Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-01
AClean Cut Issue Between Good
Government and GrafterS
All the Powers of Machine BOOdlers,
Gamblers and Creatures of the
Underworld Invoked to Defeat
George Alexander

M M cal being waged in this city is hight
gg between good citizenship side ard the South
Pacific political machine, which fattens and
thrves upon the of public funds and official power
and opportunity the other for control OF those great
enterprises under about to be undertaken by the
city of Los Angeles
There is no doubt in the mind of any all familiar
with conditions here that the appointment by the mayor
who preceded Mayor Alexander in office and was elected
machine votes controlled by Boss Walter Parker OF Ia
ward Kern the graakng chief of police Of Los Angeles
to position upon the board OF public works was dictate!
by the machine for the purpose OF putting the cohuo o
the huge expenditure OF the aqueduct in the hands OF us
Had this appontee not been forced out OF the
position in which he had been placed by fear of public
posure OF his record chief of police, but one other ap
pontment would have stood between the machine and h
control of the aqueduct expenditure which 1t has SO long
coveted
The mayor elected on next Tuesday will be called upon
to fill places upon the aqueduct board and the machine
understands full we'll that if it succeed in eect1ng Its
candidate for mayor dictated by it Will receive these
places
This city also about to embark upon the expenditure
of millions OF dollars the development of electric power
the aqueduc and upon its harbor
There was never richer reward hung up to be con
tested for by political machine in the history OF the coun
try than the control OF the public expenditures OF Los
Angeles in the next two years
What the representatives of the Southern Pacific po
ica machine in control of the board OF supervisors have
attempted do with the good roads funds is only ta
indication OF what may be expected at the hands OF e
representatives of the machine in dealing with the
aqueduc harbo and electric power funds should they get
control of it.
The issues facing the good people Angeles today
the gaves they have been called to deal with
in the history of the city.
In times past a weak corrupt mayor and corrupt
city council under control OF the Southern Pacific
might have given away riverbed franchise worth mil
lion dollars or bought lot Of worthless voting
chimes a d cost of $4,000.
Now however the same kind of men could graft upon
the city of millions of dollars in expending the
S250O00OO that will pass through the hands OF its public
officials within the years.
Good citizens must not for moment forget that the
present machine ticket nominated by the machine
who nominated and elected the council that voted away
ed oift
largely directed by the man who Is accused by MI
Leande of having gone the extent of offering bribe to
public official in order to secure for the corporations
whose interests he employed to serve as Tree gilt pubic
property worth million dollars.
The convention which nominated the ticket at whose
head stands Mr.. Smith of voting machine fame and upon
which prominently appears Barney Heay of riverbed fran
chse and voting machine fame was called by the political
lieutenant of Boss Parker, Mr. McGarvn.
IT called against the wishes of the good citizens OF
Angeles Overwhelmingly expressed by the adoption OF
the CITY primary law That it was called in defiance of the
existing public sentiment shown by the fact that
its candidate for mayor received less than 2 per cent OF
the total vote cast for mayor.
Since the primary election the Southern Pacific ma
chine has succeeded as it usually does in bringing to Its
assistance every evil element in the citys life.
There is not liquor seller in tic city who desires to
conduct his business contrary to law, who wishes his
conducting business wnked at by the city author
tiles who is not supporting with all his might and all the
means that he spare the candidates of the machine
The Herald has information that few days ago
prominent saoonkeeper in the city who ssupposed to rep
the wide open senmne sent his check to the ma
organization existing among the liquor dealers OF the
CITY could be depended upon for much financial
sistance before the end of the campaign.
Every gambler in the city whose games have been in
terered with by the reformed and regenerated police force
under the management of Chief of Police Dhman is fight
inc Mayor Alexander and the Good Government ticket tooth
and nail
Every macquereau and would-be keeper of vile re-
sort throwing his her utmost strength to the machine
ticket and against Alexander and the Good Government
ticket These facts who speaks the truth will pre-
tend to deny.
so 1T HAS BECOME - CLEAN CUT ISSUE BE-
TWEEN GOOD GOVERNMENT, ENFORCEMENT OF
THE LAWS, DECENCY AND ORDER ON ONE
HAND AND THE MACHINE WITH ITS GRAFT, ITS
WINKING AT OR OPEN VIOLATION OF THE LAW
AND ALL THE GAMBLING GAMES THAT GO TO
MAKE THE EVIL SIDE OF LIFE OF GREAT CITY
UPON THE OTHER HAND.
In this crisis in the cys progress no good citizen can
afford not to exercise his right and duty citizen to cast
his election day.
vote for Mayor Alexander and the Good Government
organization honest expenditure OF public funds
lower taxes the raising of these funds and decent or
derly municipal life.
vote for the machine ticket means putting in power
men who stood for the rverbed franchise graft the
voting machine graft the wide open town. the violation of
law by favored Individuals the maintenance of dives and
COntnu OF