Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-01-25
is VICE PROTECTED
IN LOS ANGELES?-XV
Mayor Harper's Statements Analysed and
Given Proper OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Ex-
ecufiUe'S Method of Deliberately Break
ing a Solemn Pledge Regarding
Appointment of Member of
Board of Public Works

IA N HIS statement endeavorng to explain the action
10 OF the meeting OF citizens called by the Municipal
M league and to defend his administration, published
~ in the morning papers of yesterday Mayor Harper
states:
Its he Municipal leagues) action is the result of the
activities OF F. l. Earl the proprietor of the Express, his
employee T. E. Gbbon of The Herald, and some other per-
son who unsuccessfuly attempted dictate to the
making of certain appointments
This statement concerning relations Earl and
myself is stupid lie of the kind which sometimes told
by unnteigent criminals when they are caught "red
handed with the goods on" and endeavor give
explanation of a situation which cannot be explained.
To show how entirely disconnected The Herald
Express and their several propretors in the pubica
ton of concerning Mayor Harpers administration
desire to say that while presume Mr. Earl and the
Express have endeavored to collect facts concerning Mayor
Harpers administration be used in making good charge
OF that paper that vice protected in Los Angeles yet
this is the of these facts given
by the Express its proprietor Mr. Earl The Herald
to myself and not of them used in the publica
tons which The Herald has lately caption
Is Vice Protected in Los Angees" Not one statement
OF fact made in those publications was not based
upon information obtained directly by The Herald and the
officials and employees of the company which controls it.
AS to the recent publications in The Herald being the
result OF any failure upon my part to dictate to Mayor
Harper as to the making of appointments, have say
that during his whole official have requested him
to make only appointment
When the matter of appointing successor to Mr. lanes
a. Anderson upon the Board of Public Works came up it
generally stated through the columns of the press and
otherwise that Mayor Harper proposed appoint Ed Kern
then chief of police that position was requested by
number good citizens who are deeply interested in The
welfare OF our CITY, and who appeared to think that nv
position Democrat and the head of Democratic paper
should give influence with Mayor HARPER to see
him personally and urge the reappontment of Mr. An
derson.
did and received from Mayor Harper positive and
unqualified promise that he would reappont MI Anderson
Without any further consultation with ever asking
to be relieved Of his promise giving excuse for not
carrying it out he appointed General Chaee the posi-
ton formerly occupied by Mr.. Anderson thereby deber
ately breaking his word pledged to me.
Shortly after this at Mayor Harper's instance we had
interview, in the course Of which he complained that
The Herald treating him with the consideration
which he thought his due asked him if he expected
that either The Herald could have any confidence in
him after his deliberately breaking his pledged word to
me concerning the appointment of Mr.. Anderson
stated to him IN this connection that had obiec-
ton to General Chaees appointment and that he had
only had the consideration for himself to have asked to he
relieved of his promise of appointing Mr. Anderson so that
he might have appointed General Chaee would willingly
have waived obligation under which his promise me
to appoint Mr.. Anderson might have put him.
Since that time have directly indirectly made
any request of Mayor Harper appointment of anv
man to any position within his gift because I had abso-
utey confidence him, and would have trusted to
any promise or pledge that he might have made me-
1t is true that The Herald edtoray protested against
the recent appointment of Chief of Police Ed Kern That
not personal matter, however but by the
paper pursuance of what its propretos conceived to be
the duty of public journal to the people of the city in
which it is published and has its principal circulation
Those editorials however, did convey any hint as to
person whose appointment desired merely
protest against the appointment of a whose past
official record showed him. in the judgment of The Heralds
managers to be conspcuousy unfit for the position which
the mayor afterward appointed him. T. E. GIBBON.