Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-20
LEGAL ASPECTS
OF RECALL FIGHT
TOBE EXPLAINED
BIG MEETING is ARRANGED
FOR TONIGHT
ALEXANDER FORCES CONDUCT
VIGOROUS CAMPAIGN
Attempts Being Made to Thwart viii
of People and Prevent Election.
Will Be Discussed by
Speakers

HyHE legal aspects of the recall as
they stand today and the progress
Il made in the campaign will be de-
tailed by able speakers at the big
meeting tonight at Blanchard hall, zoo
South Broadway, which Will pc helo
under the auspices of the recall cam
paign committee. Webster DAVIS,
Marshall Stimson, Frank G. Finlay-
son. George Alexander and other prom
inent speakers will take up various
phases of the campaign and answer
arguments made against the holding
of the election March 26 to choose a
mayor. :,
Interest in the success OF the recall
indicates q crowded hall, especially as
citizens are anxious to hear the legal
side of the effort of the machine to
prevent the issue being submitted to
the people by an election. The speak
ers tonight will pay special attention
to this feature of the campaign, ex-
planning the legal complications that
were introduced yesterday. Frank u.
Finlayson will preside.
No other meeting will be held to-
night. but Guy S. Garner B. P. Welch
and George Alexander will speak to-
morrow night at Ell Belen club, 61S
New High street, at o'clock. The
meeting was arranged by a committee
consisting of Dana w. Bartlett, r. j..
Arata and o. C. Laisure. Although
there are but four days next week
prior to the election, eight meetings
have already been arranged and 9TH
ers will be scheduled.
Alexander Doesn't Dodge
Mr.. Alexander spoke at two meetings
last night At 2517 Pasadena avenue
the other speaker was Frank s.
Forbes, and Thomas Lee Woolwine
r. TT -. 11rd ut ara-
tral hall, 1924 Central avenue. Mr..
Alexander did not dodge any of the
new issues presented yesterday in the
campaign, and he handled the fact that
the Republican machine has issued or
ders to vote for the Socialist candidate,
as he has expressed himself, 'in the
good old fashion of calling spade a
spade"
1T have nothing of a personal ma
ture against Mr.. Wheeler" said Mr..
Alexander last night. 1.-THE official
ballot is out and his name and mine
are the only ones on it. I am not going
to get personal-let the opponents of
the recall call names and throw mud.
They are willing enough to do 1t, and
they seem to have little other argu-
ment to present.
"There are only two things to be con-
sidered when you take up the ballot.
One is that Mr.. Wheeler is an untried
man. You do not know what he can
do; he does not. He says he does not
expect to accomplish much should he
be elected. My record of eight years
of work for the people is open to vot-
ers. You can better judge what can
and will dos--~
Effect on Recall
"Another matter worth your consid-
Grafton is the fact that the recall is at
stake. If the machines scheme goes
through and it is sent all over the
country that Los Angeles has elected
a Socialist mayor for city of 100000
will be the result, not only in adver-
tising the city, but to the recall as
we'll? 1t shows how hard up the ma
chine bosses are when they will turn
in and work for a Socialist mayor
Think of these men who make politics
a business working for Socialist. 1t
makes me laugh every time I think
of it.
Personally I am Republican, and
Mr.. Wheeler is a Socialist. This in it.
self is not a political fight; it is a
principle involving for or against all
citizens alike. But the machine is
badly scared. They've got to do some
thing, and they hardly know which
way to turn. This, with the way they
went at their injunction, shows they
are in awful bad shape.
I'm their search for arguments they
call this the silk-stocking campaign
Well, for myself, l am just a plain,
everyday man; / never wore silk stock
ings in my life. If 1 should be elected
mayor I promise you that the CITY will
have no silk-stocking administration,
and one you will have no reason to be
ashamed Of"