Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-30

indeed extremely important is not to
be denied. Being their only contest,
they should unite forces, at once ana
with the utmost determination, aided
by all good government voters, to see
that Martin Bekins becomes the Demo-
cratic nominee. In the interest OF good
government, clean politics and honesty
and efficiency, and as BODY ploW at
the trickery and unscrupulous metnous
of Mcdonald, this contest should be
Waged without failure or compromise.
McDonalds trickery in buying up
majority of the signatures in the Thlr-
ty-eighth district. to prevent Bekins,
Il regular Democratic candidate, from
securing enough names to hle MS
nominating petition, and McDonald 8
efforts to bluff the various signers or
his Ietition into believing that under
the direct primary law they are legally
bound to vote for him at the primaries,
should alone insure his defeat August
16 even If his record as a political tool
in New York, as in Los Angeles, be
not considered.
Mccartney, the machine candidate
against Sanders and Hewitt, Tor the
Republican nomination, is meeting with
a great deal of opposition from the
merchants, jobbers and manufacturers
| term "his improper enforcement of the
pure food law" which law he drafted
and had adopted at the last legislature.
This law, it is claimed by local manu-
facturers, compels the men who manu-
facture foodstuffs for sale in the United
States to live UP to a severely exact
ing standard prescribed by certain
state chemists who. it is claimed, are
not familiar with the details of the
busiiess. This standard, it is claimed,
conflicts seriously with the federal
standard, which conforms to the re-
ports of DR.. Wiley, chief of the bureau
of chemistry, department of agricul-
ture. The state statute also conflicts
in other ways, it Is alleged with the
federal pure food statute, and pre-
scribes that retailers shall not sell GER
tain kinds of adulterated or preserved
foodstuffs except where they have the
written guarantee of the manufactures
stating that it is pure, or harmless.
INSPECTOR QUIT
The local manufacturer cannot issue
this guarantee II he uses any of the
recognized authorizations, such as BEN
zoate of soda, but the retailer can sell
the most harmful and injurious ar
ticles, it is claimed, if they are i'm
ported from a foreign country which
has no pure food law as the foreign
manufacturer will not hesitate to issue
written guarantee stating anything
necessary to market his goods. The
local retailer, therefore, simply pro-
duces this foreign guarantee, and sells
considerable of the adulterated food,
which, being inferior, is sold at such
low prices that the local manufac-
turer, in many instances, cannot COM
pete with it because of the stringent
requirements of McCartney's bill.
mccartney, besides being the author
of this law, and drawing a salary as
state senator, and as deputy district
attorney, was given the remunerative
job by District Attorney j. ID. Fred
ericks of enforcing 1t in this county.
Mccartney put an inspector on the
job whose attempts to enforce the in
congrous law brought him into such
conflict with the local merchants and
manufacturers that he speedily re-
signed, whereupon Mccartney put on
another inspector" and the second
man made several attempts to enforce
the law, but each time found the re-
taller so protected by foreign guaran-
tees and caused the retailers so much
trouble that a local manufacturers as
sociation interfered whereupon, 1t Is
charged by one of Senator McCartneys
opponents, District Attorney Fredericks
agreed to appoint "any inspector on
whom the manufacturers could agree"
All of this is working against NC
Cartney in his present campaign and
has caused the machine Republicans to
line up strongly against him, in favor
of George Sanders, who is conducting
quiet but persistent campaign to defeat
the over-zealous Mccartney,
(which will it be?" is the question
now agitating the minds of the various
voters in the Thirty-eighth; but surely,
with such an assortment of good and
Aaf Va Of
trict ought to feel they are of a great
deal of Importance, anyway, for other
wise there would not be so many as
pirants in the field.