Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-05
.FREDERICKS TRIES To FOOL VOTERS
BY RAIDING BLIND PICS -WOOLWINE
Good Government Nominee Drives Home Charges Against 0ppo
nent in Five Scandals and Again Shouts: "Why Doesn't
He Have Me Arrested for Criminal Lbel?"
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to do for many weeks, and that is to
carry this message Of perfdy ano
wrongdoing to every voter IN lnt
county of Los Angeles. 1t remains &C
be seen whether they will respond by
displacing this man who has SO
shamelessly abused his public trust
"That my opponent has consistently
and literally stood guard between the
influential politicians and grafters ano
the prison doors cannot be doubted py
any man who will listen to the story
with an unpreiudiced mind and VINO
wishes to establish in this county I'M
partial justice and equality before the
law. He should be rebuked in MS
wrongdoing in a way that will serve
as a lesson to corrupt politicians LOT
many years to come. The story OF ms
Wrongdoing should be entitled 'Ihe
Crucifxion of Justice
"Now, let us briefly review the story
Of an unbroken chain of immunity TO
grating officeholders and persons OF
influence; and in relating the story
the speaker will do so not in a spirit
of bitterness or animosity, but IN an
earnest desire to expose the truth. II
there were any other way by which
the true conditions could become
known 1 certainly should choose that
way 1t is not a pleasant duty 10 ar
raign and condemn, but it is neYerthe-
less a duty that must be performed
by someone, and aside from my can
didacy [ have the right to call my
public servant to account, and John
D. Fredericks is as much my pubic
servant as he is yours.
Let US begin first with the river
bed steal with which you are all SO
familiar. Every man, woman ana
child in Los Angeles who read the
newspapers knew of this infamous be-
trayal of the public at the time, with
the possible exception of my opponent.
CLOSED EYES TO STEAL
Although that corrupt city council
tried in a secret way to give away
property of the city valued at $l,OOO,-
900, and although this villainous piece
of business became a byword upon the
streets, John D. Fredericks did not
raise his hand to fix the guilt, did not
even investigate the deal, but instead,
a short time thereafter, ne appointed
Percy Harmon, one of the council
men who voted Sor the steal, to be
deputy district attorney in his office,
and Percy Harmon has occupied that
position ever since.
"Mr. Parker, the man who put
through the steal and who tried to
bribe Harry Lelande in the Alexandria
hotel, is the same Walter Parker VINO
has been in absolute domination and
control of the district attorneys office
for many years, as 1 will show you.
Mr.. Fredericks had years in which ne
might have investigated this betrayal
of the public and brought to justice
the offenders, but nothing was ever
done by him.
1.-THE Harper-Kern whitewash IS a
matter with which you are all IA
miliar and upon which I will only
touch briefly. This was probably the
most outrageous and high-handed, and
perhaps the boldest defeat of the ends
of justice of which Mr.. Fredericks has
been guilty. He not only suppressed
the prosecution in this matter, but
aided and abetted the evildoers by
the way through the two alleged grand
jury Investigations. He not only broke
his sacred promise to allow the speaker
to prove that case, but took an ad-
verse position in the grand jury room,
acted practically as the attorney for
the accused persons and dischargeu me
for the purpose Of saving them, and
although requested twice by the first
grand jury to retire from the case and
leave them unhampered, he remained
on guard until the last, doing every
thing in his power to suppress the
truth and to save the accused.
NOT ONE CRATER JAILED
without going into further detail
there is one fact that is enough to
convict him in the eyes of all right
thinking people, and that is that out
of all that coterie of grafters not one
has ever been made to serve day in
jail; and that in the face of the fact
that even the public is well acquainted
with the overwhelming evidence Of
guilt of the accused officials. Now, the
Walter Parker that 1 have referred to
is the same Walter Parker who was
present in the office of the district at
torney continuously during the first
Harper Kern whitewash, consulting
with the district attorney daily; and he
is the same Walter Parker to whom
Mr.. Harper referred when he said, af-
ter his forced resignation, Mr.. Parker
was among my chief supporters in the
recall fight. He advised me to drop
out of the fight, and felt that the loss
of the support of Mr.. Parker would
leave me without a leg to stand upon.
AS to Walter Parker, he advised me
to resign. I looked upon him as my