Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-28

candidates the Democrats of the var
| ions assembly districts desired to at
| tend, and Just who would be wiling
/ to make the trip and pay for 1t. There
being no southern Pacific passes lying
around, as in the old machine days,
before the present good government
| Democrats won control of the party,
! il was deemed important to send the
most representative Democrats to the
state convention, and to learn if their
| business, or finances, would permit
them to go.
This work required about an hour
and a half and the committee report
ed the names of 110 delegates, all OF
whom. it was announced, were not only
willing. but anxious, to attend the state
convention. and were deemed the most
representative delegates that the con-
| vention could elect. These names were
called off. one at a time, and the con-
vention unanimously elected them.
HARMONY MARKS CONVENTION
Following the election of the dele
| gates to the state convention, the
meeting adjourned, subject to the call
of the chairman.
From first to last, the convention
was characterized by manifest desire
for harmony and party unanimity, de-
spite the several contests waged over
questions which obviously could not
! have been decided without more or less
discussion of their various aspects.
|, The few Republicans who were elect
| ed to the convention took little part IN
its proceedings, except to vote, as
rule, with the majority. Their pres
ence. however, was Objectionable to Il
number of the old-time Democratic en-
thusiasts who seemed to think these
unwelcome delegates should have vol
unfairly Withdrawn from the conVen-
tion.
In point of attendance and optimism,
| it was by far the most successful coun-
| ty convention ever held in Southern
California, and the determination and
enthusiasm of the delegates was OBJ
vious in every speech
The fact that many former leaders
of the cOunty's Democracy were pres
| ent yesterday was regarded as the
most convincing demonstration of the
revival of Democratic principles. Many
of these men manifest a profound in
| tcrest in the business of the conVen-
| tion, although some of them have re-
! fused to attend conventions for many
years, because in the past they had
| become hopeless of ever wrestling the
| party from the domination of the ma
! chine, and were resigned to an un-
Democratic dummy" Democracy cut
and dried by the Southern Pacific po-
| litical machine as sham for the more
corrupt Republican party to contend
with. thus deceiving the voters into
believing there were really two par
| ties conterding for office, when in real
! ity there was but one, and the other
was but a pretense. Both the so
| called Democratic and Republican
| parties, and their caucuses, primaries,
| conventions. platforms and county and
state tickets In those days were die
| OF hpschd pOntTOllhd and pnpi-,
neered by the same political bosses, w.
F. Herrin and Walter Parker.
NEW DEMOCRACY IN SADDLE
The history of the evolution of the
Democratic party in California, and
particularly of Los Angeles county, has
/ been told again and again to the read
| ers of The Herald. There is no detail
of those infamous days that is not
| thoroughly known to our readers.
The work of reforming both the Re-
publican and the Democratic parties,
and the work of wrestling the Demo-
cratic party, particularly in Los An
| geles county, from the Clctches of the
| Southern Pacific octopus has been
| arduous and slow, but the convention
yesterday is ample proof that the Ia
bors of those patriotic men who un-
dertook the tremendous task have been
! crowned with success even greater than
they ever contemplated
The assemblage in Blanchard hall
yesterday also shows that the new
Democracy is in the saddle and its enc
mics in the dust To the efforts of
such loyal and patriotic citizens and
| Democrats as Charles Wellborn, Lorin
A. Handley. Albert NJ. Norton, Thomas
Lee Woolwine, Timothy Spellacy, Minor
Moore, Martin Bekins, stephen G.
Long, Albert Lee Stephens, Cyrus F.
McNutt, D. K. Trask and W. r. Harris
this remarkable metamorphoss of the
Democratic party is attributable; to
their labor of love and their devotion
to Jeffersonian principles, the triumph
of the good government element of our
Democracy is due, and to these faith
full workers it was a proud day yes
terday when they viewed that orderly
| assemblage of Democratic delegates.
elected directly by the people and
gathered together for the first time
without the yoke of S. P. tyrany the
dread of machine trickery or the neces-
| sity of subservience to the bosses"
1t was a convention such as few have
witnessed-devoid of all the objection
able features of the former machine