The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1911-12-14
SOCIALISTS ROLL
UP BIG VOTE
In Los Angeles----AlI the
Subtitle Powers of Capt.
talism Combined to
Beat Them.
fEy National Socialist Press. }

At Inc iAa6hliCienL showing made
at the polls in the face of the tor
rifle odds against them. The Nc
Namara confession came at a time
calculated to utterly destroy the
force of the whole Los Angeles
movement.
Plans are on foot to hold a big
rally and Jubilee meeting. Fifty
one thousand loyal workers stoou
firm throughout the stormy hours
and voted solidly for Job HERMAN
These men and women will never
waver in their loyalty to the Social
list movement.
'Build solidly by rolling up a big
party mem mbership," is the word that
has gone forth. California Social
Democrat, the official organ of the
Socialist party in the state, has sum-
med up the situation in an editorial,
under the heading Socialism Wins
Victory" which reads as follows:
Although at the election Tuesday
the Los Angeles Socialist ticket and
candidates were defeated at the
polls. the result was n most substan-
tial victory for Socialism.
Never has the working class fought
such n political battle anywhere in
this or any other country
1t was through n campaign of agi-
tat:on. education and organization
carried on under great difIicultie~.
From it's inception the Socialists
forced the fighting and brought for
ward every affirmative issue.
The one great principle underly-
ing every local question raised and
discussed was the right Of eXplota-
ton.
Al every step in the campaign this
was challenged blythe Socialists and
the opposition was not permitted
to escape or evade this great Social
istic principle.
1t was after the primary election
in which the Socialist ticket won by
nearly four thousand plurality that
there began the real struggle of tho
campaign.
Los Angeles since the close of the
primary election has been the storm
center of the class-struggle not only
in America but in the civilized world.
On the stage of action here during
the past four weeks and passing in
rapid view there has been enacted
all the farce, the comedy and the
gaunt. grim tragedy always present
wherever real and not mimic battles
are being fought.
Socialist are able TO comprehend in
their fullness the issues involved
therein-and none but Socialists are
able to so d-emerge
therefrom with an enlarged horizon,
a broader outlook and a more con-
Gicnt assurance of the final triumph
of Socialism.
The Socialist ticket and candi-
dates were defeated in the election,
in Los Angeles, December 5th, bu
Socialism won a triumph victory.
Hartman was defeated by the con-
spiracy that resulted in the McNam-
ara plea of guilty sprung few days
before the election. and the sentenc-
ing of the men on election day.
Seventeen Thousand voters taken
from the Socialists by the pleas Of
guilty turned the tide against the
working class party
\ot all the bribery, corruptio1:,
coercion and force that was prac-
ticed would have won had not the
confession" bombshell been explod-
I'd at the hour when recovery was
impossible.
Socialist agreed that there were
ut least 10000 votes that were no.
settled but which favored Hartman
and his associates on the ticket
These were timid ones. many OF
tAen of the working class VINO De-
came alar med at the lawful disclos-
rr"'' IN the daily newspapers Every
effort was made TO connect Hartman
directly with the Mcnamara case.
No nont was left uncovered The
night before lection a large squad
0e men were sent from house to
house in large dictricts telling that
Hartman had been arrested charged
with completely in bribing jurors III
n" Mcnamara case. The fact thai
such a deliberate falsehood was not
supported by the morning newspa-
pers made no impression and thcus'
ends deceived went determinedly to
III" POOLS and voted for the old, dis
credited. corrupt candidates.
The daily papers with the bare eX-
"cption of the Scripps papers. which
stood loyalty by the Socialists &c
IN" end. wound up with cyclone