Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-23
REFORMERS CLAIM .
VICTORY IS CERTAIN
Good Government Leaders Say
Records of Houghton and
HeaIy Enough
BOTH FLAYED BY LEADER
Machine Candidates ASsaiIed as
Opposing Every Move for
Public Welfare

Barney Healey and doc" Houghton,
push candidates for the city coun-
ell, whom the lighting corporations and
S. p. political machine are trying so
strenuously to elect, are doing every
thing possible to insure their success; ;
but the leaders of the Good Govern
ment movement in Los Angeles stated
yesterday that the records of these
men are so well known that their de-
feat is inevitable if the Good Gov
ernment voters of the city turn out
in full force and cast their vote June
80 for Messrs. Stewart and Whiffen.
"Yet there are undoubtedly many
new voters in Los Angeles" said an
official of the Good Government organ
ization yesterday, who have come here
since Healy and Houghton served their
notorious term in the city council, and
who are not familiar with the details
of these mems history.
"Healy and Houghton not only took
a hand in the river bed steal, and sim
liar corporation escapades, but they
have unblushingly admitted their af-
filiations
Mayor Alexander, in a speech at
Hollywood the other night. said that
Houghton actually approached him in
the city hall and begged him to 1oos-
en- up on the red light district. This
may have surprised some of the citi-
zens of Hollywood but it is a notori-
Gus fact among all who have kept in
close touch with political matters here
that Houghton is an out-and-out advo-
cate of a wide open town. A wide
open town, in the sense advocated by
Houghton and Healy, is not wanted by
the citizens of Los Angeles.
Mayor Alexander also stated that
lust prior to the Elks' convention, in
1909 he was approached by Barney
Haely, who begged the mayor to take
the lid off while the Elks were here.
This the mayor refused to do, and
delegation of leading Elks called on
the mayor the last day of the conven
ton and thanked him for it, stating
that the Los Angeles convention of
Elks would go down in their history as
the best and most orderly of any they
had eyer held.
"In this connection, aside from
Healy and Houghton's records in 9TH
er we'll known administrative affairs,
it might be we'll to acquaint the pub
lie with one other phase of Houghton's
character.
"Houghton has always been opposed
to anything that the corporations op-
pose.
"At a time when Los Angeles was
suffering from a water famine, when
we did not have enough to sprinkle our
streets, when our parks anu BdruelS
were parched and dying, and the great
scheme for the acquisition of the Ow-
ems river supply was conceived, insur-
ing us of inestimable returns, this man
Houghton did everything possible to
forestall the move.
Somebody sent him up to inspect
the river and of course he reported
that the project was not feasible, and
otherwise criticised the whole plan. He
strenuously opposed the voting of pre-
liminary bonds for options, and when
the election came at which the people
were to decide if they should vote the
larger amount for development-s2S,-
900, O,000-Houghton worked throughout
the city, and among the various poll
ing places to defeat the issue.
"The people then showed their lack
of confidence in Doc Houghton, and
voted the bonds by tremendous ma
iority; they will repudiate him again
at the councimanic election.
1.-THE record of this man Healy in
the city council speaks for itself. He
was the only man that had the nerve
to stand up against the wishes of the
people and oppose the initial bond pro-
iect"