Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-26
WO0LWINE ENTERS
0PP0NENT'S FIELD
Repeats Charges Against Dis
triCt Attorney in Redondo
Beach Speech
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have been thoroughly covered by Mayor
Alexander in q recent letter addressed
to Fredericks. Mr.. Alexander was a
supervisor during part of Mr.. Freder-
icks' incumbency, and it is claimed
that If Fredericks had done his duty,
even in part Mr.. Alexander could not
have been induced to make a public
statement refusing to even appear upon
the same platform with Fredericks in
the present campaign. F'redericks' con-
nection with the solid three and the
fact that he has stood in with them in
their entire wrong doing is matter
that has been made so plain that even
he cannot eVade this responsibility.
"Now, my friends, let me call your
attention to another false statement Of
Mr.. Fredericks. He stated in one of his
addresses that Mr.. Hewitt had fired
me- Mr.. Hewitt promptly wrote a let
ter to me under date of October %,
1910, which contained this language:
You were neither compelled nor
requested to resign, but your resig-
nation was your voluntary act,
forced upon you, no doubt, by the
impossible situation in which you
We're placed by being deprived of
your power as deputy district at
torney-
AS to your efficiency and work
while you were in the employ Of the
city as my deputy 1 consider that
YOU proved yourself a vigilant and
competent official and your work
met with my commendation.
1.-THE suppression of the Harper and
Kern grand jury investigation and the
part Fredericks took in the whiteWash
of those two individuals, his failure to
successfully prosecute any persons en-
gagged in that syndicate of graft is
absolute proof of his incompetency, to
say the least.
RAILROAD POOR MAN
'Now, my friends, here is the worst
part of this whole matter. All the
time that these wrongdoers in high
places and politicians of influence have
been escaping punishment, the poor
man has been 'railroaded for minor
offenses, and such reputation as he
(Fredericks) has, has been built up
upon the prosecution of those who,
by their very poverty and lack of in
fuence, are rendered helpless. This
should be called The crucifiZtion of
ustice, for If justice means anything
it means equality before the law. And
right here l wish to repeat state
ment that has often been made by me,
and that ls, if 1 am elected, it 1s my
purpose that every human being called
and by that l mean impartial and
equal Justice. To this end 1t is my
purpose, in the case of the poor and
INDECENT, to ask the courts to appoint
the best legal counsel in the county
to defend them. and If by those means
only a few are convicted, Justice will
at least be attainedERnd If elected 1
propose to stand or 'fell,~not upon the
number of convictions obtained but
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equal and impartial. has been done.
''There has never been a successful
answer to the charges made in the
King will case. The evasions and
falsehoods in this matter have been
so varied and voluminous as to startle
the imagination. Yet the cold facts
still remain, that John D. Fredericks,
long before he entered into the con-
tract for the employment in the civil
cases, knew of two separate forgeries
upon two separate wills, and that.
knowing of such forgeries he entered
into this contract to despoll the es-
tate of a dead man by taking so per
cent Of the shares of two heirs and that
he got this usurious fee by means of
the suppression of both the felonies.
In other words, by such suppression
he enriched himself to the extent of
some eleven or twelve thousand dol
the facts as they remain, after all
that Mr. Fredericks has had to say
about it, and he can't get away from
them because they are matter of
record and written evidence.
REPEATS PLEDGES
1.-THE pledge has been made by my
self that if elec&ed 1 shall accept no
private civil cases, nor shall my depu-
ties be allowed to do so. At Simpson
auditorium one of the speakers for MIR.
Fredericks made light of this pledge
and intimated that persons of ability
could not be found to discharge the
duties of the office unless allowed to
take private business.
ut has been demonstrated in the
CITY of Los Angeles that there are men
so patriotic as to serve upon various
commissions, such as the police COM
mission, park commission and others,
without compensation at all.
Certainly there are capable attor-
neys who can be induced, even from q
strictly selfish standpoint, to under
take those duties, to say nothing OF
those who might do SO from patriotic
motives.
"If elected my appointments will be
made with regard to honesty and eff
ficiency alone, without regard to po-
litical affiliations of any nature, and
if attorneys of ability refuse to serve
I shall if possible make it q matter of
patriotism and endeavor to run the
office on such high plane as to make
it a matter of pride to be connected
with the office of district attorney
In all this might fail, but If [ do 1t
certainly shall not be because my very
best efforts and my best ambitions and
my greatest energies shall not be with
the work"
DISCUSSES TAX QUESTION
e. J.. Fleming, formerly city prose-
cutor and deputy under Fredericks,
presented Mr.. Woolwine to the audi
ence. Mr.. Fleming spoke of the work
done by Joseph Folk as district at
torney in prosecuting the st. Louis
graft cases and how through this work
he had been called to greater things,
governor of Missouri and spoken of for
the presidency Then he told of Will
liam Travers Jerome and how he had
done good work as prosecutor in New
York until it came to the tests of the
insurance cases, when he failed. He
Fredericks to jerome and
Woolwine to Folk.
Walter J. Desmond, Democratic and
Good Government candidate for coun-
ty tax collector, was the first speaker.
He said that Welch, the incumbent
and Republican candidate for the Of
flee, had held it for eight years, and
that under his management it had be-
come a political bureau which the
Southern Pacific used to pay off its
political debts. He read some figures
showing that the county collected
about 60 per cent more taxes than
the city tax collector, but that it cost
the county 200 per cent more to make
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