Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-05

Voter? Men who have made good in
their private affairs and are willing
to sacrifice time and money in order
to give decent, honest and efficient
/ government, or men who owe their
all to the Southern Pacific machine,
| and who will do the bidding of Boss
! Walter Parker, to the detriment of
Los Angeles?"
Let we'll enough alone" says r. d.
Richards, the real estate man. II am
not a politician, but am deeply inter-
ested in the question which is today
agitating the public mind: Who is to
be our next mayor
"Our precent mayor, George Alex
| ander, says: You know the kind of
| administration 1 have given you for
the past eight months. and if elected
again shall continue to give the same
kind as in the past
George A. Smith says: 1T has been
my ambition to be mayor of Los An
geles for long time. l am very de-
sirous of becoming your public serv-
ant. If elected l will give you fair
and impartial administration
while not posing as a critic, it
seems to me that there are too many
men in our city who are willing and
anxious to serve in public office. Let
the office seek the man. When the
office seeks the man, and not the man
the office, then we will be advancing
and American politics will have
reached its proper level.
Having studied the situation care
fully, l cannot see any valid reason
why We should at this time make a
change. We are building a great city.
Let US make as few mistakes as pos
sible, and be sure to put in a clean.
solid substantial foundation. Our
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fidelity to Los Angeles, and has as
carefully guarded every interest of the
citizens as if it were his own private
business.
LOS Angeles is today very justly
recognized as the most prosperous city
in America. We have great enter
prises now under way, and to make a
change of mayor at this critical time
might prove to be very disastrous. [
believe it will only be yoicing the SEN
timent of the majority of clean, un-
biased thinkers in saying that the best
interest of the city will be served by
keeping Mayor Alexander in office.
"Ridicule seems to be the chosen
ammunition with which to try to de-
feat our mayor. The same kind of
ammunition was used, and all the
guns were loaded to the muzzle, in
attempts to defeat the savior of this
great nation-Abraham Lincoln. If
we are going to build a clean city
we must have clean men as our public
officials. There is no other way. With
our present mayor in the chair and
such sterling characters as Judge John
D. Works and William J. Washburn
in the council for the next two years
our cosmopolitan city will be in safe
keeping.
when we place the seal of approval
upon the good. clean work of honest
George Alexander we at the same time
pay tribute to ourselves.
''I am for a clean mayor, a clean
council and an immaculate city"
George A. Smith says he does not
want Judge John d. Works or any 9TH
er men like him in the council-there's
q revelation when you analyze it," said
w. H. Brown last night. "Smith can't
be anything Of a mayor unless he has
a full council of his own kind to do as
he does. What has George Alexander
done? He has not complained about
the council he has had to do with, al
though a majority has not been with
him. Instead, he has gone ahead. He
has saved the city thousands of dollars