Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-28
FLOOD OFFICES
WITH OFFERS TO
AID ALEXANDER
VOLUNTEERS COME FORWARD
IN SWARMS
LIST OF SPEAKERS HEADED BY
WELL KNOWN NAMES
Harper Element Bringing All Possible
Influences to Bear on the Span
ish, Italian and Greek
Electors

hHE recall campaign committee ap-
pointed yesterday by the execu-
tive committee of the Municipal
league is representative of the men
who are seeking to invoke the recall of
A. c. Harper as mayor, because they
believe the city's progress is endan-
gered by his policies. The committee
has four rooms on the fourth floor of
the Equitable Bank building at it's dis
posal, and already has a force of fif-
teen or twenty employees at work on
preliminary details.
The reception room at 4O1 Equitable
bank building was crowded all day yes
terday with volunteers, who came to
talk over the best means of getting out
an overwhelming vote in their respec-
tive precincts. The campaign COM
mittee is anxious to confer with voters
from every precinct in Los Angeles,
and if the appearance of headquarters
yesterday was an indication it will
have ample work to do without going
out of the offices.
A list Of speakers has been started,
headed by the following names: A. M.
y
Stimson, Henry T. Lee, w. r. Burke,
Frank S. Forbes, Lorin A. Handley,
W. d. Stephens, Lamar Harris Byron
Hanna, Oliver Clarke, Kemper Camp
bell and B. P. Welch.
The forces against the election of
George Alexander have diverted the
letter writing idea from a morning
pro-vice paper to the Evening Record,
but the latter is receiving large num-
of Letters he iot,
do not find publication. Among these
was one from Walter Collins of $50
East Thirty y-seventh street, who said,
referring to the Records statement re-
Ngarding a possible "nigger in the
woodpile:"
In Caustic Language
Editor Record: In response to your
invitation for your readers to express
themselves in regard to your attitude
on the recall 1 cheerfulIy accept, and
as the probabilities of its being pub
lished are very slim I shall not confine
myself to seventy-five words.
Il think l have discovered the mig
ger you mention. 1t is in the Record
office and is called professional jeal-
Ousy.' Had the Record exclaimed. Z
saw it first and exposed the Harper
rottenness of commission and omission
you would have been yelling from the
housetops for the recall of our present
incumbrance, regardless of candidate
or methods. But as The Herald has
the honor and glory CT exposing the
deplorable state of affairs it would not
be newspaper ethics for you to support
or recognize it. The same condition
existed when you, single-handed, went
after the Incompetence and brutality at
the state hospital
L believe the prime motive of those
behind the recall is to attempt to puri-
fly the city's political filth and all the
decent people and papers ought to help
them. Your unprovoked attack on
their motives carries little weight.
Right here 1 will say that I am not a
Republican, Democrat or Prohibition
1st and am not acquainted with Harper,
Alexander or any Of the nominating
committee
Your assertion that the people were
not let in on this is puerile in the ex-
treme and is completely disproved by
the fact that over 10000 voters signed
the petition. am a worker and a vol
untary circulator of one of the petit
tiOns among workers, and the people
who signed freely expressed the senti-
ment that they didn't care who was
nominated. just so that a rebuke was
given to the grafterS under whom we
have long suffered.
while the Record poses as a friend
of the recall it was plainly evident
from the first of this movement that
you were preparing to knock it at the
opportune moment. Candidly, 1 be-
leve your attitude is cOwardIy and
ypocritical-pardon me for using your
kind of argument. l have been a read
er of the Record almost from it's first
issue, but with this month l part COM
pany with you, as I cannot stand your
new brand Of friendship for the people, y
Jewish Race RidicuIed
So far the Harper element has con-
fined its campaign to the foreign speak,
ing settlements of Los Angeles, where
it has organized Latin-American and
Greek clubs. The ridicule turned on
the Jewish race by a pro-vice morning
paper in an effort to poke fun at the
recall campaign has aroused the indig-
nation of voters Of that race to an ex-
tent which is causing the Harper man
agement considerable unrest.
Arguments that the town will be un-
safe for them, that all their liberties
will be taken away and that Los An
geleS is certain ito be ruined if the re-
call prevails indicate the stamp of
work which the Harper advocates are
putting in on Spanish, Italian and
Greek speaking electors. I'VE are op-
pOSed 10 an arlSCOcracy, says Frank
Dominguez in a circular sent out as
secretario of the Latin American Har-
per club"
Mr.. Dominguez boasted yesterday
that his organization could lay its
hands on the foreign voters when the
polling day arrives" He has called a
meeting for Spanish, Italian and French
friends of the mayor in the Eighth
ward Wednesday evening.
Socialists Obtain Writ
Fred G. Wheeler, the Socialist can
dldate for mayor, filed a petition YES
terday through his attorneys. Clarence
Nelly and A. r. Holston. asking for a
writ Of mandate from the superior
court to compel City Clerk H. J. Le-
lande to place Wheelers name on the
ballot for the recall election. Judge
Walter Bordwel signed an order di-
recting the city clerk to appear in de-
partment nine of the superior court at
10 o'clock Monday morning to show
cause why he should not do So If if
is decided that the Socialist nomination
was not legally made, as has been held
by the city attorney, that party never
theless will make a campaign for
Wheeler.