Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-04
GOOD GOV. MEN
PLAN RALLY OF
CLANS TONIGHT
FORMER MUSHET SUPPORTER
MAKES ADDRESS
MADISON MARINE MAKES STRONG
PLEA FOR DECENCY
Ranks of Reactionaries Trimmed by
Bolt to the Alexander Camp of
Men Formerly with
Opposition

The biggest of all the meetings of the
present campaign will be that to be
held tonight at the Simpson auditorium,
724 South Hope street under the aus
pices of the Good Government organic
alton. From the interest taken III the
precinct gatherings and in the can
vases the fact that there is no abate-
ment of enthusiasm among Good Gov
ernment supporters because Of the GER
tanty OF George AleXander's election
will be well demonstrated by the audi
encc at the general meeting tonight.
A number of prominent and popular
speakers will be on the program, among
them being Marshall Stimson, William
| y. stephens, Thomas Lee Woolwine,
| Lee c. Gates and Councilman A. j.
! Wallace Others of prominence in the
Good Government work Will speak on
| phases of the campaign and of the I'M
portance of avoiding reactionary
movement into the paths taken by the
Harper administration.
Among the speakers will be a leading
manager of the Mushet campaign, and
one of the leaders Of the Parish move
ment The former is Louis r. Works,
who was on Mr.. Mushets executive
committee and was one of his hardest
! workers Frank +. Pratt, who Will also
speak, was an ardent campatgner for
Oscar Parish in the primary fight and
made many speeches for him.
Thomas Lee Woolwine and j. p.
Carter will be on the program. Mr..
Carter is a particularly eloquent and
forcible speaker, and his addresses are
conceded as among the best that nave
been made i'm this campaign. Mr.. Wool
wine will rip up" some of the FORCES
behind the Republican machine candi-
dates and tell why those candidates
are unworthy. of support.
At the last general meeting held Dy
the Good Government organization the
seats began to fill up before O'clock
and standing room was the only space
left by the time the speakers came on
the piatform, The executive commit
tee expects a similar situation in con-
nection with tonight's meeting.
Madison Marine spoke before the
First precinct Good Government club
at Miller's hall last night He gave as
the election issues
1.-THE issues of this campaign are:
Shall our city government be run on
business principles by business men, or
on political lines by politicians? Shall
our citv government be run in the in
terest of all the people, or in the IN
terest of the few? Shall the laws or
our city be enforced. or shall special
Indulgence be given to the laW-break-
ing element?
"The people of our city have declared
by their sovereign power asserted
MIR. Marine, that party politics shall
have no place in it's municipal elections
and that its elections shall be held Tor
men and not for parties. AS long as
that law stands upon the statute books
II should be respected in the letter ana
in the spirit by all law-abiding citizens
and the others should be made TO re-
spect it. Yet, / am told that there are
candidates who are calling on you TO
rally to the Republican party, candl-
dates who appeal TO you for your votes
on the record of the national Repuo-
lican party in the very teeth of and
regardless of our municipal election
plan. 49,. .o,-
the letter and spirit of that law? BY
doing so do they not prove their unllt-
ness for the offices to which they as
pire? Remember, they ask you to
elect them to places where they Will
make and execute your laws. can you
imagine a stronger indictment of their
unftness for office than that which
they themselves furnish?
TT is useless for them to try TO
dodge the issue by saying you are part
of another machine, for that Is not
true. The great difference between the
Good Government organization and the
machine, which has the name of the
Republican party, is this: The Good
Government organization exists within
the letter and in the spirit OF the cleo
ton law, because it is organized and
exists only for the one objoct-munic-
ipal elections, and ii is supporting men
who ask to be judged by their htness
for office and who are not dragging
into this campaign cries which are
foreign and have no place in 1t; While
the machine is breaking the law and
is outside of it because it seeks to
subvert the minds of the people from
the true issues by crying Rally to the
Republican party and thereby at
tempting to win on the national record
of that party and not upon the fitness
of it's candidates.
perhaps / am demanding too much,
for it would be worse than suicide for
the machine to rest its chances upon
the fitness of such men it has noml-
mated. II we were in it's place we
would yell any old yell but the names
OF the machine candidates. We also
DOUBTLESS would try and hide them
under the great record of the national
Republican party, but great as 1t is,
II is not great enough to hide such
records as Healy's, Yonkin's, Lyons.
Houghton's, Smiths and the rest of
them.
"The Good Government organization
is trying to vitalize the principles that
citizens should select men for munich
pal office freed from and untrammeled
by political bias and prejudice, and the
only way to do it is to eliminate abso-
lutely political parties of the state and
nation from municipal affairs, and thus
have men run on their own merits.
"The foremost citizens If our repub-
lic-Roosevelt, Taft and Root-have
raised their hands and voices against
parties of the state and nation mixing
in municipal affairs. and strange as it
may seem, these men are leaders of the
national Republican party. Will some |
one kindly tell this to the machine?
"These great Americans know, and |
we all know, that party politics has
divided the votes of the decent people |
and has thrown the balance of power
into the hands of the law breaking |
element and the ignorant and degraded
Of the slums. OF course these facts |
must be covered UP by the machine, so