Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-17
CRUSHING BLOW IS
GIVEN TO MACHINE
Reform Legislative Candidates
Win in All But Two Dis
triCts in County
lNC0RSE, WORKS FOR SENATE
Fredericks' HammeI and One or
Two Others Only Push
Men to Score
INEoRSE WORKS FOR SENATE

Court Judge Hervey, Tax Collector
WEIGH and one or two assemblymen.
The defeat of Lyman Farwell, league
candidate for the assembly in the Sew
enty-flrst district, seems probable.
The closing hours of the Lincoln
Roosevelt campaign were the most
strenuous ever experienced by any po-
litical organization in the history of
the county. Extraordinary efforts
were made to get out a heavy vote.
and scores of automobiles, donated by
enthusiastic admirers of the league,
were pressed into service throughout
the day in the hope of offsetting the
many votes which were hustled out
by the push"
The Southern Pacific gang was pres
ent in full force and weeks before the
election had hired hundreds of autos
and other vehicles which were util-
lied to take voters to and from the
polls, the push hoping thereby that
the men it thus favored would be in
duced to vote for the machine candi-
dates.
At Lincoln Roosevelt league head
quarters all was activity. Nothing
was left undone to insure the success
of the strenuous battle waged by the
league and it's candidates and friends
to defeat the work of the push"
Forty-four telephones were kept busy
all day; about eighty girls and men
employed as office assistants made the
headquarters appear a huge beehive
without a drone In any of the ten
departments utilized by the campaign
workers.
The entire upper floor of the Rindge
building, in fact, where the league has
maintained It's headquarters, presented
remarkable scene of activity, sys-
tematic hustle and political enterprise.
Secretary Kemper B. Campbell and
Nf thn
league were about the busiest men in
the county and worked from early
morning yesterday until late last night
directing the details of the compli-
Gated work. Thousands of telephone
complaints were received, especially
from voters In the Seventh and Eighth
wards who stated that a number OF
Walter Parker's hencbmen were cleo
tioneering almost inside the voting
booths.
PUSH ACTIVE ALL DAY
The league representatives investi-
gated these charges and in many in
stances took campaign literature out
of the booths, compelled men to leave
the polling places and by persistently
standing guard undoubtedly prevented
considerable fraudulent voting.
Eddie Morris, the notorious push"
politician, stood within twenty feet OF
the DOOluS HSd4lJ oil duJ JSoeSANN
at the city hall polling place, and fire.
uuently engaged In low conversation
with first one and then another pros
pectiye voter or machine politician.
The Lincoln Roosevelt league had a
strenuous time answering the various
complaints, investigating charges OF
fraudulent voting, inStructing nun
dreds of voters how to mark their ball
lot, superintending the work Of the
precinct committeeman, hustling out
voters, directing voters to their re-
spective polling places and attending
to the many other matters connected
with the election.
The machine undoubtedly waged the
most strenuous and the most deter
mined battle in its existence, but so
far as the general ticket was con-
cerned II was utterly unable to cope
with the effective work of the league
or combat the tremendous sentiment
of the public. While the vote was
light in many precincts, this apathy
was more than offset by the enthu
siasm and the strenuous activities of
the leagues precinct workers. Elk
amples of the great work accomplished
by the league are seen in the results
obtained in certain push" stronghoids.
For instance, 1t became apparent quite
early in the count that Johnson had
carried Barney Healy'S own precinct
and that Johnson's vote in the old
Seventh and Eighth wards, which had
been regarded as push" certainties,
Is regarded as almost phenomenal.
RATTLE AGAINST EI.DRIDGE
One of the hardest battles of the
campaign was that waged by the
league, as we'll as by the good govern
ment Democrats. against "rus" Ed
ridge in the third supervisorial district.
Eldridge and his lieutenants worked
like beavers all during the day. but
Butler, his league opponent, was not
caught mapping and his friends came
VaIiantly to the rescue The good gov
eminent Democrats also made a con-
certed effort to offset the activities of
Enoch Hidden. The returns show that
many of the men who dragged him into
the race threw him. down at the last
moment and wrote in the name of
Eldridge on the Democratic ticket. But
with all of this Eldrldge did not make
the showing he anticipated, and 1t was
apparent that even large number of
"machine" voters refused to stand for
Eldridge, for the returns show con-
clusively that many ''push" voters
knitted Eldridge and voted for Butler,
although they stood pat on the other
push candidates.
In the Thirty-ei senatorial dis
trict the battle was particularly eXclt-
ing: the first returns looked favorable
for Mccartney and Sanders, but later
returns showed that Hewitt was con-
siderably In the lead, with Mccartney
seeming to run a close second. The
Democrats concentrated their efforts
to defeat the notorious 'Muggins" Nc
Donald, the discredited Democrat who
managed to buy up enough signatures
to get his name on the Democratic bal
lot, in opposition to Martin Bekins,
the Democratic candidate Endorsed at
the Long Beach conference.
USES TAAIMANY TACTICS
"Muggins" made an energetic fight
and resorted to many Tammany tactics
throughout the day to secure the NOM
nation by trickery and misrepresenta-
ton claiming that he had been wrong
lv treated" and maligned by the good
government Democrats, the county
central committee, the executive COM
mittee, Chairman Norton and all the
other Democrats and Democratic or
ganizations, and was seen throughout
fine day carrying on whispered CONVEX
sations with his friends and with
democratic voters whom he sought to
induce to vote for him.
The fact that Fredericks ran ahead
of his league opponent is attributed to
the exceptional strength and system
attic organization of the notorious po-
litical machine maintained by and In
connection with the district attorneys