Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-07
DEMOCRATS WAIT
FOR PRIMARIES
Chairman Norton Declares All
Candidates on Ticket Are
Opposed to Machine
LINE is CLOSELY LAID DOWN
Committeeman Expects Coming
Battle to Be Most Vigorous
Conflict Ever Waged
LINE is CLOSELY LAID DOWN

THE Democratic campaign has not
man of the Los Angeles county Demo.
cratic central committee, yesterday.
while the Republicans are wasting
their time trying to ptach up differ
ences, or taking excuses to indorse ma
chine incumbents, we are going quietly
and harmoniously ahead and selecting
candidates who come up to the re-
qurements of the Good Government
organization.
Our active campaign will not begin
until after the primaries, when the
voters of Los Angeles county will have
an opportunity to judge which party
or which political faction, has really en-
deavored to do what the citizens of this
county demand-that Is, place in office
only the cleanest and best men, un-
hampered by corporation servitude and
free of push and other pernicious ma
chine affiliations.
"They can judge of our ticket at the
primaries, and when the primaries are
over we will begin our fight in this
county for the election of the men who
are nominated by the people.
I'VE expect that this campaign will
be the most vigorous and most bitter
we have ever waged, for already at
tempts have been made to deceive the
people and pull new brand of WOOL
over their eyes; so we not only have
to fight the corrupt machine, but we
have to fight a treacherous element or
politicians who are laying plans to re-
elect certain office holders who are so
commonly known to be identified with
the machine that there can be no ques-
tion of the category in which they
should be placed by every conscientious
and patriotic citizen who has the po-
litical interests Of this city and county
thoroughly at heart.
REPRESENTS PEOPLE
"The Good Government movement
should, and does represent the light OF
the people against the machine. 1t
means nothing more and nothing less.
1t is a movement to rid our city and
county of the baleful influence of po-
litical corruption, graft waste, incom-
potency and Southern Pacific DONNA
tion and as such a movement, 1t must
follow that every effort must be made
to prevent the reelection of this cor
rupt political organization.
1.-THE Democrats were the first to
start the fight and they are prepared
to finish it; but we are waiting TIL
others have done their work, exposed
their hand and betrayed the plan and
plot by which the machine hopes to be
continued in power.
when this has been done, the De-
mocracy of Los Angeles county Will
step into the arena with a full state
ment of the facts, and we Will give
them such a battle that they will, we
hope, be relegated completely and for
good
ANY office holder who has patronized
etsil y tod fF
its support, directly or indirectly, can
not for a single moment be regarded as
a good government man; and no sane
voter can be led into so considering
him no matter what may be said by a
few so-called or would?be poltlcal
bosses, who are self-constituted and far
from being in touch with the wishes OF
the majority.
mo Endorsement of an office holder
of this stamp will win for him the IA
vor of the people, l care not what So
called leader may indorse him or what
coterie of pseudo-reformers may en-
courage him. They may say, after
their Endorsement, that they have al
ways been anti-machine men, but their
past stares them in the face and their
records speak for themselves. They
have helped to maintain the machine,
and now they are crawling from be-
meath the wreckage and saying We
wanted to escape before the wreck
came, but we couldn't manage it;
while others say We were there when
the wreck came, but we didn't belong
there
NOT DECEIVED
THAT doesn't deceive the voters. 1t
is not a political fight, nor a factional
fight, but fight of all the people, re-
gardless OF politics, against the county,
state and national machine; against
the trusts and corporations, the rail-
road political octopus, the gas and cleo
trio grafters, the bosses and bribe CIV