Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-15
REBELS AGAINST
RULE OF BOSSES
Gen. E. C. Bellows Terms Lineup
for FrederiCkS Cheap
Political CIaptTap
USE PARTY LOYALTY AS WHIP
Declares Voting Ticket Straight
Railroads Unworthy Men
Into Office
JSE PARTY LOYALTY AS WHIP


which is being cracked over the heads
of Los Angeles county Republicans by
the Republican county central COM
mittee in behalf of the campaign of
District Attorney j. d. Fredericks,
has aroused Gen. %. C. Bellows, a life
long Republican of prominence and
former consul general to Japan. Char
acterizing such efforts as "cheap po-
litical claptrap," he said yesterday:
political parties are organized to
promote the public good, and stand
for we'll defined policies in the man
agement of national affairs,
1.-THE man elected president, senator
or congressman by the voters of any
party is in honor bound to support
the policies of that party, and with
the belief that he will do so the voter
with fixed convictions concerning ma
tional policies casts his ballot for the
party nominee in national affairs. This
is logical, sensible and right, but
crafty politicians, for their own selfish
purposes, seek TO extend this parti-
sanship to offices wholly unaffected by
party issues.
1.-TWO men nominated for president
of the United States may be equally
0OnOFbDib, ldlT D1lt1uBu anu CJllStlCIl-
tious, and yet the voter may honestly
believe that the election of one of
them would be a public calamity, be-
cause he represents policy and Will
follow q course of action which the
voter believes will be injurious to the
country and detrimental to the public
welfare
FLAYS PARTY LOYALTY
"If two men are nominated for a
county or city office, and are known
to be equally honorable, capable, ac-
tive and conscientious, it can make no
possible difference which one Is elect
ed because their official duties have
absolutely nothing to do with policies
of government But if one candidate
is known to possess a higher regard
for his oath of office, a, juster concep-
tion of his official duties and greater
concern for the public welfare than
his opponent docs, that one should re-
ceive the support of every true patriot
and of every decent citizen regard
less of party affiliations.
THE talk about party regularity and
party loyalty and voting straight from
top to bottom is simply cheap political
claptrap used to deceive and confuse
the voter, obscure the issues and rail-
road unworthy men into public office.
1t is the means by which undesirable
citizens seek to obtain place, power,
influence and an opportunity to loot
the public. A man of this class does
not seek support because of worth or
merit. but with the unblanched cheek
of a high priest he demands the party
vote because he is on the ticket.
Judging from the unanswered
charges against John d. Fredericks,
district attorney, this seems to be the
position he occupies before the public
today.
us party regularity a sufficient rea-
son for urging the election of man
whose pernicious thrift has lifted him
from poverty to aff1uence in few
brief official years?
PRoPoUNDs QUESTIONS
'"This man took a solemn oath to
prosecute and bring to justice public
offenders, high and low. Yet did he
not stand idly by while corrupt, ma
chine-made officials lined their pockets
with the proceeds of protected vice?
Did he not look on with complacency
while corporate interests sought by
bribery to steal a million-dollar prop
erty from the city Of Los Angeles?
'Did he interpose any objection to
the looting of the county treasury in
either the furniture deal or the at
tempted bond sale? Does his action
in the King forgery will case inspire
confidence in him as .conservator of
public interests?
MANY other sustained charges are
made against John d. Fredericks,
whose chosen intimates have been and
now are henchmen of the Southern
Pacific political machine, against
which both the Republican and Demo-
cratic parties of the state are Wagfng
a war OF determination.
1.-THE retention in office of John d.
Frederieks in the face of his past
official career would spell disgrace to
the party responsible for his election.
Theodore Roosevelt has truly said:
Honesty is not party matter, and
the first man to attack a scoundrel of
any party should be the honest man
of that party"