Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-09

H supporters are driven in their
H efforts to find votes for the may
~. are indicated in the orders which
have gone out to all city employees 10
vote for Harper or suffer the conse-
ouences. These have been partlcularly
| strong in the street department, nov
headed by Edward Kern. lntimloatioii
is the watchword down the line at the
| city hall. 1t has failed 10 WORK III I"
number of cases, however.
| "T exnect to vote for George Alexan-
dor as the recall candidate for mayor,
said William Maxhimer OF f4o lsapei
street, city employe. :! am en-
ploed by the city, and nave Deen
| told that l would lose my posltloIl
| should | vote for Alexander. But l.
will vote for him. let come what Will:
| "They are trying to use II as cruz
over our heads" said another city en-
Move. "but it won't work very 1ast
with a number I know of. The way
| they act about this shows they want
to make machine ana coh,o noi;t;caI
pointments purely as ponlieai
scheme, and as George Alexanoer
doesn't stand for that I am going 10
stand for him."
Glum at City Hall
"They are feeling pretty glum at the
| citv hall" said another man VINO
draws his wages from the city. l
was IN there last week, and as rev Oh
| them know me / made some inquiries.
We'll, they've got Harper'S goat, says
one man. but we're doing the pest we
can THOSE who talked sort of con-
| fidentially said the recall looked hhe
serious proposition"
An instance of the distress evident
| in the Harper camp Is SHOWN IN the
work of the Good Government league,
which was organized to stimulate ms
placed entlnusiasnl for Haris w 81
| lace Wideman and others who started
The league held a meeting Saturday
night at the Log Cabin saloon on
i second street and as a result tnere
will he free refreshments" at Har-
per meeting at Liberty hall tomorrow
night at which league officials ana tne
mayor will speak. The meeting IS pc
ING advertised as under the auspices
of the Independent Political CLUB.
which ran during the last national
| ca1npaign as the Standard Republican
| club and of which Ike Margols is
president.
Margolis was rather 10th to act as
chestnut puller because OF tne .iul-
| Guile heaped on him in cartoons ana re-
| call articles in a pro-vice newspaper,
but he was induced to fall in line. ana
| he is now sending out printed invita-
tions to the meeting signed by him as
president of the "club" in charge Tnese
invitations state that the Wideman
"Cood Government league" will DEFEND
| tha recall of the mayor and that Har-
per himself will oppose It, giving the
| impression of a debate on both sides
of the subject. The good government
organization which is now put up 10
defend the recall movement Is the
same quoted in an evening pro-vlce
paper last week as feeling indignant
! because mayor Harper was beinS
done a rank injustice" 1t is one OF
the machine supported schemes, ana is
maintaining Harper headquarters.
at has been declared by some" says
Ike Margolis as president of the IN
dependent Political club in ms circu-
1a,. invitation to attend the "independ-
ent debate" that the recall has been
invoked by designing and discredited
| office seekers who see in the recall an
avenue through which they can secure
q job"
Headquarters in Meat Shop
The independent Political club
maintains it's headquarters in the rear
| of the Margolis meat SHOP $" ireely
caricatured by the morninP pro-Vlce
paper in it's efforts to make run OF the
recall.
hard raps in connection with the meet
ing at Millers hall, 6313 Pasadena ave-
/ n,Ie tonight Members of the F1rst
Precinct Alexander club have Deen
making a personal canvass or tnat
neighborhood to tell about the import
ance of the meeting and making an
effort to get out every voter IN Gar
yanza who is able to attend. While
doing this they have been also calling
attention to the fact that the pro-vice
paper suggested the chasing OF the
redlight district, to Garvanza," and rec
ommending that no patronage be ex-
tended to a paper which would siander
one of the best populated residence
districts in that manner.
| George Alexander will be the pr1ncl-
nal sneaker at the First precinct to-
night. and the members of the club in
sisted on this when he was named as
the candidate for mayor. Lamar Har-
ris and DR.. p S. Nicholson will also
speek on the recall movement. The
First Precinct club has provided spe-
cial music for the meeting.
Meetings Arranged
/ Other meetings arranged in the in
! terest of the recall campaign are:
Thursday evening. March 11-Mason-
ie hall. Thirty-third and Main streets.
George Alexander and 7. l.. Woolwine,
speakers :,
1880 West Jefferson street. George
Alexander and Lorin A. Handley,
FRIDAY March 12-East End Alex
ander club. meeting at Maplewood hall,
Ninth and Wilson streets George
Alexander and H. M. Myers, speakers.
Tuesday March 16-Henderson hall,
2SO5h South Union avenue. Judge John
ID. Works and George Alexander,
speakers,
Wednesday, March 17-Edendale hall,
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