Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-16
SOCIALISTS PLAN
TO BOOST WILSON
Will Hold Mass Meeting at Which
Candidate Will Expound
Theories -.
Socialists of Los Angeles county are

Socialists of Los Angeles county are
planning a huge mass meeting to be
held in Union Labor Temple tomorrow
night, at which J. Stitt Wilson, Social
ist candidate for governor, will expound
the issues of the day from Socialist
standpoint.
other prominent Socialists who will
address the meeting are Rev. Frank 1.
Wheat and Fred c. Wheeler of Los
Angeles.
Mr.. Wilson, who is making a vigorous
campaign, which began two weeks ago
when he started out in the red spe-
cial," will go from here to Santa Bar
bara, Fresno and other Northern Cali
! fornia points, and it is expected the
red special will have visited every
| town in the state before the campaign
| is ended.
The Rev. Frank 1. Wheat discussing
the mass meeting to be held tomorrow
night, said:
This meeting is going to be one of
the most rousing Socialist rallies ever
held in the city. Mr.. Wilson is one of
the best informed and most enthusi-
astic Socialists of the country, and Is
noted as an orator and thinker.
"The Socialist prospects this year,
particularly in California, are very en-
couraging. We have been winning
votes every day, and the people are
coming to believe that the Socialists
offer the only real remedy for existing
evils.
1.-THE Socialist party is stronger in
California today than it has ever been,
and everywhere it has grown with a
most remarkable rapidity. Everyone
has been keeping a close eye on the
Socialist administration at Milwaukee,
and back there they have accomplished
such wonderful results and SO thor
oughly exemplified the advantages and
merits of Socialistic measures that the
party is taking in thousands of new re-
cruits and is everywhere meeting with
unusual encouragement.
WILL TURN TO SOCIALISM
Eventually the people of California
will turn to Socialism for relief from
the present conditions, and when we
are through with this campaign many
of the thinking people of the state will
know much more about Socialism than
they do now, and will be much more
willing to give it a fair trial, which is
all the Socialists ask for"
j. Stitt Wilson, the principal speaker
at the meeting tomorrow night, aside
from being a Socialist, has some pro-
nounced views on the opinion of woman
suffrage. In statement which he
issued yesterday Mr. Wilson said:
Il stand openly and aggressiVely for
votes for women. l have done so
through all my public career. And l
intend to urge it upon the electors
throughout the whole campaign.
Moreover, 1 have the unanimous
backing of the whole Socialist party,
The international Socialist party is the
only party which has always made
woman suffrage one of its fundamental
issues.
1T was the Socialist party of Finland
Gn
dramatically the vote for women. 1t Is
the Socialist party all over Europe that
is now fighting for universal and equal
suffrage. 1t is the Socialist women or
England who have been the backbone
of the militant suffrage movement for
votes for women in England. The So
cialist party of America, of which am
the candidate in this state, is making
a special propaganda for woman suiI-
rage throughout America.
"On these grounds 1 am particularly
the logical candidate to receive the un-
divided support of the women in this
state election.
"ff the woman suffrage societies want
freedom for women at the ballot box,
but economic slavery for women IN the
shop, factory and mill, the candidates
of the old parties will consent to that,
But l never will. l will fight for the
political freedom of woman at the polls
and her economic freedom in industry.
Here Is the strength of our movement,
and the power of it's irresistible appeal
to the woman suffragists.
whether the woman suffrage move
ment supports my candidacy or' not, 1
will make votes for women one of my
main points in the campaign. And if l
am elected governor of the state L
shall stump the state with the hope
that when the constitutional amend
ment is placed before the electors it
will sweep the state with the required
maiOrity"