Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-23

n ECALL campaign headquarters
II, will be opened today by the Mu-
nic1pal league in rooms 401 and
4O2 Equitable Bank building, First and
Spring streets, on the floor below the
leagues offices. BY Monday, when the
executive committee expects to be send
ing out petitions. it will have busy
appearance.
The campaign work will be thorough
and effective. Many volunteer offers
to circulate the petitions have been re-
ceived and these will be accepted. In
addition competent canvassers will be
given districts. The city will be care
fully mapped out and well Covered,
and an effort will be made to secure
10000 names of qualified electors as
quickly as possible.
Members of the executive committee
say that they are glad to receive offers
of voluntary service, as they wish to
carry through the work expeditiously.
The workers will receive explicit in
structions. designed to secure the
largest number of legitimate names in
the shortest time. They will be di-
rected to secure only names of voters
whose names appear on the great regis
ter, and to be careful not to take du-
plicates. They will be told to look out
for possible stuffing in order to permit
future cry of fraud.
League Is Confident
With the signatures of 10000 men, the
executive committee of the league feels
confident that the official checking will
show more than enough to insure the
recall. The assurances received by
league members make the committee
confident that there will be no trouble
in obtaining enough signatures by a
comparatively early date.
In addition to the assent of the MEM
bers at the Meeting in Symphony hall,
the executive committee has received
the opinions Of members who were not
present, showing that rs per cent of the
membership of the Municipal league is
favorable to the recall movement. But
one additional dissent has been record
ed SO far-that of Engene Germain,
who has resigned from the executive
committee because of his long personal
acquaintance with Mayor Harper. He
realized, as did the other members of
the executive committee, that the
movement is to assume proportions
which would place him in an awkward
position, and it was agreed by all men,
bers that his resignation, which was
accepted yesterday, was the only solu-
ton. cit was acted upon without hard
feeling on the part of Mr.. Germain or
any other member of the committed
and was presented with extreme regret
by Mr.. German, who showed mucn
emotion in taking leave of the other
members with whom he had been so
closely associated" said Secretary VIII
lard yesterday. -
An effort was laGu " the executt ;
committee, acting 14aon legal advice,
to secure as short petition as could
be drafted within the requirements of
the charter, Willie still stating the rea-
sons for the recall comprehensively.
Petition Made Brief
I'VE might have made it voluminous,
a book, in fact said a member of the
committee, "but that would have him
dered the work Of getting signatures,
and the loss in time would have figured
as of greater consequence than a de-
tailed Indictment. We have endeavored
to follow the statement of the charter.
The arguments and proofs showing the
reasons why the mayor should be re-
moved will be presented to the public
in the proper way, just as The Herald
has been presenting them"
A compromise suggestion, which will
De ldlQ DeIOfe mayor Harper ana the
Municipal league today by a committee
representing the Public Utilities associ-
alton, seeks to avoid the recall and still
bring about a change.
Say Kern Should Resign
The committee will propose that Ed
ward Kern resign as a member of the
beard of public works and that Rev. E.
]. Harper, now city forester, be ap-
pointed in kern's place. If the mayor
will assent to this and Kern will con-
sent to 'save his friend,' as it was put
at the meeting last night, the Municipal
league will be asked to acquiesce by
withdrawing the demand for the re-
call
Robert G. Loucks, who is chairman of
the committee, presented the sugges-