Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-05

two thousand persons frequently pune
tuated a scathing arraignment of Capt.
J. ID. Fredericks by Thomas Lee Wool
wine at meeting of the Good Govern
ment organization at Simpson audito-
rum last night. Sentence after sem
tence of the Good Government candt-
date was closed with period of APP
plause by his auditors. The meeting
surpassed in size and enthusiasm the
one held in the same building recently
by FredericlSs
81 have been told" said Mr.. Wool
wine in the course of his speech, that
a certain person said of me, L believe
what Mr. Woolwine says is true, but
] will not vote for any man who sings
mud
what would you have me do? Close
my mouth to the whole infamous busi-
ness? ?" exclaimed Woolwine.
mol" came the massed answer from
the packed auditorium.
Later in his speech Woolwine said:
IF 1 have left anything to conjec-
ture; if I have left anything obscured,
or anything to be imagined, want you
to ask me questions. / want you to
ask questions" he reiterated, and in
response a bass voice from the gallery
supplemented, "FrederickS doesn't"
followed by an enthusiastic litter.
1.-THE big public service corporations
don't want me in office. nor do the
lawyers of those corporations" Wool
wine shouted.
"I have ideas of righteousness and
justice. You ask whence they came?
/ got them at my mothers knee, and
my father fought them to me also,
but in a different way. (ApplouseO
They taught me to be straight and be
just and all else will follow, and these
teachings / have endeavored to keep
nm IN mind -
During the course of his speech Mr..
Woolwine said:
LIKENs THIS TO FOLKS FIGHT
MY friends, there is nothing partic-
ularly new or involved about the con-
test that is being waged over the office
of district attorney in this county, nor
is there anything to astonish you in
the manner in which the forces have
lined up on the two sides of the issues
involved. The same conditions in q
large measure existed during Joseph
Folks fight against the grafters in st.
Louis. The same forces that have been
at work trying to bring about the elec-
tion of John ID. Fredericks were at
work to defeat Judge Ben B. Lindsey
in Denver. and the story of the fight
of Francis J. Heney in San Francisco
end his fight for the office of district
attorney in that city is being repeated
right here in Los Angeles.
I'm mentioning these fllustrlous
names 1t is not my purpose to attempt
to put myself in a class with men who
have rendered such valiant and last
ing service to the cause of human lib
erty; but what has been said and
what will follow is only to illustrate
the similarity of these battles for
euuality and Justice before the law.
10 Hph w. Folk. in his wonderful fight,
was opposed bitterly by machine poll
ticians and by corporation attorneys.
Heney had the same opposition to con-
tend with, only in a greater degree.
but Judge Lindsey's fight against cor
rupt influences in Denver overshadows
them all, for he has been opposed not
only by all machine politicians and the
lawyers for great corporations, but he
tells rs in the Beast Ca book that
men who want to know the true condi-
tions should read), that many minis
tArs were so violent in their opposition
toward him, or were so timid in their
desire to help, that he was denied sup
port from this quarter, even in the face
of the courageous and wonderful work
he did for humanity in uncoVering
graft in high places, and in saving the
youth of the city of Denver.
UNDER BOSS CONTROL
"In the present instance We find
condition that is almost unbelievable.
Every CRATER, every man who stands
for immunity to the higher-up, those
who wish to see the laws enforced
against the poor and helpless and the
influential law breakers go scot free,
some misguided n nisters, and few
attorneys for the public utility corpo-
rations, are standing for and urging
the election of John D. Fredericks to
the Office of district attorney.
Judge Lindsey, in the book that
have referred to, tells us about dis
trict attorney in Denver who did the
very thing that John d. Fredericks has
consistently done, and that is to pro-
tect grating politicians and persons of
influence, and who sought to build up
reputation ana to blind the people by
prosecuting the small offender Judge
Lindsey goes on to show that this
faithless official in Denver was under
the same domination and control under
which Fredericks has labored for years.
The Denver district attorney was un-
der the absolute domination and control
of the political bosses and public utility
corporations, just as Fredericks has
been controlled and used by Walter
Parker and the people he represents
rs it possible that the people of Los
Angeles county will be unable to read
the record of John d. Fredericks in
it's true light?' Is he going to be able
to blind the people of this county to
the corrupt influences that have domin-
ated and controlled him by record OF
blind pig raids, and his activity against
the petty offenders? 1t has always been
my opinion that If only the message
can be carried to the American people
they will respond in a patriotic and
just way.
"That is what we have been trying
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