Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-28
STIRRING RALLY
HELD IN VERNON
Good Government Forces Draw a
Crowd to Aker'S Hall to
Hear Addresses
EDDIE is PRINCIPAL SPEAKER
Coming Election Will Mean Step
Forward or Backward
for This City
EDDIE is PRINCIPAL SPEAKER

Guy Eddie, city prosecuting attorney
in an address to. the voters of the YER
non district, in Aker's hall, Central aV-
enue and Vernon street, last night, ap-
pealed for the Endorsement of the pres
ent Good Government administration,
the election of Messrs Stewart and
Whiffen to the city council, stating
that on the outcome of the pending
councilmanic election next Thursday
which will be a step forward or back
ward-depends the decision of hundreds
of eastern manufacturers who are
awaiting the outcome of this election
to determine whether or not they will
invest their capital in Los Angeles fol-
lowing the development of the great
owens river water power project
"The eyes of millions of people
throughout the civilized world he
said, ARE eagerly watching us, and
these people have been pointing in the
past to the City of the Angels as a
paragon of the progressive and popular
form of government, in which the brew
cry, railway, power, lighting and other
public utility and commodity corpora
tions have been compelled to serve the
people, observe their laws and accede
to their wishes.
"These outsiders have held Los Ange-
les up as a model city in their struggle
to reform and improve their own mu-
first six months of our progress under
Good Government administration with
intense interest.
LOYAL TO PEOPLE
",The word has gone out through the
newspapers of the country that the new
administration has done more for the
city than any in it's history; that 1t
has been conducted more loyalty to the
peoples interests, and that it has
proved a triumph for right and JUS
tice. They are watching us, at this cleo
ton, to see what our own people think
of it; to see If the voters will maintain
their commendable attitude toward vice
and pernicious politics.: to see if they
will indorse the course taken by the
present administration for better gov
ernment and capable officials; in other
words, to see if the people who instltut-
ed this municipal administration as an
experiment for better government re-
gret or approve their action.
"The corporations have put up two
candidates for the city councilt which
bodv of law makers will in the next
couple of years direct the disposition OF
many millions of dollars to be expend-
ed in the development of our harbor,
water system, streets, highways and
mower plants, and these corporations
are Waging a desperate and decisive
battle to elect those candidates.
THE CANDIDATES
1.-THE reform organization, oa the 9TH
er hand. has nominated two candidates
against them-Messrs. Stewart and
Whiffen-whose election by the voters
will sustain the present administration
and indicate that the people desire good
government
TT is to be the hardest battle the
pornorat tiOnS have ever Waged.
LOS Angeles will teach the world
moral lesson at its election next Thurs
day. Win of lose, it will be regarded
as a lesson for others to remember.
Apathy on the part of the GOOD Gov
ernment voters of this city will alone
be responsible if Barney Healy and DOC
Houghton are elected
Mr.. Eddie also urged that it is of
personal and vital interest to each ana
every voter to cast a ballot against the
corporation candidates and in faVor OF
Messrs. Stewart and Whiffen, and in
favor of the lighting rate ordinance,
because if there are enough of these
votes it will sustain the ordinance
which reduces the rates for lighting
now paid by every consumer of this
commodity
Stirring speeches also we're made by
I.orin A. Handley, Democratic candi-
date for congress and an active men,
ber of the Good Government non-par-
tisan organization; by Messrs. Stewart
and Whiffen, candidates for the council,
and by City Tax Collector Clarence
Taggart. Mr. Taggart made an I'M
pressive appeal for the adoption by the
voters of Los Angeles of the so-called
business license ordinance, which he
charged the corporations had brought
to a referendum by obtaining sigma
lures through fraudulent representa-
tons.
The meeting was one of the largest
and most enthusiastic of the week, and
all the speakers were greeted with nu-
merous rounds of applause, indicating
that a Good Government sentiment
,,reVa lied unanimously.