Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-01-31

m HE question of a successor to
Mayor Harper will be definitely
n taken up tomorrow afternoon at
a meeting called by the Municipal
league. Invitations to the meeting were
mailed yesterday to members of the
Municipal league, Merchants and
Manufacturers association, City club
and chamber of commerce, with the
idea that this would obtain a repre-
sentative list of citizens.
The invitations were as follows:
Dear Sir-On Monday, February 1,
1909, at p. m, at Blanchard hall, 233
South Broadway, a meeting will be
held to nominate candidate for mayor
of Los Angeles to run in opposition to
Mayor Harper at the recall election,
which it is now practically certain will
be held. This is the only purpose of
the meeting. If you desire to partici-
pate in the meeting on that basis, you
;~re invited to be present.
This invitation is sent to all men,
bers of the chamber of commerce, Mer-
chants and Manufacturers association,
Municipal league and City club, but you
are asked, not as a member of any of
the above-named organizations, but as
ciuZen.
1.-THE meeting is called by the Munich
Ial league.
"J. o. KOEPFLI, President.
&C. D. WILLARD, Secretary"
I'VE could not do this in propriety
until we had been assured somewhat
of the responses to the request that
electors sign the petitions for the re-
CALL" said member of the executive
committee yesterday. '"These re-
sponses were so prompt and represent
Tive and so numerous that the invok-
ing of the recall is a certainty, and the
question of a candidate is the next
step.
To Select Candidate
Naturally, the organization taking
the initiative for the recall should like
wise arrange for meeting TO select a
cand late. For that reason the NUM-
'ipal league has taken the next step.
To obtain representative list of names
the leading civic and business associa-
tions were taken, but the invitations
were not sent to members except as
citizens of Los Angeles interested in
the city's welfare. The members do not
take in "a one class or section of the
city.
1T was not an easy matter to arrive
at the best method of obtaining a list
of good citizens, yet it was not the
proper position for the Municipal
league to undertake to make up any
arbitrary list of that sort. So the sug-
gestion of utilizing the membership
rolls of the s,rincipal business and civic
organizations of the city was adopted
as the best solution.
'EThe invitations are definite and tell
the story
The Municipal leagues monthly bull
Z letin, Municipal Affairs" was mailed
to members yesterday afternoon with
the statement, "The Recall of Mayor
Harper" printed in Fridays Herald.
AvO afc cO1.k H. .as,, ,IoA
Il edition, as the statement was print
ed in the newspapers, and as a mem
Der of the executive committee said,
People are reading the recall matter
in the papers very closely just now
The campaign committee now has
canvassers with tables and petitions
stationed at the following places in the
business section, where voters may sign
the recall petitions:
133 South Broadway
S2012 South Spring street.
64S South Spring street.
53S South Main street.
Entrance to o. T. Johnson building.
Campaign headquarters, 401 Euuita-
ble bank building.
Ten additional places will be ar
ranged for Wednesday morning. Petit
tions will be available at every vot-
ing place at the special election on the
charter amendments Tuesday during
voting hours, and voters who cast their
ballots on charter revision may sign
the recall petition on the same trip.
To Get Reports
All volunteer canvassers will be re-
Quested to report in on their petitions
by Tuesday. The paid canvassers re-
port daily, but some of the volunteers
nave not yet reported. The campaign
committee desires to ascertain the ex-
act number of names secured, and will
go over the reports Tuesday evening.
This action will permit a more effective
campaign during the coming week
Reports from the circulators who
have petitions show that the electors
are deslrous of cooperating in the re-
call. One man working on Spring
street secured sixty-two names in less
than four hours. Telephone and other
inquiries at The Herald office regard
ing qualifications and other details re-
lating to the signing of the petition
indicate that interest is as keen as
when the question was first asked, "Is
Vice Protected in Los Angeles %
One man at present in a hospital
wrote to ask if a petition might be
sent to him, as he was anxious to he
on. the honor roll. 81 am temporarily
absent from my home but would be
delighted to know he said, that my
name is on the list of petitioners for
Mayor Harper's recall. And when that
election comes off 1 will be there to
vote for his retirement if it takes a
leg"
Similar sentiments come to the at
tention of petition circulators daily.
Efforts have been made to "bulldoze''
canvassers and to prevent a continu-
ance of their work Two men have
been told that they Ought to be en-
+ gagged in honest labor instead of cir
culating a petition that would stir up
comment about the city,
When ''bulldozing'' fails canvassers
are pleaded with. IT have lived in this
city forty-one years. said a machine