Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1911-12-07
SOCIALISTS BEATEN IN
LOS ANGELES ELECTION

Los Angeles, Cal, Dec. 6.-The total
Of 210 out of the 317 precincts that par
ticipated in the election yesterday
showed today:
Mayor George Alexander. good gov
eminent, 6S,3e6.
Job Hartman, socialist, 37,064.
Alexander's majority, 3l,302.
The AZ missing precincts Were eS-
pected to swell AleXanders lead to
more than $4,000. The prohibition
nn even greater majority. The good
government and citizens committee
forces made clean sweep for their
ticket.
Job Hartman issued statement. to-
day In which he claimed that the show
ing of the socialists was in reality q
tremendous victory.
clared. 1--WE will take the legislature
next year,
The defeated candidate for mayor
added that the showing made yester-
day was something Of which the So
cialists had been extremely proud.
Detection from Hartman.
Ninety per cent OF the registration on
the west side where tho vote was light
I'm the primary, was voted yesterday,
6. while on the east side, Harrilnan's
stronghold, there was q falling off in
: comparison. The women OH the west
side outvoted the men. The reverse
was true in the precincts where Hal'ri-
man was the stronger in the primary.
But the balance Of power which the
women were credited with having prior
to the astounding finale OF the McNa-
mara case last Friday, did not figure
in the result.
Persons who would not vote for AL
exander simply stayed away from tle
polls,"'. said Chairman S. C. Graham, o.
IN
dieting a majority Of at least 10000 for
Alexander.
Hartman Charges Fraud.
Hartman was In conference with Ills
campaign, manager. Alexander Irvine
of New York, early in. the evening. He
declared gross frauds had been perIe-
i-saEafad bt the oppositiont but refused to
concede his defeat.
=. vile: victorious ticket consists OF
Mayor Alexander and nine councilmen
made up Of bankers, lawyers, store
keepers and realty brokers.
ron the defeated socialist ticket, be-
sides sHarrlman. the lawyer, there was
of one Of the local morning papers, two
iron 'lnoldefs and several labor leaders.
- "a. & { keayy Note BY. Women.
Statements were Elade by election Of
ficials today-.t}lat women cast nearly
$4,000 iallots, or more than half the
sto4aa1vute. The effect Of this was shown
Today by statements of former prom
Egtfleht opponents Of suffrage that they
Had been converted.
Election board members declare that
the women not only out-voted the men
in snsaily all the precincts, but showed
-ssasii4 Multitude in handling the ballots.
They cast tneir votes more quickly;
did ,tlpt. tEced as much coaching
sHiida exraaining as the men and they
worked harder than the men for their
4avorttc candidates.
Predictions that reduction in Joseph
Scotts vote would show the effect of
the Mcnamara case even more con-
clusively than the defeat Of Hartman,
were practically verified by later re-
turns today. Scott, who was one of
the attorneys for the dynamiters, is
president Of the municipal school board.
He was candidate for re-eiection on the
good government" ticket and ran
more than 1900 votes behind the rest
/. .uf. his ticket.
Women Are. intelligent.
Z The tGtc Of the wcmen on the city
trltnaneea. Z. showed discrimination.
There were three Of them. the most
: Important being the drastic prohibition
!. mcastre. designed to make the city
dry as bone" The woman. voted
s6vcr'si,. iiEiagly against that, but they