Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-17
REFORM FORCES
HOLD BIC RALLY
Whiffen and Stewart, Candidates
for CounCiImen Given
Rousing Ovation
FLAY LIGHTING COMPANIES
Good Government SpelIbinderS
Take a Hand in Graft
Denunciation

The Good Government rally at Tenn
pie and Metcalf streets last night was
largely attended, and addresses were
made by Councilman Miles S. Gregory,
Prof. Lorin A. Handley, George H.
Stewart, Frederick j. Whiffen, C. E.
Bent and Rev. John H. Cooper.
Messrs. Stewart and Whiffen, the
Good Government candidates for the
city council were rendered an excep-
tional ovation. The G. A. r. drum and
fife corps furnished the music for the
meeting.
The candidates stated their attitude
toward corporation influence in poll
tics and public office in no unmistak-
table language, strongly condemning
the tactics of the lighting companies
and urging the voters to reduce the
present exorbitant rates when they
vote on the referendum June 80, at
which election two couneilmen for the
present vacancies also are to be
elected.
Their speeches ELECTED great ap-
plause and placed them squarely on
record once again as the enemies of
corporation control of administrative
affairs, and as the avowed champions
of public welfare. They pledged them
selves, If elected to do everything pos
sible to prevent the enactment of any
verse to the best interests of the city,
or to favor the corporations which
lust now seem to be making deSper-
ate effort to pave the way for future
"grabs" in connection with the devel-
opment of the Owens river power
plants, harbor and other civic under
takingS.
The Rev. John H. Cooper pastor of
the Park Congregational church, in
xaFI1i iah
brief speech, stating that nearly all of
his congregation is heartily in sympa-
thy with the Good Government move
ment, as with the work done and con-
templated by the present Good Gov
ernment administration.
Councilman Gregory told of the
achievements of the present city coun-
ell, working under a considerable ham
dicap, and gave his hearers a true in
sight as to the strenuous influences
which he said are constantly brought
to bear on the citys lawmakers PeO-
pie who imagine that all a city coun-
Gilman has to do is to adopt new or
dinances, repeal old ones and draw fat
salaries were treated to some jarrine
facts which gave them a decided set
back.
Prof Lorin A. Handley, Democratic
candidate for congress, delivered a
stirring bipartisan address, in which
he heartily commended the present
Good Government administration, and
reviewed the excellent work that has
been done by it, since the inception of
the Good Government movement in
this city, a little over year ago,
when the administration, headed by its
deposed mayor, A. c. Harper, had be-
come absolutely controlled by ward
healers, machine bosses, petty politi-
cials and corporation grafters.
He called attention to the difficult
but successful work of the Good Gov
eminent forces in cleaning out this
bunch of pie-eaters, and praised the
administration for the able manner in
which it so far has carried out the
principles of the Good Government or
ganization.
He appealed to the voters not to al
low the machine to elect Healy and
Houghton, but to rally to the aid OF
the Good Government movement, and
to the aid of the administration, by
placing in the city council two men
who can be relied upon to stand by
the people as against the special in
terests.'' These men, he said were
Stewart and Whiffen, the Good Gov
ernment candidates.