Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-29
Home phone 1882.

POMONA, Jan. 2S.-The residence of
this vicinity are already appraised of
the action of the supervisors of Los
Z Angeles county by which the hearing
on the petition for the new county was
brought to a summary standstill. There
has been a great deal of Indebtedness
concerning the future, although there
has been a universal feeling that the
work must not be stopped.
brief summary of the conditions,
both on the east and west, will be of
interest to all. The campaign of the
opposition i'm Glendora and Azusa was,
from the beginning, one of intense per-
sonal bitterness.
During the forty days after the filing
of the petitions the anti-divisionists
organized their forces so the greatest
possible personal pressure might be
brought to bear upon the signers of the
petition and get their names on adj
verse petitions or withdrawn from the
original.
INSTRUMENTATION and coercion are
reported as having been the chief fea-
lures of this anti-dvision still-hunt
One result of this was to bring about
a feeling of estrangement among the
people of the Covina and Glendora
districts, particularly, even though
matters on the surface remained, APP
parently, serene and pleasant.
Leaders Ready
As a result of this condition all lead
ers of the division forces in Covina
requested the central committee to go
ahead with the formation of the new
county; leave them out; put the wes-
tern line of the county close to the
east line of Covina city; that If this
were done they would all turn in ana
help to carry the proposition both IN
the San Bernardino section and on TINS
side and wait for the developments or
later years to make 1t possible for
them to join in the new county.
In the lower Puente valley, out of
113 voters, 1O4 signed the petition cir
culated by Mr.. Cross to exclude that
valley from the new county. 1t Is
needless to assign any reason for this
hostility to the new county proposition,
for the action represents the deter
mined sentiment of the leaders of that
section. In Glendora the opposition,
headed by Mr.. Whitcomb, continued to
be as it has been for FIFTEEN years, in
tense, bitter and implacable.
During the evenings Immediately fol-
lowing the dismissal of the case by the
supervisors the precinct committees
from all the precincts met in confer
PncR with the cOIlIllll6e VI lWSHlJ -iiNS
in Pomona, and, at a subsequent meet
ing, decided to go ahead at once with
the organization of the new county,
making the western line as nearly
straight as circumstances would per-
NIT. placing it on the eastern side OF
Glendora and Covina and west of
Lemon and Walnut stations in the San
Bernardino section.
Reconsider Decision
almost unanimous reversal of senti-
ment by those who had been misled
into signing the request for withdraw
ing their names from the original petit
ton, and many of the acts of the San
Bernardino officials left a feeling of
resentment and determination to
"get square"
Without a single exception, the men
from San Bernardino county reported
it was, so far as that section was con-
cerned, now or never in the organiza-
ton of the new county; that one or the
first acts of the next state legislature
would be to amend the present county
division bill so as to make 1t impos-
sible for a county to be organized
without majority eonsenting vote by
the baalnce of the bounty from which
the territory is taken.
Naturally this will preclude the wes-
tern part of San Bernardino county
from getting control of their own
affairs. This, then, represents the sit
uation in a nutshell: A new county
can be organized on the lines proposed,
having an assessed valuation of nearly
$4,000. 900 and expenses of administra-
tion very greatly reduced If the county
be so organized.
Plan New Campaign
Any future action of Los Angeles
city to consolidate the city and county
1afaf until Co Two nr ath
portions of the present county would
make 1t almost inevitable that the ter
ritory east of the San Gabriel river
would be attached to the new county.
1t is on these lines that plans are
rapidly maturing to prosecute the
work, so it will scarcely be possible
Tor the petitions to be thrown out, as
was Nthe former one The cooperation
OF all precincts in the new county is
already assured, and there is every
reason to believe the temporary set
PACK, experienced at the hearing be-
tore tne supervisors, will work to the
ultllnate advantage and good of the
whole project.
Mr.. Shepherd will remain through
out the campaign as chairman of the
central committee of the precincts and
as manager In behalf of the executive
committee of Pomona. In order to in
sure a continuation of the mast har-
monious relations, the committee at
its session Monday morning, ON mo-
ton by DR.. Shepherd, formerly an
pointed Mr.. Truitt assistant manager
of the campaign, with the definite lln
Outstanding that the same relations
which have existed during the mast
eight months between the committee
and the managers of the campaign
shall continue without interruption.
except such as is oceasioned by the
necessary absence of Dr. Shepherd in
the Imperial valley.