The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1898-06-17
TAKE YOUR CHOICE
1R1n1 A1E PLENTY ron YOU TO
CHOOSE TRox
FOUR FREEHoLDERs' TICKETS
The Charter Committee Meets and
Decides to Issue an Address
to the Public


It Is quite likely that the electors OF the
city will have considerable latitude In the
choosing OF the freeholders who are to
frame the new city charter. as. according to
present indications. the ballot will contain
four complete and distinct tickets. Each one
will come before the public in non-partisan
garb. and IT will devolve upon the voter to
determine the policy which each list repre-
sents. Some names will appear on two or
more of the tickets. and 1t is not improbable
for this reason that the conflict for election
may be between only limited number of
the candidates.
The ticket reputed to have the following
Of a large number Of Republicans of the
city is one nominated at meeting held on
Tuesday evening at $40 East Fifth street.
Judge George w. Knox acted as chairman
of the meeting and M. T. Moore as secre-
tary. John Lowell is an active advocate OF
this tickets interests, and was yesterday
busfly engaged in securing signatures to the
necessary petition. The ticket is composed
Of the following gentlemen:
G. ]. Kubach, 419 East Seventh street.
Charles Won der Kuhlen, 5571a San Pedro
street.
w. c. Patterson, 1436 Flower street.
Fred Eaton, 466 South Westlake avenue.
s. C. Dodge, corner East Fifth street and
Wall street.
H. 7. Lee, 414 West Adams street.
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d. M. McGarry, East Eighth street.
H. A. Barclay, 1921 South Main street.
George w. Knox, $40 Hemlock street.
J. D. Bicknell, SO4 South Broadway.
A. M. Stephens, 1873 South Hill street.
H. W. Frank, 17O5 South Figueroa street.
Charles H. Forman, 1915 West Pico street.
A. N. Feldschau. corner Seventh and WALL
Patterson, Eaton and Frank have re-
fused to serve, but as petitions containing
their names have been circulated and many
signatures appended the names will probably
remain on the ticket against their wishes.
The auditing committee chosen to con-
duct the campaign for this ticket is COM
posed of S. O. Houghton, A. H. Judson
Zach Montgomery, Joseph Mesmer and
Frank A. Gibson.
Another ticket, supposed to have had its
origin in the League for Better City
Government. is having very energetic work
done for it by number of citizens, who
pledge themselves to a sincere desire for the
election of a genuinely non-partisan board
of freeholders and urge the support of the
following gentlemen on that basis:
d. M. McGarry, 1924 East Eighth street.
Fred l.. Allies, ZIG West Ninth street.
Octavius Morgan, 14o5 Brooklyn avenue
Thomas Pascoe, 2O9 South Hill street.
Robert McGarvin, 225 South johnson
street.
A. M. Stephens, 1873 South Hill street.
DR.. J. H. DAVIDSON, 1442 Pleasant avenue
l.. A. Groff. 1882 Loveace avenue.
Henry 7. Lee, Ala West Adams street.
Kaspare Cohn, 1911 South Hill street.
H. w. O'Melveny, 114S South Figueroa
street.
M. ]. Newmark, s27 Beacon street.
Albert H. Crutcher, 1925 West Twenty
fourth street.
M. L. Graft, southeast Washington and
Estrela avenue.
r. H. F. Variel, z237 Michigan avenue.
Their auditing committee includes the
following gentlemen: Lee A. Mcconnell,
s. A. Butler, M. ]. Newmark, T. S. Wads-
worth, W. d. Woolwine.
The women of Los Angeles do not propose
to be ignored IN this contest, and through
the Womans Educational association, re-
Gently organized for the avowed purpose Of
taking the city schools out of politics, they
are seeking to have freeholders ticket of
their choosing placed on the ballot. At
meeting held in the chamber of commerce
assembly rooms on last Saturday H. T.
Lee and T. E. Gibbon were endorsed as two
OF their candidates and Judge R. Fl. F.
variel and ]. B. Milard have since been ad-
ded to the list. The ticket will prob
ably be completed by formal Endorsement
of names on the three other tickets. The
auditing committee for the educational
movement ticket are s. o. Houghton, A. H.
Judson, Zach Montgomery, Joseph Mes
mer and Frank A. Gibson-the same COM
mlttee as that having charge of the cam
paign for the ticket nominated at $40 East
Fifth street on Tuesday evening.
The women having charge of the petitions
now being circulated for signatures asking
recognition of the school movement free
holders are: Mrs. George Rice, Mrs j.
r. Osgood and Mrs Ella H. Enderein, and
the petitions were prepared under the oirec-
ton of Mrs. z. NJ Joy and Mrs A. w.
Eames. Mrs G. G. Stevens is president of
the Womans Educational society, and Mrs.
r. H. F. variel secretary
The ticket nominated by the city charter