Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-14
MACHINE YEARNS
FOR TWO OFFICES
DisCredited Democrats Try to
Gain Places of District At
torney and Supervisor
HIDDEN DRAGGED INTO RACE
Amazing Facts Revealed by In
quiry Into Conspiracy Against
Honest Government

Investigation of the charge that GER
tain dscredited machine Democrats
have formed a combination with the
Republican push whereby they plan
to write in the names of Republican
candidates and, if, the stay-at- nome
vote is large enough, nominate Repup-
licans and thus defeat the. good gov
ernment Democrats indorsed at the
Long Beach county conference, yes
terday disclosed the fact that the ma
chine is endeavoring rapidly to rein
force it's strength and to concentrate
it's efforts on two offices-that OF dis
trict attorney and of supervisor from
the Third district.
This disclosure also brought to light
the fact that the Democratic -Republl-
can machine which dragged the aged
Enoch Hidden into the contest with
false promises and inducements, with
out letting the old man know they
intended to make goat" of him, mas
at the last moment conspired to throw
him over, and the word accordingly
was passed down the line yesterday
for the push" to write in the name
of "Tus" Eldridge, machine Republi-
can candidate for reelection from the
Third district, which he has so notori-
ously misrepresented as it's supervisor.
COMBINATION FOR ELDRIDGE
is no possibility Of Enoch Hidden de-
feating the good government Demo-
cratic candidate, ]. L. Mansfield, and
is aware that Eldridge cannot possibly
Wrest the nomination from sidney
Butler, the Lincoln Roosevelt candl-
date, therefore it has determined TO
combine its strength in favor of Ell
bridge. The support that was prom
ised Hidden, therefore, is now being
ordered to write in the name of Ell
bridge on the Democratic ticket, SO
that if Eldridge does not become the
Republican nominee he has chance
of becoming the Democratic nominee,
unless the good government Demo
Gratis of the Third supervisorial dis
trict turn out en- masse and do their
duty at the primary election next
Tuesday, August 16.
The aged man (Iidden) whom the
push dragged into the race, has now
had his eyes opened to the real char
acter of the men who have been
pushing him forward, and some of his
close friends strongly intimate that
| the old man is very sorry he allowed
himself to be made the dupe of these
corrupt Southern Pacific allies; but he
| refuses to withdraw, although 1t Is
| said he has seriously considered such
! a step, for he believes that since his
nominating petitions have been filed,
| and he has taken his stand with the
! Walter Parker push, it is impossible
for him to back out. Such action, his
supporters say, would mean political
suicide. Mr.. Hidden, however, must
realize that he cannot hope for the
Democratic nomination, and inasmuch
as the push" now plans to get back
of Eldridge, it would seem that the
old man has been cruelty double
crossed by Jim Craig and other po-
q d r pcrad him
unwillingly into the contest.
SCHEME TO TRICK VOTERS
But, regardless of whether Enoch
Hidden or "Tus" Eldridge is involved
in the Democratic contest next Tues
day. there is every occasion for the
decency-loving, good government Dem
ocrtas to muster out as full vote
as possible.
1t must be remembered that hun
dreds of voters are absent on their
summer vacations, at the beaches or in
the mountains, and hundreds of 9TH
ers have been deceived into believing
that there are no vital contests on
and hence that their votes are not
necessary to nominate the good gov
ernment Democratic candidates.
This erroneous impression is likely
to keep hundreds of conscientious Vot-
ers away from the polls, and for this
reason 1t is nOpeQ LndI Ile ACTUAL COIl-
ditions can be made clear to them so
they will seee the extreme importance
of going to the primaries and helping
to offset the written-in votes that will
be cast for Eldridge, Fredericks and,
possibly, for other machine Republi-
cans.
| If it should so happen (and in poll
tics there are many phenomena) that
any machine Republican should re-
ceive the Democratic nomination,
through the failure of good govern
ment Democrats to do their duty at
the primaries, it can safely be said
that the Los Angeles county Demo-
| cratic central committee, and every
good government Democrat in the city
| and county who has the interests and
the future success of Democratic prin-
ciples at heart, will expend every dol
| lar that possibly can be raised, and
exert every possible effort, to see to
! it that they are properly exposed,
branded and defeated at the general
election. Their infamous conspiracies
and their underhanded, unscrupulous
plots against the good government
Democracy of Los Angeles city and
county will be shown up and de-
nounced in every detail, and if this
| is done it should effectually and for
ever bury these dangerous rascals in
| the backyard of political oblivion.