Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-15
POLITICIANS TO HAVE
BARBECUE AND PICNIC
REDONDO BEACH 0FFICIALD0M
GOING TO CAMP
Away from Town Governing Crowd Is
Expected to / ak Over
Their Campaign
Affairs
/ Special to The Herald. ]

REDONDO BEACH, Feb. 14.-Prac-
tically the entire official family of Re-
dondo Beach will participate in bar
becue and picnic tomorrow at Barney
cot fishing camp, on the beach south OF
this city In the party of sixteen pic
nickers will be the mayor, board OF
trustees, school board, marshal, post
master and several business men. AL
though it was announced today that
the gathering is planned simply TO give
the city officials a chance to separate
themselves from their arduous duties
for a day, and thus obtain a needed
rest it is openly admitted that the af-
fair has got considerable political sig
nificance. The spring campaign has
just opened, and the governing crowd
which makes up most of the barbecue
party, desires to remain in power.
Barneycot camp is situated ON the
beach close up under the bluff, about
two miles south of Clifton by-the-Sea.
All barbecues that have taken place in
this section for several years have been
held at the camp, which is well fitted
for such events. The trip will be made
tomorrow in automobiles and wagons
from this city According to one of the
party, it will be late in the day when
they return. No program of exercises
other than cooking and eating beef,
even at the present high prices, has
Deen prepared, SO lar as cOulu pe dScei-
tanned tonight.
At the head of the joy-seekers will be
Mayor John" l. Lechner. Next in
official order will be President W. j..
Hess of the board of trustees, with e..
l.. Christman and b. l.. Phillips men,
bers of the board. City Recorder j. P.
Erickson, formerly trustee, and City
Marshal Lee Stanchfield are the re-
naming members of the official family
-. of Dn1n n
Beach at the picnic Among the other
guests will be A. L. Walton, water
front superintendent for the Los An
geles and Redondo railway; Joe Lux
ford, member of the Hermosa Beach
board of education; $. d. Barkley, Re-
dondo Beach postmaster; Capt. A. A.
Henderson, H. b. Ainsworth w. A.
Sigsbee, Jack Z. Johnston, Eddie Muir
ply, Walter Niece and Frank LANCER.
Lechner and Hess are the two trus-
tees to hold over at the election in
April. They and their supporters are
said to be planning to procure the
election of a third member with whom
they may affiliate and control the ac-
tions of the board. Three members are
to be elected this year. Only a short
time is vet remaining before the pros
pective candidates must announce
themselves. These facts, coupled with
the picnic of tomorrow, lead those IA
miliar with local politics to believe that
in addition to the joyous time accom-
panying the barbecue tomorrow a
frame up" for the new board of trus-
tees will be made. Here is an opinion
of the affair given by a local business
man tonight:
"That crowd is simply going down
the beach to arrange a slate for the
election. Here in town the walls have
got ears, and it isn't safe to hold an
Important meeting of this kind right at
this time. They are becoming worried
over the baclIwardness of candidates
announcing themselves and are to hold
this picnic as an excuse to get far
away and build their political fences"