Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-26
SLOGAN OF REvI7ALZED DEMOCRACY
IS SOUNDED At BANQUET TO LLOYD
Missouri Congressman Chairman of National Congressional Com
mttee Is Guest of Los Angeles Observation-Disclosures
of S. P. Rule California and Unity in Party's Ma
tona Battle Are Watchwords with Speakers

in the east, that the character of the
people is different, their ideals, inter-
ests, thoughts and tendencies in many
respects unlike those of the people in
the east.
For years and years, he said, the af-
fairs of the state have been so abso-
lutely controlled by one corporation,
the Southern Pacific, more recently
aided by other corporations, that the
keenest political activity, in many To-
calities discarding party lines and
uniting In the one great issue of over
throwing the corporation despotism. AS
a result of the activities of this cor
rupt machine, he explained, there has
been no coherent Democratic party,
but merely q makeshift, misnamed
Democracy, used by the Southern Pa
cific corporation as a "foil' for the
more corrupt Republicanism-a weak
opposition maintained as a political
pretense.
This corrupt Republicanism, which
has flourished in California, bossed by
the same corporation, he said, has been
controlled by one man, the czar of the
machine-W. r. Herrin. chief counsel
of the Southern Pacific.
TELLS OF CONDITIONS
Local conditions, therefore, have be-
come vastly different than in the east,
and the campaigns of the newly organ
ized Democracy, at last wreSted from
the control of the Southern Pacific,
cleansed and revitalized with the prin-
ciples and loyalty of jefferson and
Jackson, cannot be conducted along the
lines observed in the eastern states.
Here in Los Angeles, said Mr. Well
born, the people believe that non-par-
tisanship alone can throw off the re-
naming tentacles of the corporation
octopus. They are looking to nom
partisanship and not to the Lincoln
Roosevelt league, the straight Demo-
cratic organization, or to any other
party or faction, for relief from the
unbearable conditions brought about by
years of corporation bossism.
I'VE have a peculiar city charter"
said Mr.. Wellborn, (which will not
tisan campaign. Our campaigns in this
city must be non-partisan. In the
county and state affairs, however, the
political affiliations of our people are
Indicated by their registration" Mr..
Wellborn's address elected much COM
ment and applause.
Toastmaster Handley called Mr..
nearly all of the prominent Republicans
of the state had been Democrats until
the Republican machine secured con-
troll of affairs, through the Southern
Pacific.
''Why. there's Oscar Lawler, assist
ant president of the United States" he
said. "Lawler was a Democrat at one
time. don't know whether he was a
good one or not, but he claimed to be,
a.
our former postmaster-he used to be
a Democrat. also. And his brother,
Frank p. Flint, United States senator
we all remember what a Democrat
Frank used to be, and how he Topped
when the tide turned. w. f. Herrin.
the Southern Pacific machine boss and
head of the Republican party in Cali
fornia-he was always a Democrat,
even when running the Republican or
ganization; but we disowned him
years ago. Frank Dominguez, even,
they tell me, used to be a Democrat"
FIGHTING THE S. r.
George S. Patton then addressed the
assemblage. paying a high compliment
to Congressman Lloyd and expressing
the interest of Los Angeles Demo-
Gratis in his visit here. Mr.. Patton
said:
81 see before me quite a number of
veteran Democrats who were with me
in other days when the Democratic
party of California struck numerous
body blows at the Southern Pacific.
These men well remember how con-
sistently and how energetically we op-
posed the machine ir those days, and
they must feel a good deal as I do
when they read the interview by one
of the Lincoln Roosevelt leaguers
in which he states that the people of
California are now offered their first
opportunity to vote for an ahti-ma-
chine candidate for governor"
Mr.. Patton said that under the
Southern Pacific domination, the Dem
ocrats of California had frequently
"dodged the ISSUE" and that they had
avoided the position they should Ia
taken relative to the tariff.