The herald., 1896-10-06
WHERE IS THE THING At?
Los Angeles! Daily Times
Referred to
HOW ABOUT MUNICIPAL ownership
Subservient Monopoly Sheet 81.
lent on the Great Issue
WORKING FOR ITS MASTERS
II Is Tied Ia Absolutely to the Water
Company
Cannot Speak Until II Il Bidden To
49, Do So
How Col ]. H. Woodard, alias "Jay-
hawker" Labored For the Water
Subservient Monopoly Sheet ST.
lent on the Great Issue
WORKING FOR ITS MASTERS
II Is Tied Ia Absolutely to the Water
Company
Cannot Speak Until II Il Bidder To
'- Do So
How Col ]. H. Woodland, alias Jay
hawker" Labored For the Water
Company and Used the Times
as the Corporations Tool


"Now that the great battle for mu
nicipal ownership, operation and control
of the city water plant has opened where
does the Los Angeles Times stand? 1t
has not as yet said one word In favor
of this proposition. This seems very
strange"
This is question that Is just now
being very numerously asked upon the
streets and in the offices.
The proposition of municipal owner
ship of the water works, to be obtained
and brought about by due, ample and
full consideration of the interests of the
people is something that is being dis
cussed on all sides.
Not one word has been heard from the
Times on the subject, and to those who
know the inside it need not be any
cause of surprise.
The paper is tied in absolutely to the
Los Angeles City Water company. 1t is
bound hand and foot and cannot say
one word in regard to the matter until
the corporation gives it's consent and ap-
proval.
For several years the closest personal
friend and advisor that Col Harrison
Gray Otis had was Col. j. H. Woodland,
alias "Jayhawer," who was at the same
time on the pay roll of the water COM
pany at $3.50 per month.
The "Jayhawer" person for months
used the Times with the full knowledge
and consent of Otis to accomplish the
ends and aims of the water company
and to deceive and throw dust in the
eyes of the people.
T,, +, ,ic to-, e..
municipal ownership, the Times is again
where it always has been-with the
water company.
Now is the time when the subject Of
municipal ownership should properly
come UP for discussion, for three city
conventions meet this week to place in
nomination municipal tickets.
The people want to know how the can
didates stand before they are nominated.
They want no time-serving tools of the
water company named for municipal
Offices The issue has been made, and
The Herald has exerted itself to bring
beforesthe voters the Importance of the
occasion.
In the past in controlling conventions
the water company has been able to
work under cover. The result has been
that 1t has frequently fooled the people
by having men nominated who were
friendly to 1t and who have sacrificed the
interests of the people to those of the
corporation.
The water company now has ex-city
ofi1cials on it's pay roll. Ex-city officials
nave busied themselves going hither
ana yon threatening M. P. Snyder with
political oblivion within the past few
months because of the stand he has
taken in favor of the people in the mat
ter of water supply.
when the question of fixing rates came
up In the council this year, Mr. SNYDER
TOOK firm stand for a substantial re-
duction. The water company officers
sent word to him that they would like
TO see him. Mr.. Snyder sent word back
lnat ne could be seen at any time at his
Then came the word from the water
company's office that representatives of
the company would like to see him at his
house. '--'
Mr.. Snyder replied that he could not
bs seen at his home by any representa-
tlxes OIL the corporation for any purpose.
Then came the word that they would
like, to have him meet the officials in anv
Office down town that he might desig-
nate
Mr.. Snyder made a bold reply. He
said that If any man in the city desired
TO see him he could be found during bus
mess hours either at his place of busi-
ness or IN the city hall. He further said
that ne had no business dealings or
transactions with the Los Angeles CITY
water company which called for any
secret meetings, and he declined abso-
lutely. to have anything to do with any
meetings with water company officers.
Ihen came an ex-city attorney, Mr.
Charles Mcfarland, to Mr.. Snyder's
store. He informed him that he was act
ing very foolishly and that the water
company would later take hand in pol
1t1cs. Then it would see to it that Mr..
Snyder was buried
That threat the City Water company
is now endeavoring to make good The
ex-clty attorney who made it is a Re-
publican and he came into office since
the new charter went into effect. These
are the same kind of men the water com
pany has been putting in office for some
years past These are the kind of men
the corporation Is now striving to have
nominated this year. II the people are
ruliy aroused to the Importance of the
J question 1T cannot be done. The Los An
geles Times has done nothing to open the
eyes OF the people to the kind of deal
tnat IS being put up. 1t dare not do so
In disobedience of the order of the cor
poration The paper is making the fight
for the corporations in both the nation
al and city elections
The action Of the Democratic city gen.
eral committee In making the issue for
the campaign was surprise to the wa
ter company. The general committee
voiced the sentiment Of the people when
it passed a resolution in favor Of munic-
ipal ownership and the immediate inau-
guration of policy looking to that end.
This cannot be done by any men In the
council or in the mayors chair who are
in anyway obligated, by personal rela-
tions or otherwise, to the water COM
pany. 1t can only be done by tried and
true representatives Of the people,
The water company has absolute
control Of the machinery of the Repub-
lican city committee. 1t will endeavor
to retain it's grip bp capturing the pri-
maries today through its agents.
Then tomorrow it will seek to control
the Democratic primaries This is 60
ing to be q hard job but If every true
Democrat and friend of municipal own
ership will turn out, the water monopoly
will receive a black eye the like of
which 1t has never had before in local
politics. There will be repeaters and
suffers everywhere to elect water COM