Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-27
PARTIES RACE At
BOSS TREACHERY
Republicans and Democrats Meet
on Common Ground to
DenounCe Parker
HAS THROWN DOWN BEST MEN
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S. P. Machine Leader Charged
with Backing Mcdonald to
Defeat Good Government
las THROWN DOWN BEST MEN
BY 7. SHELLEY SUTTON

Democrats and Republicans met on
common ground in Los Angeles yester-
day, and laying party differences aside,
united in a general protest against
the latest effrontery of Walter Par
ker Southern Pacific machine boss,
whose Vaccinations, aided by the ma
neuvers of VIII Herrin in San Fran
cisco, have almost disrupted "de gang"
and caused great anguish among the
old-ti1ne machine men, who now are
heing relessated by t!io machine be-
cause so deeply branded with the S.
p. iron that they have no chance of
election and the push" leaders are
compelled to look for new material in
the hope of electing their ticket
This time, according to both Demo-
cratic and Republican leaders outside
the machine, Parker has openly thrown
over one of his best men and secretly
has double crossed and nolle pressed"
another.
There are two versions of the affair.
The Democrats maintain that Henry
Mcdonald, who has taken advantage
of his position as secretary of the Los
Angeles Jefferson club to circulate pc
titions announcing himself a candidate
for the state senate from the Thirty
eighth district, and who admits he has
obtained a vast number of signatures
in excess of the legal maximum, in
Oruer TO prevent any CdHuludlc 1iOlii
entering the race against him, is in
reality Walter Parker's candidate; that
Parker has put him into the contest
to defeat former Senator II. S. G. Nc
Cartney (of Franklin Hiehborn fame)
and George S. Sanders that Parker's
money is paying for the circulation OF
these petitions and that Parker has
dealt treacherously with the Republi-
cans, because he is publicly supposed
to be opposing Mcdonald.
MCDONALD CONFIDENT
Mcdonald, in turn, goes about the
street with broad smile and an air
of assurance which is exceedingly NOR
tifying to the Democrats, who at ev-
cry opportunity state openly that Nc
Donald is NOT a Democrat; that he
has never been regarded as possi-
bility for any office and that Parker
is behind him, to all of which McDon-
aid makes no reply and says merely
that "he has a cinch on the senate
and no other candidate can get enough
signatures to go before the primary,
because he (McDonald) has them all
signed up in that (the Thirty-eighth)
district"
A review of the situation from non
partisan standpoint reveals several in
teresting facts Some time ago the Re
publican machine, headed by waiter
Parker, placed two candidates in the
race for the nomination to the state
senate from the Thirty eighth district.
These men were H. S. G. Mccartney and
George H. Sanders, a lawyer who re-
GENTLY secured the attorneyship for an
estate, which 1t is said will net MIN
a fee of perhaps $4,000. The machine
was at first strong for Sanders, pc
cause 1t was generally conceded that
the incumbent = Mccartney = had no
90 \ ,~a-nlaptad hpP1HSA of his
record in the last legislature.
About this time, however. McCart-
new and his personal following held
conference and decided that Mccartney
had another chance. This chance, they
believed, lay in the fact that he was
the author OF the state pure tood law
and that as deputy district attorney,
baving prosecuted numerous pure food
cases. he had established record that
should send him back to the legisla-
ture. Accordingly Mr.. Mccartney an
nounced himself and entered the race
against Sanders.
MACHINE DIVIDED
Hero. once more, the old machine
was divided. Just as it is disrupted
bv the five-cornered gubernatorial fight
and by the national senatorial mlxup'
as by the state senatorial nght IN lne
Thirty-fourth district and the assem-
blv contest in the Seventy-third dis
triot so 1t has been suddenly upset
bv the situation in the Thirty-eighth
senatorial district. One-half of the ma
chine leaders, spurred on by their FOR
mer "props," who insist that the old
timers should be given the political
plum In preference to new men, nave
come out strongly against Sanders and
favor Mccartney; and the other half is
making all kinds of threats of what
will happen if Mccartney is nom