Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-01
VOTERS STRIKE s. P. MACHINE
CRUSHING BLOW BY SENDING
REFORM LEADERS To COUNCIL
Houghton and Healy Are Entombed Under
Landslide of Ballots After Long Strug-
gle Unparalleled in History of City
CITIZENS DECIDE LIGHT RATE CUT
Pass Ordinance for Nine to Seven Cent Elec-
tricity by 10000 Majority-Forces
for Clean Administration Elated

occupied by any municipality in the
United States brought it into promin-
ence as the foremost Good Government
community of the world, and rid our
city of graft, evil resorts, admins
trative corruption and other disgrace
full conditions that once prevailed here.
These officials have worked under
heavy disadvantages, and they lave
feared, occasionally, that the people
would not understand, that they would
not appreciate the difficulties with
which the administration has been
laboring.
"But the people demonstrated yester-
day that they understand, that they
appreciate, and that they will take no
backward step in the great movement
for municipal betterment and develop
ment.
1.-THE Good Government organization
wishes to thank everyone Who aided
us in this great fight"
HARD WORK
Never in the history of Los Angeles
have the booze, gas and railway ward
workers waged such a determined bat
tie as they did yesterday. All day the
emissares of the corporations were
rushing strenuously about the city,
from one polling place to another, at
tempting to induce everyone who
looked like a voter to help defeat Stew
art and Whiffen and the lighting and
business ordinances.
Automobiles were everywhere in evt-
dence, most of them being utilized by
the Southern Pacific push and its allies
of the booze and public utilities eorIg-
rations. The Good Government forcfs
had a number of machines in the fio4
however, and did everything possibleR Ro
offset the activities of the push. be-
corporations spent their surplus cEil
with unusual liberality for the hire Of
every available auto, which they kept
busy bringing voters to and from the
various polling places.
MORE ACTIVITY
Early in the day it looked as IL the
apathy of the voting public, which was
so apparent by the vote at the primary
election, had not been shaken off, and
that there was, a possibility of the elec-
tion going by default to Houghton and
Healy. Later, however, the Good Gov
ernment forces became so active that
by the noon hour they had offset the
strenuous work of the push, and by Z
O'Clock the vote had k9en almost
doubled in many of the larger pre-
cincts in the southwest and northeast.
A trip to the various polling places In
the machine districts revealed that the
voting in some of the strongholds of
the push was comparatively weak, and
that where the gang had attempted to
make it's best showing 1t had been able
to get out but light vote. 1t was
feared, however, that what votes had
been secured in these precincts would
go almost entirely to Healy and Hough-
ton and to defeat the ordinance reduc-
ing the lighting rates, so the Good
Government forces in other precincts
began actively to hustle out all the
votes possible to make up for the def
ciencies in other precincts controlled
by the push.
In THE SIXTH
1t was a noteworthy fact YESTERDAY
that the Southern Pacific machine, or,
rather, what Is left of the Southern
Pacific machine, did everything In its
power to save the day for the lighting
companies and to elect the push candi-
dates to the city council. Many old
faces were seen about the polling places
in the old Sixth ward, and investigation
revealed that here and in several other
sections the Southern Pacific gang was
hard at work, endeavoring to influence
voters and hustling out all it's known
sympathizers to vote against the light
ing rate ordinance and the election of 7
Stewart and Whiffen. Voting in the
downtown precincts remained behind
that of the primary election, and this
was taken to indicate that the push
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