Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-17
SUCCESSOR TO
MAYOR HARPER
MADE CERTAIN
CITY CLERK CERTIFIES TO
PETITIONS SUFFICIENCY
ORDINANCE FOR CALL TO VOTERS
is ORDERED
Citizens Generally EIated with Noni.
nation of George Alexander and
All Feel Assured He Will
Be Returned
lHl HE recall election will be held
Thursday March 25. City Clerk

I'M HE recall election will be held
Thursday March 25. City Clerk
Harry Lelande yesterday certified
to the city council that he had found
more than $3.50 names of qualified
electors as signatures to the petition,
and the city attorney was instructed to
prepare an ordinance calling the cleo
tion for March %.
There was no defense by Mayor Har-
per or any member of the council and
the vote was unanimous in the call for
the election. The votes of Councilmen
A. j. Wallace and Henry Lyon were
not recorded, as they were absent.
Councilman Wallace is i'll at Redlands
and Mr.. Lyon did not put in an ap-
pearance for the session.
That the council regarded the election
as certainty was shown in debate on
other matters which came up before
the recall petition was reported on. In
discussing the proposed fee for election
officials frequent reference was made to
the coming election for mayor" which
Blanchard, Dromgold and others
thought should require less work from
men in charge of voting places than a
more complicated matter like a vote on
charter revision.
The city clerks report was made
at 1920 o'clock and five minutes later
the council had taken up other busi-
ness. Councilman DromgOld moved the
date suggested by Deputy City Attor-
ney Emmett Wilson, March 25, be set
and an ordinance be prepared accord
lngly. MI Wilson asked that a list Of
election precincts be placed in the city
attorneys hands by tonight or tomor-
row noon to facilitate drawing up the
ordinance. Blanchard moved that ad-
Journment, when taken, be to Friday
morning at 10 o'clock, when the ordi-
nance will be ready for consideration.
No Delays Interposed
What is the earliest date we can
set this election?" asked Councilman
Dromgold None Of the tactics Of de-
lay anticipated some time ago when
the matter reached the council was IN
terposed, and the action on the petition
went through in routine style. The
following report was submitted by City
Clerk Lelande:
Il beg to report that I have ex-
amined carefully the petition filed with
me demanding the recall of A. c. Har-
per, mayor of the city of Los Angeles,
and that I have this day attached the
following certificate thereto:
IT, H. J. Lelande, city clerk of the
city of Los Angeles, do hereby certify
that on the ninth day of February,
1909, the attached petitic1f was filed
with me, demanding the recall of A.
G. Harper, mayOr1Of the said city of
ELOS Angeles; that the total number of
votes cast for all candidates for the
office of mayor at the last general mu-
nicipal election, to-wit on December a.
1906, was 81, 1888; that [ have examined.
and from the great register have as
cerained, whether or not the said pc
tition is signed by the requisite num-
ber of qualified electors, and as a re
suit of said examination l find that the
said petition is signed by at least $3.50
electors entitled to vote for a successor
to the said mayor, and therefore GER
tify that the said petition is sufficient
The election will be held m every
precinct in the city instead of consoli-
dating precincts as in the last two
special elections.
Members of the Municipal league and
others interested in the recall move
ment are satisfied with the date set by
the council The general opinion was
that the date is not of primary impor
tance, since the result is so certain of
Mayor Harper's decisive recall.
No Objections to Date
81 think no one will object to the
date fixed" said W. D. Stephens,
chairman of the committee of fifteen
who persuaded George Alexander to
be a candidate. 1T is assured so GER
tainly Mr.. Harper will be recalled that
any date within the limit Of the law
would be acceptable. [ am convinced
there is no doubt as to the result.
George Alexander is a platform in
himself 1t might be said of that man
or this man he will do thus and so, but
1 the people know where Alexander
stands. He has been tried. He has
done it already, and when we say we
need you to do it again there will be
no uncertainty as to what he will do.
Everybody knows where he stands and
where he will stand in city affairs
"The campaign will be an active one.
| &c
would be advisable to make the effect
the more lasting. The campaign is not
one of personality; the great thing in
volVed is the Owens river water and
power and their safeguarding, so there
never can be the least suspicion of
tainted administration in its affairs.
That. to me. is the big thing before
the people. and I believe this is appre-
ciated by the people generally.
''We must not allow a thought of
any taint in the construction or future
control of this big undertaking; 1t
must be handled for the city-never
for any private purpose. That is the
issue involved, and it is important
enough to call for the vote of every
citizen who has the advancement of his
city at heart"
Pleased with Selection
Congratulations were general yester-
day on the selection of the COMMITTEES
of fifteen, and the meeting to hear its
report tonight will be a ratification
meeting in most emphatic sense.
Members of the committee of fifteen
received numerous messages yesterday
commencing their judgment "My tel
Eephone has been kept busy all day
with good messages on the choice of a
/ candidate" said Chairman Stephens.
Alexander is the best possible man,
and he will be elected in spite of every
thing" said a business man who was
at the outset greatly opposed to the re-
call movement. "In my opinion q
good many persons have been a little
on the fence in this matter because
they wanted to know who would run
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