Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-17

office. Every professional juryman,
every man who has served or who
hopes to serve on Los Angeles county
juries, every deputy clerk. bailiff and
attache of the district attorneys office
and of the various courts of the coun-
ty, with but few exceptions, was work.
ing diligently to insure Fredericks' re-
nomination, and nothing was left un-
done to defeat the Lincoln-R Roosevelt
candidate. Frank S. Hutton.
The entire Southern Pacific machine
concentrated Its efforts and expended
the greater part of its energies to nom
mate the incumbent, on whom hun
dreds of the push" allies directly or
indirectly depend for their livelihood.
The work of this machine was so per-
sistent and so infinitely planned and
executed that the reform forces were
powerless to Offset it; for the bread
and-butter'' appeal induced many Re-
publicans to support Fredericks who
would not vote for other of the ma
chine candidates.
HAATaIEL Is WINNER
The success of Sheriff Hammel,
whose nomination was conceded by the
friends and supporters of De La Monte
at late hour last night, was due per-
haps more to his personal popularity
than to any special efforts of the reg
ulars, although Hammel waged a
strenuous campaign and had the pros
pect of keen contest with both Wer-
din, the push" candidate, and De La
Monte, the reform candidate.
The returns came in very slowly from
the precincts outside Of Los Angeles
city, and these were awaited with
great eagerness at the leagues head
quarters last night, because it was be-
naVn6
terially change the figures compiled
from the returns inside the city.
The word was passed down the line
yesterday without any pretense at Sc
crecy for the gang to get behind An
derson, but the gang did not respond
to the invitation, and Stanton made a
much better showing than his friends
expected. 1t is estimated that Curry
had seventy-five automobiles and about
twenty carriages in use throughout the
day. Stanton had about forty autos in
the field, and Ellery about ten. Poll
ticians who know the inside workings
of the Republican machine stated last
night that the machine expended not
less than $4,000 to win it's battle yes
terday; so in the face of this ire
mendous expenditure of coin and en-
ergy it is not to be wondered at that
the machine managed to nominate sew
eral of its candidates. The victory of
the league Republicans could hardly
be expected to be without sting, but
the loss of the machine strongholds
will merely encourage the good gov
eminent forces of the county to make
a still more determined and systematic
fight against these incumbents at the
general election, November s. Regard
less of the nomination of such men as
Fredericks, the Good Government or
ganization, composed of both Republic
cans and Democrats, will effectually
overthrow the last vestige of the ma
chine at the general election, and but
little apprehension is felt for the out
come of the final battle.
The Lincoln Roosevelt league and the
Good Government organization have
scored tremendous victory through
out the state of California, and in Los
Angeles county the triumph has been
much greater than the most sanguine
leaders ventured to predict. 1t is
victory for reform, a remarkable tri-
umph for the decent citizenship of Los
Angeles, that such gratifying vote
should have been cast for Mr.. Johnson
in the very heart Of the machine dis
trict. In the old Eighth ward, for in
stance-the one dark spot on the politi-
cal map of Los Angeles-Mr Johnson
ran but little behind the push candi-
date, Curry. A majority of the pre-
cincts in the Eighth gave Johnson al
most as many votes; as Curry.
LEAGUERs WORK LATE
At 2 o'clock this morning the corps
of workers at the league headquar-
tiers were still busy counting up and
tabulating the returns, which still
were coming IN very slowly from the
outlying and county precincts. The
congressional returns were uncertain,
many places from the far sections of
the Seventh district having failed to
send in complete results but w. d.
Stephens, the Lincoln Roosevelt can
didate, was considerably ahead in the
city, with substantial majority
which the vote in other sections of the
Seventh could scarcely offset. At the
time of going to press the nomination
of Mr.. Stephens was generally con-
coded by the supporters of McLachlan,
and there was little question that
Stephens had received the Republican
nomination by large majority.
At 2 O'Clock this morning 1t was def
initely known that Fredericks (ma-
chine), was nominated for district at
torney. and that Sheriff Hammel
(regular), had been renominated for
sheriff; Welch (machine), for tax coll
lector, and possibly Hartwell (ma-
chine). for coroner, although Pasadena
and several other important towns had
not vet reported, and these reports
will materially change the figures re-
ceived up to that hour.