Los Angeles herald., 1910-04-16
SCHEME Of HEARST
AND s. P. EXPOSED
Democrats Repudiate Inter
view in Which They Declare
for Joseph Call
ATTEMPT TO SPLIT THE PARTY
Old Political Trick Will Be FoiIed
by Adherents of Theo-
d0re Bell
ATTEMPT TO SPLIT THE PARTY
CONTINUED FROM Page One,

for the office of governor. l am for
Mr. Bell fl st, last and always"
Friends of Isidore Dockweiler, whom
the Hearst organ attempted yesterday
to put forward, by inference, as in
favor of Mr.. Call entering the race
against Mr. Bell, said yesterday that
before Mr. Dockweiler's departure for
the east he had repeatedly expressed
his conviction that Mr.. Bell was the
strongest man in the Democratlc
party for the office of governor and
insisted that Mr.. Dockweiler had never
regarded Mr.. Call in any other light
than a prospective candidate for rail-
road commissioner.
Close personal friends of Mr. can,
including scores of the most prominent
leaders, who have been shoulder to
shoulder with him for years. in cali
fornia politics, proclaim that the work
of the Hearst organ is an S. p. trick
to divide the sentiment of the Demo
cratic party, and thus to permit the
S. P. to put up a third candidate-a
''machine" man. These friends and
Democratic leaders say there positive
Iy has been nothing done or said by
Mr. Call to Justify the Hearst organ
in its shameful effort to disrupt the
party.
Mr.. Call Is absent in the north, has
repeatedly refused to become candl-
date for governor, and so informed the
Hearst organ before his departure.
The Hearst organ has taken advant-
age of his absence, say Hr. Cali
friends. to make him the innocent cat s
nav by which Hearst hopes to pay
his debt to the Hartman interests by
eventually dragging out a machine
chestnut to defeat Mr.. Bell.
JONES ALSO MIsQUOTED
Mattison b. Jones, one of the men
who also was outrageously misquoted
in the Hearst organ yesterday, said:
"I did not say what the Examiner
says | said. They made botch of my
statements. 1 said / thought Mr.. Call
is "A splendid man, and would make
good governor. So might many others;
but | understand Mr.. Call is to be the
candidate for railroad commissioner.
THAT settles It, No man could make a
better railroad commissioner. But Mr..
Bell is a candidate for the governor
ship, and no man could make better
governor" 49,,
SO on down the list of fake inter
views. wherever these men could be
found so they could make statement,
it was The same reply: II was mis-
quoted" or 1T is an infamous misrep-
resentation," or "It is ridiculous
never said it," etc, etc.
With this unmistakable brand OF
falsenood burned into the so-called in
terviews of the Hearst organ, 1t is
probable no further attention will be
paid to it's political rasallity, as the
leading Democrats of Los Angeles who
were innocently involved in the Hearst
fiasco took immediate steps yesterday
to correct the wrong impression con-
veyed by the Hearst organ, and TO set
themselves right before che state s
Democracy. AS Hearst's hand, and tho
directing influence of the S. p, thus
have been clearly exposed and de-
nounced, it is not probable the Hearst
organ will succeed in stirring up any
further difficulty. With the Democratic
leaders thoroughly informed of Hearst s
method. ii should not be difficult for
all of the voters soon to learn the facts,
as most of them already have done,
and hence to realize and discharge their
duty accordingly.