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Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-20
MUNICIPAL AFFAIRS

w HEN the experience of Los An
w geles with the mayoralty be-
comes history, it will be pleas
ant to find that in the hour of need
two such faithful citizens as Mayor
Stephens and George Alexander were
found. Both of them are men who put
duty above every other consideration,
and believe in good for good govern
ment's sake. The end of the mayoralty
trouble will be the beginning of long
era of good government in Los Angeles.
Mayor Stephens is one of the best citi-
zens any city could be blessed with,
because he has shown he is self-sacri-
ficing. All throughout the crisis he
acted only with a view to doing his
duty. His first care was the welfare
of Los Angeles. He allowed no con-
sideration to swerVe him from his
standards OF ideals. When it was sug-
gested he should make of himself an
instrument TO foil the citizens who had
brought about recall election, he said
firmly he was a man of his word.
In George Alexander, Mayor Stephens
zens realize they have a man who will
do his duty as mayor. He has tenacity
of purpose and strength of will. He is
unapproachable by interests, and can
not be swerved from the right path.
With Mr.. Alexander as mayor Los An
geles could not fail to maintain the
high standard of civic decency which
has character d her career, decency
which was menaced by the character
and conduct of creatures of the rail-
road machine. We believe there is
ahead of Los Angeles a period of I'M
precedented prosperity and happiness.
is gratifying to find that while the
city has shown prudent care for the
financial aspects of the great undertake
ings which will make it the metropolis
of the west, the leading municipality of
the Pacific coast, the construction OF
the Owens river aqueduct is making
satisfactory progress. This work has
won the warm commentator of the
city engineer of San Francisco, who
has said:
1.-THE men in charge of this great
work are entitled to be called statesmen
as well as engineers for the manner in
which this work has been conceived
and executed. They have foreseen and
secured for Los Angeles rights of in
estimable value and enormous posi-
bilities. The superb citizenship of
the mass of the people of Los Angeles
in backing up their employees in every
action taken, the broad recognition by
President Roosevelt and the heads of
departments at Washington in grasp
ing conditions as they exist here, and
the prompt action given despite all
cavil and objections from interested
parties and selfish interests, have made
for the inauguration and partial con-
summation of what 1 think to be one
of the most admirable municipal water
projects ever conceived by city,
Los Angeles will be better and more
prosperous than ever as a result of
the big house cleaning. Our city will
have a good mayor, and consolidation
WIN put on the map Greater Los An
geles, the leading city of the southwest,
with the harbor of San Pedro, one of
the finest seaports on the Pacific
coast.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-20
CHAFIN'S FALLACY

H UGENE CHAFIN, recently candi-
H. date of the Prohibition party for
~ president who is now in Los An
geles, represents a narrow and mis-
chief making fallacy. Mark you. We
do not refer to the movement or the
cause. Advocates of temperance are
by no means confined to the Prohibi-
ton party nor is Mr.. Chain the only
temperance leader in the United States.
But he represents the fallacy that a
political party, embracing all sorts and
conditions of men, with all varieties
of business and social interests, can
be built up out of one. kind of men,
representing one political and one social
interest.
Mr.. Chain, after having been in Los
Angeles thirty-six hours, was inter
viewed by one of the obstructionist
pro-vice papers, and without hesita-
ton" said Alexander would not do"
This should make hundreds of votes
for Mr.. Alexander to swell the over
whelming majority by which he will
be elected mayor of Los Angeles.
The people of this city are capable
of managing their own affairs, and re-
fuse to be dictated to by one of the
red herring" candidates used to at
tract away votes from Mr.. Bryan in
the presidential election.
If Mr.. Chain will devote the rest Of
his life to championing the principle he
represents, and by urging it in such
an affaofivo vva,1 that it will he taken
up by one of the greater political par
ties and embodied in the next plat
form he will have achieved a triumph
in constructive craftsmanship. The
Prohibitionists can do lots of good, but
not by making a separate, office hunt
ing party of themselves, and by caus-
ing confusion, and perhaps interfering
with the election of a good citizen
simply because he refuses to utter
their shibboleth.
Prohibition is not a party. 1t is a
principle If Mr.. Chain understood
the local situation better he would
never have lent himself to the willy
anti-recall plotters. But man who
becomes oracular and positive with re-
gard to the affairs of Los Angeles
after having been in the city for
thirty-six hours cannot do much harm.
No self-respecting citizen of Los An
geles can possibly regard seriously Mr..
Chains condemnation of that excel
lent clean, conscientious citizen,
George Alexander. That would be too
ridiculous.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-20

QUESTS at the annual dinner OF
ET the Amherst Alumni association
W of Boston and vicinity listened
to some live talk the other day
by Rev. Lyman Abbott, d. d.,
editor of the Outlook. with whom
Theodore Roosevelt is to be as
sociated In the course of his remarks
DIR. Abbott said that as he had been
made a doctor of laws, he would talk
of laws. some very old ones, which he
sometimes thought have been forgot
ten in America, says the oakland En-
quirer He pointed out that the health
of the nation depends on it's moral
health, and that this in turn rests on
obedience to four old laws of the He
brews-"Thou shalt not kill. thou shalt
not steal, thou shalt not commit adul-
terv and thou shalt not bear false wit
ness"
perhaps because I am old. perhaps
because [ am conservative Qaughter),
but 1t seems to me that these laws DO
not mean what they did in the time or
Moses said DR.. Abbott. The right
of man, of property, Of the family. OF
the Individual, have all grown larger
and more difficult to handle.
I'm one year more men, women ana
children are killed on our American
railroads than were killed by the Rus
sian army in that greatest of modern
battles, the battle of Mukden. we
take little children from the schools
and Fairgrounds, and grind 'em up in
mills and factories-not in Massachu-
sets, l believe.
1--WE take women from their homes
and the care Of their babes and put
them into factories, too, to exc out the
wages of the fathers of their children.
And the supreme court of the United
states has declared that 1t is right for
the state to interpose and prevent this,
because the life of the nation depends
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-20
INDICTMENT

TT IS reported that at least one in
dictment already has been found
II by the special grand jury, and the
news is causing CONSERVATION among
pro-vice politicians who not long ago
were wearing bold, brazen faces and
threatening to bring libel suits; and
also in the offices of newspapers which
were misguided enough to espouse the
cause of the enemies of Los Angeles
and to heap cheap ridicule and Bill
lingsgate abuse on the champions of
civic decency and the friends of good
government. Now that the grand jury
is finding indictments. the former
jeerers and testers are right sad and
sorrowful. The pro-vice cause docs
not look good to them any more"
1t will be interesting to watch how
the various unhappy newspapers which
committed themselves to a bad cause
with unreasoning and unreasonable en-
thusiasm will "save their faces" in
these parlous days for pro-vice in
terests. An indictment is not necessarily
a conviction. Nay, it is not always a
trial. At the same time it is an unde-
niable fact of a most unpleasant, dis
agreeable nature for the person in
dicted and for all connected with him
or associated with him in any way,
directly or indirectly. And equally dis
agreeable is it for newspaper pro-vice
partisans.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-20
YELLOW FLoPPER

TIME Los Angeles Examiner con-
fesses meekly 1t has seen the err
4 ror of its ways, erawls apologet-
icallv into the recall band wagon, and.
If we don't look out, will soon be
claiming 1t originated the recall prin-
cipie, suggested the recall OF the
former mayor of Los Angeles and Is
entitled to credit for the political
house cleaning. 1t has published an
editorial entitled "The Recall Is Here
to Stay. 1t Has Proved It's Great
Value"
This simple avowal from the ex-
associate leader of the pro-vice press
bears testimony to the fact that The
Herald. in it's advocacy of the truth,
has accomplished the most extraordi-
nary reformation of modern times. 1t
also shows the marvellous aptitude Of
the Examiner for fip-hopping when 1t
thinks it will lose prestige and circuia-
ton by having the courage OF It's I'M
popular yellow opinions.
The Examiner would form valuable
addition to the circus. Nothing in the
list of attractions offered by the big
show is more striking than the flip
f1opness of Mr.. Hearst, When this per-
former takes the ring let all others
look to their laurels. "Now," thunders
the announcer through his speaking
trumpet, NOW will appear the great
est marvel of the ages, the saffron
king of political contortionism! The
one, and only! Watch him work!
While you think he is here, he is there,
and when you have made up your mind
he is there, he Us here. The swiftest
lightning change artist Of modern
times. Now you see him, and now you
don't. Whatever he says, he doesn't
do; and whatever he doesn't do, he
says. The champion fiip-flopper of
modern times will now do that most
marvellous and phenomenal acrobatic
feat called Tipping the flop on the re-
call"
All other performances in other rings
are suspended. There is a minute of
breathless silence. A long roll from
the drums, q blare of trumpets, and
before the bewildered public stands the
wonderful William, bowling and smiling
in his new role of recall advocate.
Look out for his editorial utterance
claiming all the credit Somebody in
his office is grinding it out for him
now.
He has already said: "The recall is
here to stay. No amount of chicanery
on the part of practical politicians,
criminal trusts or oppressive corpora
tons will ever get it removed-at least
from the charter of this city. With it
the people have come to their own, and,
going to take a step backward. What
is still more to the point, the country
at large is awakening to the fact that
the recall is the proper method Of con-
trolling those who would be unfaithful
stewards. Chicago is putting it into
ing it and may put 1t in it's charter.
The day is surely coming when the
initiative, the referendum and the re-
call will be a part of our national and
state laws, as we'll as being included in
national charters"
When the man who writes the Ex-
aminer editorials under the nom de
plume of William Randolph Hearst had
ended this piece of work he leaned
back in his chair and remarked re-
f1ectively to the yellow office cat: And
once more we have proved the truth
of the old saying, 'Hindsight is better
than foresight
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-20
IMPORTANT MEETING

A T Blanchard hall tonight there will
"A be a big rally of the supporters
IA of George Alexander Most of the
leaders who took part in the recall
movement will be present. All the is
sues of the campaign will be clearly
presented by splendid orators; and,
among other things, the legal phase of
the movement will be fully discussed.
The law on the subject will be set
forth and it will be shown why re-
call election must be held.
There should be, and doubtless will
be, a big attendance at this meeting,
which will be one Of the most impor-
tant of the campaign. All citizens who
wish to acquire information on the re-
call and everything pertaining to 1T
should attend this gathering, at which
the discussion of the entire subject in
every phase will be accurately in
structive and Illuminating.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-20
Harper Bez01iIS the Base
Iflgr1tif1sde OF Walter Parker
Oakland Enquirer.)

FNHE statement published by former
Mayor A. c. Harper Of Los An
\ geles, explaining mis- retirement
from office under fire, is one of the most
pitiable confessions ever made by dis
credited public official. Mr.. Harper
would be a pathetic figure IL his posi-
ton were not one to provoke contempt
rather than pity. The most significant
feature of the, statement" issued by
Mr. Harper is the confession that he
was the creature of Walter Parker, the
political factotum of Herrin In Los An
geles politics. Harper declares that he
would not have resigned even at the
demand OF Mr. Earl of the Los An
geles Express under threat of exposure
had he not been abandoned by Walter
Parker, which left him politically
without a leg to stand upon" This
indicates the base ingratitude of
Parker and the organization" In
throwing Harper down when he had
become so discredited that he could
no longer be useful. Parker and his
coterie of Southern Pacific machine
politicians evidently thought that they
were executing mastery coup by per-
hitting Harper to resign, hoping there
by to confuse the reform elements VINO
had put into execution the machinery
of the recall. In this, however, they
apparently counted without their host
for they were unable to force the ma
chine candidate, Smith, upon the coun-
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-20

Gil as Harper's successor, and that
body, deferring to public sentiment,
elected as temporary mayor William ID.
Stephens, who refused to take tie ONCE
except under condition that he should
serve only until March rs. the day set
for the election under the recall In
voked against former Mayor Harper,
In opposition to whom the reform ele-
ment of Los Angeles has nominated
George Alexander. Mr. Stephens Is
man personally uhobjectionable; In
fact, Mr.. stephens might have had the
nomination of the anti-Harper element
when the recall was invoked IL he
would have consented to make cam
paign. In any event, the incident OF
Harper's forced retirement has given
the upper hand in Los Angeles to the
elements opposed to the Southern Pacinc
political machine, managed by Walter
~arker and the organization in alliance
with the Los Angeles Times It has
also turned the spot light upon the
manner in which Parker has manipu-
lated local politics, while 1t has shown
the utter faithlessness of the Southern
Pacific boss in abandoning Harper to
his fate. When he could not serve
them they cleft him naked to his enc
mics" The pitiable position of Harper
abandoned to his fate by the faithless
Parker ought to be warning to poll
ticans of this stamp who serve the ma
chine and the organization in Califor-
mia
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-20

Members of the recall campaign COM
mittee and the Municipal league unite
In an appeal to friends of the recall
movement and supporters of Mr. Alex
ander to contribute to the campaign
expense fund. There are many neces-
sary expenses which must be met, and
for the sake of the complete and
triumphant vindication of the recall
principle all who are interested in the
election of the peoples candidate for
mayor should help to finance this great
and memorable fight for good govern
ment.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-20
POWER

N RESIDENT TAFT in his address
on Grover Cleveland said: "We
l. hear much in these days of the
usurpation of legislation by the ex-
ecutive branch. AS long as the legis-
lative branch has the power of the
purse the danger of executive usurpa-
ton is imaginary. The real danger
rises from the disposition of the legis-
lative branch to assume that it has the
omnipotence of parliament and may
completely control the discretion con-
ferred upon the executive by the con-
stitution.'
The president emphasizes a point to
which attention has been called by
The Herald. The difference between
the United Kingdom and the United
States is not, as many fondly suppose.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-20
Crime Is Punished But the
Criminal Is NOT RefOf med

at the problem from the standpoint of
the state. If the man is turned loose
with a heart ranking at his real or
imagined wrongs, If he finds himself
a sort of outlaw or pariah, and Is so
handicapped that he cannot earn am
honest living unless he be a man of
unusual abilities or have special con-
nections, then the state runs the great
est possible danger of having to dool
with the ex-convict again for some
new crime he may commit. In either
case only half the object of the prison
sentence has been carried out. The
crime has been punished, but no re-
form has been effected. 1t is in view
of these considerations that many of
our states have established special re-
formatories. such as that at Elmira,
n. Y, which has accomplished a nota-
BILE work and one worthy of imitation
in California. 1t is time prison work
in California were carefully revised
and brought down to date.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-20

Ambassador Bryce must have Jared
the good people who have been inno-
Gently calling him an Englishman when
he said: Municipal government has
a tendency to become partisan ere
as elsewhere. In England perhaps one
half of the municipal elections are
fought along party lines. In Scotland
that is the exception. and I do not
observe that municipal councils are
any the worse in that country"
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-20

A produce dealer says people are not
eating as much as they used to. He
complains they have the same old food
habit, but think the purchase of any
but the plainest kind of victuals is a
waste of money. He blames not pow
erty, but diet reform which followed
the eating economies that had to be
practiced after the panic and strin-
gency. Citizens are not as extrava-
CANT as they were before the pinch.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-20

n RISONERS who go to Folsom or
San Quentin are usually either
Il put to work in the rock quarry
or the jute mills. They are given no
opportunity to acquire useful knowi-
edge of trade so that when they DO
again leave Jail they can earn an hon
est living. Dismissed at the prison
doors, son release they go out with
new suit of clothes and SIS in cash, says
the Humboldt Standard.
There are two ways of looking at
this problem. One is to affirm that
the ex-prisoner is placed at an enor-
nous disadvantage; he is punished for
his crime by a penitentiary sentence
and then is punished again when he
comes out by being branded as an "ex-
convict" and still further disqualified
from getting along in the world be-
edge that would enable the earning OF
an honest living. The,other view looks
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-20
AT THE THEATERS

MASON-Dark.
BELASCO--''The Dollar Mark"
MAJESTIC-'Black Patti"
BURBANK-"Peter Pan"
AUDITORIUM-"Uncle Toms Cabin" Musi-
cal Burlesque.
GRAND-"The Fortune Teller"
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
LOS ANGELES-VaudevilIe.
FISCBERS--"Her Husband"
Notwithstanding.
UNIQUE-"sixty Minutes In Panama"
WALKER-Vaudeville.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-20

the difference between a king-ruled
state and republic, but the difference
between a people-ruled state and a re-
public. Parliament, as the president
says, is "omnipotent." No human
being in the United Kingdom has the
power of the president of the United
States, who is today one of the most
powerful rulers in the world.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-20

at may seem to some as If the Times
had the great southwest on the BRAIN"
Times. We knew something was the
matter, but had no idea it was as seri-
ousI as our neighbor says it is. We
hope the cranial oppression may be
speedily. Would trepanning
do any good?
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-20

Los Angeles is the most interesting
city in the United States, and at
present is the chief center of attraction.
Everybody is looking this way" in
order to see how the good citizens will
defeat the tricksters and elect
triumphantly Honest George" Alex
ander as mayor.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-20

Yale held celebrations at LOS An
geles and New York last night. The
New York men had President Taft
for a guest of honor, and the Los. An
geles men had another good, robust.
typical American leader, Carter Har-
rison,- formerly mayor of Chicago. The
Yale yell rang and resounded clear
across the continent.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-20

"By fortuitous concentration OF
circumstances the esoteric> apteryx was
resoluted into mink-hating deroga-
ton, upon which the invertebrate sa-
gacity of the coruscating lizard of the
north, with his pale pink back dipped
in the dyes of Aurora. divulged." This
is home made specimen of Timesese.
the new occult language. Isn't it like
the real article?
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-20

Says Ambassador Bryce: at is n
thoroughly democratic idea that those
who represent the best citizenship of
the municipality should put them
selves, with their ability and ex-
perience, at the disposal of the legisla-
ture of the land for working out the
problems of government"
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-20

What has become of the man who
tried to call the champions and friends
of good, honest municipal government
"pink socks?" Can 1t be he himself
is now wearing pink socks?
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-20

Greater Los Angeles will be a model
municipaltt.', distinguished for good
government and for high standards of
citizenship
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-20
HeaIthful Season Approaches

has been purchased by the dominant
politicians of that city From which it
is inferred that when city employees
wish to go to the games it will not be
necessary to have such high mortal
ity rate among their grandmothers.
PittSburg Dispatch.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-20
Far and Wide
Not Alwayn euncombe

mot unwise or excessive paternal-
ISM" declares President Taft, would
be the prompt enactment by congress
of "a proper postal savings bank bill"
Besides, such law would fulfill
promise of the Republican platform.
AS we understand it, platforms not al
ways are framed for purposes of bum
combe. Many voters who lend to them
support believe their pledges should be
carried to execution.-St. Louis Times.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-20

Isn't is about time some Greater
Los Angeles" flags and badges were in
evidence?