Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-04

it tries to frighten voters into its camp
by the old cry of wolf, but that cry has
outliVed its usefulness in Los Angeles,
for you can't fool all the people all
the time
"The people of Los Angeles keenly
realize what tremendous tasks they
have undertaken in bringing the Owens
river here and in building the harbor,
and what great possibilities are open
to it, if they will put business men
who are clean in office The owens
river project ct Is estimated) will de-
velop upwards of 100000 horsepower.
The development of this horsepower
will come into competition with the
power and light corporations OF our
city, Shall we have this power de-
Veloped by a mayor and city council
who have the best interests of all the
people at heart, or shall we have 1t de-
veloped by politicians for the best in
terests of the power corporations?
THE election of Alexander, Works,
Washburn, Williams, Anderson, Greg
ory and the other candidates selected
by the people in the primary election
will assure the city getting the best for
its money, and that such enterprises
will be put on the best business basis.
What magnificent lot of men we have
selected! 1t seems as though the cleo
ton should be unanimous for the can
didates who are supported by the Good
Government organization The cleo
ton of Healy, Lyon and Yonkin and
the other candidates of the machine
would assure that these enterprises
would be developed along the lines of
least resistance to the competing cor
porations.
Just the other day Healy, Lyon and
Yonlxin voted for a public utilities act
an act which pretends to supervise the
public utility corporations OF our city
but which is burlesque. An act
which if not defeated by the passage
of the Municipal leagues act covering
the public utility corporations, will be
found to be practically worthless, and
about all it will accomplish will be
to waste $4,000 of the taxpayers money
annually. Do not forget to vote for
the public utilities act at the present
election, and defeat this piece of polit-
ical jobbery. The machine showed its
hands when the council passed the
present spineless and useless public
utilities act over Mayor AleXander's
veto, but the people will undo this
bold and brazen piece of work by the
council.
1.-THE people Of Los Angeles will not
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lie improvements over to their enemies,
for to do so would undoubtedly mean
bankruptcy of our city. The people
should congratulate themselves that
they have such men on the ticket
from Alexander down to Works, the
last name on the ballot-men who will
do so much for our city. A new order
of things has dawned in American mu-
nicipal affairs, the dream of the ages
is realized here-men running for office
not because they desire il so much but
that they desire to obey the call of
the people that they do so--men who
are running not for what they can get
out of the office but what they can put
into it. The politicians can't under
stand this new order of things, and they
are helpless and dumfounded to see
old party lines vanish away. They
can't understand the patriotism of men
running on such high planes. The poor
politicians live in the past and dream
of it's graft, while the great strides
for business management of municipal
affairs are a rude and horrible night
mare to them.
Men of Los Angeles, you are build
ing a more lasting and greater edifice
than you now realize. You are making
history for the years that are to come.
You are here solving one of the greatest
problems of government in our coun-
try today. You are here blazing the
path for all the other American muni-
cipalities from political serfdom and
bondage to free government on clean
business lines. This great fight which
you are waging is one of the greatest
ever Waged for free government, for
it is the foes from within and not from
without that destroy nation! Let us
press onward with a courage to do this
great work, which can end only in sue
cess-a success which will excel our
fondest dreams"
Il am and always have been Re-
publican, and from my acquaintance
with Mayor Alexander I know him to
to be one," says l.. l.. Bowen, the real
estate man. II am supporting him in
this campaign, not because of this fact,
however, but because I believe him to
be the best man for the office
"I believe in local affairs party poll
tics should be eliminated. This city is
like any other big corporation, and the