Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-30
DEMOCRATIC HOPE
PLACED IN BEKINS
Dissatisfied Republicans Expect
ed to Insure Election If Nom-
ination Is Secured
PARKER RUSE IS SURMISED
Machine Man Said to Have In
duced Mcdonald to Run
to Split Vote
PARKER RUSE is SURMISED
BY T. SHELLEY SUTTON

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The most interesting contest in the
present campaign Is now being waged
in the Thirty-eighth senatorial district
of Los Angeles.
The aspirants for the state senate
in this district are Leslie r. Hewitt,
city attorney of Los Angeles, who was
induced by the Good Government ad-
herents of the city and county to en-
ter the race in the hope that he might
prevent the Republican nomination
going to the machine Martin Bekins,
the we'll known Democrat, who has
been one of the most active and ener-
getic leaders in the crusade for better
government and who is a prominent
member of the Good Government or
ganization; George L. Sanders, we'll
known attorney and regular Republi-
can. who was put into the race by the
opponents of the Lincoln Roosevelt
league; H. S. G. Mccartney, retiring
state senator and author of the pure
food statute adopted by the last leg
islature and which has ELECTED a great
deal of protest from the merchants and
manufacturers of Los Angeles as well
as from the consumers, who have been
seriously imposed upon, 1t is charged,
by the determinations of this stat
ute and, lastly, Henry Mcdonald, dis
credited candidate of the Southern Pa
cifc so-called Democrats, who have
been thrown out of the party. McDon-
aid, as has been repeatedly shown, is
a political pretender. without the sup
port even of the partisan club of which
he is secretary and by which he has
been requested to resign.
AS will be seen, there are five candi-
dates out for the nomination in the
Thirty eighth district, so this partic-
ular section of Los Angeles is not SUI
fering from any dearth of aspirants.
AS may have been already surmised,
this district has been flooded with cir
culars and cards from the various cam
didates. each of which has set forth
numerous claims emitting him to the
support of the voters In the Thirty
eighth.
RUsE SUSPECTED
At present, of course, the campaign
that has been waged in that senatorial
district is about the sole topic of con-
versation in both camps, the Demo-
Gratis having a strenuous time to OFF,
set the Tammany tactics of Mcdonald
and to insure the nomination of Mar
tin Bekins; while the Republicans are
seriously disrupted by the presence of
three of their adherents in the field
against Bekins and Mcdonald.
This is about the only district in
which the Democrats have contest,
hut in this one district Walter Parker
scored a victory and paved the way,
he believes, for a Republican triumph.
1t has been freely and publicly charged
that he induced Mcdonald to enter the
race against Sanders, Hewitt and Nc
Cartney in order to split the Demo-
cratic vote and thus prevent the Dem
ocrats from taking advantage or the
Republican disruption. Otherwise, the
= I,nr
elect Bekins, for the Republican senti-
ment is so strikingly divided in the
Thirty-eighth that hundreds of the Re-
publcans in that district would have
voted for a Democrat in preference 10
Sanders, Hewitt or Mccartney, as the
case might be.
About half of the machine men in
that district are particularly bitter
against Mccartney, who already has
misrepresented them once in the state
senate. To the other half the machine,
COMPOSED of out and out, dyed-in-the-
wool Herrinites, are equally angry at
Sanders, because he has divided the
vote and created such sentiment
against Mccartney that they believe
defeat awaits him. The reform Repup-
licans, or members of the Lincoln
Roosevelt league, are OF course united
against both Sanders and Mccartney
and so are doing everything possible
to secure the nomination of Leslie r.
Hewitt. Hence it will be seen that If
Parker had not thrust Mcdonald, So
called Democrat, into this contest the
Democrats would have received much
larger vote from certain Republican
factions which will refuse to support
the Republican nominee, whoever ne
may be.
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faith for the election of Bekins grant
ing that he is nomipated) on the sup
port of the dissatisfied Republicans,
believing that If Hewitt is nominated
which undoubtedly he will be, all the
dissatisfied Republicans of the Thirty
eighth district will vote to elect Be
kins 1t is probable also that as this
dissatisfied element will represent only
the machine men, it's support also can
be expected to go to Mcdonald If NC
Donald should secure the nominatlon'
which is doubtful.
If, on the other hand, the machine
Republicans should nominate Nc
Cartney, 1t is believed to be certain,
and admitted by many Republicans,
that the admirers of Sanders will vote
at the general election for the Demo-
cratic nominee, for the machine ele-
ment is seriously divided between
SANDERS anu NlC1dIllSy, anu llCAthSA
will be able to agree on the successful
nominee of the other.
Should the machine nominate San
ders, the friends of Mccartney, equally
bitter in their opposition to Sanders,
because ne insisted on entering the
race against the wishes of Walter
Parker, may also be expected to flop
to the support Of the Democratic nomi-
nee.
Whether these two elements of the
Republican machine will unite in their
support of Hewitt, should he get the
Republican nomination, also is prob
lematical; so any way that the Demo-
cratic wiseacres look at 1t. they be-
lieve the Democratic nominee will be
elected. The campaign of the Demo-
Gratis, in this district, therefore, is vi
tally important, and they should have
all the support possible from the Good
Government workers of Los Angeles
to see that Mcdonald, the discredited
Democrat, is defeated, and that the
Democrats of the thirty-eighth nomi-
nate Martin Bekins. who was indorsed
by the county conference and is known
to the good government voters of Los
Angeles as one of the most active and
loyal crusaders in the county.
The Democrats must nominate Be
kins. This is the only important con-