Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-08
MR.. MUsHET ONCE MORE

w HEN The Herald a few days
w after Mr. Mushet's richly de-
served defeat at the primary
election published its editorial entitled
THE Passing of Mr.. Mushet." it be-
lieved that it had definitely and for
ever said farewell to that very un-
worthy person. 1t cherished this be-
lief for two reasons-hrst, because it
felt that even Mr.. Mushet would take
sufficiently to heart the manner in
which he had been repudiated by the
good people of this city to keep out
ondly, because it believed and hoped
that he had been able to realize suf-
ficiently how thoroughly he had
wrecked what might have been a most
useful public career in this community
by forfeiting the esteem of the good
citizens who had originally placed him
in official position in our city govern
ment, by weakly permitting himself
to be used by selfish and sinister in
fluences to injure good men and honest
and efficient public servants of the
city.
1t appears, however, that The Herald
was mistaken and that Mr.. Mushet
not only is incapable of taking to heart
any lesson from his recent reputation
by the good people who made him all
that he was in the eity's public life.
but is still inclined to surrender him
self and whatever influence he may
have in the official position given him
by decent citizens to injure the very
cause and the very men in whom these
citizens are most interested.
His giving out in advance for polit-
ical use on last Monday the report
which he, as auditor of the city, had
prepared for the city council meeting
of today concerning the alleged often
sive partisanship of certain employees
of the city, shows how utterly impos-
sible it is for Mr. Mushet to adopt any
course of action which would be ex-
pected from man Of ordinarily decent
inclinations and instincts
This he did with the hope of at the
last moment injuring the mayoralty
candidate Of the good government
forces, to whom Mr.. Mushet owes
everything that he ever obtained in
this city, in the way of public adj
vancement.
In this attack upon Mayor Alexander
Mr. Mushet has advertised his eff
cheney as a public official by stating
that he, as auditor, had refused to pass
the salary accounts of certain employees
Of the city government because these
employees had each spent one day in
working for Mayor Alexander. Ger
tainly, if this is true, the employees did
wrong.
However, since Mr.. Mushet has un-
dertaken the double role of injuring
Mayor Alexander and thereby con-
tributing his small share to the at
tempted triumph of bad government in
this city, and also of advertising his
own efficiency as a guardian Of the
public funds, he must not object to
having attention called to certain
shortcomings of his own.
1t is a known fact that not only Mr..
Mushet, but two members of his office,
Mr. Palethorp and Mr.. Thomas, for
at least a month before the primaries
spent more or less of their time out
of the Office looking after the interests
of Mr.. Mushet as a candidate for nom
ination for mayor Mr.. Mushet spent
great deal Of his time out of his
Office upon this business.
We happen to have had our attention
particularly called to this, for the rea-
son that upon one occasion the cor
respondent of the Associated Press
was applied to by certain eastern pub
lications for figures concerning our
city that only the auditor could fur
nish, which if published would have
constituted very important ad-
vertisement of our city and it's progress
through the columns of the eastern
press. Effort was made time after