Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-16
TELL STORY OF
RECALL FIGHT
Y. M. C! A. BANQUET SPEAKERS
REVIEW RECENT EVENTS
WooLWlNE REPLIES TO CHARGE
BY FREDERlcKs
Change Brought About by Two Months
of Newspaper Exposure Described
and City's Future
Outlined

"I wanted to know why the police
wouldn't close that notorious resort,
the Manhattan, after l went into Of
flee, for / was quite inquisitive about
some things / could see pretty plainly,
said Thomas Lee Woolwine last night.
Paul Flammer told me that 1t was
because one of the police commission
ers collected the rent of that place.
Mr.. Woolwine was one of the speak
ers asked to address the First Con-
gregational brotherhood and the Young
Mems Centurion band at banquet at
the Y. NJ c. A. last night. civic
Righteousness was the topic of dis
cussion, and the other speakers were
DIR. William Horace Day and L. Il.
Gibbon. w. C. Richards was the toast
master.
when you want to accomplish things
that build up civic righteousness take
the newspapers into your confidence,
said Mr. Woolwine. 1T is all right to
talk about getting oneself into the pa
pers, but the papers do things, for pub
licity frightens evildoers. 4
1.-THE corrupt machine is weakened
because 1t is no longer perfectly or
ganized 1t must be perfect to sue
coed, and last summer it certainly had
perfect organization, bith as to city
and county. Now a start has been
made at breaking it, and we must
keep on.
when 1 found out how things were
going and attempted to gain a remedy
for them, found that the district at
torney threw every obstacle possible
in my way. He attempted to choke
off an investigation, and proved him
self a most dangerous public official in
forestalling, so far as he could, any
attempt to bring about decent condi-
lions in city government. Now he
says in an interview that the blame
for the failure of the grand jury to act
must rest on Woolwine, because he
impelled the witnesses to leave the city.
If Mr. Fredericks knew that those wit
nesses were at one time in the city,
why didn't he get them before the
grand jury then? In reality he had
every chance to bring evidence into
the jury room, but it was only the
witnesses who he believed knew moth
ing dangerous that he went after Wig
orously."
Work Passed in Review
T. E. Gibbon reviewed the work for
a decent city which will eliminate in
the election March 26. He showed that
the election of Mr. Stephens came
sixty-six days after the first series of
answers to the question, rs vice pro-
tected in Los Angeles?' began in The
I16Idlu. NIL SlbpOiA save q AONiCN VI
the fight in detail, showing the care
taken to verify every accusation, and
he told how some of the most appall-
ing facts were unearthed and proved
against the late administration. He
was given three cheers at the close OF
his address. Mr.. Gibbon said that
his idea of civic righteousness is that
it doesn't consist of sitting down and
saying, why, conditions are no worse
here than in other cities"
DIR. William Horace Day urged that
every voter work actively for a civic
that would make Los
Angeles a leader among the cities of
the United States. He said:
Blessed is the people that knows
the trumpet sound l have never
heard of such a charge as that which
overwhelmed the city hall today, and
1 am proud to live in city where
such a scene was possible. Civic
is born, not in any in
stitution for reform, not in any body
of men; 1t is always born in the mind
behind some gun, the mind with a
great purpose 1t is your business and
mine to make ourselves men of pur-
pose Let us keep up the campaign
for civic righteousness that will have
permanent results"
W. A. Richards, the POSTMASTER,
urged those at the banquet not to
think for a moment of giving up the
fight simply because a change of adj
has been accomplished.
He urged voters to roll up a great ma
jority for Alexander March rs.