Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-22

corporation, will cast their vote for the
Good Government ticket on which the
name of DR.. A. C. Pratt undoubtedly
will appear at the general election NO
vember next.
Still greater than either of these will
be the struggle that the people Of Los
Angeles county must wage to break the
backbone of the S. p. political push
in Los Angeles county, entrenched and
fortified in the office of District At
torney Fredericks, the Republican ma
chine incumbent who wrested the NOM
ination from Frank s. Hutton and who
will resort to every possible effort to
be reelected November 8.
MADE CLEAN-oUT FIGHT
Mr.. Hutton is one of the strongest
candidates the Lincoln Roosevelt league
possibly could have nominated, and he
made clean and commendable fight,
without resorting to political trickery
or to the time-honored tactics Of the
professional office-seeker and politician;
but the Republicans failed to nominate
him because of the powerful and per-
nicious efforts of the district attorneys
political machine. 1t Is a combine that
the Republicans could scarcely hope to
defeat without the aid of the balance
Of power-the Democratic vote. With
this vote going to the Good Government
ticket, the people of Los Angeles
county can. easily elect Thomas Lee
Woolwine, the Democratic nominee,
who will be indorsed on the third
ticket. Mr. Woolwine is one of the
men to whose efforts the present Good
Government organization owes it's en-
tity. His strenuous battle for civic
decency and political purity brought
about the overthrow of the previous
corrupt administration, the recall of
Mayor Harper and the election of the
present highly satisfactory administra-
ton, composed of both Democratic and
Republican officials, with a Republi-
can-Mayor Alexander at the head.
Mr.. Woolwine is now sojourning for
few days in Catalina, taking q rest
and recuperating for what promises to
be one of the most interesting cam
paigns in the history OF the county. He
Is noted as Fighter" a man who Is
fearless, although always judicious in
his utteranoes; and he does not mince
language; he tells the truth. He is
one of the most impressive speakers in
the county, with an accumulation of
facts and figures which it is expected
will afford the most startling sensa-
tions Of the campaign. He has en-
nounced that he Is going into the cam
paign to win, and his intimate friends
say he is fortified with thorough and
detailed knowledge of the inmost work.
ings of the district attorneys office,
and that he will expose its labyrinth
of political plots and it's Southern Pa
cific machine connections to a degree
which will sweep Fredericks forever
out of office.
Whatever may be the result, the Good
Government organization is indeed to
be congratulated that the Democrats
have nominated such clean and com
petent candidate for this important
office; for not until Mr.. Woolwine is
elected to succeed j. D. Fredericks can
the reform forces of Los Angeles coun-
ty really and honestly say that the
Southern Pacific political machine is
demolished.
OTHER CLEAN NOMINEES
The Democrats also have nominated a
highly cemmendable candidate for tax
collector against w. o. Welch, the Re-
publican machine nominee. The OPP
ticket is w. j. Desmond, one of the
most prominent good government
workers in the city, and man of un-
questionable character and integrity.
His Endorsement on the Good Govern
ment organizations (third) ticket Is
virtually conceded.
w. L. Moore, the pioneer of decent
Democracy in this county, and the IA
| ther Of the fight here to rid the Demo
cratic party of Southern Pacific ma
chine control, is the Democratic nom
inee for public administrator against
Frank Bryson, the Republican pusf
nominee, who won out against e. 10
Norton, the Lincoln Roosevelt candi-
date. Mr.. Moore, "the daddy of the
| new Democracy" which some of his
| friends delight in clubbing him, is one
| Af4i T11ea
whom either of the parties possibly
could nominate, and with the aid OF
the Republicans who remain true to
their pre-primary principles and issues
he will be elected over Bryson by a
tremendous majority. This is one OF
the particular instances in which all
decency- loving, earnest and conscien-
tious voters, regardless of their politi-
cal Affiliations, should get together, and
by cooperating Loyalty through the
Good Government organization earnest
lv endeaVor to elect w. L. Moore public
administrator of Los Angeles county.
There are other instances also in
which the Democrats and Republicans
must unite and If they bear constantly
in mind the issues on which the Lin
coin Roosevelt league carried major
ity Of its candidates to victory at the
primary election, they will be able to
clean out the courthouse and elect a
good government administration, as
they started out to do-with the Repub-
licans, of course, holding majority OF
the offices, but with a number of good
government Democrats in harness to
help them. a..
better a clean Democrat than dis
honest Republican" has bene the slogan
of the Republican members OF tHe
Good Government organization, and
with this maxim before them they
should concentrate their efforts to elect
the Good Government ticket.