Los Angeles herald., 1910-04-29
THIRTY DOLLARS A DAY

ten men to circulate petitions urging
Mr.. Call to enter the race against Mr..
Bell.
THIRTY DOLLARS A DAY
Mr.. Mcdonald, who employed these
men to circulate the petitions, is known
to be a man without the means TO pay
for such work. These men receive 30
a day, bringing the total up 10 $o0
day-which money obviously is being
spent for the purpose or dlsruptlng tue
Democracy, and therefore must be
coming from the enemies of the party
and its accepted candidate. 1t can
accomplish no good end; and to get
the number of names desired by tne
Hearst -McNab combination-a sutIl-
cient number to convince Mr.. Can ne
is favored by a considerable percent
age of the Democratic voters-~ll re-
uuire long time, indeed; so II can
readily be seen that the trick Is cos',y, !, :
The friends of Mr.. Mcdonald know ne
is not financially able to bear such an
expense as is involved in the clrcula-
ton of these petitions.
MEN can be found to sign any pc
tition," is proverbial; for, deploraple
as is the fact, there are men In every
cIty who sign petitions without KNOW
ing what they Sign.
Rut Mr., Call has not authorized these
netitions. He appeared surprised when
notified of this renewed effort to drag
him into a contest against Mr.. Beli'
and freely admitted he knew nothing
of who or what is behind the attempt.
WHO PAYS FOR 1T
When Mr.. Call was asked if he had
mt I'M any money for the circulation
of these petitions, he replied quickly
and positively that he had not, ana
said he supposed some of his friends
were doing so. -
investigation among Mr.. Calls
friends, however. failed to disclose
anyone putting up cent for these pc
titions, and as it Is known that MI
Mcdonald is not able to bear the eX-
pense. which it will readily be seen
is considerable, the question naturally
asked by local Democrats is: VINO Is
paying for it?
There can be but one answer. Fol-
lowing so closely as it does upon the
visit of Gavin McNab, the action or
Mr.. Mcdonald in placing these petl-
tion bearers in the field against the
hest interests of Democracy is viewed
by the partys leaders with great
deal of iustifiable suspicion.
Gavin McNab is a well known ma
chine Democrat The machine is a
we'll known Southern Pacific institu-
tion: and therefore Mr.. McNab and
the machine are readily to be placed
nv the citizens of California, who will
not countenance any effort TO dlVlde
the vote of the party in the guberna-
torial contest.
Mr. Bell is the Democratic candi-
date. and as such he has the hearty
and cooperative support of the Demo-
cratic voters Mr.. Calls name is being
used by the Southern Pacific machine
to injure Mr.. Bell and to take from
him a certain element of his support
CALL NOT A CANDIDATE
Mr.. Call is not candidate for the
qovernorship. He has repeatedly re-
fused to seek the nomination.
Democrats in Los Angeles do not
give serious consideration to this latest
attempt of the Hearst t-McNab-Southern
Pacific combine to lnJure Mr. Beil
THE circulation of these petitions, 1t is
believed, will not meet with enough
signatures to encourage Mr.. Cali from
his nresent stand, and friends of Mr.
Call say he is too loyal to the party
to oppose Mr.. Bell, or thus possibly to
disrupt it, even if number of Demo-
cratic leaders promise him their sup
port, However this may be, IT is con-
ceded by the Democratic leaders, and
hv the nress, up and down the state,
that Mr.. Bell will get the Democratic
nomination with but little opposition,
and that there is every prospect of his
| election.
"The Los Angeles Democracy is not
going to knife Mr. Bell" said prom
inent Democrat yesterday when he
was asked what he thought about Nc,
Donald's petitions. "McDonald is not
a Democrat of the kind demanded by
| the party of this state, and being com
paratively a stranger in our midst, his
efforts to injure Mr.. Bell are not tc
he regarded even as remotely effec-
tual."