Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-12

IS n absolute and unquali
LIZ fed falsehood," is the
IA reply made by d mem
Der OF the grand jury who did
not concur in the grand jury re-
port 10 the statement made in
pro-vice paper yesterday morn
ing that the six jurors were
ashamed of their letter to Judge
James and repudiated the pub
licity given to it.
Under the subheading, Jur-
ors Repudiate Publicity" the
Hearst paper endeavored to
show that the public presenta-
ton of this letter was not in
tended by the men who signed it.
Men who signed the letter
deny indignantly that they were
ashamed OF it, their only regret
being that so shameful a condi-
ton existed in Los Angeles.
"The statement made in the morning
paper was Ounqualifiedly falsehood,"
said Wesley Clark, whose name headed
the list of six signers. THAT papers
attitude has been in sharp contradis-
tinction to that of The Herald, which
has faced the matter manfully. The
Herald is all right; l enjoy reading a
paper that has some American back
bone This is no time to dodge the is
sue.
I'VE do not find it an easy or agree
able task to take up mess of this
kind. but if it is there the job must be
tackled 1t is no cure to ignore it.
None of those who signed the letter
has backed down, and any statement
to that effect is a lie"
"That assertion is not correct" said
E. G. Bichowski at his home in PO-
mona last night. "None of the six
who signed the letter repudiates it or
it's publicity, so far as I know. We
all stand together on what we have
said and are in no way ashamed or
afraid of having said it. Any asser-
tion to the contrary is not true"
1t was said yesterday that strong eff
forts had been made to bully the six
nOn-concurring jurors into suppressing
any expression. They would not deny
nor affirm this yesterday, saying that
it might lead to an expression not al
lowed under the jurors oath.
81 do not wish to say more than that
the disease by suppression of knowl-
edge concerning it," said J. J. Andrews
yesterday. That is the case with Los
Angeles. What we said was based on
evidence submitted to the grand jury,
and we swore to return findings in ac-
cordance with the evidence. felt that
we could not do otherwise, and every
one Of those who signed the letter
backs what we have said in it, We are
not proud Of conditions but could not
do anything but state conditions as we
actually have found them from the
testimony produced before the grand
jury"
Spells Defeat for Harper
The letter signed by the six grand
jurymen was the leading topic Of dis
cussion yesterday. Taken with the
majority report, the two were regarded
as clinching another nail in the certain
defeat at the recall election of the
present mayor, sometimes referred to
by the Los Angeles Times as Eddie
Morris bosom friend, A c. and whose
administration has stirred up dis
closures which another pro-Harper pa
per characterizes from every point of
view nasty mess"
Everywhere in Los Angeles yesterday
the latest answer to the question, els
vice protected in Los Angles?'' was
discussed, and an overwhelming ma
jority condemned the actions of the
mayor.
In several instances where attempts
were made to excuse his attitude to-
ward houses OF prostitution men gath
cred around his defenders and en-
phatically denounced the Harper ad-
minfstration. One man who argued
that the mayor remained in the house
referred to by the grand jury but If
teen minutes found himself in such
hot water that he quickly chose instead
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