Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-28
PARKER FORSES
ARE ASTOUNDED
HEALY, H0UGHT0N Y0NKlN
AND LYON ON SLIDING SCALE
ACTION TAKEN BY JEFFERSON
CLUB AT ONCE
Voters Urged to Vote for Good Gov
ernment Organization Menu
bers at Democratic
Dinner
tContInuea from paHs one,

(C0ntInued from paHs One,
pursued by the agents of the Southern
Pacific company for many years In con-
nection with the control OF the regular
Republican organization of the city of
Los Angelesj and
Whereas, We believe the so-called
regular Republican candidates, who are
soliciting the votes of the citizens of
Los Angeles at the election to be held
December 7, were nominated by a con-
vention directed and controlled by the
agents of the Southern Pacific compa-
ny; be it
Resolved, That all voters of Los
Angeles, without party distinction, are
hereby urged and entreated to vote for
the candidates of the Good Government
organization, as against the candidates
nominated by the regular Republican
organization, In order that the latter
organization may be rebuked for per-
mitting its policies to be directed and
its nomination of candidates for public
offices to be made by the agents of the
Southern Pacific machine; be 1t fur
ther
Resolved, That all Democrats are
especially urged to vote for Capt. c. II.
Hance, candidate for city treasurer.
and Messrs Betkouski Luck. and
ell, on the ground that Democrats
should always support honest, capable
and honorable Democrats when candi-
dates for Office"
Frank B. Colver, one of the old
timers, Is decidedly for George Alex
ander for mayor. He says:
II wish to put myself on record at
the present time as for George Alexan-
der for mayor at the coming election.
| have been a resident of Los Angeles
for more than twenty-slx years and
have watched his course as supervisor
and have met him frequently In other
ways, and l indorse his stand when a
member of the board of supervisors
against the solid three and what is oc-
curing in that body at the present
time.
81 am for Alexander now for the fol-
lowing reasons:
'First-He is opposed by the Times.
"Second-He has opposed to him
nearly all the vicious elements of the
city
"Third-He has made absolutely good.
FOURTH vote for him because he
was one of the preservers of the Union.
Fifth vote for him as a taxpayer,
for he has saved the city thousands of
dollars, and will continue to do So"
1.-THE executive committee of the
Voters league now, as 1t did three
years ago, emphasizes the fact that our
city charter gives enormous powers to
the council" says j. B. Irvine, secre-
tary of the league, "and that, there
fore, voters ought TO unite as the OPP
position does, and thus prevent the
Southern Pacific political machine from
eleeting members of the council by
ri
seeking the best government"
With every precinct organized and
more favorable reports coming from
every section of the city daily, the
| Good Government organization will
start the last week of the municipal
campaign fully confident of electing
every candidate it has indorsed The
only thing that can work against a
most decisive majority all down the
ticket is overconfldence on the part of
the Good Government supporters.
1--WE are going ahead just as though
the election OF the Good Government
ticket were not an assured fact" said
Lucian j. Clarke, secretary of the
are making every effort to bring ou.
a great vote"
C. d. Willard, who has made an ex-
haustive study of the proper regula-
ton of public utilities corporations and
the methods that have proved fair and
successful in this respect, furnishes
the Pacific outlook Of yesterday the
| following review of the importance of
the public utilities referendum which
will be voted on December z:
| lone OF the most important features
OF the coming municipal election will
be the vote on the passage of a genu-
inc public utilities regulation act, to
take the place of the fake measure
recently passed by the machine cor
| poration council over the mayors veto.
Every good citizen should not only re-
| solve to vote for this measure-the
| genuine measure-which will appear on
the ballot, but he should also make a
! point of speaking to others about it,
1.-The people of Los Angeles have oc-
casionally made mistakes in their Sc
lection of officers, but not once in the
past score of years at least have they
gone wrong on any of the important
issues submitted for their decision.
Not atl of these issues were plain and
easy by any means. To vote a mort
gage of $25,000,000 on the city took
nerve To votefto establish the initia-
tive and referendum at time when
few cities had it took courage. To
vote for the recall, an untried expert
took something almost like prescience.
But the city was good for all these
and for the civil service, for the con-
centration of responsibility, for the
non-partisan direct primary and nom
partisan election ballot, for the cleo
ton of councilmen at large.
"And now we are confident 1t is
going to pass through this new test on
its Judgment and come out with flying
| colors.
"The issue is plain enough. Every
one recognizes that the city should es-
tablish some kind of an executive, in
vestigating agency, to superintend the
regulating of public utilities, as to
price and service and compliance with
franchise requirements.
"There is work that needs to be
done; it will not do itself, and expert
ence has shown that a body made up
as our councils usually are cannot be
expected to attend to it, What might
happen if we had a council the mem
bers whereof We're not named and
elected by the corporations we do not
know, never having seen a city council
in Los Angeles of that variety. But
even so, much of the work is inspec-
ton, field investigation and small de-
tail that a large body is in no wise
fitted to undertake.
"There 10 nothing in such q plan that