Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-01-15
HICKORY CLUB
SPEAKER SAYS:
FACE PROBLEM
PROFESSOR HANDLEY URGES
DEMOCRACY TO ACT
SAFETY OF PUBLIC CALLS FOR
COURAGEOUS COURSE
Members Testify to Fact That Men of
All Glasses and Occupations
Urge Thorough lnves.
tigation

6sT HE time has come when the
Democrats of Los Angeles must
take action. 1t would be better
to go down to perpetual defeat than to
sacrifice principles said Prof. L. A.
Handley, who responded to the toast,
Some Tendencies of True Democracy"
at the banquet of the Old Hickory club
to the Los Angeles Herald's investiga-
tion Of the question rs Vice Protected
IN Los Angeles ?'
If the Los Angeles Herald has the
facts for the articles which it is print
ing, the Democratic party of Los An
geles cannot afford to do anything else
than get behind The Herald and sup
port it in its movement" continued Mr.
Handley.
THE articles printed in The Herald
have the appearance of veracity, and
II these things are true there is Just
one thing to do. You have a sane and
thoroughly moral people in Los Ange-
les, and if the charges are true they
will demand action. Nothing can
stop it.
Il want to say to you, whether it be
IN our own community of anywhere
else, 1T is better to let the surgeon cut
out the tumor than to attempt to cover
it up. For health's sake it must he
removed; it will kill if allowed to grow.
Let US have action, and fearless action
at that. We want men in our day. The
citizen who is afraid to face a problem
Is not a good man. There is no more
dangerous set of men to this republic
than that cultured, nice set, just too
good to soil their gloved phalanges with
the soil Of common life.
Time to Take Action
''Men, it is time for US to do some
thing. A mans best principles must
dominate his political action. Be true
to principle, be loyal to the people. 1
never knew a loyal, worthy cause to
fail of victory if it had men Of energy
behind it. 1 believe The Herald is act
uated by right principle in its cam
paign."
Prof. Hand1ey's statements were
strongly applauded. After the banquet
several members favored official action
bv the club, and this will be considered
fully at it's next meeting.
The banquet was intended to show
the enthusiasm of the Old Hickory club
membership and it's determination TO
advance the cause of Democracy. 1t
is the first of a monthly series which
will bring together Democrats of the
First ward, South Pasadena, Hermon
and Eagle Rock precincts, "and will
be continued until 1912, at least" said
DR.. S. Yerkes Van Meter, secretary of
the club.
Judge D. M. Hammack, president of
the club, who introduced Prof. H. T.
Kirk as toaStmaster, said in his intro
ductory remarks that the membership
of the club had been responsible for a
Democratic gain of more than 400 per
cent in the First ward, and he prom
ised an even better showing at the next
opportunity.
Responses to toasts were made by
Charles F. Johnson, Down, but Not
OUT; William A. Lientz, Andrew
Jackson-the Old Warhorse of Dem
ocracy," and Prof. Handley, while in
formal responses were made by George
Overmeyer, r. T. Del Vale, Richmond
Plant and w. T. Harris. The next
banquet will be held February % in
the banquet room at Avenue so and
Monte Vista street.
The feeling expressed at the Old
Hickory club regarding The Herald's
agitation of the question rs Vice Pro-
tected in Los Angeles?' is as strong
as 1t is in all other sections of the city.
Il am glad we have a paper strong
enough and clean enough" said man
living on Vermont avenue in letter
received yesterday, ito take up the
fight You may rest assured that,
while no doubt opposition will develop,
the general public is at your back and
will sustain you when allowed to go on
record.
Il have made it a point to call the
attention of people in many different
avocations to your articles and the
laborer on the street in the employment
of the city, the workingmen in diff
ferent trades, the street car conductors
and motormen, storekeepers and res
taurant men all, without exception,
say they are right. I talked with one
saloon man this morning and he de-
nounced the present situation as rot
tom and wished more power to The
Herald
II am with you, heart and SOUL" is
the tenor OF many letters, some from
wageworkers and others from execu-
tives of large corporations. The ex-
pressions pouring into The Herald's
office show that people are aroused in
every section of the city and that men
Of widely separate classes of occupa-
tion are standing together in urging
action on the question, rs VICE PRO-
TECTED IN LOS ANGELES?"