Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-31
EXPECTS VICTORY;
GIVES 20 REASONS
Chairman Norton Tells Why He
Believes Democrats Will
Carry Election
THE REPUBLICANS ARE SPLIT
JefferSonian Prospects Are Bright
in Both the State and
County

Twenty reasons why the Democrats
should win were stated yesterday by
Albert M Norton, chairman of the
Los Angeles county Democratic CEN.
tral committee.
Mr. Nortons reasons briefly sum-
marize the present political status and
prospects for Democratic victory, many
of them applying to the county as well
as to the state campaign.
Mr.. Norton cites the disrupted condi-
tion of the Republican organization
and the fact that a large element of
the dissatisfied Republican vote should
and, he believes, will-go to the DEM
ocrats because of the unusual severity
of the contests between . the various
gubernatorial and other candidates for
Republican nominations.
Mr. Norton's statement is entitled
@Twenty Reasons Why the Democracy
Should Win in the Present Struggle"
The reasons as set forth by Mr.. Nor
ton are:
l. Because the people of California
have ceased to rely on Republican
promises.
2. Because the Republican party in
California is divided into numerous
factions that cannot possibly be rec
onciled, regardless Of what candidates
are nominated.
3. Because the dissatisfied Republi-
can vote in California this year will
be the largest in the history of the
state. and this vote will go, generally
to the support of Democratic nom
inees.
q, Because the Democratic vote next
year will be the largest in the history
of the party in this state, exclusive OF
the support of the dissatisfied Repub-
Gf11lnCh Democrats
have registered as Republicans to help
nominate their personal friends on the
Republican ticket or for other suffi-
cient reasons: but after the primaries
these men wilr support the Democratic
candidates.
s. p FIGHTING LEAGUE
5. Because the Southern Pacific ma
chine this year is concentrating It's
energies to defeat the Lincoln-Roose-
welt league and is letting the Demo
Gratis alone, which enables US to DO
more effective work than IN the past
G. Because the Democrats nave rld
their marty of Southern Pacific domina-
| tion, cleansed it of the corrupt bossism
which has so disgraced the Republican
organization, and thus brough back to
the Democratic fold a large number OF
energetic workers who in recent pre-
yious campaigns refrained from aiding
| US because or their ulSSuSI Will IlAS
| men we have now deposed.
= because the Democrats of the
state have indorsed the best, cleanest
and strongest candidates ever put up
| for nomination In this state, and be-
| cause these candidates stand for better
! government, cleaner politics, honesty
and efficiency, as opposed to corpora
ton control and corruption of admins
| trative offices.
8, Because these candidates are
working with a vigor and determine
ton absolutely unknown in the days
when the "bosses" ruled, when candt-
dates inevitably became discouraged
and dismayed and regarded their pros
poets as hopeless because of the DOM
ination of the machine element.
8. Because the state and county
committees are working together with
single purpose, and with an energetic
determination, never previously pos
sible because of the discouraging ma
chinations of the S. P. push.
10. Because we now have the most
perfect the most harmonious and the
best equipped working organizations in
the state
II. Because the voters of California
are rapidly coming to realize that the
Democracy of California has made good
government its slogan and has placed
honesty and efficiency above partisan
patronage and favoritism.
CLEAN DEMOCRATIC TICKET
-. Because the citizens of California
are uniting in a non-partisan move
ment to defeat the Southern Pacific
and will support the best and cleanest
men for election, regardless of partl-
sanship, and therefore most desirable
candidates for number of state Of
fees.
49, Because in the principal cities of
California, and especially in San Fran
cisco and Los Angeles, the leading
Democratic organizations have shown
their sincerity and their loyalty to the
interests of the people by laying aside
party differences and uniting with the
best elements of other parties to help
shake off the Southern Pacific yoke
and to free the people Of the corpora
ton tentacles.
a. Because the Democratic party in
California initiated the fight against
the Southern Pacific, and Theodore "A.
Bell, our candidate for governor has
waged a fearless, faithful and uneom-
promising battle for the rights OF the
people. beginning his crusade more
than four years ago, before Republican
Insurgency had been factor in the
states politics, and continuing it un-
til the present day; and because, there
fore, he stands before the people today
as a veteran champion of the pr1ncl-
pies they espouse, and as the tried and
true exponent of their rights and priv
ileges.
Ia Because the Southern Pacific
machine is expending it's corruption
fund to nominate certain candidates
in the Republican camp, and to patch
UP the Republican disruption, leaving
us free to concentrate our energies for
success, so that we do not have to
waste time watching the antics of the