Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-25
CRIT|C|SE LISSNER
FOR PART|SANSH|P
Two Democratic Leaders De-
clare Conspiracy Is on Foot
to Elect 'LeaguerS"
SIMONS ISSUES STATEMENT
Bell Mcguire and Lane Cited as
Pioneer Opponents of S. P.
Political Machine
SIMoNS ISSUES STATEMENT

mons Fruit company and member of
the Democratic executive and steering
committees, yesterday issued state
ment to the Good Government voters
of Los Angeles city and county, calling
attention to the vigorous battle waged
by the Democracy of this city in behalf
of better government and against the
Southern Pacific political machine.
Mr. Slmons also criticises Meyer Liss-
ner, one of the leaders of the Lincoln
Roosevelt Republican league and Good
Government organization, and smakes
strenuous protest, with several other
Democratic leaders, at the statement of
Meyer Lissner that the voters of Cali
fornia now have their first opportunity
to vote against the Southern PACIFIC
machine by voting for Hiram Johnson
for governor.
Mr. Simons accuses Mr.. Lissner of
an attempt to defeat Thomas Lee
Woolwine, Democratic-Good Govern
ment candidate for district attorney,
against J. D. Fredericks, incumbent.
Mr.. Simons declares that Lissner "is
playing into the hands of Mr.. Fred
ericks" and that he is absolutely
bosslng the Lincoln Roosevelt league"
and attempting to boss the Good
Government organization"
Mr. Simons' statement follows:
sIMONs' STATEMENT
'I cannot let pass the statement in
the form of an interview in your paper
of Friday morning by Meyer Lissner
of the executive committee of the Good
Government organization, the Good
Government fund and the Lincoln
Roosevelt league to the effect that for
the first time In thirty years the people
of California have a chance to vote
for an anti-railroad candidate for gov
ernor in the person of Hiram Johnson,
the Lincoln Roosevelt candidate for
governor.
Long before Mr.. Lissner began to
take an active part in politics in Cali
fornia and Los Angeles, to-wit. in 1898,
the Democratic party put forward that
stalwart champion of anti-railroadism,
James G.. Mcguire, as its candidate for
governor. James G. Mcguire and Ste
phen White were the two leaders of
anti-machne politics in California at
the time when no man in the Republic
can party dared to raise his voice in
protest against machine domination In
| the Republican party in this state.
"Mr. Mcguire was defeated because
| the Republicans in this state were SO
party-blind as to prefer a Republican
machine railroad push boss to clean
! Democrat who had enlisted himself on
| the part of the people of this state to
preserve their rights and liberties.
THEN NOMINATED LANE
-Four years later, in 1902, just at the
time that Meyer Lissner was statis-
tician for and part of the machine he
now claims to be fighting-and Mr..
Lissner will well remember the active
part he took as an employe of the
Republican county central committee
of Los Angeles county, which commit
tee was at that time the same as it
now Is, controlled and owned by the
Southern Pacific political push-the
Democrats nominated Franklin X.
Lane as their candidate for governor.
No finer man ever became candidate
for governor than Mr.. Lane. And no
man more warmly espoused the cause
of the people as against the southern
Pacific machine than Mr.. Lane.
But again the Republicans of the
type of Mr.. Lissner were so partisan
| blind that they preferred the Repub-
lican named by the Republican ma
chine to that put forward by clean
Democracy.
Four years later the Democrats nom
mated that splendid type of manhood
Theodore A. Bell, their candidate Tor
governor and the Republicans put for
ward a creature named by Abe Ruet
at Santa Cruz, James N Gillett. Did
the Republicans follow the advice OF
the Republican newspaper in this city,
which advocated the election of The-
odore A. Bell and advised the Republl-
cans to vote for him as the one man to
redeem the state from the grip of the
southern Pacific, or did they again,
blindly partisan, vote for the railroad
candidate for governor? They voted
for Gillett, of course.
IT'S about time that Mr.. Ltssner
and Mr.. Stimson and their Lincoln
Roosevelt BOSSES quit their crying and
do something.
MUST FORGET DIFFERENCES
before real reform can be had in
! this state men of the Lissner-Stimson
type must foget that the war is
over and remember that there is some
good in a Democrat. They must be
! able to see farther than their noses,
so far as Republicanism is concerned,
and not compromise with the enemy.
They must not do as they did two
years ago-go into fight against the
Republican machine to lay down like
lambs if the machine beat them.
''If | am not mistaken, 1t was A. j.
Wallace, floor leader of the lincoln
RooseVelts at the last county conVen-
tion, and Meyer Lissner who agreed to
abide by the result of the county con-
vention and support the machine can
! didates of that convention If the ma
chine won out, we'll knowing that the
machine would never carry out its
| own part of the pact.
"If these are the kind of men the
reform forces of this city, county and
state must follow-then me to the tall
timbers.
"And the same game is undoubtedly
being played by these false Lincoln
Roosevelt leaders in the campaign.
Fortunately the rank and file of the
Lincoln Roosevelt league are onto the
game. They fully realize that this
| time it is '-Yar to the hilt.' They have
about discovered the tricks of their
| false leaders and will not carry out
any pact which might be made with
Walter Parker and his machine SIM
| liar to that of 1908. They will not
carry out the deal about to be made
to defeat Mr.. Woolwine so 6hat Mr..
Fredericks might again be elected as
district attorney To my certain lnowl7
edge the Lincoln Roosevelt league. to
a man, would now be behind that lead
| er of clean government in Los Angeles
Thomas Lee Woolwine-if unfair
and undue advantage had not been ta-
ken of an unsuspecting executive COM
mittee
"In conclusion, let me say to Mr..
| Lissner and his fellow associates that
| have been on the side of clean poll