Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1911-12-14
u.,v They conspired to Defeat the
nv" Working Class
Ticket.
srveN7EEN THOUSAND VOTES
sswsIIcHED BY THE CONFESSION.
s.,,,o Arm Work at the Polls Carry
'' Things With High
Hand.


80 of los Angeles are overjoyed al
~ MAGNIFICENT showing made at the
u MI in the face Of the terrific odds
ppS v,l them. The Mcnamara con.
sess,on came at a time calculated TO
utterly destroy the force of the whole
Ins Angeles movement
plans are ON foot to hold big
rallv and jubilee meeting. Fifty-one
tb hI loyal workers stood firm
tbroughout the stormy hours and
voted solidly for Job Hartman. These
men and women will never wayer in
their loyalty to the Socialist move
ment-
Marty membership" is the word that
has gone forth. California Social
D I1 the official organ of the So
ciaNst party in the state, has SUM
med ND the situation In an editorial,
nnder the heading Socialism Win.
victory which reads as follows:
Although at the election Tuesday
the Los Angeles Socialist ticket and
candidates were defeated at the polls,
tbe result was most substantial VIC
tory for Socialism.
"Never has the working class fought
such a political battle anywhere In
this or any other country.
1t was throughout q campaign OF
agitation, education and organization
carried on under great difficulties.
From its inception the Socialists
forced the fighting and brought for
ward every affirmative issue.
The one great principle underlying
every local question raised and dis
cussed was the right Of exploitation.
At every step in the campaign this
was challenged by the Socialists and
the opposition was not permitted TO-
escape or evade this great Socialist
principle.
It Vas after the primary election In
which the Socialist ticket won BY
nearly four thousand plurality that
there began the real struggle Of the
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.
ION the stage of action here during
the past four weeks and passing n
rapid view there has been enacted all
the farce, the comedy and the gaunt,
grim uagedy always present Wher-
ever real and not mimic battles are
being fought.
Socialists able to comprehend ~
their fullness the issues Involved
therein and none but Socialists are
able to so comprehend-emerge there
from with an enlarged horizon. 9
broader outlook and a more confident
assurance of the final triumph OF So
cialism.
THE Socialist ticket and candi-
dates were defeated in the election 10
Los Angeles, December 9Th, but So
cialism won triumphant victory.
Hartman was defeated by the con-
spiarcy that resulted in the Mcnamara
plea of guilty sprung a. few days pc
fore the election, and the sentencing
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.
Not all the bribery, corrnpfi0ns
coercion and force that was practaced
would have won had not the sconfes-
sion" bomb she'll been exploded &C
the hour when recovery was impos-
sible.
Socialists agreed that there were
at least 10000 votes that were not
settled but which favored Hartman
and his associates onthe ticket.
These were timid ones, many q
them of the working class, VINO De-
came alarmde at the lawful dlsclos-
ure" in the daily newspapers. Every
effort was made to connect Hartman
directly with the McNamara case. No
point was left uncovered. The night
before election large squad OF men
were sent from house to house Y
large districts telling that Hartman
had been arrested charged with com.
plicity in bribing jurors in the NC
Namara case. The fact that sucn 9
deliberate falsehood was not supp0!n
ed by the morning newspapers mans
no impression and thousands deceiy'
ed went determinedly to the poiis
and voted for the old. discrediteo'
corrupt candidates.
The daily papers with the bare ex
ception of the Scripps paper, WnlSl
stood Loyalty by the Socialists % ens
end, wound up with q cyclone q our
rageous falsehoods and vituperauQn.
This had a great effect on the WaN
ering women who had been lukeWarnl
Strong Arm Work.
Strong arm work was done az sn<
polls in the section OF the city Wnefs
the workers were in the greatest mum
Der. In the wealthy portion Of s1s
city where the Socialists were CREAM
outnumbered, there was little GIN
Guilty in carrying things with MS
hand.
The money spent on election DAY q
the odd Guard" Is admitted 20 p
over sl5O.OO0. They had 3 thousan'
automobiles, many OF which were no
used other than to bear Aaexanoe
banners. The men who had pledges
the hire Of their machines to the e
clalists were in many instances eFi1
cd. as high as $50 was paid TO CIV
ers to strip the Hartman banner tron
taeir machines and substitute zoo
government banners.
The Opposition.
10 the opposition 70 the seeiei's.