Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-10
CITIZENS REVIEW
QUALIFICATIONS
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and treasurer. Each or Inese olllClSliS
has likewise made good.
| "The overwhelming reelection or
these popular office holders is praotic-
ally assured, and the good government
| organization with appreciation for the
/ faithful public services rendered by
them recommends and indorses for city
attorney, Leslie r. Hewitt; for city
clerk, Harry j. Lelande; Tor city as
SCISSOR Walter Mallard; for city treas
urer. c. H. Hance.
| "The public good would seem to re-
uuire a change in the administration of
| the office of tax collector. Politics
| should be eliminated; the office should
| be conducted upon strictly business
| lines, and needed economies instituted.
Licerses should be made payable as
! taxes are. and as the charter provides,
AT the CITY hall of the candidates for
office of tax collector, Clarence M. Tag
CART has pledged himself and seems
most likely to conduct that office along
strictly business lines and in the inter
ests of the people, and we therefore
recommend Mr.. Taggart to the faVora-
BILE consideration of the voters of Los
! Angeles for the Office of tax collector.
"The Office Of auditor requires not
alone q, good accountant, but man
who is we'll balanced, has good judg-
/ ment and who is not subserVtent to y.
1 terror influences. Such a candidate we
believe exists in John S. Meyers, and
we therefore recommend and indorse
/ John S. Meyers for the office of city
auditor.
| "Our present board of education has
| conducted the business of the school
department to the satisfaction of all
| the citizens of Los Angeles except those
/ few who have been deceived by the
/ vicious unwarranted and unpatriotlc
attacks directed against the board for
M
/ spite The school board consists of
| group of our very best citizens, serving
| absolutely without compensation and
| giving much of their valuable time for
the public veal. They should and will
undoubtedly receive at the coming cleo
tion an overwhelming vote of confidence
and Endorsement, and the good govern
ment organization unhesitatlngly rec
| ommends the recollection of all of our
present school board, who are Joseph
Scott, Fielding ]. Stilson, J. M. Quinn,
| Roger S. Page, H. w. Frank, Melville
| Dozier, F. w. Steddom.
| "In the matter of Endorsement for city
council we beg to report: Sixty-nine pc
titions of nomination have been filed
on behalf of as many candidates for
| this Office some of whom are known
and many of whom are unknown to
the majority Of the citizens of Los An
| geles number of these petitions
were filed only within the last few
days. 1t would be unfair, until careful
investigation has been made of the
qualifications of all of these candidates
for council, to attempt to indorse such
! of these who seem to deserve COM
mendation without giving considera-
ton to the qualifications of others.
Questions of policy have also arisen
and been discussed with reference to
the propriety and wisdom of making
! Endorsements for the council, especially
! in view of the fact that the number of
candidates in the field and who are
| either affiliated with the good govern
rnent organization or are entitled to its
favorable consideration is considerably
greater than the number to be elected.
| Your executive committee has 1abored
! long and earnestly over these questions
and has ben unable to reach conclu-
| sion in regard thereto. The executive
committee therefore recommends that
| special committee be appointed for the
purpose of considering the claims and
| qualifications of all candidates for
| council and of considering further ques-
tions of policy involved in the matter
of indorsements-said committee to
| give all candidates or members of the
| organization so desiring an opportunity
to appear before it for discussion and
| suggestion-the committee to report to
the organization as soon as practicable
! its recommendations and conclusions
| in the matter"
Committee Is Authorized
Thomas Case, a delegate, imme-
diately moved the adoption of the re-
| port, and after that had been COM
! passed moved the authorization of the
appointment by the chair of a COM
mittee of eighteen, representative of
the several sections OF Greater Los
| Angeles, to carry out the recommen-
dation of the report concerning the
question of the Endorsement of candi-
dates for the offices of couneilmen.
After an amendment to increase this
| committee to tWenty-seYen members
| had been lost the action called for was
approved by large vote.
Fred Allies, delegate, moved that
! the appointments be announced by
| Chairman McNutt within three days
and that the report of the committee
| be required at a meeting on Saturday
night, October 23, to which date the
session of last night should be ad-
! journed. This motion was carried
unanimously. Particular attention
was directed to the claims of the sea-
port towns within the limits of Los
| Angeles for representation on this
committee and the suggestion was ac-
cepted by Judge McNutt.
Opposed Rigid instructions
An attempt to secure instruction of
the committee against the indorse-
ment of any person connected, either
as stockholder or agent, with any pub
lie service corporation was voted
down, first, that the organization
could not afford to declare itself at
any stage of it's activities against any
particular class, and, second, that the
committee appointed should be expect
ed to exercise judgment in regard to
such a matter and to do nothing of
compromising nature.
| There was no contest of any sort on
any point, but there was, by the same
token, no Indication of the carrying
out of a program. 1t was evident the
organization, as represented by these
delegates, reposed confidence in the
Judgment and integrity of its execu-
tive officers and approved of the men
chosen for Endorsement. Perhaps no
meeting of it's kind ever held in Los
Angeles transacted its business with
more promptness and less complica-
| ton than that of last night.