Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-12
.FLAYS OFFICIALS
RULED BY BOSSES
Taggart Exposes Machine Meth
ods at Good Government
Rally at Burbank
FIGHTS FOR HONEST RULE
WooIWIne ReiterateS Charge That
District Attorney Sup
pressed Forgery
FIGHTS FOR HONEST RULE

Clarence M. Taggart, city tax col
lector, was the leading speaker at the
political meeting at Burbank last night
under the auspices Of the Good Gov
ernment organization. Thomas Lee
woolwine made one of his foroeful
speeches on the election of district at
| torney, and was accorded continued
applause.
Mr.. Woolwine reviewed the charges
he has made In preceding speeches re-
| garding the official conduct of District
| Attorney Frederieka.
IF what / say is not true they can
| put me in jail" said Mr.. Woolwine.
II am still waiting for them to come
after me-"
He reiterated the charge that the
| district attorney had suppressed a
| forgery, saying: ~. d. Fr6dericks, as
! district attorney, knowing of two sep
arate forgeries, suppressed and COW
cred up the same for the purpose OF
enriching himself when 1t was his
sworn duty to prosecute all such of
| fenses, and that as a direct result OF
such suppression looted the estate of
the dead, Michael III. King, of about
S12. 900 of real property and money"
| MI IdkBdEI hQOlA9 III Pc1AbACAAu2 VI
the necessity for activity by the Good
! Government organization, calling at
| tention to the widespread demand for
adequate service to the public by pub
lie officials.
NON-PARTISAN EFFORTS
"The Good Government organization
was formed" he said, "for the purpose
| of providing good candidates for Of
! fee, regardless of their political or
party affiliations. In the city of Los
| Angeles we have a non-partisan di-
rect primary law, and we also have
done away with the party designations
ON our ballot. Names OF candidates
for office are placed on the ballot al
phabetically arranged. We have a di-
rect primary for state and county, yet
it is a partisan primary and recognizes
political parties, and we are therefore
to that extent compelled to make our
pre-primary campaigns along party
lines.
1.-THE Good Government organization
Is an absolute non-partisan organiza-
tion, and therefore took no active part
in the primary campaign, and If both
of the political parties had placed in
nomination for all offices to be filled
| good men, the Good Government or
ganization would not have taken an
active part in the present campaign
! Through a multiplicity of candidates
and the unfamiliarity Of voters in re-
gard to registration and the working
OF the direct primary law, there were
few candidates who secured nom
nations that are unfit to hold public
office. Where such nominations were
made, the Good Government organiza"
tion has by petition placed before the
people of Los Angeles county candi-
dates In opposition. With the idea of
securing the defeat of the objection
able candidates, the Good Government
organization has selected for their
ticket candidates already nominated
by one of the existing political parties.
1 repeat, the Good Government organ
ization is non-partisan.
NEED HONEST OFFICIALS
"The members of the organization
are of the opinion that the first con-
sideration in securing public officials
is honesty. integrity, ability and fear
lessness in the prosecution of their
duties. When we employ mechanics,
lawyers, physicians or men of any
calling, In a private capacity, we do
not inquire what political party the
person we employ belongs to. We do
not care about that. Neither should
1t matter in the least in our public
capacity as citizens. When we, the
stockholders of Los Angeles county,
employ men to manage our affairs 1t
Is of no consequence to us whether
man is a Democrat, Republican, o
Socialist or Prohibitionist, or to what
political party he belongs. But we do
want to know, and we should insist
upon knowing, that men seeking our
suffrage are honest, must be absolute
lyafearless and must have ability. II
w# are to sacrifice any of these quail
al Ia 4 - Aba In hat af obi
ity. This Is an old doctrine and an
old argument. but one some people
seem to forget very easily, at least
when convenient.
I'm the past few years there has
been a tremendous awakening of the
citizens of this country. We have sud
denly realized that our free instttu-
tions are In jeopardy. We have come
to realize that unless we want special
privilege to completely control our
government we must bestir ourselves.
To regain what we have lost 1T is
necessary that we kick out of public
positions men who are subservient to
special privilege. To do this with
dispatch and efficiency we must de-
stroy all political bosses and their or
ganization, the machine The fight is
one fight the country over-the fight
of human rights as against property
rights, the fight of democracy as
against plutocracy.
s. p. PLAYINa POLITICS
''In the state of California, in the
county Of Los Angeles, special priv
ilege is personifed in the Southern Pa
cific railroad and its allied corpora
tions, who have In the past and who
are at the present time taking an
active part in matters politically. We
are in favor of these corporations as
long as they attend to their business,
but when they lay hands on our po-
litical institutions and undertake to
run our government, then we object
and will go to any length that Is neces-
sary to secure their repudiation and
return to a free people free and fep-
resentative government, In the state
of California the Southern Pacific
political bureau has, under the direc-
tion of w. II. HerFin and Walter Par
ker, for the past thirty years con-
troiled to large extent the govern
ment.
"Now if we take our part in this
great fight, which is nationwide, we
must do our small part and wreck
the Southern Paeifld political machine
in Los Angeles county and defeat
every candidate who holds his place
or takes orders from Boss Walter Par
ker. Besides the reason that we must,
as a mart of the nation, make our part