Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-27
ALEXANDER is
GIVEN CHEERS
IN NORTHEAST
BIG DEMONSTRATION is MADE
ON PASADENA AVENUE
RuMP CONVENTION TACTICS ARE
DENOUNCED BY sTlMsoN
"only Went to Show That Machine
Was Afraid to Trust the Peo=
ple," Says Business
Man

from his supporters in the nrsL pre-
cinct at a meeting at Millers hail. 63l1
Pasadena avenue, last night and the
size of the meeting demonstrated that
the northeastern end OF Los Angeles
is standing out as heartily for good
government as any other section.
"They tried to make out that l am
too old to serve as mayor said MI
Alexander, but 1 am getting fat at II.
l am afraid by the end of the next
term I shall be as fat as Taft.
The mayor reviewed the circum-
stances which made necessary the IN
yoking of the recall and his election as
mayor.
Il have tried to serve the people to
the best of my ability" he said, and
if I am reelected l shall do as I have
always done in this regard. have not
been giving a great deal of serious
thought to the present campaign, for
1 have been too busy working for the
city"
Annexed Citizens Satisfied
Charles 7. Paul, candidate for the
council, said that ne believed nine out
of every ten voters in the west end5I
section just annexed were for Alex
ander He heartily indorsed the policy
of the Good Government organization.
Judge r. M. Lusk urged his auditors
to vote for nine councilmen certain to
uphold the Good Government policies
and not to vote for any less. Speaking
for himself he said he was entirely IN
the hands of the voters; he would not
complain if any voter found nine other
men more acceptable for the council SO
long as they were dependable as work
ers for the best government of the city.
Martin Betkouski said that he has
always been a Democrat, but has al
Ways been on the clean side. He gave
an interesting review of recent political
history.
Candidate Mushet thinks he is the
whole thing" said Mr.. Betkousk, and
that he can run things as he pleases,
but 1 believe he will learn a thing or
two" He commended City Treasurer
Hance and City Clerk Lelande as high
ly competent and worthy men.
Direct Primary Defended
John T. Pope defended the direct pri-
mary and denounced the machine Re
publican ticket as illegal and unworthy
of respect. He reviewed the status OF
a number of local matters.
Cha les T. Blabon, president of the
Sixth Ward Improvement association,
handled the present garbage problem
in a vigorous manner, and told of the
indignation of residents of his section
because of the odors they are compelled
for the council, made an effective
speech.
The Hall was crowded with an en-
thusiastic audience. w. E. B. Part
ridge. president of the club, presided.
Marshall Stimson took considerable
hide off the straight Republican"
ticket last night at a meeting of the
Fifty-fourth Precinct Good Govern
ment club at Ell Molino and Pico
streets. Haines Reed, president of the
club presided, and Mr. Stimson, Rich
mond Plant and L. A. Handley were
the speakers.
II believe in handling this question
aggressively," said Mr.. Stimson, and
he proceeded to take it up without
gloves.
"That rump convention" he said,
"simply asserted that the machine was
afraid to trust the people Of Los An
geles. I don't think they feared that
the people could not pick nine men so
much as a distrust of their inability to
select men amenable to the uses Of the
bosses.
Rather than condemn the rump
convention the people of Los Angeles
should feel grateful for it, since very
often it is difficult for person to know
lust what action not to take and what
men not to vote for equally as much
as to know what to do and whom to
vote for.
Open Chance for Misrule
ANY person determined to see mis-
rule and bad administration uppermost
has through the work of the rump
convention a free and open opportunity
to allow the public service corporations
to exploit the interests of the people,
for that rump convention has fully in
structed him what to do and whom to
vote for.
1.-The real Republicans of Los Angeles
will resent the iusinuati Of the Ian
guage at the head of a card issued by
the rump committee on which they say
the Republican party of Los Angeles
indorses the following The men who
got up this Tump convention are the
sort Of Republicans who for the last
three or four municipal elections have
been instrumental in putting a Repub-
lican ticket in the field and then more
industriously worked to defeat the head
of the ticket in order to put in Demo-
crat. This trickery was so thoroughly
exposed when former Mayor Harper
gave out his famous interview in which
he claimed the Republican boss as his
creator and sponsor, that an appeal for
party loyalty from so treacherous an
outfit will not raise a unanimous and
overwhelming burst of enthusiasm"
for an overwhelming vote for Mayor
Alexander, whose election he predict
ed as a certainty He reviewed the
splendid manner in which Mayor AL
exander has made good, and demon
strated the folly and bad business sense
in trading a known and dependable ex-
ecutive for an uncertainty, even though
apparently assured that the other man
might be good.
Richmond Plant spoke on the impor-
tance of choosing reliable men to con-
duct the city's business in the council
men competent to handle adequately
the big things before the city.
The announcement on the cards of
DR.. ]. w. Jones requesting voters to
call at his Office has resulted in an
enlistment of 27S men in his behalf
all agreeing to work without recon-
pense in their respective precincts on
election day for the election of DR..
Jones for mayor.
The Good Government organization
will move it's headquarters today to
rooms 203-204 German building Where