Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-08
Knife Is Being sharpened

Assistant Manager Weiss of the
Smith camp smiles and smiles and says
there is really nothing to it. AS he
has it framed up, the gang will knife
MusheC at the last minute, after he
has taken all the unofficiallY reformed
votes from Uncle George Alexander
that he can. Farisn is conceded a
certain faction. DR.. Jones will draw
from Alexander and Parish. But no
one, according to the campers in
Smith and Nolan's block a Second and
Broadway, will draw from Smith.
No one but Walter Lindley," say
the Smith crowd, sententiously.
The Standard Republican club OF
Los Angeles held a meeting at their
headquarters at 444 South Broadway
for Harry Lyons campaign commit
tee. Mr.. Lyon is a candidate for the
council at large; D. Lichtenstein, Ben
Mendelson, H. Moore. J. Miller, Frank
Wolf, L. Goldberg, DR.. NJ. A. Frank,
H. kaufman, N. Phillips, S. Copplan,
P. L. Goldberg.
petition nominating o. w. Con-
way for the office of city council
man was filed yesterday with the city
clerk. 1t contains 1914 names, nearly all
of which were those of men prominent
in the business and professional world.
At the same time a letter was ad-
dressed to Mr.. Conway about whose
willingness to accept the nomination
there has been some doubt by a num-
ber of the signers of the petition, in
cluding the following: Charles C. An
drews of Wright & Calender company,
Ora E. Monnette, r. A. Walton,
James V. Baldwin, H. J. Benedict,
I II
ward D. Silent, William NJ. Garland,
w. W. Mines, G. NJ. Giffen, A E.
Pomeroy, S. r. Barry, S. ]. White, ].
D. Foster, Samuel R. Brearley, Thomas
S. Wadsworth, J. B. Tibbot, Ben
White, Percy H. Clark, A. P. Johnson,
Jr., c, F. w. Palmer, Charles L. Hub
bard, H. Jevne, Joseph Burkhard, G.
a. CortelyOu, Walter r. Brown, L. L.
Bowen, John T. Griffith, Thomas Ken
ton Kase, G. C. Johnson, E. A. For
roster, Charles A. Elder, Harbert Bur-
dett DR., J. H. Utley, L. o. Crenshaw.
The following is the letter sent to
Dear Mr. Conway:
c. w. Conway, Esq.
304 Bradbury Building,
Los Angeles.
Dear Mrh Conway:
You were asked last week by
some of the undersigned, all of
WllOIu you KNOW ana VINO nave
known you for years to allow your
name to be used in connection
with the office of city councilman.
You replied that you did not desire
the office, did not see how you
could spare the time from your
business that it would demand, but
finally agreed to consult others of
your friends and abide by their de-
cision.
Candidacy Advocated
We find that your candidacy is
warmly advocated, not only by
those whom you consulted, but by
every man whom we nave ap-
preached on the subject, to whom
you are known. We hand you
herewith a petition for your nomi-
nation containing 1874 signatures,
obtained since Monday morning,
and it is our unanimous opinion
that as a matter of duty you
should respond to this call We
believe that a practical business
man. who is at the same time an
expert on real estate values and
ical or other affiliations that are
likely to bias him in connection
with any public question. is needed
on the next council. We know
that you are such a man. We
have absolute confidence iS your
integrity and ability. We ask
you. therefore, to accept the nomi-
nation, even though it involve
some sacrifice of your financial in
terests, as the good citizen that