Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1910-08-16
MUCH DEPENDS ON
PR|MARY'S RESULT
Voters to Choose Today Between
Clean Candidates and
Machine Crew
PUSH MAKING A HARD FIGHT
Two S. P. Office Seekers Are
Opposed by Good Govern
ment Democrats
PUSH MAKING A HARD FIGHT
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the state of this new law. The voter
should go to the polls realizing the
primary election at which he VIII cast
his ballot today takes the place OF the
old party convention. 1t supplants the
system by which certain unrepresenta-
tive delegates" (bought and sold by
the corrupt interests) assembled, and
regardless of character, efficiency or
public preference - nominated their
candidate for each office and then re-
turned home to aid in some nefarlouS
scheme to elect them, in spite of pup
lie opposition.
The politicians who controlled those
conventions were called "the push;
the wire-pullers and dupes who at
tended to the elective work constituted
the machine"
VOTERS GIVEN FIRST CHANCE
At the primary election today the
voters will do their own nominating;
they have their first chance to vote for
clean, honest and efficient men; TO
make their own selections from the
long lists of candidates; to say WHO
shall represent them in the various
executive, legislative and Judicial de-
partments of our government.
The machine" and the push" have
not been idle. The push held no
convention, but it's members went
about their work silently and secretly,
and induced certain men to run for
office on whom Walter Parker, w. F.
Herrin and the corporation bosses"
can rely. The push has circulated the
nominating petitions of these candi-
dates and filed them. The push,
therefore, is represented on both tick
cts. 1t has managed to place its men
before the voters, and has resorted to
every argument, to every pretext, TO
every effort to deceive the voters and
to make the people believe that 1t is
"out of politics." 1t has made con-
centrated effort to insure the nominal
ton of these men. Every politician
who depends for a living on the re-
election of a push" incumbent, or on
the nomination of push candidate,
has been working day and night to in
sure the success of the push" ticket.
OF course they have invented argu-
ments, they have made fiowery ap-
peals to sentiment; they have boosted
and praised, begged and pleaded, pa
tronized and promised, all over the
state, in the hope of nominating the
push" politicians from whom they ex-
pect to receive their bread and butter
during the next four years. And, on
the other hand, they have spent their
spare time denouncing the candidates
put up by the good government forces.
Every manner of lie has been told;
every conceivable Misrepresentation
circulated; every possible defamation
published to defeat the candidates rep
resenting the decent citizens of Cali
fornia.
VOTERS TO CHOOSE
AS a voter you will help to decide
the destiny of California; you will ex-
ert today an influence one way or an
other-an influence for the good, or an
influence for the bad. If you stay at
home, you will make it possible for
the push" to win. If you go to the
polls and vote wrong, you make it still
more possible; If you vote right, you
will be encouraging the high ideals
and progressive standards of the re-
vitalized Democracy and Republican
ism of the Golden state.
If you are a Republican, or if you
are a Democrat, bear in mind that the
primary election today TAKES THE
PLACE OF THE OLD-TIME CON-
VENTION, and that, therefore, your
vote will help to decide whether good,
clean candidates or pernicious push"
politicians are to be nominated as your
party's choice for the next general
election, November s. A great deal
depends on who your party dominates
AS a loyal and honest citizen, 1t is
your duty to see that your party NOM
mates CLEAN men. You are virtually
a delegate to the public convention"
today, at which you are to nominate
your party's candidates.
If you are Republican, bear in
mind that the Republican party in
California is going to the polls today,
divided into two factions. One fac
ton represents the modern Republic
cans-the progressives, the so-called
insurgents" the men who are OPP
posed to the Southern Pacific political
machine; who are opposed to the dis
graceful political activities of any and
all trusts, corporations and invested
interests; who are opposed to the
domination of our government by the
tools, dupes and bosses of predatory
wealth; who seek to rid the county
and state of such notorious tyrants as
Walter Parker and w. F. Herrin, and
to rid the national government of such
autocratic and misrepresentation poll
ticians as Speaker Cannon, Senators
Aldrich, Payne, etc. These men and
these forces, which have been devoted
to the upbuilding, expansion and re-
form of the Republican party, have
banded together in what is known as
the Lincoln Roosevelt league.
REPUBLICAN CONTEST
In Los Angeles county the Lincoln
Roosevelt league is made up of the
best citizens, men from all walks of
DEMONSTRATIONS, sincere and faith
full to the interests of California,
where they have made their permanent
homes, where their capital-large or
small-has been invested, and where
the result of those investments is de-
pendent on the policy and purpose of
the various departments of the gov
eminent. These men are not profess
sional politicians, but citizens-tax-
payers-who want to place the Re-
publican party on platform of the
highest Republican principles, and who
seek, through that party, to save the
state from the political machine which
has so disgraced and domineered it
for many years; who seek, through
that party, to establish the higher
ideals and progressive principles and
reforms of such men as Lincoln and
Roosevelt.
These Lincoln Roosevelt men, there
fore, have been extremely careful in
Endorsing their candidates. The po-
Iitical affiliations, the personal char
acter, the sympathies and efficiency
of each any every candidate who
sought the Endorsement of the league
was carefully and earnestly investi-
gated before the Lincoln Roosevelt
league gave out its Endorsement. 1t
NAV have made mistakes; there may
be one or two men on the ticket not
quite so good as some other would
be; but it is a fight of principle, a
tremendous battle in which more than
the candidacy of an individual, or the