Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-10
ALAMITOS VOTERS
HEAR CANDIDATES
LincoIn-RooseveIt League ASpi-
rants to Office Adress Car
roll Park Meeting
MUCH ENTHUSIASM AROUSED
Declares There Is No Question as
to Issues Before the
People
MUCH ENTHUSIASM AROUSED

LONG BEACH, Aug. 9.-John Perry
Woods spirited speech was feature of
the Lincoln Roosevelt league meeting
held tonight in the Carroll Park school
at Alamitos. Attorney Fred Baker was
the presiding officer The speakers
were Harry Lelande, j. II. De La
Monte, E. E. Norton, Guy Eddie. f. G.
Finlayson, Assemblyman Wiley and
Mr.. Wood All aroused enthusiasm
among their hearers. Mr.. Wood, who
Is an aspirant for the office of judge Of
the superior court, said in part:
ut is a momentous struggle that is
being waged throughout this state, and
/ glory in the opportunity to do my
part of the toll despite the embarrass-
ment that l feel in taking an active
part in a political campaign while a
candidate for d place among the Ju-
dietary. This is a campaign of prin-
ciple and not of men, and the es-
cutcheon OF no office, however exalted,
can be besmirched by It's candidate
lifting up his voice for the moral and
political regeneration which is the
meaning and only end of the struggle.
THE ISSUES
EVERY open-minded man in this state
knows the issue which will be before
the people on August 16 That issue in
progress or insurgency. Insurgency is
the protest of the people against that
which Is wrong, whether it be protest
against Misrepresentation in congress
through standing pat upon the old plan
of serving special interests by throttlinS
the voice and efforts of those who may
try to legislate for the people they are
elected to serve, whether it be hugging
close to special privilege at the expense
Y,1 in6
tunity, whether 1t be the protest
against inefficient or dishonest city or
county government.
'In this state, as in the country at
large, the question for the citizens as
electors to decide Is whether the pro-
test, the intense revulsion of the people
against the perVersion and corruption
of the public service, shall be made eff
fective through the united efforts of the
people. or whether it shall once again
die away, a disappointed hope.
THE public mind can never again
reach the condition where it is not
shocked at the political iniquities which
for so long have possessed the halls of
our legislature and the government of
our cities and caunties, and from which
for so long we thought we had no re-
dress. But 1t is for the people to say
whether they will now open the doors
and give their political premises the
cleaning which will make of our gov
ernment a new and respectable place
for our liberties to dwell in.
ANOTHER MACHINE
"I urge you with all possible earnest
ness not to fail to do your part be-
cause someone else first took up the
burden of awakening you. 1 beg of
you not to turn from this widespread
peoples movement only because you
seem to be supporting another ma
chine. Any organization is a machine
and your protest, your insurgency. is
vain without organization. OF course,
there are those supporting the move
ment from the baneful control of spe-
that is no reason for discrediting the
movement. Join it and help to make
it what it should be, an organization