Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-17
MUSHET STILL
INSISTING ON A
COURT DECISION
HIS FRIENDS DECLARE HE
WILL FIGHT TO THE END
SMITH ALSO SAYS HE is PRE-
PARED FOR CONTEST
In Meantime, George Alexander is
Winning Friends, and Resolutions
lndorsing His Candidacy
Are Received

Despite rumors of an agreement
through efforts of a morning paper to
bring the Smith and Mushet forces to-
| gether there was no change yesterday
| i'm the contest for second place on the
! mayoralty ticket. The papers in the
contest reached e. A. Meserve, Mr..
Smiths attorney, at noon, and he stated
that he would give them prompt atten-
1 tion in spite of the demands OF case
he has at this time in the United
States court.
About the only new element was
rumor that Mr.. Mushet's friends were
advising him to withdraw with the
understanding that he would have a
larger support in the race for mayor
two years hence. When asked for his
opinion as to this Mr. Mushet put on
look of determination, but said he
had nothing to say. His friends say
that he will fight the contest through
to the end.
George A. Smith, who has been rather
indisposed owing to the hard cam
paign before the primary election, was
at work on the general election cam
paign yesterday.
II am in good shape for a continuous
fight up to the December election and
intend to fight right through-and win,
said Mr.. Smith. II have not changed
my position on this and have already
started on the general election cam
paign."
His statement was seconded by that
of d. c. Casselman, chairman of the
Republican city central committee, who
denied vigorously that any patch up
would be effected between the Smith
and Mushet forces.
Our legal committee informs me
that it is futile to expect any decision
on the contest before election day"
1 % aG
shown by the records in all contested
elections, is that the ballots cannot be
scrItinized faster than at the rate or
| 1000 a day. Every ballot must be
scrutinized by the attorneys represent
| ing the interested parties, and con-
tested points will involve the time
necessary for additional scrutiny by the
Judge. Since Mr.. Mushet has alleged
malconduct in every precinct 1T would
be necessary to summon election Of
ficials for every one of the 200 pre-
cincts. am advised by our legal COM
mittee that under no circumstances can
the contest be heard before the date
set, November 26.
"The Republican executive committee
met today and laid plans to prosecute
| the campaign with vigor. Our cam
paign committee will meet tomorrow
| and arrange details for going ahead
with the fight, and we expect to keep
the campaign warmed up from now on.
Mr.. Smith does not desire Intentionally
to cause any delay, but has not in any
way changed his position as stated in
The Herald Monday morning"
MANY expressions of confidence in
Mayor Alexander and belief that he
should be reelected come to the Good
| Government organization. "It certainly
will be a walkaway for Alexander"
said a prominent Spring street real
estate man yesterday, who has been
| strong supporter of the straight lie
| publican ticket.
'It is a great pleasure to me to state
my hearty admiration for the integrity
and ability of George Alexander, who
has rendered such important service to
our city," says Rev. William Horace
Day, pastor of the First Congrega-
tional church. 81 have rarely known
a better official, one whose official life
appealed to me as finer example OF
whole-hearted devotion"
Charles H. Mattingly, attorney, said
of the mayoralty campaign:
when Harper was recalled by an
organization of outraged citizens the
organization which placed Harper in
office used its utmost endeaVor to pro-
cure from our city council the appoint
ment to the office of mayor of its pres
ent candidate, George Smith. And, it
is said, they almost succeeded. If the
work of Smith as mayor of Los An
geles is of the same highhanded char
acter as that of the organization be-
hind him-and it is only fair to pre-
sumo that it will belt is very easy to
prophesy the rise of the tenderloin'
and the fall of the temple of decent
government. For the experience of all
citizens who are old enough to vote is
that the history of the past is safe
criterion for the future.
Organization OF the character
mentioned is not in accordance with
the principles of either washington or
Jefferson. Organization of this char
acter is not calculated to win the votes
of honest men for either the Repub-
lican or Democratic party If the his
tory of the Republican party revealed
the fact that organization of this sort
was its chief virtue, its membership
would be confined to the class OF
Republicans who elected Harper and
defeated Gates. Whether Republican
or Democrat, let us write upon the
walls of our memory, in letters of fire,
the history of the work of the organ
ization' which elected Harper and de-
feated Lee Gatese and is trying to
elect George Smith; and at the polls
upon election day let the very air be
redolent of the spirit of independence
Wn1cn SWUNG LHt OlNl 14iOSllN DSll III
the days of yore, and let our slogan
be, Uncle George has made good-keep
him on the job
The Negroes Independent Political
league of Los Angeles last night
unanimously indorsed Mayor George
Alexander and the other candidates
supported by the Good Government or
ganization. The resolutions aodpted
are in part:
1--WE, as negro voters, find it to the
best interest of our race to live in
cities with a clean municipal govern
ment and that mob rule, riot and race
disturbances are things unheard of in
cities where the saloon, dive and red
light element do not share in munich
pal control.
"We, the members of the Negroes
Independent Political league of Los
Angeles, indorse the candidates named
by the Good Government organization
and headed by George Alexander for
mayor, and we will use our efforts and
influence to bring about their election
sad thereby make of Les Angeles a
ety whose municipal officers are not