Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-14
HANDLES EARL
WITHOUT GLOVES
POLICE COMMISSIONER JAMES
IS WRATHY
Latter Rises to Question OF Personal
Privilege. and Hurls Accusations
at Man Who Fathered Ex-
press Editorials Ill

The occasion of the transfer of a
saloon license owned by Campbell anu
Beebe from COL South Broadway 10
626 South Broadway, gave Police COM
missioner James an opportunity 10 eN-
press his opinion of e. T. Earl. There
was some opposition to the transfer
of the license and James declared that
T. n Earl, owner and publisher of the
Express, was the real opposer.
at is about time the public learned
that E. T. Earl is not running TINS
police commission and L do not nave
10 read the Express to learn how 10
conduct the business of this body" was
one of Mr.. James heated remarks
commissioners Mason and Johnson
opposed the transfer of the license, but
the mayor voted with James and Hagan
and 1t was granted.
Mr.. James Attacks Editorials
After the vote was announced Mr..
James rose to a question of personal
privilege and said that he desired to
call the attention of the commission
to two editorials in the Evening EX-
press OF last Wednesday reflecting
upon the actions of himself and other
members of this commission in con-
nection with the transfer of the res
taurant license from the Imperial care
to the Monarch Investment company, a
corporation which had been formed for
the purpose of carrying on under one
management both the Imperial cafe ana
the Del Monte tavern; that he wlsheu
to say to the board, and through the
board to the citizens of the city of Los
Angeles, that E. T. Earl is the owner
and manager of the Evening Express
and is solely responsible for its editorial
lltterances and therefore is responsible
for the publication of the editorials
referred to. Mr.. James continued:
"In one of the editorials referred to,
Mr.. Earl says in effect, that II glrls
are debauched the mothers may hoiu
Mayor McAleer, DIR. Hagan and hlmselr
responsible. This is the assertion of a
demagopue and sounds like individuals
who sometimes talk from the curb
stone. And it was made for no other
Durpose than to create the impression
that Mayor McAleer DIR. Hagan ana
myself have no respect for girlhood ana
womanhood.
Calls II ScandaIous Assertion
SAT the. time this scandalous as
sertion was penned e. 7. Earl knew
the commission had not regranted to
the Del Monte tavern the license when
il had lust previously revoked, and ne
knew that the license granted limited
the conduct of the restaurant TO the
ground floor, thereby eliminating the
second and third floors of the Del
Monte, concerning which all the coil-
plants had been made.
"Yet knowing these facts, Mr.. Earl
orders the publication of the editorial,
tie effect of which is to mislead the
public and make them believe the COM
mission had regranted the very license
which but a short time prior they hau
revoked.
"As we'll might be said of Mayor
NfcAleers DR.. Hagan and myself that
because they happened to be in Los
Angeles when Mr.. Earl was carrying
on fruit commission business they
were responsible for the alleged lootlnS
of the fruit growers of California IN
whose interest he now claims to be run
ming his newspaper.
Terms 1t Language of Coward
"In another editorial, commenting
upon the actions of Mayor McAleer,
DR.. Hagan and myself in voting to
transfer the Imperial license to the
Monarch company he sneeringly refers
to me and said: Little else could be
expected from Mr.. James This IS the
language of a coward. Inference is tne
weapon of a coward. Cowardice is the
opnosite of nanliness and manhood.
''By these statements this coward
would have the public infer that my ac-
tion in voting to transfer this license
was not upright and honorable.
my highest ambition as police COM
missioner of the city of Los Angeles
is to conscientiously and honorably per-
form my duty in such a way as VIII
best subserve the interests of the city.
"Mr. Earl knows this very well, but
he is a. conceited man, as everybody
knows, and because members of TINS
commission refused many times TO run
tile commission in accordance with the
editorial notions of the Express and
his peculiar theories and notions con-
cerning public evils, he utilizes his
newspaper to scare weak-kneed ponce
commissioners to do his bidding.
'This was the purpose of the edi-
torials referred to. Mr.. Earl hoped
to overawe and by his inferences ana
insinuations give a warning that ne
would create public sentiment against
me, the inevitable result of which, IN
his opinion, would be my ruin in the
eyes of the citizens of Los Angeles.
1T would have been much manller
of Mr.. Earl to have stated facts in
stead of indulging in inferences, being
first sure of his facts of course. III
there are any facts which reflect upon
nv official integrity Mr.. Earl should
publish them. l will then have my
legal remedy. ,,.--
'fI taught Mr.. Earl on another occa-
zion one lesson in newspaper ethics
5udging from the tears he then ~sheo
while begging for a settlement ano
compromise Of his damnable falsehooc
concerning me, 1t would naturally Dc
supposed that he would not care tc
subject himself again to the. same hu'
initiating ordeal.
"Mr. Earl is at liberty to criticist
my public acts in every fair and honor
able way, but when Mr., Earl attempts
to blacken my character and impugr
my motives by differences and insinua'
tions, / want the public to know tha'
in doing so he is playing the part botf
of a coward and hypocrite."