Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-04
RECALL WILL Be
DISCUSSED IN
EVERY SECTION
ALL INDICATIONS POINT TO
HARPER'S DEFEAT
POSTAL CARD TEST PRODUCES
STARTLING RESULT
Campaign Committee Inundated by
Volunteers Eager to Get Out Vote
That Shall Prove
Decisive
DISCUSSION Of both sides Of the

A DISCUSSION of both sides of the
"a recall question will be held to-
A. night at Masonic hall, Thirty
third and Main streets. Marshall Stim-
son will speak for the recall, and I, d.
Knobs will argue in favor of Mayor
Harper. The meeting will be held
under the auspices of the City Charter
league, and will not be conducted on
party lines.
An enthusiastic Alexander meeting
was held last night at 1921 Vermont
avenue, and as a result a strong Alex
ander club will be organized In that
section of the Fifth ward, taking III
five precincts The club will hold
meeting at the same place Saturday
evening, for which speakers will be
secured. Last nights meeting de-
veloped a strong sentiment for the re-
call of Harper.
Meetings are planned in all sections
of Los Angeles from now on, and many
citizens voluntarily have taken up the
work of securing halls and getting out
audiences. A feature of the move-
ment is the earnest support offered to
the campaign committee by, men VINO
wish to see a thoroughly decisive vote
registered The campaign headquar-
ters which now take up the greater
part of the fourth door of the Equitable
Savings Bank building, are the scene
of effective activity from O'Clock In
the morning until 10 o'clock at night.
Reply postal cards are being sent to
every voter In Los Angeles who did not
sign the recall petition, asking his at
titude on the recall of Mayor Harper.
The work is being done by the Munich
pal leagues recall campaign committee
and the first returns were received IN
Yesterday afternoons mail, showing the
following sentiment among 255 replies
received:
For Harper .......'......'' =.
Not voting .............,.. ....''''.' a.
The cards are sent to all voters
whose names appear on the great reg
lister in every precinct IN Los Anseies
except those who signed the recall pc
tition They are marked 20. X. +. on
the precinct sheets, and no postals are
addressed to them. In consequence the
expressions considered the most IaVor-
able are not received by the campaign
committee, and the names of the ll,Voo
voters who asked the invoking or the
recall by signing the petition should be
added TO the number standing for the
election of George Alexander.
Returns from this canvass by mail
form In fact a postal card vote ana
make by far the nearest indicative
straw vote" that has been taken. The !
office force at the campaign headquar-
ters expects to have the last of the re-
ply postal cards mailed by tomorrow
evening, when all of the 10000 issued
by the committee will have been placed
in the postoffice.
Many OF the voters returning the pos
tails take occasion to express their
opinions on one side or the other. Many
who take the pro- Harper side use the
Chowder house motto, mayor Harper |
Is good enough for u.s." Others state
that they supported Harper and helped
elect him once, but now expect to vote
for Alexander. Il voted for A.. Z: Har,
per two years ago, but he has betrayed |
the trust placed in him." said one cleo
tor. .,and / will now do all in my pow
er to defeat him."
Other views expressed on the return
cards. among the many so far received,
are as follows:
.sThe best advertising this city can |
get is to make a sure thing, of shelving |
poor officials soon. as they will NOT pre-
vent or reform blunders."
II think Mayor Harper should have |
been recalled more than year ago.
There were reasons enough then"
Il am no angel myself, but will vote
for Alexander"
Nothing short of death will keep me
from voting for Alexander"
II was not in favor of the recall, but !
shall vote for Alexander"
Recall the True Issue
Guy Eddie was the speaker at a
meeting at Masonic hall in Garvanza /
last night initiated by the citizens of
Precinct /. Mr.. Eddie emphasized the
fact that the recall is the real issue of
the campaign, not Harper or Alexan-
der
.'The recall must not be forgotten
amid the noise and clamor raised about
candidates. he said "A candidate
was, of course, needed in this move
ment. and Mr.. Alexander was nomi-
mated as that candidate. SO that the
recall could go on unimpeded. The
campaign. however, isn't being con
Quoted for Mr.. Alexander, but it is
being assisted by him.
1T too often occurs that men get
confused with principles and stand
forth as the real issue. There is an
attempt to bring about such state
in this campaign, to make the fight
Alexander on the one side and Harper
on the other, a struggle between two
men. Such is not the case.
4'The recall is principle. 1t is one
of paramount Importance to good gov
ernment. 1t Is an insurmountable bar
rier to the encroachment of plutocfetic
tendency in our government, on the
principle of government
by the people and for the people. Along
with the movement toward centraliza-
tion and magnitude in our economic
institutions, which has placed the eco
nomic power of our land in the hands
of a small number of men, making
them veritable giants in strength, there
has developed q corresponding central
ization in the political organization
placing the political power of our coun-
try and its various units in the hands
of few individuals.
"The result Of this double movement
has been the natural one, namely. a
union between the two. made very sim
pie because of the facility with which
small bodies of men can deal with each
other and get into agreement. sin
lister coalition this has been too. en-
phasizing the most intense selfishness
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