From the Los Angeles Evening Express, December 4, 1900
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PLURALITY FOR SNYDER EXCEEDS WILDEST DREAMS
Carried City by Larger Plurality Than Did McKinley
THESE WON
Mayor: M.P. SNYDER
Clerk: C.H. HANCE
Attorney: W.B. MATHEWS
Treasurer: W.A. HARTWELL, probably
Auditor: ELIJAH UNGER
Tax Collector: W.A. WHITE
Engineer: H.F. STAFFORD
Street superintendent: HUGH J. M’GUIRE
Assessor: BEN E. WARD . . .
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The total vote cast in this city for presidential electors on Nov. 6 was 19,034, of which the Republicans polled 10,944 and the Democrats polled 8,090, a Republican plurality of 2,834.
The total vote polled yesterday was 17, 444, of which the Republicans cast for their mayoralty candidate 6,946, the Democratic candidate receiving 10.067, a Democratic majority on the unofficial returns of 3,121.
The falling off in the total vote as disclosed in the two elections was 1,590, or a little more than 8 per cent.
The municipal election has resulted as was generally forecast by the Express while the balloting was still in progress yesterday afternoon, and the candidates whose names appear at the head of this column will during 1901-1902 guide the destinies of the city.
Should President William McKinley visit the city next spring, he will be made welcome by Mayor M.P. Snyder and not by Herman Silver.
. . . the result may be taken to mean that the municipal ownership of the water plant is still very much of a local issue and that sooner or later the people may be called upon to decide just how far the liquor traffic shall be regulated by local statutes.
Incidentally, the result yesterday is taken in certain quarters to have emphasized the fact that the interference of the Ministerial Union as such in local affairs is not appreciated by a large part of the local electorate; . . . four years ago when Meredith P. Snyder was first a mayoralty candidate he was apparently [going to be] defeated — until the Ministerial Union endorsed the candidacy of his Republican opponent. Tha endorsement immediately crystallized an overwhelming opposition against Julius H. Martin, and Snyder won at the time by a narrow margin.
Note: The Los Angeles Express endorsed Snyder and devoted its news columns to his campaign.
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The Los Angeles Times was opposed to the election of Mayor Snyder to a new term, although it supported him later on. These are two stories that the Times printed on December 1, 1900, just a day before the election, written in that biting, vicious style favored by Editor Harrison Gray Otis.
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ROGERS FOR SILVER.
Claim That a Well-Known Attorney Will Support Snyder for Mayor Refuted by Himself.
During the city campaign it has been necessasry for the members of the Republican Campaign Committee to show up the falsity of statements made from time to time in a cheap afternoon publication, known to be on very shaky financial standing.
Yesterday afternoon this sheet, under the caption “Business Men for Snyder,” contained a screed which, like previous political news (?) it has published, lacked the element of truth. It made a great to-do about Willard Stimson being for Snyder when, as is well known, Stimson was a Democratic national elector, and of course is a Democrat.
Among others mentioned as favoring Snyder’s election was Earl Rogers, Esq. The truth of the matter, as stated by that well-known attorney, is that he was not seen or communication with by any representative of the sheet; has not declared himself in favor of Snyder, and has refused to take the stump for that candidate. He will vote for Herman Silver for Mayor, and says so.
FREE BEER.
At Snyder’s Meeting.
Free beer and the Democatic nominee for city offices contended with one another in attracting the attention of the men who visited S.I.M.B. Hall, No. 130 Buena Vista Street [now North Broadway], last evening.
The beer won out in the end; tht is, it got more attention than did the speeches, althught it was well along in the meeting before the liquid refreshment was tapped. Those of the candidates who spoke first therefore had an advantage.
M.P. Snyder, nominee for Mayor, was the first to address the meeting. He was frequently interrupted by shouts of “Bully boy,” “That’s no lie,” and “Good boy, Snyder, go it!”
Mr. Snyder set forth his well-worn record in the shape of the “open book.” After referring to himself in glowing terms, he requested his hearers to remember also some other names on the Democratic ticket.
Like several of the other speakers, he regretted the fact tht his party has no organ [newspaper], and then he referred very harshly to the press of the city, and really looked sad when he said he has been treated unjustly.
Several other candidates followed Mr. Snyder, some of them speaking in the Spanish language as well as English.
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SNYDER LASTED A LONG TIME
But He Is Little-Known to Historians of the City
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Herman Was the Silver in Silver Lake
Herman Silver, the Republican candidate, was Jewish. In 1898 he had chaired the organizational meeting of the West Gate Lodge of the Free & Accepted Order of Masons.and became a member of that organization. Silver later became the first chairman of the Los Angeles Board of Water Commissioners. The reservoir in the Silver Lake district of the city was named after him.
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