Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-25
WOOLWINE AND FLEMING
SPEAK At MONETA AVE.
FrederiCks Scored for SpeCiouS
Claims of Closing "BIind
Pigs" Outside City

At a Good Government meeting at
543O Moneta avenue last night, Thomas
Lee Woolwine and e. ]. Fleming ad-
dressed voters living in the southern
part of the city, speaking particularly
on the campaign for election of dis
trict attorney.
"F'redericks stands upon his record
said Mr. Fleming, who made the prin-
cipal speech. "And what is that rec
ord? He points not, gentlemen, to the
crime he abolished in Los Angeles city!
No And his misguided friends do not
maintain it; but he points to the blind
pigs he closed outside of the city OF
Los Angeles. He points to some
gambling helIs he closed, not in Los
Angeles city, mark you, but outside
of Los Angeles city, and because OF
this he asks the people to indorse him
and return him to office.
But we,s the people, say to John D.
F'redericks: we arraign you, sir, we
condemn you, we repudiate you, as the
citizens of New York did with refer
ence to William T. Jerome. We re-
pudiate you, not for what you ala DO,
but, sir, for what lou failed to do.
I'VE say further; we arraign you.
Mr.. Fredericks, for your failure, for
your inefficiency in the riverbed fran
chise deal that failed to rob this
municipality of a franchise and of a
privilege worth millions to the city of
Los Angeles; we arraign you, sir, for
your failure in the bond deal inVolv-
ing over 100000 for your failure to
stand up and proclaim yourself; for
failure to denounce the infamous three
who ruled over the courthouse.
1--WE arraign you, sir, for your fall
ure in not conducting properly an in
vestigation into the oil road steal in
volving $3.50, 900. You attempted, sir,
to hoodwink the people; you attempt
ed to Ilindfold them; you attempted
to protect those who were charged
with that malfeasance, with the theft
of tLat S25O,OO0. We arraign you for
failing to call grand jury to conduct
proceedings in that case. You did not
do it. -
"I.et us consider the King will con-
test for a moment. 1 wish that yu
were lawyers so that you could under
stand it, but 1 will try to make 1t
plain. There are laws upon our stat
ute books that involve an offense both
civilly and criminally-that is to say,
in the crime of embezzlement, If a
man defrauds you, steals $4,000 from
you, you can go to the district attor-
ney and have him prosecute 1t and
S6llJ TO Tie SldlcS pllSOli AOl Abi JOO
can go to a private attorney and have
that attrney bring action to recover
civilly and get you back that $4,000.
A man may commit forgery; you can
go to the district attorney and have
a complaint issued against him for
the offense that he has committed
against you; and then you can go to
your private attorney to bring an
action to recover the amount of the
loss by that forgery.
$50 in false pretenses, in battery,
etc, and many others that I might
mention; and now I say in reference
to the King will contest that such a
man as Joseph Folk, such man as
Wylnan of Chicago, such man as
Blakely of Pittsburg, such man as
Charles c. Hughes, that was the in
vestigator and the opener up of the
insurance fraud in New York-men OF
that stamp, men of that caliber, men
of that fearlessness-they would not be
guilty ethically, ethically. mind you,
if nothing more, of taking a civil case
for the recovery of money secured
by forgery when it was their sworn
duty to prosecute the one who stole the
funds, criminally, and send them to the
penitentiary. Isn't 1t right?'