Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-19
MEN
DROP FREDERICKS
Stewart and Newly Quit Anti
Saloon League, Which
Supports Candidate
OFFICIAL AS UNFIT
Head of Union Oil Company Says
District Attorney Failed
to Do His Duty
REGARD OFFICIAL AS UNFIT

Lyman Stewart, president of the
Union Oil company, came out strongly
yesterday against the election of John
d. Fredericks as district attorney. In
consequence of the attitude of the
Anti-Saloon league in supporting
Captain Fredericks, Mr.. Stewart and
Nathan Newby have withdrawn their
memberships in that organization. The
feeling that Captain Fredericks is an
unfit man to support for district at
torney is marked among influential
members Of the Anti-Saloon league.
"Mr. Fredericks is an unsafe man
for the position Of district attorney"
said Lyman Stewart yesterday. "I
cannot tpprove of the action taken by
the Anti-Saloon league in its indorse-
ment of District Attorney John D..
Fredericks, for the reason that Mr..
Fredericks failed utterly to do his
sworn duty during the Harper affair.
The league, in indorsing him, is i'm
pairing its political influence in this
county.
IT will be obliged to withdraw from
the Anti-Saloon league. I am mem
ber of the Good Government organiza-
ton and the two bodies now are in
conflict l cannot consistently remain
a member of the Anti-Saloon league
in the circumstances"
The executive committee OF the Anti
Saloon league ratified the work of Su-
perintendent Chapman in issuing cir
culars faVoring the candidacy of
Captain Fredericks and otherwise pro-
noting the F'redericks campaign. Fol-
lowing this action the resignation of
Nathan Newly as a member of the
committee and of the Anti-Saloon
league was accepted.
NEwBY STATES POSITION
ct most heartily disapprove the es-
pousal of the course of Captain Fred
ericks by the league" said Mr.. Newby
yesterday. There is one phase of the
King will case to which ! wish to call
attention. 1t seems to me to be the
very root of the Woolwine charge,
to wit:
capacity as prosecuting attorney, was
hampered In the performance Of his
duty by his private employment as an
attorney.
"This is shown by an excerpt from
the so-called defense of Captain Fred
ericks In his Simpson auditorium
speech. He said:
"I spent months of time and took
depositions by the ream and sent to
Ohio and Florida trying to find out
who forged that will, as district at
and Mrs. Volkmor, but was unable
to find that out, but there was un-
doubtedly a delicate situation there
that I believed and do believe the
people who forged that will were the
people we were fighting in the civil
suit, and II was necessary should
be absolutely square with Scott and
that I should not attempt to urge the
criminal law to squeeze him into q
settlement.
ACTION IN WILL CASE
"In other words, Captain Fredericks
acknowledges that he spent the peo-
ple's money to find out who the forger
was which would rebound to the BEN
eft of his private clients. And though
convinced that the guilty persons were
the same as those whom ne was fight
ing in the civil suit, viz, the clients
of Mr.. Scott, yet he felt that he was
In such a delicate situation by reason
of his employment as a private attor-
ney that he could not perform his
sworn duty as a public prosecutor.
This is the plain, unavoidable con-
clusion resulting from the above
quotation from the speech of Captain
Fredericks.
''As a district attorney he had no
moral or legal right to place himself
in such delicate situation
"As usual, when public official
does this, it is the public interest that
suffers and the private interest
flourishes.
II think it would be public calam-
ity to elect Captain Fredericks as
district attorney of Los Angeles
county"