Los Angeles herald., 1910-04-19
LEAGUE FORCES
OPEN CANT PA|GN
Good Government Workers Start
Ball Rolling for Council
manic FavoriteS
PRECINCT LEADERS TO MEET
Stanton Will Wind Up Work in
County Today-PIans a
Northern Tour

Yesterday marked the beginning of
the councilmanlc campaign on the
part of the Good Government forces.
Preliminary work began in earnest
last evening when the first of the ward
meetings was held. Moreover it is the
intention to hold these meetings daily
until the entire city shall have been
covered.
The meetings were called by the
general secretary and are held in the
leagues offices in the Fay building.
They are to be attended by the several
precinct chairmen in each ward and
at them a plan of campaign will be
adopted and a division of the necessary
labor will be effected.
The first Good Government meeting
in the councilmanic campaign will be
held at Woods hall, 5721 Pasadena
avenue, in the Highland Park district,
Thursday evening at o'clock. Frank
S. Forbes will preside and sI&eches
will be made by Prof. Lorin A. Hand
ley, Guy Eddie, Charles E. Bent and
others. 1t Is expected George II. Stew
art and Frederick J. Whiffen, candi-
dates for the two vacant councilmanic
places, will be present. While neither
of the men named has been indorsed
formally by the Good Government or
of many men prominent in the Good
Government movement; and If any Of
ficial Endorsement Is made prior to the
primary they undoubtedly will be the
benehciaries.
Phil A. Stanton, candidate for the
Republican gubernatorial nomination,
will resume his political joy-riding to-
day, when he will extend his auto
1s,tat ion 70 Nnff "
and Compton. These are the last three
points within Los Angeles county on
the Stanton itinerary Tonight Mr..
Stanton, accompanied by e. r. Allen
and Winfield Hogaboom, will leave
for Imperial Junction, where they will
again take an automobile for a hur-
rled speech-making tour through the
Imperial valley, stopping at Brawley,
Ell Centro, Imperial and Holtville.
Following the Imperial valley trip
Mr.. Stanton will make his way north
ward. He plans first three weeks
auto-talk through the San Joaquin
valley. Later headquarters will be
opened in San Francisco, Oakland and
Sacramento and the north will be CIV
en- to understand that Stanton is in the
race and in to stay. The Los Angelan
plans to talk in every city, village and
hamlet in the state. Where practical
an auto can not go and voters are to
be corraled, he will go on horseback
or on foot. He will be preceded by an
advance agent whose duty it will be
to hunt up the Stanton enthusiasts in
the communities visited and arrange
for meetings.
The Stanton campaign in the south
has consisted chiefly in the candi-
dates pointing to his record in the
last session of the legislature. In the
north this digital diversion will be ac-
companied by an argument for fair
play. Mr.. Stanton will maintain that
the south should be recognized and
that this recognition should naturally
be accorded to him as the only south
ern candidate. Incidentally, of course.
there will be the usual promises of a
business administration; and dis
avowal of any connection with or
sympathy for the S. PIG o. p ma
chine.
Stanton claims to be the only inde-
pendent candidate in the field. He has
no organization" back Of him except
the Stanton club organized by his
friends in this city, and he will have
none. That's a good talking point, of
course, but whether it will work on
election day remains to be seen.
At the Hollenbeck cafe today at
noon the Stanton Boosters club will
give give its regular weekly luncheon.
City Attorney Leslie Hewitt will make
a talk to the members, and any others
who may care to attend the luncheon
and pay the dollar which 1t costs. A
large number of Stanton supporters are
expected to be present.