Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-09
THEN AND NOW

H1 ODAY the mayor of Los Angeles
presides over city Of which
a every citizen is justly proud.
Conditions have been attained to under
the mayoralty of George Alexander
which represent the highest ideals of
good citizenship. Responsibility in
public office, prudence and economy in
financial management; honesty and
square dealing have taken the place
of the responsibility, prohigacy, de-
bauchery and dishonesty which existed
and were fostered and encouraged by
the Harper administration.
Mayor Alexander, while he was
member of the board of supervisors,
demonstrated his fidelity to public in
terests by saving the city from being
plundered in the good roads bonds
sale.
Vast expenditures must be made in
connection with the owens river water
project, and it is Of vital Importance
the efficient and vigilant public serv-
ant who saved the taxpayers money
from being looted when the good roads
bonds were disposed OF should be re-
tanned in office in order to keep the
owens river money out of the reach OF
the plunderer. With Mayor Alexander
in office the owens river project is
safe and not a dollar Of the $23 900, 900
bond issue will be misused.
Looking backward we may well
dread the consequences to Los Angeles
of rislfing the owens river project by
installing in office an untried admin
istration that would represent and
stand for vicious machine interests, the
same old interests that dragged the
fair name of Los Angeles in the mire
of disgrace, that delivered the city
over to the operations of the agents Of
vice and debauchery, that caused
public officials to institute a scan
dalous arrangement founded upon the
most loathsome and revolving kind Of
graft, under which the underworld and
all its miserable allies actually were
allowed to prey on Los Angeles, while
a faithless mayor and his gang OF
machine appointees and official assoc
ciates divided the plumber derived from
al INFAMOUS tLdlll- III l+lc 4OIlpI ana
virtue of women.
No responsible citizen, especially If
he have family ties and home associa-
tions, has any wish to court a return
Of the filthy and scandalous official
conditions of vice and graft which
menaced the homes OF Los Angeles.
Every man for his own rool-tree.
The decent citizens of Los Angeles,
rejoicing in the cleaner and better city
OF today, cannot afford to run the risk
Of a return to the times when vice
was protected, when houses Of shame
paid tribute to city officials when
fetal collectors called to extort the
filthy money which was to be shared
with those higher up at headquarters.
We must keep Los Angeles CLEAN.
The conditions NOW are better than
conditions THEN because the citizens
put in office an administration that
could be depended upon to enforce the
laws, punish the laWless, protect the
weak and guard the school and the
home,
Conditions NOW furnish the strong
est possible argument for the reten-
ton in office of Mayor George Alex
ander and by renominating and re-
electing this tried, true and trust
worthy public servant the PEOPLE Of
Los Angeles will show they appre-
ciate conditions NOW and intend to
preserve the honor and maintain tho
credit of the city by sturdily refusing
to give support to any candidate
whose election might bring with ii the
risk of a deplorable return to evil con-
ditions which existed THEN.