Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-13
MACHINE ENGAGES
IN MIMIC BATTLE
Places Several Candidates in the
Race to Divide Support of
Hiram W. Johnson
S. P. DOUBLE CROSSES FORCES
Push Quartet In the Dark as to
Which Man Is the Real
FaVorite
S. P. DOUBLE CROSSES FORCES
BY t. SHELLEY SUTTON


Next Tuesday morning at 6 o'clock
the polls will be opened for the first
direct primary election under the new
law in the city or county. of Los An
geles.
There are five Republicans and one
Democrat out for the nomination for
governor The five Republicans are
Phil A. Stanton, formerly speaker of
the state assembly, and notoriously an
out-and-out machine" man, but with
out the backing of the machine-at-
large Charles r. Curry, secretary of
state, who is depending on a certain
element of the Southern Pacific push"
and the support of the sporting men;
Alden Anderson, state bank examiner
who was put into the race by w. B.
Herrin, the railroad political boss; Ma
than Ellery, sort of unknown guam
tity," with a following in certain
northern sections, who was put for
ward in the belief that he could help
Charles r. Curry and other Republican
candidates to injure the campaign of
the good government forces; and, last
but strongest of all, Hiram w. john
son, the candidate of the reform, or
"1nsurgent'' Republicans, represented
in the Lincoln Roosevelt league, who
has waged one of the most fearless
and determined battles in the political
disgraceful Southern Pacific politlcal
bureau that for many years has abso-
lutely controlled the conventions ana
elections of the state, domineered the
legislatures bossed the courts, direct
ed the various departments of govern
ment, state, county and municipal and
avariciously shaped the commercial
and Industrial destiny of California to
suit its own ends and purposes.
SIX IN RACE
These are the five Republicans. The
sixth man-the Democratic candidate
is Theodore A. Bell, the pioneer anti
railroad machine man, and the father
of the present great struggle IN Cali
fornia between the masses and the s.
P. interests. Mr. Bell, fortunately, is
unopposed in the Democratic party, and
therefore there is no contest on to de-
feat him, so his nomination Is assured;
but here in Los Angeles county, where
the situation is different than in other
sections of the state, the Democrats
are facing two important contests
which may only be decided favorably
II there Is a heavy vote at the primar-
les. Should many Democrats stay at
home the primary election next Tues
day is likely to result disastrously for
several of the candidates of the good
government Democracy--at least two,
Martin Bekins, candidate for the state
senate in the Thirty-eighth district,
and J. L. Mansfield, candidate for su-
pervisor in the Third district, facing
inevitable defeat If the stay-at-home
vote Is of any considerable proportion.
The gubernatorial situation, from a
Republican standpoint, augurs well for
Hiram w. Johnson, the candidate or
the Lincoln Roosevelt league. Who 1t
is conceded by the political prophets In
various sections of the state undouot-
edly will be the Republican nominee.
This being true, the Democrats believe
the dissatisfied Republican vote will go
to Theodore A. Bell at the general elec-
ton and that it will be sufficient TO
elect Mr.. Bell.
NANTES 8. P's CHOICE
Mr.. Johnson in his speeches in South
ern California last week, declared there
was but one man In the race against
him, so far as the possibilities or nom
ination were concerned, and that TINS
man was Alden Anderson. 1t is no.
torious fact that the leaders OF the
Southern Pacific machine are behind
Anderson, but since Mr.. Johnson was
in los Angeles the S. P. forces have
lined up pretty generally for Curry,
and there seems to be real reason 10
doubt whether Anderson or Curry VIII
poll the heaviest vote against Johnson.
The employees of the Southern Pacific
at their convention in the north, IN
dorsed Curry; but it is understood tnat
it was done under the protest OF f1er-
rim. Parker and other S. P. bosses who,
1t is said, lobbied against this lnoorse-
ment.
IT must be remembered. however,
that in the minds of many persons who
have watched the gubernatorlal hght
closely there is a we'll grounded sus-
picion that the Southern Pacihc politl-
cal machine, through it's chief boss w:
f. Herrin, has double-crosseo seVeral
of the gubernatorial candidates ana
that these candidates, in turn, 1nno-
Gently or deliberately, have been de-
ceiving the public.
Tn other words, 1t has been suspected
that one of the machine candidates
Curry. Anderson, Ellery op Stanton-ls
the real candidate of the s. p, and that
the other three were induced 10 enter
the race under false promises which the
machine did not intend to keep, or with
inducements which did not materialtze,
TO aid the real candidate in the fight
against Johnson.
ably has devised way by which 1t ex-
pects to nominate one OF the four
machine men by using the other three
to divide certain support that might
instance, there are many Republicans
who may not like Johnson, because he
represents the insurgents" but who
would have voted for Johnson In
preference to Anderson, II Anderson
had been the only candidate.
DIVIDE SENTIMENT
So on down the line, each of these
men has served to divide the guber
netorial sentiment, and the machine
figures that each has taken off at least
a small chunk of Johnson's support
In the end it is planned, the bulk OF
fine regular machine votes will go to
Curry or Anderson-whichever candi-
date has been agreed upon for the
finals-and the word accordingly will
be 'ipassed down the line."N This means
that the only votes which Stanton will
receive will be those which come from
his personal following or from men who
will not stand for Curry, Anderson or
Ellery, or who will not vote for john
son because he is the candidate Of the
lincoln Roosevelt league. The only
votes that will be received by Ander-
son will come from the other candi-
dates. This applies in the same way to
Curry and Ellery. And, the machine
figures, all the votes which Anderson,
Curry Stanton and Ellery win from