Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-16
DEMOCRATS RUSH
PETITIONS NORTH.
Will Be Filed with the Secretary
of State Some Time
Today 49,

Following a whirlwfnd rush. in
which it is believed all records were
broken in the work of checking up, az
ranging and tabulating the petitions
of the various legislative candidates of
Los Angeles county, the task was
completed at o'clock yesterday morn
ing, and at 5 o'clock last night W. w.
Harris, Democratic candidate for sher-
iff, deputized as a county clerk to make
the trip post-haste to Sacramento, left
Los Angeles to file the huge stack of
petitions with Secretary of State
Charles F. Curry, according to a de-
cision rendered by the appellate court
at the state capital last Wednesday,
The petitions must be filed at Sacra-
mento, the appellate court declares, by
midnight tonight, or the various candi-
dates for the state senate and assem-
| bly, will be disqualified, and their names
cannot go on the primary election bal
lot.
This ruling from the appellate court
entirely upset the plans of the Vari-
Gus political organizations, both Re-
publican and Democratic, and at the
eleventh hour, when the petitions were
ready to be turned in to the county
clerk, they were compelled to go all
over their work again, change their
plans completely, rush the complicated
task of verifying, checking, arranging
and tabulating the numerous petitions,
and get them off on their long trip to
Sacramento in time to be filed by mid
night tonight.
Albert M. Norton, chairman Of the
Los Angeles county Democratic central
committee, discussing the whirlwind
wind-up of the work. said:
NORTON'S STATEMENT
"a great deal of credit must be Civ
ID n n
ty clerk in charge of the registration
department, for his quick and efficient
labors. Had it not been for his siren
uous activity in checking up the petit
tions, which is a job involving many
more details than the average person
could surmise, we would have been
late with our petitions. Mr.. Brown
worked steadily, from o'clock Thurs
day afternoon, when the petitions were
filed with him, until o'clock Friday
morning, when he notified us that the
petitions were ready to be taken to
Sacramento. In the language of the
street, that is going some.
ut has cost us exactly $1140 to cir
culate these petitions, index them ac-
cording to law, arranging them alpha
betically and according to precincts,
check them off on the great register
and segregate and number the many
names. In addition to this, it costs
us $305 to file the legislative petitions,
this sum representing the county and
legislative fees.
"If there was anything overlooked by
the trainers of the bunglesome botch
known as our state direct primary law,
involving work, nonsense and financial
expenditures, / have failed to dis
cover it. And, at the last moment,
when we were congratulating our
selves that the laborious and costly du-
ties imposed by this law had been sat-
isfactorily discharged, the appellate
court orders that the petitions shall be
filed at Sacramento, instead of with
the county clerk, which will cost us
about $40 more.
THEY ARE OFF
"Mr Harris left on the owl train
this evening, and will reach Sacra-
mento in ample time, we hope, to file
! the petitions within the time limit i'm
posed by the primary law"
The order of the court of appeals
brought about hurried consultation be-
| tween Albert M. Norton and Harry e.
| Dean chief verifcation deputy, neces-
stating a complete change in the plan
for the final days of the campaign.
| AS the result of a strenuous effort,
J. \ 4 !. !. :. :. + i 4 4 + 4 :: \ + i X i
nifty have had to reply to your letter
of the 18th inst. The question whether
you Intentionally submitted an in
correct account to the board of direct
ors' was not given the prominence
which you assign to it, but other and
more important reasons We're given
| why you ought to resign.
"The terms which you made to the
directors to resign after the August
primary election were absolute, and not
as you state, that you would be in
clined to consider favorably my resign
ing my position as secretary of the
club You are now attempting to at
| tach a new condition to the agreement
and to put an entirely different con-
struction on your promise. Accord
ingIy, ! do not find 1t necessary to re-
submit this matter to the directors and
shall make the whole matter public.
"At some future meeting of the board
| the question whether you resign or be
removed will come up for discussion.
"H. c. DILLON