Los Angeles herald., 1905-08-06

evening. "I had hoped that it might
be possible to ignore 1t until time had
removed the difficulties and healed the
wounds. Some of our county officers,
think, have misapprehended the degree
and kind of authority that their county
office confers. They have, perhaps,
believed that because county ranks
higher than city, just as state ranks
higher than a county, that they, there
fore, as county officers should have abb
solute jurisdiction over city affairs.
"On the other hand our city associa-
tion believes the specific duty of the
county association to be the organizing
Of clubs in towns where no organization
exists. We do not believe that the
county association has right to in
terfere in the affairs of any local club
except upon the invitation of the local
organization concerned; that our county
association has no more jurisdiction
over the local affairs of the association
in the city of Los Angeles than it has
over the affairs of the association at
Pomona, Long Beach, Pasadena, Whit
tier or any other in the county. We
believe that the county executive COM
mittee has no more right to control the
action of the city executive committee,
or our city association, then the Los
Angeles county board of supervisors
would have to interfere in the action
of the Los Angeles city council
1--WE have cited to the committee the
general law in the case; have referred
to our respective city and county con-
stitutions, and have called to their at
tention the printed instructions sent
out by our national association de-
fining the duties Of county and local
clubs.
Few lndorse Views
IT do not know to what extent the
county officers in general support this
idea that the county should govern in
city affairs, but I am confident that
apart from the county officers there
could not be found in our city asso-
citation five members who would in
dorse their views. The officers and
members of our association are thor
oughly aware of the fact that the
city has done good service and hard
work. Since the reorganization of the
association, year ago last March,
when we first became auxiliary to the
state association, almost all of the
work that has been done for suffrage
ir, Wiz 10 fA Ian IN
our city organization. Beginning with
a membership that could hardly draw
a half dozen women together, we have
through faithful, steady and, think,
intelligent effort, developed a large and
efficient organization. 1t was through
the efforts of the city association that
our state convention was brought here
last October-the first time the con-
vention was ever held outside of San
Francisco. 1t was the city associa-
ton that did the work in connection
with the petition to the legislature
last year. The president of the Sew
enth Ward club, DR.. Kate Wilde, who
is at present abroad, personally bore
a large share of the expense and did
much of the work.
'It is a matter of keen regret to
me personally that our county associa-
ton has not taken deeper interest
in it's legitimate field of action. If we
had an organization in every town in
the county 1t could not fail to con-
tribute more or less to the strength
OF the city as we'll, and we could all
feel that the movement in which We
are so deeply interested had made a
distinct advance"