Los Angeles herald., 1909-03-29

had closed the infamous resort COM
planned of by The Herald, which had
obtained evidence as to the character
of this and other resorts which basked
in the mercenary sunshine of official
protection. By the enforced action of
the police the fact was demonstrated
indisputably that The Herald had
neither overdrawn nor miscolored its
statements with regard to the pro-
lection of vice in Los Angeles, with
regard to the nature of the vice, with
regard to the nature of the protection,
with regard to the price of protection,
with regard to the manner in which
the price was paid, with regard to all
the conditions The Herald's public
statements regarding which provoked
the attack of Zeehandelaar, and the
Intellectual, grotesque, absurd, fantas-
tic, stupid, fanatical attempt to have
The Herald censured and exposed to
boycott by the advertising business in
terests of our city.
The Hearst paper, which now claims
credit for the recall, gave publicity to
and attempted to perfect an organiza-
ton drawn up on plan which looks as
though it might have been suggested
by the Zeehandelaar person. BY mis-
representations of various kinds it
managed to band together what it
called committee of "A hundred bust
ness men to defend Mayor Harper"
1t aided, abetted. comforted and sup
ported a committee to oppose the re-
call, enlisting in this attempt the serv-
ices of Stanley B. Wilson and others
whose names it used in the attempt
to prove the labor element in this city
was opposed to the recall.
And, after having with infinite pains
and no doubt some expense recruited
and equipped an alleged business
mems" committee and an alleged
labor committee" to fight the Recall,
this extraordinary and preposterous
Hearst sheet now has the audacity to
try to make the intelligent citizens of
Los Angeles believe the Recall was
supported by it.
In the gall of it's bitterness and the
bond of it's iniquity the yellow Mum
cllduS6H llSAl pei PSli e-lON Oil NiiS P0pAAS
what surely must have been prac-
teal joke. Disregarding the facts in
the case, scornfully superior to the
truth, we'll remembered by our read
ers, that the grand jury presented two
reports, both of which condemned the
mayor, but one far more thoroughly
than the other, the Examiner, with
the Harper flag nailed to the mast,
published big headlines which said:
&C RAND J u R EXONERATES
MAYORS"
The impression the Examiner sought
to convey by this misleading headline
was in keeping with the impression it
sought to convey by all the articles
published on the subject, to wit, that
! Mayor Harper was an abused, mis-
treated, slandered, vilified, prosecuted,
downtrodden yellow man after Hearsts
own heart
After Harper's pitiable and panic
stricken retreat. after his nerve forsook
him and he acknowledged he could not
face the ordeal of a recall campaign,
the Examiner took pains to place it's
columns at MS ulSpOSdl anu 10 permit
him to say in them he had been "basely
trapped" by the good citizens who de-
livered Los Angeles from the malign
influence of his incumbency of the prin-
cipal executive Office. Nay, more, the
Examiner stopped so low as to allow
its columns to be used for the purpose
Of threatening or intimidating Mr..
Earl. 1t printed the following remark
which it attributed to lone of Mayor
Harpers attorneys" whom it did not
name:
1--WE had knowledge of the informa-
ton that is supposed to have been
given by Earl, and we were prepared
to combat it even to having Mr.. Earl
arrested for compromising felony"
This inferential threat capped the eli
max of the Examiners services" to the
people of Los Angeles-and was as pat
riotic as any of the contributions to the
recall victory credit for which 1t is
now claiming with the same calm and
constituencies disregard of the veritieS
and the same defiance of public opinion