Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-04
WILL ORGANIZE
TO PERPETUATE
CIVICRECTITUDE
GOOD GOVERNMENT FORCES
TO BE UNITED
REPRESENTATIVE BUSINESS MEN
HOLD FIRST SESSION
Prime object of League Is to Oppose
Nomination and Election of
Candidates Unfit for
Office

To perpetuate the results of the re-
| call campaign and insure a decent ad-
| ministration of the municipal affalrs
of Los Angeles was the object desired
by the persons who formed the Los
| Angeles good government organization.
The object of the organization, as ex-
pressed in the constitution, is to unite
and organize the various forces of good
| government in the city of Los Angeles.
To oppose the nomination and election
! of men unfit for office is the prime idea
of the organization. The men who
gathered yesterday afternoon to foster
| the premilinary movement for good
| government desire to maintain an ac-
| tive organization for the purpose of
promoting and advancing all move
| ments for the benefit and welfare of
| Los Angeles.
T. q. Gibbon presided at the meeting
and briefly expressed the object in call
ing such a gathering. He said that the
| idea was to effect permanent organi-
cation to perpetuate the good work ac
complished during the recall campaign,
and to maintain an organization that
would be active in the interests of Los
Angeles and prevent the drifting back
to indecent government. Mr.. Gibbon
| brought out the point that the oppo-
i nents of the recall and good govern
| ment had enlisted in their forces men of
/
| with them 1t was essential that an ac-
tive organization be formed. Only by
concerted action, stated Mr.. Gibbon,
could the objects desired be attained.
L. J. Clarke Made Secretary
BY the establishment Of good gov
| eminent club in each precinct of Los
Angeles Mr.. Gibbon believed that the
welfare of the city could be safe
| guarded. That the recall movement
showed what could be accomplished by
/ concentrated action was feature that
1 Mr. Gibbon emphasized.
| After explaining the reasons for call
! ing the meeting, Mr.. Gibbon called for
| the election of a secretary and Lucien
j. Clarke was elected.
1 s. G. Graham read the constitution,
which was adopted without debate. In
order to get the organization on
/ working basis a committee was APP
| pointed to name an executive commit
| tee These members were named and
selected as the executive committee:
John d. Works, S. c. Graham, Marshall
| Stimson, Sherwin Gibbons Fred l..
Allies, John r. Haynes, James A. An
derson, Cyrus f. McNutt, Farley NJ
4 Johnson Richmond Plant Sidney A.
4 Butler, Wesley Clark, A. M. Dunn,
Shelley H. Tolhurst, C. J. Kubach, A.
P. Chaplin, w. E. McVay, Charles A.
| Elder Harry R. Calender Thomas j.
Nelson and M. r. Collins.
The executive committee will meet
Thursday afternoon at o'clock to per-
feet details for the formation of the or
! ganization.
The association desires it to be I'M
| derstood that all members of organi-
cations of city wide activity are eligible
to membership and will be welcomed in
| the organization.
/ A., ~ to- ID.
formed yesterday afternoon has been
in active operation in Boston, Mass
for several years.
Before every election the records of
the candidates for various offices are
looked up, recorded and placed before
the voter for inspection. The organiza-
/ ton is non-partisan. In Boston the or
ganization has accomplished great good
| and the Endorsement of a candidate has
always been regarded as a step in his
favor.
Membership Open to Many
The objects of the organization, as
| stated in the constitution, are as fol-
| lows: ITO unite and organize the va
rious forces of good government in
Los Angeles To organize in each pre-
cinct a good government club, which
| shall be represented in the councils of
the organization by one of its members
/
| worthy candidates for election to Of
flee. To oppose the nomination and
| election of unfit men to Office Gener-
| ally to maintain an active organiza-
ton for the purpose of promoting and
| advancing all movements for the adj
vantage and welfare of Los Angeles"
| That the membership of the organ
ization may be liberal and open to all
parties interested in good government
| the following clause has been inserted
in the constitutions 1.-THE following
shall be eligible to membership: Mem
bers of the governing bodies Of the
| City club, chamber of commerce, Col
lege Mems association, Central Labor
union, Democratic league, Good Gov
eminent fund, Lincoln-Roosevelt Re
publican league, Merchants and Manu-
| facturers' association, Municipal
| league, non-partisan city central COM
mittee, Federation of Improvement as
members from the governing bodies of
such other organizations having city
wide activity as may be named from
| time to time by the executive commit
tee of the organization"
One representative from each pre-
cinct good government club which is
affiliated with the organization and
fifty members to be chosen at large by
| the president, subject to the approval
| of the executive committee, will be
| eligible to membership In the organ1za-
ton. A clause in the constitution pro-
vides that in no event shall more than
| ten members be accepted from the
governing body of any one organiza-
ton.
Executive Committee
The executive committee shall be
composed of twenty-five members.
| twenty-four of whom shall be elected
by ballot at the annual meeting. Inn
mediately after their election the ex-
ecutive committee shall organize and
select the twenty-fifth member. who
shall be the secretary of the good gov
eminent organization.
The executive committee may make
recommendations for political action
or for Endorsements for nominations
for public office, but no such action
shall be considered binding upon the
| organization unless it shall have been
approved at a called meeting of the
membership of the organization.
Immediately after their election the
executive committeeman shall elect
from their own number president.
first and second vice president and
treasurer. who shall with the remain
ing memb ers of the committee be the