Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-10
JOHNSON LEADS IN
COUNTY BY 1900.
WooIWine'S Narrow Defeat Gives
Republicans Clean Sweep
in Los Angeles
SOCIALISTS POLL 1919 VOTES
J. Stitt Wilson Carries 80 City
Precincts with 10 Still
to Hear From

John D. Fredericks, the laggard on
tho Republican county ticket, has been
elected district attorney over Thomas
Lee Woolwine, Democrat and Good
Government candidate. Returns made
to the county clerk yesterday. though
still incomplete, assure this result be-
yond any doubt. The city of Los An
geles, with only three precincts miss
ing, gives F'redericks a plurality of
1851, while 119 scattered precincts
throughout the county and outside of
the city increase his lead by 941. Civ
ing him a margin of 1892 votes at the
time the count closed last night. There
is scarcely a doubt that the remain
ing country precincts will substan-
TALLY increase this lead.
Woolwines defeat gives the Repub
lican state and county tickets a clean
sweep. 1t is probable, too, that the
Republican legislative ticket in Los
Angeles county has gone through
without slip, though Lou Guernsey
has given DR.. w. A Lamb a hard
run for the assembly.
At Republican headquarters last
night it was predicted that Hiram w.
Johnson's plurality in this county will
be between 1900 and 5000. This is a
big falling off from earlier claims but
it is probably accurate as it is based
on complete returns from 81 precincts
in the city and county, which give
Johnson 24,7O3 and Bell 19,403, a plu-
rality for the Republican candidate of
$780, The city, with three precincts
unaccounted for gives Johnson 1878
and Bell 14,190. J. Stitt Wilson, Social
ist candidate for governor. gets 1919.
WALLACE LEADS JOHNSON
Albert j. Wallace has run ahead of
johnson in the city, while Timothy
Spellacy has failed to keep pace with
Bell. With three precincts missing,
Wallace's plurality is 1904. These
same precincts gave Wheeler, Socialist,
1885, only 33 votes less than the head
of the Socialist ticket.
The feature of the election SURPRISING
all others in Importance is the size of
the Socialist vote. For the first time
in the history of California the Social
ist party has developed strength at an
election which makes 1t a force to be
reckoned with in the future. More
over, the vote is fairly constant guam
tity up and down the ticket. Natural
ly the bitterness of the struggle be-
tween Fredericks and Woolwine re-
duced the vote cast for Ryckman,
socialist candidate for district attor-
ney, but city precincts canvassed SO
far give him a total of 649S, and in 119
scattered country precincts he polled
POPS votes. Naturally, the Socialists
are jubilant over the outcome. They
admit very candidly that it was their
big vote which defeated Bell, and say
also that it was Democratic detection
to Ryckman that resulted in Wool
wines defeat.
]. Stitt Wilson, Socialist candidate
for governor, actually carried thirty
city precincts, with ten still to be
heard from. In precinct ia he ran
even with Bell, Johnson coming third;
and in precinct 1872 he tied for first
,,Ia with II n
try precincts he carried Florence and
Laguna, both of which returned So
cialist pluralities generally for the en-
tire ticket. In the city Ryckman car
ried seventeen precincts and in the
Sixty-ninth ran even with Woolwine
for first place.
HELD MACHINE VOTE
An examination of the returns of the
Woolwine- -Fredericks fight shows that
Woolwine ran behind Fredericks in
many precincts which returned big
Bell pluralities, thus bearing out the
ante election claim that Fredericks
would hold the machine Republican
vote which, as a matter of retaliation
against Johnson, would go for Bell.
DR.. A. C. Pratt made strong
race against Calvin Hartwell for COR
oner, but Hartwell will have a safe
plurality. The remainder of the Re-
publican county ticket as stated in
The Herald yesterday has been elected
by varying pluralities.
w. D. Stephens has made remark
able run for congress and his plurality
will be one of the heaviest given any
candidate. 1t may reach 10000, and
he will have a big majority over all.
AS a general thing returns from out
side Los Angeles city have materially
Increased Republican pluralities, ire
spective of the Good Government in
dorsement. The party fetch seems to
have been all powerful beyond the city
boundaries.
Among Democrats regret at the out
come of the election locally is tenn
pered by the thought of the many sur
prising Democratic victories in the
east The local defeat, too, has
brought with 1t stern determination
toAreorganize. the party in this county
and to place at its head competent
chairman, there being widespread
impression that mismanagement of
the campaign contributed in no small
measure to the partys defeat locally.
Returns from city precincts follow: