Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-05
All the Latest News and Notes in the Realm of Politics

| to countenance the proposition, as An
| derson really believes he has only one
man in the race against him. TO the
writer while in Los Angeles recently
he admitted that this "one man Is
Hiram johnson, the ln-Roosevelt
| league candidate. on the other hand,
while speaking in San Bernardino re-
Gently Himan Johnson stated that he
considered Alden Anderson the strong
est candidate against him.
There can be no doubt that the curry
and Stanton sentiment is dwindling.
| stanton's campaign became fiasco
some weeks ago and, in fact, he mas
had hard Job to keep it alive for
| the primaries.
Curry made a large noise in Los An
geles and Southern California when he
first began catering to the sporting
element here, but his campaign had no
substantial foundation. 1t consisted
principally of speech making, circus
posters, placards and hand bills. No
one outside of the sporting fraternity
gave Curry any serious consideration.
stanton gained a slight following
lzamong some of the citrus fruit grow
| ers and conducted a lively but ephe-
neral campaign as "the man whom
Roosevelt praised" but since Colohel
| Roosevelt knocked this prop from un-
der him he has hobbled around with
out any particular platform, looking
for some strong man with big tol-
lowing to run with him as a, candidate
for the United States senate, hoping
to get the nomination on the strength
of a popular running mate.
This has been Stantons prlnclpal
trouble The Republicans llned SpaId-
ing up with Anderson and gave Mes
erye to Curry, while the Lincoln Roose-
welt league coupled Hiram W. john
son and A. j. Wallace for campaign
team work." thus leaving Stanton in
the background along with Nathan
Ellery, to scramble for himself.
The recent effort to drag Wills
Booth into the senatorial race was
prompted solely by the desire to get
running mate for Stanton, it is claimed,
and failing in this the Stanton forces
were at sea as to their next target.
LOOKING FOR ANOTHER
During the last few days the name
of a very prominent Republican law
yer of Los Angeles, who has strong
following, has been mentioned as the
"probable running mate of stanton,
which leads the poor public to fear an
other candidate for the Unftetd states
late will soon be hatched.
It is barely possible. There are so
many machine men already In the con-
test for governor and senator that the
public will not be urprised-hoWeVer
it may be disgusted-by the debut or
one or two more.
Stantons friends say they have not
vet received any proposition from An
derson or Curry to 'lay down, and
this NAV be due to the fact that net-
ther Anderson nor Curry CONSIDERS
Stanton's following large enough TO De
coveted otherwise they would proba-
b.y offer Stanton a chance at the SEN
atorial nomination to Withdraw from
the gubernatorial race.
Several men predicttd yesterday that
the proposition made by the Curry
forces to Anderson's promoters will
eventually be taken up by Curry ana
that Curry himself will be the man
to '1ay down" in favor of Anderson,
which will mean, if it happens, that
Curry is to make fight in the next
legislature for the Republican support
as a candidate for the United States
senate. This of course will be only In
the event that Judge John d. Works
is not nominated by the Lincoln
y ,seyelt vote for the senatorshtp-
and it might happen anyway, as the
machine intends to disregard the pop
ular vote for senator.
Rumors laid aside and theories
eliminated, the prospects are that
Curry and Stanton, as well as Ellery,
will henceforth make but a feeble fight
anG that the machine Republicans all
over the state will get together within
the next ten days to support Alden
Anderson for governor A. G.. Spald-
ing for senator and Bert Farmer for
lieutenant governor.
There seems to be little doubt that
these men have formed a combination
which will receive the solid support of
the machine leaders. On the other
hand, there is little doubt that sim
liar combination has been formed by
Curry, Meserve and Ferris, but without
the encouragement o. the push lead
ers, and hence Curry is apt to desert
Meserve and Ferris If he sees a chance
to get w. f. Herrin's support as a
candidate for the senate.
Herrin and Parker and the entire
Southern Pacific push in San Fran
cisco have been behind Anderson from
the first Ellery was simply put In
the race by this push in order that he
might win votes from Hiram Johnson,
and incidentally help Curry to denounce
Johnson and the Insurgents. Ellery
has now practically retired from the
contest. 1t would not be surprising
If Curry and other machine candidates
were also placed in the contest for
the same purpose, and although forced
to carry their bluffs to the primaries,
they will always be suspected OF IN
sincerity, for the reason that they have
unitedly and consistently denounced
TIL, Lincoln Roosevelt league at every
turn and have wasted but little am
munition denouncing one another.
The fight Curry and Ellery has
been with Johnson, not with Anderson.
Stanton's fight has been with Johnson,
not with Anderson, and Anderson S
fight has been with Johnson, not with
Curry Ellery or Stanton. Johnson's
fight has been with the Southern Pa
cific, hence with all four men; and
Anderson, the strongest machine Re
publican in the race, has spent his
time automatically attempting to un-
dermine the popularity of Johnson and
paying absolutely no attention to the
campaign of his opponents, Curry, Ell
lery and Stanton. These men nave
been lust as much his rivals, however,
as johnson, for they are all attempt
ing Just as Johnson is to defeat him
for the nomination.
Why, them have all these men, who
were put into the fight by the same
machine, worked so consistently
against Johnson? Because he repre-
sents another faction of Republican
ism? Have not each of these candi-
dates seemingly disrupted the machine
organization into factions every bit as
bitter and pronounced? Or is the four
cornered fight against Johnson due to
his remarkable strength? Is it a con-
cession that he is the most likely nom
inee?
Who will answer?
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