Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-16
DEMOCRATS SOUND
SIGNAL FOR RALLY.
Precinct Committees Return En-
Couraging Reports Regard
ing Success of Ticket
WooLWINE PROVES 'STUNNER'
HandIey, Democratic Nominee for
Congress, Prepares for Live
Iy Campaign Session

The branch office of the Democratic
state committee, 400-401 Fay building,
Albert M. Norton, vice chairman, began
to assume a busy appearance yester-
day, when a corps of workers, under
direction of Robert Hanley, secretary,
commenced active preparations for the
opening of the campaign, the ratifica-
tion rally which will mark the arrival
of Theodore Bell, Democratic candi-
date for governor, and the visit to Los
Angeles of a number Of prominent
eastern and southern Democrats of ma
tional reputation, who have volunteered
to aid the local Democracy in the pend
ing struggle.
Democratic headquarters in the Fay
building now occupy six large rooms,
including the offices of the county
chairman, and there is every prospect
that at least two extra rooms will have
to be acquired before the campaign is
ended.
LIVELY FIGHT IS PROMISED
"All our precinct committeeman and
out-of-town workers are manifesting
an unusual interest in the local plans" I"
said Secretary Hanley, land all have
urged that we wage a real old-time
fight in the interest Of the county
ticket, regardless of what action may
OI Aldy IlOL DG LdhCl ny IliC 1OOo wv
ernment organization. Our leading
candidates have, for the first time in
years, received such unqualified and
general support that they are confident
of success and are busy preparing for
a series of rousing mass meetings and
speech making tours of the city and
county which will be marked with an
enthusiasm and determination that
have not been known in Democratic
ooy iorVe In, t(UanfU
years"
Among the men whose campaign
debut is expected to prove sumner
for the enemy Is Thomas Lee Wool
wine, the Democratic candidate for dis
trlct attorney, who, like nearly all of
the leading Democratic candidates on
the ticket, is receiving a Republican
support almost as vigorous and deter
mined as that accorded by the rank
and file of the Democrats. Mr.. Wool
wine has just returned from weeks
vacation on Catalina.
PROMISE '.EsPEE" EXPOSURE
He is now in excellent trim, he says,
and will begin his campaign about Sep
tembeF "a or 28, when, it is believed by
his friends, he will compel the public to
sit up and take notice of his expose of
the abuses and misuses of the district
attorneys office No man In the county
has a better knowledge of the Inner
workings" of that mysterious rem
devious OF S. p politicians than has
the present Democratic nominee, and
he Is determined that the voters and
taxpayers of Los Angeles county shall
know the truth concerning 1t.
Lorin A. Handley, the Democratic
nominee for congress from the Seventh
CLOS Angeles) district, against w. D.
Stephens, the Republican nominee, also
is planning vigorous campaign, and
has been urged by the Republican op-
ponents of Stephens to make a tour of
the county, devoting considerable of
his time to the citrus fruit growers,
who are anxious to get back of man
whose tariff policies are favorable and
well known Mr.. Handley is the most
satisfactory exponent of the tariff
problems, as relating to the citrus in
dustry, that the growers of Southern
California have ever had an oppor-
tunity to elect, and 1t is a conceded
fact for this, and other recognized rea-
sons, Mr.. Handley will receive the
support, not only of many members of
the Lincoln- Roosevelt league, who were
openly opposed to Mr. Stephens nomin-
alton, but of the "old guard" Republi-
cans who supported Congressman Nc
Lachlan.
Handley, Harris and other leading
Democratic candidates have agreed
that the arrival of Mr. Bell September
"a shall be the signal for the opening
of their campaign, and from that date
on it is promised that the voters of
Los Angeles county will have the facts
and issues of the two parties presented
to them in manner that has not
marked campaign in Los Angeles
county for many years, If ever.
Mr.. Bell will remain in Los Angeles
about a week and will make a thorough
tour of the county, speaking at all of
the principal towns and cities and adj
dressing at least one, and perhaps two
large mass meetings In this city at
Simpson auditorium.