Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-16
s. P. PUSH PLAYS
WITH TWO HANDS
Machine Plans to Win with Either
Mcdonald, Democrat or
Mccartney, Republican
TWAIN AGREEABLE TO BOSSES
Fight in 38th District Assumes an
Added Importance in State
Legislative Contests

The situation in the Thirty-eighth
senatorial district has assumed q more
than local Importance in Southern
California legislative contests on ac-
count of the desperate attempts made
by the S. p. machine to defeat both
Hewitt and Sanders, Republicans, and
Bekins, the Democrat, and thus to adj
vance the interests of Mccartney and
Mcdonald, between whom the Herrin
crowd have no choice.
The crafty manipulators, whose sole
desire 1t is to elect men who will do
their bidding are bending every en-
ergy to induce the old liners Of both
parties to play into their hands. 1t
is ludicrous to see the attempts they
make in their desperation to defeat
the best interests of not only the
Thirty eighth senatorial district, but
the whole state at large by putting
up Mccartney as the Republican and
Mcdonald as the Democratic senate
rial nominee in this district, and thus
be able at the November election to
sit by and watch Republicans and
Democrats alike search the ticket for
a choice that they will be unable to
make, for these two candidates repre-
sent the same standard of subservi-
ence to the great master of push poll
tician destiny at San Francisco.
There has thus far been said not
a single word rejecting unfavorably
on the candidacy of Hewitt or Bekins.
On the other hand it seems that there
can be put forth no more urgent rea-
sons than have recently appeared in
the daily press why the voters of the
Thirty eighth senatorial district should
not register their votes for men whose
standing cannot be questioned and
who If they become the respective
nominees of the Republican and Dem
ocratic- parties will make it only a
selection of one good man over an
other to represent this great district
in the November election.
GROCERS FLAY PUSH
At a recent meeting of the Retail
Grocers' association one speaker sum-
med up the situation in these words;
1--WE are not fighting pure food regu-
lations; on the other hand we are
heartily in favor of throwing safe
guards around the food our people
eat. The enforcement of reasonable
regulations protects us in our en-
deavors to supply to the consumer
good wholesome foodstuffs. We do
resent, however, the peculiar tactics
adopted in the enforcement of the So
called pure food laws now on our
statute books. This seems to be the
the smallest to the largest. The at
tempts of Mccartney to enforce his
measure has been in many cases little
short of a farce, aptly illustrated by
the remark of one Of our magistrates
in trial before him. He said to the
prosecutor, Why don't you go out into
the country and make the farmers put
wells on their fruit trees to keep off
the dust from the highways? You see
there is great danger to the public
health from fruit so exposed on the
trees
"In one instance can Of salmon
was seized in some small store and,
according to the terms Of the Mozart
ney measure, 1t was then and there
opened and one-half taken cut and
sent to the state examiner at Sacra-
mento. When it reached that official
1t was about as odoriferous as Nc
Cartney's legislative record.
1--WE have tried to obey so far as
possible the general terms of the law,
but it is impossible to know just what
the standard Of purity is that the
statute calls for as section OF that
act prescribes that the standard of
purity in California shall be that pre-
scribed by the United States secretary
of agriculture, and the result is that
whenever one of Prof. Wileys poison
squad get a bad stomach pain the
secretary decides to change his ideas
of the standard of purity, AVID presto
the California pure food law standard
likewise changes. We are asking, how
ever, for certain amendments to the
law which will fix standard that can
be depended upon to remain the same
for two days in succession. We want
to see a law adopted that will not only
establish strict sanitary food inspec-
ton but also take the enforcement out
of politics."
1t will probably be well for the
voters before they cast their ballots to
ask their butchers and their grocery
men what they think of the present
pure food law, and whether or not ITS
enforcement has been impartial. The
S. p. bunch who have never been
famed as solicitous for the welfare of
the dear people of California, are back
ing Mccartney, and did any one ever
hear of this crowd doing anything
beneficial?
HEWITT SUCCESSFUL
The voters will undoubtedly turn out
today and see that such statesmen are
left AT home. There is dissension in
the regular ranks between the Mozart
neyites who, under the motto, THE
people be damned" are fighting to
down Sanders, whose only fault In
their eyes is that he is a regular but
not Herrin Republican. In the
meantime the Lincoln Roosevelt candi-
date, Hewitt, seems to be meeting with
great success in his efforts TO peat
both Mccartney and Sanders sanders
was brought out by certain Repuon-
cans at a time there was no good gov
eminent candidate against the retlr-
ing state senator from the Thirty