LAW OFFICES
                                  HARRIMAN RYCKMAN & TUTTLE

    JOB HARRIMAN                                                          HIGGINS BUILDING                                                
   J.H. RYCKMAN                                                         LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
 EDWARD W. TUTTLE



								December 19, 1911
							


Mr. Morris Hillquit,
         320 Broadway,
               New York City, N.Y.


My dear Morris: - 

               Yours of December 14th at hand.  I, of course knew
that we had no chance of election as soon as the plea of guilty 
was entered, but, we would have been elected had this not 
happened.  Twenty or twenty-five thousand votes were changed
by that act.  It came too late for recovery but the movement
was rallying fast in the last two days.  We have conducted the
greatest campaign ever conducted in any city in this country.
wish you could have been here.  Organized labor was in action
political and made a tremendous fight when they moved solidly 
together.  This campaign has confirmed my theories for the last 
seven years, and I want you to consider that more strongly
than ever before.  You watch the state of California, we will
do the same all over the state the next campaign.   Now Morris
do not think that I am over hopeful.  I know what I am doing.
If I could spend my time in this state from now until next fall
we would not send any less than fifteen and possibly twenty-five 
men to the state legislature, and by so doing would lay the
foundation for a campaign three years hence, which would 
probably result in our capturing the city. state.

                 There are about 400,000 male voters in this city.state.   We
have 150,000 organized union labor men,and then with these would
bring our proportion of the vote to 300,000 out of 800,000 total
vote, but with that solid power a large number naturally followed 
and this in a three cornered fackt  we will cast one-half of the
votes as we did here, and you can see that in a three-cornered
fight in this city we would surely win.  In a three cornered fight 
in this city we won in the primaries, and we would have won in 
the election if we had had a three cornered fight.

              I wish I could come East and see you.  It seems to me 
that now is the time for a change of front.  We have done the
thing in Los Angeles that should have been done all over the nation.

                                       Sincerely yours,

                          [Job Harriman]