Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-07
PLANS FOUND To
BEAT MANSFIELD
Good Government Democrats See
Necessity of Getting Out
Full Vote
NAMES MAY BE WRITTEN IN
Stay-at-Homes May Result in De-
feat of Candidates IndorSed
at Long Beach
NAMES MAY BE WRITTEN i
BY t. SHELLEY SUTTON

Information, declared to be authentic,
was received at Democratic headquar-
ters yesterday to the effect that the
remnant of the old Democratic ma
chine, consisting Of a number of South
ern Pacific ward heelers and bosses
weeded out of the party by the good
government forces now in control of IT,,
have concocted what they consider a
feasible scheme to steal several impor-
tant Democratic nominations.
The scheme is for the word to be
passed down the line to discourage as
many Democrats as possible from Vot-
ing at the primary election, on the
claim that as there are no Vital con-
tests impending, the Democrats do not
have to cast a heavy vote at the pri-
maries, because the Democratic candi-
dates will be nominated, they say, re-
gardIess of the number of votes cast.
BY stimulating this belief the friends
of District Attorney j. d. Frederlcks
and other machine men hope to be able
to offset the number of Democratic
votes to be cast for several of the can
didates indorsed at the Long Beach
conference, by writing in on the ballot
the names of certain machine Demo-
Gratis which the push hopes TO NOM
mate.
Briefly. if the old machine politicians
can induce enough of the Democratic
voters to stay at home, in the bellef
that their ballots are not necessary 10
nominate the Democratic candidates,
the gang will hustle out enough sore
heads and machine men to write In the
names of certain other Democrats and
thus nominate dark horses" not in
dorsed by the Long Beach conference.
PLAN POSSIBLE
1t will readily be seen that this is
possible in so far as one or two and
nossiblv more nominations are con-
cerned. The fact that a great many
Republicans have changed their regis
tration to Democratic-notably Martin
Marsh, for instance-has caused few
of the Democratic leaders some little
concern for the stay-at-home vote, put
it is not believed the Democrats or Los
Angeles will be found sleeping, or that
they will allow the machine to put one
over on them at the eleventh hour.
However this may be, it is pointed
out nv the various Democratic leaders,
who are actively in touch with the DO
litical situation, that full Democratic
vote is necessary. 1t is extremely I'M
portant for several reasons that every
good government Democrat in Los An
geles city and county cast his ballot at
the primary election, August 16. Ihe
statement of the men who say that
"tbere is no vital contest on" is gross
instrumentation. The good govern
ment Democratic forces of Los Ange-
les county are warned against this er-
roneous impression. conveyed to many
Democrats by the false argument of the
machine push. The pending primary
election involves two of the most i'm
portant contests ever presented to the
voters and even if these contests dld
not exist. it can readily be seen how
important it is that there should be
heavy Democratic vote in order to pre-
vent the machine from writing in the
names of certain discredited so-called
Democrats, and thus securing their
nomination by an eleventh-hour rush,
while the good government Democrats
are asleep at home under the impress
sion that there are no vital contests