Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-18
WOOLWINE TALKS
OF GRAND JURY
ACCUSES FREDERICKS OF OUT
RIGHT BAD FAITH
INTEREST IN RECALL ELECTION
INCREASES DAILY
More Meetings Are BENG Demanded
in All Parts of City-Good Gov
eminent Speakers Being
Added to List

Lack of interest cannot be pleaded as
an argumetn for shutting off the recall
campaign when the machine lawyers
make the request for an injunction TO
stay the election, for a progressive IN
terest in the campaign Is evidenced III
every precinct in Los Angeles. Demon
STATIONS of this fact come to the cam
paign committee from many points,
probably the most prominent of which
is the meetings. The headquarters en-
ployes are constantly answering ques-
tions about the meetings, and the halls
where the recall speakers are heard are
crowded at every meeting.
A leading phase. of the general in
terest taken is a great desire to know
how the law committee stands on the
legal phase of the election. The machine
has announced that it will take the
matter into the courts, but so far has
been baffied to find a way that offers
the slightest hope of carrying 1t
through without exciting ridicule. 1t
is expected that the need to let some-
thing drop will bring action from the
machine by Saturday at the latest.
In the meantime so many requests
for information have come to the re-
call headquarters that the committee
has issued a statement from leading
lawyers connected with the movement.
and which has had the Endorsement of
others to whom it was submitted. Tho
legal phase will be discussed fully at
the general meeting Saturday night
at Blanchard hall.
New Grand Jury Absorbing
Probably as absorbing a question as
any is the calling of another grand
jury before the report of the last one
has had it's effect. The fact that this
report enters into the present fight
against machine domination was ex-
planned at the Glendale meeting last
night by Thomas Lee Woolwine. He
asserted that the machine had taken
care to have a perfect organization in
city and county affairs, and said that
as much care had been taken to pro-
'-'de against a startling grand jury
investigation as with any other cog in
the machines
Mr.. Woolwine made extremely sar-
castle references to the good faith Of
District Attornel Fredericks in asking
for a new grand jury. saying in the
course of his speech:
1.-THE plight of the district attorney
in the newest grand jury investigation
would be ridiculous but for the gravity
of the situation. Just upon the
threshold of the last alleged investiga-
ton he declared publicly that the
charges made by me were absolutely
WllHOut IlC' hiiCW at Tia I
time that what he said was entirely
false, and made the statement for the
purpose of smothering the inquiry be-
fore it was we'll started. His whole at
titude from beginning to end indicated
an unfriendliness to such an investiga-
ton, and he did everything that he
dared to prevent full, fair and COM
plete uncovering of the truth.
Forced WooIwine's Reappointment
1.-THE grand jurors felt so little conf
dence in his sincerity and good inten-
lions that they forced him to reappoint
me after my dismissal, and he did so
under the promise that he would leave
me unhampered. In this he again
broke faith. for he hampered me in
every way that he possibly could, even
to the extent of Directing to material
questions asked witnesses, and in
these objections he was sustained by
the foreman.
at submitted to his perfidy until ii
became apparent that he would never
allow me to accomplish anything, when
l rose in the grand jury room and
denounced him. Among other things,
I called him a contemplate scoundrel.
While this may have seemed an undig-
nified thing to do, it was not altogether
the result of anger. but as explained
to the grand jury, was my cool, unim-
passioned view of the man, formed
from my knowledge of his conduct in
office. He discharged me, as he had all
along intended to do, and took charge