Bisbee daily review., 1911-12-02
CRITICAL MOMENT
 FOR LOS ANGELES
 IS DECEMBER $
Both Sides in Painful Doubt As 10 What the Women
 Will Do
md LATTFR ARE BUSl


 LOS ANGELES. Callf.. Nov. 2s:- The most strenuous ana most inter lsiing municipal campaign ever known in the history or los Aneeles is rapidly drawing 10 a close Only a few days more of hard campaign work and the deciding battle wilt be fought at the polls. on December s. What the result will be. nobody can tell, but whatever the decision may be, il will he m tde by the vote of women.
 For years the women have been working assiduously to gain political recognition and the right 10 vote in ths state. At last. at the state election a little more than month ago. their urgent wish was fulfilled and the franchise was granted to them by an amendment to the state constitution. That the women have now actually entered the political arena in this state and gre a power co be reckoned with in the future is no longer a debatable question. The camraign in this city, now drawing 70 it's close, is an argument which cannot fail to convince evtn those scoffers who belittied the importance Of the votes for women" movement a few months ago. This campaign. winch win go down in history as the first positive manifestation of woman political power in California. was a battle royal fought by women.
 IL was granted to the women of f .s A,gofas C., ,,p1argo tho f;rqs fact of their political fitness Tn a csm- paign of unparalled fierceness and, on December ., the day. of election, they wi be the first among the women of California not only to use their newly granted franchise but to de eide the result of the election. There is not the slightest doubt that the women of Los Angeles hold the bal ance of power and thsst the outcome of the election depends entirely upon the vote of the womens of whom more than 5000 have been register ed
 At the recent primaries an exceed ingly small vote was cast. lob liar riman, the Socialist candidate for mayor. who is associated with the de- fense of the MacNamaras. defeated George Alexander. the present mayor, who is running on the good govern ment ticket. by more than 5000 votes but his plurality fell short Of a ma iority by more than 1000 votes and for this reason it was left for the coming election 10 make the final decision.
 In the mean time, however, the right to vote vas granted to women and the women of Los Angeles, fully aware of this power, were not slow in availing themselves of their rights by registering for the coming muni- ciraI election. After the fizzle of the primaries the male voters of the city too. realized thsE they would have 10 bestir themselves and the result was that since the primaries more than l9i, 900 voters have been registered.
 Job Hartman, who has a strong following among the labOTing classes received financial support from the socialists in all parts of the country and carried on an energetic cam iTlign. Mayor AleXandar, realizing how critical the situs ton was and that the decision rested with the wo- men, appealed to the latter, especial ly those of the wealthy classes and they responded brayely. Travelling in automobiles scores of society wo- men made thorough canvas among the laboring women, urging them to use their votes and influence against the socialistic candidate. The liar riman party also had women election eering among the women of the poor CT classes and only the election will show which side was more successful in its efforts.