. Revolution in Los Angeles (1911). knew nothing of the affairs of the case for the past few to Earles newspapers, Steffens was a veritable Daniel cometo Judgment. They covered him with fulsome flattery and I thinkthey made Steffens believe that they were honest, that they meantwhat they said. He knows now they didnt. We went on with our meetings. Their work was done. The OldGuard, however, had still a strong card to play; they played it onelection day. They had sworn in deputies under pretense of keepingthe peace. These men were well paid and armed with revolvers andscattered
. Revolution in Los Angeles (1911). knew nothing of the affairs of the case for the past few to Earles newspapers, Steffens was a veritable Daniel cometo Judgment. They covered him with fulsome flattery and I thinkthey made Steffens believe that they were honest, that they meantwhat they said. He knows now they didnt. We went on with our meetings. Their work was done. The OldGuard, however, had still a strong card to play; they played it onelection day. They had sworn in deputies under pretense of keepingthe peace. These men were well paid and armed with revolvers andscattered over the city. In nearly every polling booth in the city they 75 had a lawyer or a crooked politician. These deputies and lawyers andthugs kept up a bulldozing, menacing attitude from six in the morninguntil six in the evening. Thousands of Socialist registration paperswere destroyed. On election day a thousand Socialists were madlyclamoring around the County Clerks office for a right to vote. The What Has Happened Since December?. election laws of the state are so arranged that the Democrats andRepublicans divide the election boards between them and the Social-the contract was broken. The Good Government party had twoist Party, though outnumbering eitheT of them at this election, washelplessly at their mercy. There was absolutely no law for a Socialistthat day. We had contracted for one hundred and thirty automobilesand the contracts for two-thirds of them were broken—broken with-out excuse or pretense. They said they were out of order. In some 76 cases they told the plain truth—that we could do as we wished butthousand automobiles. They were in each others way all day women were hysterical and worked like fiends. The Old Guardbought thousands of the foreign and colored votes. And yet, I thinkthe most remarkable thing in the political history of this country isthe fact that in spite of all this opposition there stood steadfast, trueand immovable, fifty-two thou
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