Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-14

authority I am sure Mr.. Cannon Will
never be a candidate for speaker. Very
"JAS. McLACHLAN.
CRANES UP" DEAL
McLachlan is accused by Republi-
cans. who have every reason to know
whereof they speak, of having framed
up" a deal at Washington by which
he is able to garner thunder" for his
campaign for reelection. According
to these Republicans. who have been
keeping a close eye on McLachlan, he
is making a false campaign for re-
election on the claim that he is the
father of the federal steamship bill,
which has lain snugly in committee
for the last year, and which McLach-
Ian has been utterly unable to "get
through because it was originally in
tended McLachlan should prepare the
bill and a make a grandstand fight for
its adoption, the noise of which, he an
ticipated, would sweep him back to
congress. But all the time the boys"
at Washington have been patting him
on the back, saying, sympathetically,
go to it, Mack" and he has been
winking the other eye, while, with the
consent of the push" he has gone up
and down the country telling the peo-
pie what he has (not) done for the
federal steamship bill,
And, incidentally the records disclose
that whatever has been done toward
stimulating sentiment in favor of a
federal steamship line on the Pacific
coast has been due to the effort of
Senator Flint, who, although ma
chine" man first, last and all the time,
has done much more for southern CAL
ifornia than McLachlan ever contem-
plated and he has received but little
nV%
from McLachlan, for the reason that
McLachlan has passed most of his time
"doine politics" in the interest of his
reelection.
Marshall Stimson, the chairman of
the Los Angeles Lincoln Roosevelt
league, explained McLachlan's status
as a congressman very lucidly In one
of his recent speeches. Mr.. Stimson
said:
NATIONAL FIGURE "(O)."
zone of the big issues for the voters
of Los Angeles county to decide Is
whether or not they wish to indorse
Speaker Cannon and the standpat
policy of his administration. A vote
for James McLachlan is a vote for
Cannon. A vote for William d. Ste
phens is a vote for insurgency and
progressive Republicanism. McLachlan
has flooded this district with speeches
and circulars. Besides being able to use
the peoples money by making the
nostoffice distribute his speeches at
the expense of the people, he has an
immense fund to aid him in his cleo
ton. Speaker Cannon and the big bus
mess interests who want to see him
continue in office as speaker take care
of their creatures like McLachlan. Nc
Lachlan's circular is headed "A Ma
tional Figure
"That may be true, but that figure
is a big round cipher. Ask any of the
men on the Chamber of Commerce
and others who have had to fight for
Los Angeles interests in washington,
and they will tell you that for years
the Chamber of Commerce has had to
maintain a man in Washington to
look after our interests. That every
| time we wanted anything we had to
send on a delegation to Washington
| to pound McLachlan on the back, and
in many instances have had to seek
the aid of outside congressman. Nc
Lachlans influence is a joke in Wash
ington. In the great San Pedro
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