Los Angeles herald., 1909-03-14

NN HE greatest interest in the recall
movement and the probable out
L. come of Mondays council meeting
prevailed IN all sections OF Los Angeles
yesterday. Three Alexander meetings
voted to be present at the city hall to-
morrow morning, and manS other citi-
zens were heard to state their inten-
tion of attending to see IL the council
will complicate ltters by refusing 10
elect George AZ ander mayor.
Leading lawyt, 5 yesterday expressed
the belief that no court could be found
in California that would uphold an at
tempt to nullify the recall election.
This was advanced at the Alexander
meeting at Blanchard hall last night
by Judge John d. Works, Judge Cyrus
f. McNutt and Maj. Henry L. Lee,
who as lawyers gave explanations of
the legal status of the movement fol-
lowing the resignation of Mayor
Harper.
The meeting was a most enthusiastic
expression of voters in favor of the
election of George Alexander. The hall
was crowded, and when Mr.. Alexander
came in from the Fifth ward meeting
he was heartily cheered. The interest
of the audience was manifested
throughout the meeting in the strong
assent given to opinions of the speak
ers and the Intersections showing the
fnLGnIiOn 10 Df1ilS out u D1S VOL0 lOT
the recall candidate.
what we have to do with this re-
call movement as good citizens is to
go on as II Mayor Harper had never
resigned" said Judge Works in re-
viewing conditions. 1.-The election will
be, held and we owe to our pride in the
cKy to cast a most decisive VOTE
4 "One fundamental principle we all
Stand with,%% said Major Lee. eve are
here to carry out the right given to
us by the char to force the recall.
Men may come ana men may go, but
that is still O fundamental principle
and We must stick to it.
Every function administered by the
officials we elect touches at a hundred
different points daily. AS stockholders
in this great corporation we are af-
fected. And the recall is not simply
to get rid of man. 1t has two dis
tinct functions In the first instance,
when the electors signed that petition
and presented it the mayor was re-
called. The second step is to elect
his successor. We've won the first
step. The Objectionable official il re-
moved. The people have the right
fundamentally to name his successor.
We, the people who put him out, have
the right to put his successor in.
I'VE have eminent lawyers on the
recall campaign committee. They have
The unanimous opinion is that the
resignation of Mr.. Harper cannot take
away the right of the people to select
q mayor. We claim no power on earth
short of the courts injunction--and
don't believe any court in this city
will grant such an injunction--can in
any way interfere with the recall cleo
ton on March 26.
1.-THE council has the power to make
perfectly simple solution of the prob
lem. We all know Mr.. Alexander and
what he will do. If Mr.. Wheeler or any
other man than himself should be elect
ed he would turn the office over to his
rightful successor If he were named as
mayor by the council Monday morning.
'The council has a tremendous re-
sponsibility before it. If any of you
men can do anything to make a MEM
ber realize more fully his responsibility
I charge you as good citizens to go to
them. That responsibility rests with
the council. But above all with us
rests a responsibility to roll up on
March 26 the biggest kind of a major
ity for George Alexander"
Judge McNutt said that he had re-
tired once from active politics. but that
when the recall movement was initi-
ated he needed but one night and one
prayer to get actively into the harness
again.
to his friends" he said, land, by the
way. have any of you ever seen just
such an exhibition as has been MADE
by those same frienus? used to hear
my father, who was a pioneer and was
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