Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-25
DEMOCRATS MAKE
CAMPAIGN PLANS
Nominees State Hundreds of Re-
pubIiCans Have Offered
Them Support
TO FIGHT FOR ENTIRE TICKET
Declare There Will Be No Trading
or Compromise of Any
Character
TO FIGHT FOR ENTIRE TICKET

ing several candidates for state Of
fees and prominent leaders in the
Democratic organization throughout
Southern California, met in the Sew
erance building last night to discuss
plans for the pending campaign and to
propose planks for the platform to be
adopted by the county convention next
Saturday.
Nearly all of the Democratic nom
inees were present at the meeting and
all were called on for speeches relative
to the Democratic outlook.
Each of the nominees stated he had
been assured by hundreds of Republi-
cans that he would receive their sup
port at the general election. and it
seemed to be the consensus of opinion
among all the nominees that the dis
satisfied Republican vote, from one
side or the other, will be sufficient
combined with the Democratic vote-to
elect the Democratic ticket
So many instances of Republican
support were cited as results OF pc
culiar political condition brought about
by the triumph of the Lincoln -Roose-
welt league that there can be little
cause to question the confidence of the
Democratic nominees.
THE Republican party is hopelessly
disrupted" was the statement of one
of the leading candidates, land this
fact alone gives the Democrats the
balance of power and insures the cleo
tion of the Democratic ticket, not only
in the state but in the county of Los
Angeles.
SOLICIT NO AID
1.-THE Democrats can score a state
wide victory with the aid of this dis
satisfied vote; and as there are thou
sands of Republicans who will not
stand for the nominees of the Lincoln
Roosevelt league because they desire
to revenge themselves and recuperate
the wrecked S. P. political machine;
and thousands of loyal and consclen-
tious Lincoln Roosevelt voters who will
not stand for the Republican machine
nominees, the Democratic ticket will
draw a large support from both sides
and elect it's state and county ticket by
waging a campaign on clear-cut Dem
ocratic issues, leaving the Republicans
to themselves, taking no part in their
controversy, refusing to solicit aid from
either side and permitting all who may
so desire to vote the Democratic ticket
without questioning their motives or
seeking to take any undue advantage
of the Republican disruption"
Many of the candidates stated that
they believed the county platform
should be brief and conservative, leav
ing the state convention to embody the
more vital and essentially state issues
in the platform to be adopted at the
Stockton convention. A committee was
appointed, however, to draft certain
blanks which may be recommended to
a 5a1poofac n fy
for consideration by the committee on
resolutions.
Timothy Spellacy, candidate for
lieutenant governor, stated that he had
just returned from a trip through the
Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys,
and that while in the north he had dis
covered the political situation there to
be much more favorable for the Demo-
Gratis than has SO far developed in
Southern California, although" he
said, there is every Indication that
thousands of Republicans will vote the
Democratic ticket in the south end of
the state for the same reasons that
they already have advocated in the
north"
CANDIDATES TALK
Speeches We're made by several of
the candidates urging that the Demo-
cratic central committee wage its bat
tie for the election of each and every
candidate alike, regardless of the in
dorsements made by the Good Gov
ernment organization, and these
speeches elected from Chairman AL
bert NJ. Norton of the county central
committee, a vigorous statement to
the effect that no part of the county
ticket would be thrown down in favor
of any other part.
IF I am reelected chairman of the
county central committee said Mr.
Norton, Il can pledge to you that
there will be no partiality because Of
any special confidence in the election
Of certain number of candidates. We
will fight for the election of the en-
tire county ticket, and there will be
no trading, and no compromise of any
character. We will ride to success,
or go down to defeat together, and I
hope that every candidate understands
our attitude. There will be no dicker-
ing with any faction of the Republi-
cans against any portion of the Demo-
cratic ticket, and no dickering will be
tolerated for the election of any nomi-
nees at the sacrifice Of others l am
glad TO state, however, that there need
be no fears in this regard, for our
Democratic constituents must re-
member that times have changed and
we have changed with them. The old
tactics have been abandoned-the old
days are passed.
NOT s, p. CREATURES
"The men who are running for office
on the county ticket this year are
not the creatures of the Southern Pa
cific machine, and not convention
dummies, or push politicians They
are the men who have been fighting
for better government and cleaner
polit1cs-all of them well known for
their activities in behalf Of the new
Defocracy, as opposed to the old or
der of things. They are not men who
will barter, deal Or dcker for any po-
ltical spoils OF Office. / don't be-
lieve there is a man on our ticket
who would be willing to go into office
at t.. cost Of sacrificing one of his
fellow candidates / don't believe there
is a man on our ticket who would
enter into any entanslements with the
Republicans, however willing he may
be to accept their votes That is
something we cannot control If the
whole Republican party wants to vote
for us, we can't stop it, and we would
be foolish to reject it's vote. But none
of our men will listen to any PROPOSE
tion that involves the election of five
or six men and the defeat Of the
others.
I'VE want we expect, and we will
h.