Los Angeles herald., 1909-03-21
WEBSTER DAVIS EXPOUNDS PRINCIPLE OF
RECALL AND ITS AID TO CIVIC PROGRESS
Secretary of Interior and Once Mayor of Kansas
City Pays Glowing Tribute Character of George Alexander
Candidate Chief Executive of Los Angeles and
Lauds Democrats for Their Fearless Stand

the. grasp of his hand, and Pope Leo
made the world feel the impress of his
marvellous ability, when each was
many years older than this man?
Is Child of Common People
"Verily, Uncle Georges head is
crowned with the SHOWS of many win
tiers, but on the affairs of his soul the
fires of eternal youth still brightly
burn, Like. honest old Abe Lincoln, he
is a child of the common people. bone
of their bone, flesh of their flesh and
blood of their blood. His heart beats
close to the hearts of the men who toll
he knows no class, condition or III
equalities of rank among men; ne
knows them simply as brothers. He
looks at events through neither end OF
the telescope, but surveys them with
the natural, naked eye, thus enjoying
the capacity of seeing things as the
people see them.
with his heroic comrades he took
part in the bloody civil war, and fought
for Old Glory from the time it went
down in the smoke of Fort Sumter
until 1t arose again in beauty at APP
pomattox, where upon it's blood-stained
folds the God of our nation brought
the eagle of victory to nestle with the
sweet dove of peace.
"Once upon a time there was great
English scholar, whose name was Full
we'll Buckston. He was giant in
stature and greatly beloved by all who
knew him. One day as he walked along
the streets of London, with a bundle
of books under his arm, he came to a
group of little children at play, when
suddenly he saw great, mad English
mastiff, with glaring eyes, red lips and
with teeth dripping with poison foam,
rushing toward the children and snap
ping at everything as he came along,
while men and policemen and the
mothers of the children were crying:
Mad dog! Beware! Beware!
Hero to the Rescue
"Fulwell Buckston heard those cries,
and, dropping his books, he stepped be-
tween the little children and the mad
dog The brute leaped at his throat
and almost threw him to the ground,
and it seemed for a time that he was
lost, but his fingers closed around the
great dogs throat, and, holding him at
arms length he summoned all his
strength. The dog writhed and strug-
gled, but the man held on and on.
officers and men FASTENED to him and
said: Let him go. We have guns; we
will kill him. But the hero held on
until, finally. after an awful struggle,
Knowing that if there was a single
scratch on his hands it meant certain
death from hydrophobia, he fastened
to examine them, and when he had
done SO he held them up and said:
"'They are not hurt! Thank God.
am saved Then strong men, with
pale faces, praised him, and weeping
mothers held up baby lips to kiss his
bearded face.
bCo whom the AitiZaDS of MS Angeles
all bound together in the bonds of
unity and friendship, were each en-
deavoring to do his part toward the
upbuilding and development of this
beautiful city, when peace and pros
perity abounded and thrift and indus
try everywhere was at work, then 1t
was that the gaunt, hideous, loathsome
monster of vice, impurity and lawless-
ness appeared, stalking abroad in their
midst, seeking whomsoever it might
deVour.
Champion Appears
"But just in the critical moment. in
the darkest hour of gloom, a brave
hearted champion of right and purity,
of law and order, grapped at the throat
of this monster, and as he holds on and
on in this fearful death struggle, the
loyal legions of good citizenship are
rallying to his support, and March
the ground, mangled, bleeding. dead
"Then ever afterward, among the
names of the popular heroes of this
city, none will shine with brighter
luster than the name of this champion
of the people-George Alexander.
1--WE have been told that in the long
ago, when the savage Iroquois Indians
lived on the shores in and about
Niagara, they We're wont to stand on
the banks of the wonderful cataract,
impressed by the profound majesty of
it's awful roar, filled with intense
rapture at the rainbow which cast its
tinted arch above the waters. They
believed that this beautiful rainbow
was an archway on which the spirits
of the Manitou were permitted to pass
from one shore to the other. In this
beautiful conception of the rainbow
they lived and died.
White Man Has Illusion
1.-THE white man came. He stood on
the same banks and watched the Same
tumbling waters. The rainbow also was
there no less brilliant than in the days
when the Indian worshiped 1t. The
white man does not deny that the rain
bow emanates from the divine hand,
that the God OF Day casting its shafts