressure of a large
amount of care and responsibility.
But the work of the last two years
has shown these men above everything
else the proper management of the
school system of Los Angeles depends
largely on the board of education and
that there is a strong tendency on the
part of the unscrupulous to get a foot
hold there to the detriment of the edu-
cational progress of the city. 1t re-
quires business men of standing, abil-
ity and integrity to successfully COM
bat these influences, and the fact that
Los Angeles has today one of the best
public school systems of any city of
its size in the world was cited to the
members of the present board as an
inducement to them to sacrifice their
own interests and desires for another
two years in order the schools may be
protected and fostered. That they will
be chosen in the primaries by a vote
sufficiently large to be to them an
earnest proof of the peoples appre-
citation of their past services is not
seriously doubted in any quarter.