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Hellraisers Journal – Thursday December 7, 1911
Los Angeles, California – McNamaras Sentenced; Darrow Stung by Criticism
-Socialist Candidate for Mayor, Job Harriman, Defeated
From The San Francisco Call of December 6, 1911:
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From the Chicago Day Book of December 6, 1911:
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ALEXANDER RE-ELECTED MAYOR OF LAS ANGELES
Los Angeles, Cal., Dec. 6.-Although returns from yesterday’s election are incomplete, it seems certain that George Alexander, good government candidate for mayor, has defeated Job Harriman, Socialist candidate, by a vote of two to one. Alexander’s plurality will be close to 50,000.
There seems no doubt today that the McNamara confessions caused the Socialists’ defeat. Despite the claims of Harriman and his followers during the last few days that the dynamite case had nothing to do with the campaign, and their demand that it be not allowed to interfere, it evidently caused large numbers to stay away from the polls, who would otherwise have come out.
Harriman and his campaign manager are alleging gross frauds, but they would probably make no statement regarding them until returns are in.
It is estimated that 73,000 of the 83,000 women who registered went to the polls, and that Alexander got more than two-thirds of these votes.
A prohibition ordinance which would have made Los Angeles “the dryest town on the map” was also defeated by a vote of 3 to 1.
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SOURCES & IMAGES
Quote EVD re Dynamiting, Ipl Ns p8, Dec 4, 1911
https://www.newspapers.com/image/35723954/
San Francisco Call
(San Francisco, California)
-Dec 6, 1911
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85066387/1911-12-06/ed-1/seq-1/
The Day Book
(Chicago, Illinois)
-Dec 6, 1911, pages 1-5, page 15
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045487/1911-12-06/ed-1/seq-1/
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045487/1911-12-06/ed-1/seq-15/
See also:
Tag: McNamara Brothers
https://weneverforget.org/tag/mcnamara-brothers/
Clarence Darrow For The Defense
-by Irving Stone
New York NY, 1941/1969
(see Chapter VIII, pages 295-346, re the trial
& Chapter IX, pages 347-350, re plea, sentencing, defeat of Socialist Job Harriman, and labor’s reaction)
https://archive.org/details/clarencedarrowfo00ston/mode/2up
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Flint, 1937, Victory Won by Peacefully Sitting Down in Unity
-Dan Hall Singing, Lyrics by David O Norris and Dan Hall