Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-21
WILL
MARK NEW EPOCH
Republicans and Democrats to
Appoint New Committees
Next Saturday
THIRD TICKET is ONLY HOPE
Both Parties Must Unite to
Clean OUT the Courthouse.
Many Questions Asked
THIRD TICKET IS ONLY HOPE
by T. SHELLEY SUTTON

Wn1cn VIII marx q new era III JHe pO-
litical development of California. One
Of them will be the Republican county
convention, to be held in Simpson au-
ditorium. and the other will be the
Democratic county convention, to be
held in Blanchard hall.
Unusual interest will attach to both
| of these political gatherings for the
reason that they will appear not only
as mile posts in the progress OF the
states dominant political parties, but
as tombstones marking the burial place
of the Southern Pacific gorgons, who
for years have bossed and bulldozed
the Democratic and Republican con-
ventions in county and state, but which
will be absent for the first time at the
two political assemblages to be held
next Saturday.
The push" flunky, the chronic Of
flee seeker, the corporation henchmen,
the programmes and peanut orators
will be conspicuous by their absence;
or, II they have the iron nerve to be
present, they will have no opportunity
to ply their poisonous politics or to
dope" the delegates, for these conven-
tions will possess none of the old-time
brass band, sawdust and tobacco juice
| characteristics. They will not be nom
mating conventions, but conventions of
conflrmation--repre political
gatherings, whose delegates have been
elected directly by the people, to APP
! point delegates to the state conven-
tions, and to name county central COM
mittees and adopt the county plat
forms of their respective parties.
In this respect a great deal of con-
! lecture has been indulged in as to the
proper solution of several important
| problems now confronting the Repup-
licans. The Democrats, of course, have
achieved a victory in all of their pri-
| thatT- convention Will
pass off without important discussion
and devoid of dlscord, 'but with the
Republicans 1t will be different.
The Lincoln Roosevelt league sup
porters-if not the active leaders of
| the league-yesterday were asking
themselves several questions. The
| Herald, having taken an active inter-
est In the reform movement which has
| lust been successfully terminated in
the Republican organization, was ire
uuently appealed to yesterday for an
answer TO these questions:
SOME QUESTIONS ASKED
First, will the next Republican copn-
| ty convention be controlled by the
Lincoln Roosevelt league?
Second, will the county central com
mittee appointed by that convention
be guided and influenced by. the pre-
primary platform and the spirit of the
| Lincoln Roosevelt league?
Third, will the new county central
| committee be compelled to support the
party's nominees, including Fredericks,
| Hartwell and other undesirable" reg
ulars who have won the nomination
! against the leagues Candidates
Fourth, will the Lincoln Roosevelt
| league continue its activities against
the machine nominees, or will the next
| county central committee indorse the
entire ticket?
| Fifth, will Fredericks, Hartwell, etc,
be allowed to conduct their campaign
from the same platform and at the
same meetings, presided over by the
reform" or league nominees?
These questions were referred yes
terday to some of the most prominent
officials of the Lincoln Roosevelt
league and their answers varied. IL
must be remembered that the plans
for the general election are still en-
bryonic and no set policies have been
adopted; vet there are one or two I'M
portant facts which many Republicans
apparently have forgotten. serious
consideration of these facts will i'm
part an entirely different aspect to the
pending struggle and throw some light
on the political perplexities of the pres
ent, In the first place, 1t must be
horne in mind that there is virtually
no longer a Lincoln Roosevelt league
in Los Angeles, or, in fact, in Cali
fornia.
LEAGUE QUITS BUSINESS
The Lincoln Roosevelt league repre-
sented the reform element of Repub-
llcanism. the function and object OF
which was to prevent the nomination
of "push" or undesirable candidates
and to rid the county and state OF
Southern Pacific domination.
The fight of the league ended at the
,.,.;,,, n ,.,v aIactinr Ia St TuaSdaV. with the
league nominating a large number of
its candidates, although 1t was defeat
ed in several important contesV. But,
Notwithstanding the fact that District
Attorney Fredericks, Coroner Hart
well, Tax Collector Welch and other
"undesirables" received the Republican
nomination, the entire ticket, as nom
mated, has become the ticket of the
Republican party-not the ticket Of the
league nor the ticket of the regulars
but the ticket of the Republicans.
The Lincoln Roosevelt league, hav-
ing performed its function, goes out of
business and there is only one way
that the "insprgent" Republicans who
still wish to continue their opposition
to the machine candidates can hope to
defeat them, and that is to wage their
fight through the Good Government
(non-partisan) organization.
Recognizing the sincerity and deter
m1natlOn or the members OF Lne Lln-
coin Roosevelt league, it is not to be
conceived that its members, individ-
ually, could do other than carry on
their opposition to the general election.
It would be out of the question, as in
| dividuals, for them even to passively
submit to the election of the noml-
nees they have so strenuously opposed.
Not as Lincoln Roosevelt Republicans
mot as factional contestants-but as
Republicans, as citizens and voters, it
is obviously their duty to continue the
battle to the last ditch-to the general
election of November 8.
They cannot for moment think of
encouraging the candidacy of these
nominees, by word or deed, much less
can they vote for them. The stand
| they have taken, the fight they have
waged, the principles they have advo-
Gated, preclude the possibility of a
tame submission. 1t would be trading
horses in the middle of the stream.
J They are the avowed enemies of the
machine and as such must fight the
machine and its candidates to the final
election. There is no other solution to
that problem. But always we must
bear in mind that this must be done
| and will be done-not by the Lincoln
Roosevelt league, but by the men who
were members Of the league before the
| primaries, and who. it is taken for