Los Angeles herald., 1910-04-15

friends in Los Angeles to believe he has
been made the unwilling tool, during
his absence, and against his personal
| inclinations, of the Hearst organ, which
In it's desire to disrupt the state Demv-
cratic party at the outset of the cam
paign, when the state Democracy has
every opportunity in the work to taxa
advantages of the disruption in the Re-
publican organization and to score
tremendous victory, seeks to launch
Mr.. Call into the campaign to divide
the sentiment Of the people, and later
by this precedent to inject into the
campaign a third candidate, who will
be a Southern Pacific machine Demo-
crat-a man subservient to the old
push, controlled and aided by "de
gang" which, seeing the great strength
of the states Democracy, and knowing
that it has a grand opportunity to win,
has plotted with the aid of the Hearst
organ to disrupt the party, virtually
impeach the moral support given 10
Mr.. Bell by the state conference, put q
machine man to the front as the party
candidate" secure his nomination at
the primaries, and thus defeat the very
purpose and demands or the state s
Democracy.
'"rhis is Hearsts deal with the ma
chine" said one of the leading Demo-
| Gratis Yesterday. This is Hearst s
scheme The handiwork of the Inde-
pendence league boss and Of the S. p.
! gang is obvious In every phase OF 1t.
Hearst for two years has not said a
word in condemnation OF the s. p.
! gang in California; he has kept
strangely silent during all these recent
months in which the Democracy of the
state and the Lincoln Roosevelt league
and good government citizens have
been waging a bitter and relentless
battle against our ). P. political des-
potism.
mot once has he voiced the senti-
ments Of the people in this the great
est political battle IN the history of our
state. Not once has he come to the
rescue of the principles we have ad-
yocated and which now seem in fair
way to be triumphantly enforced. Not
once has he raised his voice against
the railroad clique which so long has
bought and sold, bartered and despoiled
the administrative offices and affairs
| of California. And now, at the eleventh
| hour, when the Democratic party is
| standing at the threshold of state
wide victory he is adding to this un-
pardonable and shameful silence q
direct blow at the body of our Democ-
racy; he is stepping out from his re-
| treat, after we have adjourned our
conference, and is endeavoring to pave
the way for the S. p. machine to place
| a thir1l candidate in the race, who may
be able to secure by we'll known meth
| ods a plurality at the primaries, which
would insure the election of the ma
| chine candidate"
MUST RoUT S. p. MACHINE
Good government first, party lines
second" said another prominent DEM
ocrat yesterday What the people of
| California must do is to rout the S. P.
machine, shake off its clutches, loosen
its awful grip from the throat of our
| administration
"Raed our party principles as en-
! bodied in the resolutions adopted at
| the state conference. Our attitude is
uncompromising; so is the attitude of
| Theodore Bell, and there can be no
backstep, no hesitation in the progress
sive and aggressive battle we have
! planned.
"Our Democracy is going TO win. 1t
must expect opposition-a great deal
! of opposition-and as this opposition
comes from the Southern Pacific ma
chine it will not be open and above
board; it will be of the same old brand
corrupt, tricky, underhanded. We
| should have expected at the outset
! that there would be just such a move
|
81 do not believe Mr.. Call is behind
! this. 1t is a trick of w. r. Hearst to
! stir up strife and rivalry, contention
| and dissatisfaction. which will result
! in the S. p getting an old-push Demo-
crat In the race for the governorship.
| Once let a machine Democrat get into
| the race, with the support of any fac
| ton of Democracy, so that he can
| claim to have the moral Endorsement
of the party, and the rest will be easy
for the Southern Pacific.
"Mr Call is not machine man; but
his injection into the campaign,
backed as 1t is by the Hearst papers,
paves the way for the third candidate,
! and it is not difficult to guess who
that candidate will be-"
The statement in The Herald this
morning of Albert M. Norton, chairman
of the Los Angeles county Democratic
| central committee, indorsing Theodore
| A. Bell as the party's candidate for the
| nomination for governor, shows how
unuualifiedly false was the statement
in the Hearst organ yesterday setting
| forth that the Los Angeles county
committee would urge Mr.. Call to be-
| come a candidate.
The support given to Mr.. Bell by
the San Francisco delegation also dis
proves the statement in that news
paper that the San Francisco delegates
would recommend to the San Francisco
central committee that 1t should urge
Mr.. Call to enter the race against Mr..
| Bell, and indicates to what extent the
Hearst organs will go in their attempts
| s. ~, ,I1rra +ha Dan1Orracv Of California.