Los Angeles herald., 1910-04-12
DEMOCRATS WILL
ACT IN HARMONY
Party Leaders Agree on Unani-
nous Action at Conference
Which Opens Today
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deliver the address of welcome. The
selection of a presiding off Ger will fol
low Several men are mentioned fol
4 this position, including Senator A
Caminetti of Amador county.
Among the speakers for today Ii
Thomas Lee Woolwine, formerly dep
uty district attorney, who played ar
important part In the Good Govern
ment campaign which ended in the
recall of former Mayor A. c. Harper
of Los Angeles. Mr.. Woolwine will
speak on a vital topic which just now
is agitating the national capital, and
which, therefore, is of much Importance
to every American citizen, but es-
pecially to Democrats. His topic Is
Insurgency" AS Democrats maintain
this is their winning year, and De-
mocracy undoubtedly will draw a large
support from the ranks of the insur-
gents, II is believed his address will
attract much interest. Mr. Woolwine
| is an able attorney, an exceptionally
| convincing orator, an author of well
known repute, a scholar and a promi-
nent Democrat. thoroughly able to dis
cuss his subject in all its phases.
CURTIN WILL SPEAK
Senator ]. B. Curtin of Sonora will
speak of constitutional amendment No.
/, which involves the separation of
state and county taxes, and Democrats
and others interested in the problems
of taxation are anticipating an un-
usually interesting discussion of this
important matter.
Senator Curtin has made deep
study of the questions involved in the
amendment and will clear away much
of the uncertainty which in the minds
of many has attached to it.
THE High Cost of Living" as ex-
planned by Prof. l.. A. Handley, also
promises to be an unusually interest
ing address.
Walter Macarthur, one of the leading
Democrats OF San Francisco. has pre-
pared an address on the vital relation
ship OF Democracy and Labor" :"
Frank H. Gould of san Francisco will
review THE Legislation Enacted by a
Democratic Legislature"
In addition to this program for today
at the state conference the Democrats
have arranged for a real love feast at
Jefferson day banquet will be held at
Levys cafe. Tickets for this banquet
are now on sale and an interesting
program has been arranged.
Former Mayor Edward f. Dunno of
Chicago, who will arrive on the Santa
Fe at $3.50 o'clock this morning, will be
one of the principal speakers at this
banquet. The program follows:
1.-THE Jefferson Club" Judge d. K.
Trask, president of the club.
Jefferson Day." Mattisen B. Jones,
Soastmaster.
"Democracy's Opportunity" former
Mayor A. f. Dunno of Chicago.
1.-The Function of Government" The
odore A. Bell.
Northern California" Judge John
Il. Raker.
Present Day Democracy" George e.
Church.
Education and Democracy" Prof.
Lorin A. Handley
This banquet is to be one of the most
sumptuous ever attempted by the JEFF
ferson club, and the program is of eX-
ceptional interest, containing, as it
does, number of features particularly
apropos of the present political con-
ditions in America.
There were many candidates dis
cussed at the Democratic headquarters
yesterday. The friends of H. A. Blan-
chard of Santa Clara county, a well
known attorney, are busily boosting
him for clerk of the supreme court.
Prof. T. II. Kirk of Los Angeles has
been put forward for state superinten-
dent of public instruction; S. S. Bal
ley of Alameda county for secretary
of state; C. b. Andross of Marysyille
for state treasurer; James Gilmartin
of San Mateo county, a San Francisco
publisher, for state printer.
Among the candidates for the con-
gressional nomination are several well
known Democrats, most of whom have
not expressed their desire for the nom
ination, but whose friends are boosting
them.
Among. those spoken of for the nom
ination for congress are the following:
First congressional district, Judge
John e. Raker; second district, J. w.
Arthur; Fifth district, James d. Nc
Guire; Sixth district, Senator James
Holohan; Seventh district CLOS An
geles), Prof Lorin A. Handley; Eighth
district. 1. 1. Irwin.
Shortly after the caucus yesterday,
when interviewed by reporter for The
Herald, Theodore Bel, the Democratic
candidate for governor, discussed his
campaign and the issues In the pending
election. He said:
"I am more confirmed than ever in
the opinion that the state is more IN
terested in what governs than 1t is in
who governs. OF necessity the func-
tions of government must be exercised
by men, but the. thing that vitality af-
fects us Is that these functions shall be
properly exercised. Names OF ind1vidu-
ais and party labels have no signif-
cance aside from the guaranty they
carry that the will of theS majority
shall be crystallized into law and then
equally enforced 1t is idle to claim
that with splendid citizenship of more
than a million and a half only this or
that particular man Is fitted for the