Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-12
DR.. SHEPHERD SAYS
FIGHT WILL GO ON
POMONA COUNTY DIVlSIONISTS
NOT YET WHIPPED
Unfair Methods Employed in Cam.
paian of "Antis" and Real Facts
Not Allowed Fair Hearing is
Claim of Manager
Pomona Office,
III S. Thomas street.
Review building.
Sunset Main 4
Home phone 1882.

POMONA, Jan 11.-Asked for state
ment in regard to the published reports
in the San Bernardino and Los Angeles
papers concerning the present status and
future prospects of the proposed county
of Pomona Dr. r. P. Shepherd, manager
of the campaign during the past eight
months. said:
"Only those who were present at the
last session of the board OF supervisors
Friday can appreciate the real situation
1t Is useless for us to comment upon the
procedure The minutes of that session
must speak for themselves when Judiciary
reviewed. For our part we can only say
that an able cartoonst caught oie SUB
gestion correctly.
.'If anv tears were shed by the division
lists they fell only from one eye, and
were manufactured for the occasion
eve cannot try our case in the papers.
Concerning the final determination OF the
issue il need only be said that we are not
whipped until it is done at the oallot poX
and by the voters affected. We are not
accustomed to quit until whipped AT
present we are simply kicked out OF court
ANONYMOUSLY. but this fight or twenty
years duration is not settled by fagrant
miscarriage of justice.
Reports Were Fair
"The reports given by the papers were,
on the whole, unusually accurate and
fair. This does not refer to the San Ber-
nardino papers, for they have another
habit too deeply liked to be broken even
when they think they are reporting
| funeral.
"As for the editorial comment in one of
the Los Angeles papers it is merely
funny. The fact that the Los Angeles
Herald has secured 700 subscriptions in
| this section during the past few Gays is
sufficient evidence it has been telling the
truth and that another Los Angeles paper
| has. during a long series OF years, mace
itself obnoxious to a multitude of people.
It's determination to misrepresent every
! thing not personally favored by its eui-
tors. for financial or other reasons, puts
il in disfavor with others besides its cor
daily detested labor union opponents IL
Is simply amusing when 1t Is not base
IT'S nersonal attacks upon the manage
ment of the county division campaign we
take rather as an honor than as an
affront.
'"rhe fact of the matter is that, despite
the claims of The Herald's contemporary
that 1t is the people, the advocates or
| county division have been unable 10 get
the case considered on it's merits either
by the opponents or by the properly ap-
pointed reviewing body.
Denied a Hearing
eve were denied hearing by the su-
pervisors in the face of our continued IN
sistence that the case should continue
until proper hearing might be had ana
both sides be heard in full.
1.-THE opponents of the new county have
fought from the beginning to prevent the
people from getting chance to vote upon
the proposition. The people could not be
trusted to express their own minds. but
must be sheltered from the ravishing wolf
of local self government by the paternal
care of the court house organizations.
1.-The fact that the final vote must be
2 to l in favor of the new county is no
protection. The people do not know
| their own minds; must not be allowed to
present their case; must be protected from
the horror of possible vote on such q
question and must be kept from the con-
tamination of the base and vile Pomona
grafters with an ex-preacher at their
head
'"This fight will be waged ceaselessly,
| relentlessly and without pause until the
question is brought to vote. Twenty
five thousand people will not allow any
such travesty of justice to decide their
case for them.
1--WE have a right to be heard by our
political bosses in the only way open 70
us-namely. the ballot box. There are
----
no standing. If we cannot get IAN
hearing otherwise we shall be driven to
these courts to establish our legal and
political rights.
zone of the opponents of the new county
project was candid enough to publish
over his signature the admission thai
they had waged a campaign of personal
ities.' A few of us have been made the
target of vicious and bitter personal at
| tacks rhe grossest Misrepresentation OF
| us and of our campaign has been clrcu-
lated far and wide. All we ask and de-
rnand is that the farmers and ranchers
of this section who have not been as
siduously working a political pull shall
have opportunity to make answer by theii
votes.
"There is a revolution now on in Ameri
can politics Such incidents as those Fri
day, coming at the end Of such cam
paign as we have been compelled to face
illustrate the causes for the new civit
/ awakening wherein the question Is to bt
determined anew as to whether the people
elect public servants or public masters
whether government by machine is q
beneficent expression of popular will OF
the blaclSest blot on the escutcheon Of
American citizenship; whether the homes
desire TO govern themselves by consid
era bic body of citizens is to be thwartet
by the underhanded methods OF well
intrenched political organizations"
yes. county division is dead! But 4
might be worth while for the jubilant OPP
position to keep an eye on the corpse W.
have been reported dead so often that thu
dying part of US is calloused. No axiom
of human affairs is more proved and ap
proved both i'm public and In private life
than that uttered many years ago by {
: martvred president, Nothing is eyel
settled until IT Is settled right
'This affair Is not even settled; it !;
merely postponed, and the postponemeni
was IN our Judgment the most remote