Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-10
HUTTON ATTACKS
s. P. HENCHMAN
Claims District Attorney Manipu"
Iates Office Patronage for
Machines Benefit
SCORES VIOLATORS OF LAW
Asserts FrederiCks Has Mol
SCrupIed to Permit Depu-
ties to Break 0aths
SCORES VI0LAT0RS OF LAW

An open air mass meeting was held
last evening at San Gabriel, number
of Lincoln Roosevelt candidates for
various county and state offices ad-
dressing the voters on issues of the
campaign. A large audience greeted
the speakers and applauded them as
point after point was scored against
the Southern Pacific machine and cor
rupt politics.
The speakers of the evening included
F. S. Hutton, Lincoln Roosevelt league
candidate for district attorney w. r.
Henshaw, candidate for the assembly,
sixty-ninth district; Harry Lelande,
candidate for county clerk; DR.. Sh6r-
win Gibbons, candidate for coroner; J.
D. McDean and Ray Chesbro.
In the course of Mr.. Hutton's ad-
dress he said:
1.-THE district attorneys office is the
key to the political situation in this
county. The office has the power to
control all infractions Of the law by
other officials, and it has power
through patronage to provide the
bosses with great influence.
81. D. F'redericks has used this pat
ronage in such a way that the ma
chine has been able to reap the great
est possible good, and in manipulating
the patronage of his office he has not
scrupled to permit his two deputies,
H. S. G. Mccartney and Percy V.
Harmon, to break the oaths they took
as legislators, but has, by appointing
them as deputies, violated the consti-
tuition of the state of California in
letter as we'll as in spirit, and has
placed himself in the category of law
breaker.
QUOTES STATES LAW
"Article " of section 10 Of the state
constitution provides.
No senator or member Of as
sembly shall, during the term for
which he shall have been elected,
be appointed to any civil office Of
profit under this state which shall
have been created or the emolu-
ments of which have been IN
creased during such term, except
such offices as may be filled by
election of the people.
November 6, 1906, Percy v. Ham
mon was elected to the assembly from
the seventy-fifth district, and during
the session of 1907 fathered the amend
ments to the county government act
which increased the number of dep
uties in the district attorneys office
from six to eight and the salary from
$3.50 to $500 and 1925 per month. and
created the position of clerk at $50 per
month Immediately after the session,
a
Southern Pacific machine, he was ap-
pointed clerk in the district attorneys
office at $150-the clerkship created
through his efforts as a legislator.
"In November, 1908, this same Percy
" Harmon, to be remembered as
members of the city council of the no.
torious river bed franchise, and one OF
the members voting for the attempted
steal was reelected to the assembly
;,o Fof I1n n
the county government act which in
creased the number of deputies in the
district attorneys office from eight to
eleven: and after the session, in return
for his services against the interest or
the people, was rewarded with one of
the newly created jobs at 5000 month
SCORES MCCARTNEY
III S. G. Mccartney was elected to
the assembly in the years 1902 and 1904,
and while a member of the assembly
was appointed a deputy in the district
attorneys office. In 1906, and while act
ing as a deputy in the district attor-
ney's office. he was elected under the
auspices of Walter Parker to the state
senate and during the session OF. 1907
took care of the amendments to the
government act in the senate.
Upon the conclusion of the session he
was given one of the newly created JOBS
at S225 a month, and for similar SER
vices in the session of 1909, after fake
resignation, was reappointed to a newly
created position at 1925 a month.
During the time Mccartney has been
a deputy in the office of the district
attorney he has served on and drawn
pay for serving on at least one commits
sion created by the legislature. He has
drawn pay from the county as deputy
district attorney, he has drawn sal
ary from the state of $1,000 for each
session of the legislature, and has re-
ceived additional sums from the state
for his commission work,
~. D. Fredericks knows these facts
to be true, and yet he has repeatedly
these two legislators to Of
flee in direct violation of the state con-
stitution He has sworn to support
the constitution of the United States
and the constitution of the state Of CAL
ifornia, and has deliberately violaeted
his oath that Mccartney and Ham
mon, the servants of the Southern Pa
cifc machine, might prosper"
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