Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-09
WHAT FOUR YEARS HAVE
WROUGHT


Pacific machines boss, Walter Parker,
from quarters which he occupied near
the convention hall, had dictated the
actions of the delegates. His messen-
gers had borne his orders from the
rooms which he occupied to the man
ayers of the convention, and these or
ders were humbly received and i'm
plicitly obeyed
Four years ago a state convention of
the Republican party had just been
held at the city Of Santa Cruz. This
was presided over by
Southern Pacific attorney. Southern
Pacific machine bosses Walter Parker
and Jerry Burke as the field managers
of the Southern Pacific machine boss
in-chief, w. F. Herrin, transmitted to
the convention through Mr.. Herrin the
order of Mr.. e. H. Hartman, president
of the Southern Pacific company. is
sued some months before that Gillett
should be nominated as the candidate
of the Republican party for governor
of the state of California, and the con-
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quiously carried out this order.
Abe Ruef, the chief of the San Fran
cisco grafters, has testified that the
execution of the order was facilitated
by the purchase by Boss-in-Chief w.
F. Herrin of the votes of the San
Francisco delegation for Mr.. Gillett
for the sum of sixteen thousand dollars.
In short the Southern Pacific political
machine had as complete control of the
Republican party of the state of Cali
fornia as the Southern Pacific COM
pany ever had of any one of the
engines which draw it's trains along
the tracks.
Four years ago the Democratic party
of the county of Los Angeles was also
largely controlled by the same sinister
master Through this control the
keeper of low dive in the city of Los
Angeles had been nominated on the
Democratic ticket for a place on the
state board of railroad commissioners
in order to insure the election of Theo-
dore Summerland, whose election the
vored because they fully understood
that he would do exactly what he has
done during the weary four years that
he has been a member of that board.
Four years ago the same evil inf1u-
ence, by an unworthy trick to which
certain Democrats loaned themselves,
succeeded in obtaining the Endorsement
Of the county Democracy for the un-
speakable Tus Eldridge, a candidate
on the Republican ticket for the county
board of supervisors. This indorse-
ment was obtained because the South
ern Pacific machine controlling the
Republican party, and which had
given him the nomination of that
party, understood that he would do
exactly what he has done during the
past four years.
Now how different!
In both county conventions recently
held not a Southern Pacific boss dared
show his head. Boss Parker, the auto
cratic ruler of the county machine,
who four years ago controlled the Re
publican county convention at Venice
so completely, was conspicuous by his
absence from the Republican conven-
ton which convened in this city a
few days ago.
The men who were responsible for
the betrayal of the Democratic party
by procuring the nomination of the
live keeper for railroad commissioner
and the Democratic Endorsement of
rus Eldridge, had been booted bodily
out of the Democratic party and dared
lot show their faces in the county con-
yention lately held in this city.
At the Democratic state convention
held in Stockton not a single represen-
-ative of the railroad in politics was
present.
At the Republican convention re-
Gently held in the city of San Fran
cisco not one of the bosses who COM
7letely controlled the Santa Cruz con-
vention four years ago showed his face,
and not a man dared raise his voice
against the adoption Of a platform
which went as far in it's merciless
of the Southern Pacific
machine as the Santa Cruz convention
four years ago went in its subservient
obedience to the commands of that
More than that, the whole state ma
chinery Of the Republican party was
taken completely from the hands of
the Southern Pacific machine, and
there was placed at the head of the
state committee as its
chairman Mr. Meyer Lissner, a citizen
Of Los Angeles, who, by the splendid
ability with which he has organized
the forces Of decency in the Republican
party. has contributed more than any
other one individual to the freeing of
his party from Southern Pacific in
huence.
1t seems incredible that a state
which four years ago was bound
and shackled to the chariot wheels of
the Southern Pacific machine should
have been completely freed from every
influence Of that malign organization;
and yet that it is so every one who
saw the state conventions of the two
great parties at work in Stockton and
San Francisco on the 9Th instant knows
full we'll. And kind heaven be thanked
that it is so. u
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