Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-20
.LAUDS SPIRIT OF
LOCAL DEMOCRATS
Northern Residents Declare En-
tire State Is Looking to
Los Angeles
CANDIDATES DESERVE TO WIN
Men Who Make Up the Southern
Branch True Citizens,
Is Statement

DR.. W. r. Prather of Adams Springs,
Lake county, who passes his winters In
Los Angeles and IS one of the best
known Democrats Ia California, where
he has lived for more than thirty
years, paid a glowing eulogy to the
Democratic organization in Los An
geles county yesterday just before MS
departure for Adams Springs. Incl
dentally DR.. Prather predicted tnat the
Los Angeles organization must eVentu-
ally control the party in this state
and that the state central commlttee
headquarters undoubtedly VIII pe
moved from San Francisco to Los An
ge1es.
II am thoroughly familiar with the
various Democratic county organ1za-
tions throughout the state" said Dr'
Prather yesterday, "and want TO say
that 1 consider the Los Angeles organ
ization the cleanest, best, strongest
and most efficient of any in California.
1t is conducted along the lines or
purest democracy, by loyal and patrl-
otic men who have the interests of
the people, rather than the interests or
the corporations, constantly at heart,
and these men have become powerful
factor in the statewide crusade for
good government and cleaner politics
They have observed the old adage and
begun at home,' and having cleaned
their county organization Of Its former
S. p. bosses and machine barnacles,
they are doing everything possible to
build up the states democracy and
nominate only the Cleanest and best
men.
"I want to say, also, that all over the
state the Democrats are watching the
tremendous work being done by the
Democrats of Los Angeles. Los An
geles Herald, too, has become known
as the ablest and strongest exponent in
the state of good Democratic prin-
ciples, and Is to be complimented on
its fearless work in exposing, at every
turn, the moves and Vaccinations OF
the Herrin-Parker push.
1.-THE Los Angeles Democratic county
central committee has built up a pow
erful and harmonious organization,
virtually erected from the ruins and
ashes of the machine democracy OF
other days. 1t is, indeed, Veritable
political Phoenix, and to the noble
aspirations and unselfish energy of it's
leaders the democracy of California
owes its present commendable status.
1.-THE Democrats of Los Angeles have
become a guiding influence in the great
good government movement OF the
county and are recognized from Siski-
you to San Diego as political paragons.
Southern Pacific has SO feared polit-
ical organization as it now fears the
Los Angeles democracy, for the reason
that nowhere else in California has
the Southern Pacific so many tremen-
dous interests at stake as 1t has In Los
Angeles county.
''Far-seeing persons must admit that
with the completion of the Panama
canal the commerce of the world and
the railway traffic of the United
States will be revolutionized, and the
harbor of Los Angeles will become one
of the greatest in the world. This
means that the Southern Pacific will
spend millions of dollars, If necessary,
to control that harbor, to obtain fran
chises and special privileges and other
wise to conserve it's present and pros
pective interests. It is therefore vitality
important that the people of Los An
geles county bear constantly in mind
the gravity of the present political sit
uation in California and aid and en-
courage in every possible way these
men who are already at the political
portal, with drawn swords, as it were,
to protect the welfare and wealth of
the community.
1.-THE Democratic organization in this
county has done more than any other
organization, I believe, with possibly
one exception, and that is non-parti-
san, to Illustrate the avaricious at
tempts of the public service corpora
tions. Whether as Democrats, or as
citizens, it makes no difference, the
men who constitute the democracy Of
this county have been leaders in every
public-spirited movement having for
its purpose the betterment of the social,
moral, political, Industrial, administra-
tive or commercial conditions in Los
Angeles city and county and the fact
that these men are doing all they can
to aid in the work of defeating the
corporation political machine should
add weight to their advice and coun-
sci, and the candidates whom this
democracy has indorsed should there
fore commend themselves to the voters
as the most deserving of election"