Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-24

success in California this year, its
leaders and candidates will be guided
accordingly, and there need be no fear
that the Democrats will enter into any
unholy alliance with the Republican
machine push merely for the sake of
electing a fewaof the Democratic can
didates. Beyond the office and back
Of the ambitions of the Individual can
didates there is a great principle in
volved-a battle for political emanci-
patton, a fight for administrative de-
cency and justice.
The Republicans are in sore straits
and also may be tempted. The party Is
still disrupted. The Lincoln Roosevelt
Republicans cannot be made to be-
lieve that the regulars are sincere
In their promise to stand by" the
nominees. They suspect treachery.
There are reasons to believe that the
regulars intend to knife the Lincoln
Roosevelt candidates by boiling to the
Democratic ticket and thus defeating
the insurgency movement. But, on the
other hand (and it is here the insur-
gent candidates may meet with tempta-
tion) there are a number of machine
nominees here in Los Angeles county
who 1t is claimed, already are making
overtures to the league candidates,
promising them to turn over the ma
chine vote to the league nominees If
the Lincoln Roosevelt league vote. is
pledged to the machine nominees.
They are making their plea Sin the
interest of party harmony and sue
cess" they say, and are doing every
thing possible to unite the warning
factions and to encourage the senti-
ment that the new Republican party,
created in this county by the victory
of a week ago, should "abide" by the
"party's" nominees and Swallow the
ticket whole"-machine and league
nominees alike.
This argument may sound good to
some of the leagues candidates, but
it is not believed that the men who
went into the fight to defeat the
Southern Pacific machine Will for
moment allow themselves to be de-
ceived by that kind of argument, or
that they will be so partisan blind and
so disloyal to their principles as to lie
down in the middle of the fight and
thus help to elect the nominees whose
candidacy t!-ey so bitterly opposed be-
fore the primaries.
Regardless of what action the Re-
publican county convention, or the new
county central committee may take
next Saturday, there seems to be little
hope for the machine in its effort to
induce the league supporters to flop
over to the push" which they would
NlIlullly DS hOAilS IL IiiSJ S"NNA-S''ON-
the ticket.
TO WIN GOOD GOVERNMENT
The machine has forgotten that Los
Angeles county has the Good Govern
ment organization on which it may
rely for good government in the face
of such a political predicament as this,
and it was Just for this purpose that
the Good Government organization was
established.
When the Good Government organ
ization has indorsed the much-looked-
for third ticket, on which will appear
the names of the most desirable can
didates nominated by the two parties,
the voters of Los Angeles county, re-
gardless of their political affiliations,
will come to it's support, and Repub-
licans and Democrats alike will see to
II that such men as District Attorney
J. d. Fredericks, Coroner Calvin Hart
we'll and other machine nominees are
defeated.
No Republican will be voting against
Republicanism by voting for the Good
Government ticket, for 1t represents
true Republicanism. And no Demo-
crat will be voting against Democracy
by voting for the Good Government
ticket, for it represents true Democ-
racy. After all, that is supposed to be
the essence of both dominant parties
good government.