Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-25
FINGER POINTS
TO BETRAYERS
LOOK THEM UP AT POLLS,
SAYS W0OLWINE
S. p. SERVANTS POINTED TO AS
DANGER MARKS
Objections to Service of Mayor Alex
ander Shown Up in Their
True Light by
Speaker

"When the time comes for you to &c
TO the polls on December Z, don't think
of whom you like or don't like, but
think of the men who have betrayed
you. and then vote the other way,
declared Thomas Lee Woolwine in
closing an address to an enthusiastic
audience at Henderson hall, Twenty
fourth and Hoover streets. last night.
IF Barney Healy is elected the peo-
pie of this community have the short
est of memories, for Barney Healy and
Doc Houghton' were two of the men
who voted to give away the only fea-
sible railroad approach to the city OF
Los Angeles. They were two of the
men who, in the face of every protest,
when the people were begging them 10
wait for at least a day, sat there--your
servants, people whom you had elected
and voted on two different occasions,
and voted to give it away.
IT have heard it said that they were
pale as death when they did 1t, and
they had reason to be, for the people
who went to the council chamber on
that Wednesday morning were in a
hanging mood, and it speaks well for
the fortitude of the American people
that there was not violence done.
Don't forget that when you go to the
polls"
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Mr.. Woolwine stated that on five
different occasions the common council
of San Pedro had attempted to give
to the Southern Pacific the harbor
front of San Pedro.
TT costs as much to ship a ton of
goods from san Pedro to Los Angeles
as it does to ship the same quantity of
goods from New York to Liverpool,
back again and across once more"
In speaking Of the objections some
people have to Mayor Alexander, Mr..
Woolwine said:
"They make some funny objections to
this man. One thing they say is that
he is not very handsome. But l say
neither was Abraham Lincoln.
"They say he is too old. Is the chief
justice of the United States too old?
He is older than George Alexander; he
has been older than George Alexander
is now for some time.
Now there is another thing they
say about this man-that he has been
in politics a long time. Now let me tell
you something. Theodore Roosevelt
has been in politics ever since l have
known anything of him."
Hint About Good Roads
Mr.. Woolwine called attention to the
fact that through the sole efforts of
George Alexander, while on the board
of supervisors, three-tenths of the good
roads bond issue was sold at a pre-
MUM Of $4,000, whereas the board had
previously attempted to sell the entire
issue at a premium of $4,000, which
would have necessitated the county
having to pay interest on the entire
bond issue-borrowed money which it
had no immediate use for-instead of
on just what money it could use at that
time.
Clarence NJ. Taggart. candidate for
city tax collector, in a "heart-to-heart"
talk to those assembled, stated that lit
is either machine or anti-machine; it
is the best people against perhaps not
the worst people, but against the peo-
pie who ally themselves with the worst
people,"
Mr.. Taggart called attention to the
enormous waste in the tax collectors
office and suggested methods for rem
edying the same.
Ex-Judge Waldo NJ. York, though
not billed as a speaker of the evening,
addressed the audience. In reviewing
politics in this city for some time past
the judge recalled the incident during
the city election of the three years
ago "when some of the carriages which
had streamers on them for the Repub-
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afternoon had streamers on them for
the Democratic ticket"
Asks What "Party" Means
Judge York, though a Republican of
long standing himself, roasted the So
called Republicans who urged citizens
to vote for the Republican ticket, not
because they wanted the Republican
party to succeed, but because they
wanted some corporation in the back
ground to succeed and they are the
ones who have caused the loss of pres
tige to the Republican party. You ask
man to vote the Republican ticket
and he says: What is the Republican
ticket? What is the Republican party?
1t is simply a servant of the Southern
Pacific railroad company. Am l going
to vote the Republican ticket when |
know it is supporting an institution
which is hostile to the interests of the
peoples? Don't you see it, that we are
losing prestige, we Republicans, when
we allow our party to be used in that
Way?"
Mr.. Woolwine will address a meeting
of Boyle Heights citizens on Friday
evening and promises even more start
ling disclosurers concerning the "po-
litical sweetmeats" of some members
of the city council who are asking to
be returned to that august body than
he made Saturday night.
--49-sA
ONE JUROR CONVINCED