Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-11-09

faithfulness or incapacity has ever
been brought against him.
mo business man having an employe with
such a record would consider for one mo
ment the claims of any other to the posi-
ton IL the former would consent to remain
on the job. What Is good sense In the bust
ness world Is safe guide In municipal gov
eminent.
George Alexander should be elected
mayor, not because he deserves 1t, but be-
cause the people need his services
No Direct Attack Made
George Dwight Willard, formerly
secretary of the Municipal league, and
a man extremely we'll posted on all
matters pertaining to the best devel-
opment of Los Angeles, gives the fol-
lowing powerful reasons why George
Alexander should be reelected:
at is seldom that the supporters OF
a candidate are able to cite their OPP
ponents to testify in his behalf; yet
with Mayor Alexander we are able to
do that He has been mayor OF this
city seven months; does any one SER
iously question the fact that he mas
made good? Does any one venture TO
question his honesty? What do they
urge against him? We search their
newspapers and the reported speeches
of their advocates in vain for any
thing to answer. We do not need to
defend him, FIR he never is attacked.
absolutely all they have to offer Is that
they want somebody else. Smith men want
Smith because they wish the Republican
party In power Parish men want farisn
because he Is a good fellow and a friend OF
theirs. Mushet men want Mushet--weli, l
give that one up; but whatever reason they
have, It is not against Alexander.
$50 here is a candidate whose record
in office is irreproachable, whose back
ers are the people and not any politi-
cal organization, whose nomination
comes to him strictly on the merit
principle, who is not and never will be
under the control of corporations or
saloons who can't be programmed or
fixed, or bulldozed, but who always
will do his level best, in his honest,
straightforward way. 1t occurs to me
that you cannot better a situation OF
that kind very much. 1t Is a charac-
teristic feature of the American people
that they are satisfied to let we'll
enough alone, and it is going to be
done that way now, in Los Angeles"
Get Away from Graft
Another historian of Los Angeles,
whose close observation of municipal
tendencies permits him to speak au-
thoritatively as to the result of the
mayoralty choice, is II. d. Barrow,
who says:
"The curse of American cities in re-
cent years has been graft, in all its
myriad forms. Both of the great po-
litical parties are permeated with 1t,
and the corporations-Some of them,
not all-whch have favors to ask of
the people, take advantage of this fact
to feather their nests, by corrupting
public officials. who often are per-
suaded or secretly bribed, to serve the
corporations, or private greed, instead
of serving the people.
Now this evil has become so fla
grant and so general as to be intoler-
able, and people are compelled to COM
bine and fight 1t. They see, and 1t is
well they do, that it is absolutely nee
essary to inquire closely into the char
acter of every person whom they Sc
lect to office. And when they find an
officer who shows himself to be inflex-
IDLY honest in every situation in which
he may be placed, or whose past record
in this respect, is without blemish,
they learn to have unbounded conf
dence in him.
such man is George Alexander. In
all his long service as a supervisor
who, even of his enemies, can point to
one single act of disloyalty to the peo-
pie whom he was elected to serve? And
during the brief period of his service
as mayor of this city has he not been
both faithful and vigilant in the per-
Torrance of his duty?
rs not his record, which has been
an open book, n sufficient guaranty to
all the people of the city that he can
be trusted to manage honestly the
peoples affairs in the future, as he has
done in the past?"