Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-23
DEMOCRATS HOLD
5 MASS MEETINGS
Candidates Enthusiastically Wei
coined by GIendora and
AzuSa Voters
CORONER HARTWELL SCORED
Or. A. C. Pratt Asserts the Day
of the Walter Parker
Regime Is Ended
CORONER HARTWELL SCORED

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Five big mass meetings were ad-
dressed by Democratic candidates IN
various sections Of Los Angeles county
DR.. A. G. Pratt, Good Government
nominee for coroner; Lorin A. Hand
ley, Democratic nominee Tor congressi
stephen G. Long and Albert Lee
Stephens, nominees for the superior
court were the principal speakers OF
two mass meetings held in Glendora
and AZusa.
Judge Long said he believed that the
judiciary should be completely re-
moved from the bane of political IN
fluence. He commented on the Iact
that while the two factions of the Re
publican party had been hurting
charges at each other, no charge
worthy of consideration had been made
against any Democratic nominee.
Taking UP the candidacy of Hiram
Johnson, the speaker questioned
whether Mr.. Johnson is representative
of the principles for which Lincoln
Roosevelt Republicans pretend TO
stand, in view of the fact that he Is
running on a mixed ticket on which
are many candidates who were not
accountable to the insurgent Repubn-
cans. Nevertheless the whole ticket
must be supported, says the state
chairman.
HANDLEY SCORES OPPONENT
Lorin A. Handley, Democratic nom
inee for congress from the seventh
district, said in part:
civilian D. Stephens, who cans
himself Republican, overlooking the
fact that there are two kinds of Re-
publicans, stubbornly refuses to an
swer any Of the important questions
which | have asked him in this cam
paign. The voters and taxpayers OF
Los Angeles county can judge OF me
whether / am right or wrong in insist
ing that at least two of my questions
are vitally important, and no man
should so insult the intelligence OF
the public or have the etfrontery TO
expect their support by stating sun sun
ply that he is a Republican and retus-
ing to say whether he is an insurgent
or a regular.
Il want to say to the voters of the
Seventh congressional district that L
am going to insist on an answer to my
questions; l am going to demand that
he stand up like a man and answer
me- The people will also insist that
he make known his political conVlc-
tions. Is he a regular machine Repup-
lican, fighting the insurgents, or Is he
sln l1lSuLSCllk lASAAhlAlo NAiN
He has spoken since the primary cleo
tion from the same platform with Dis
trict Attorney Fredericks. Before his
nomination he was opposed to FRED
ericks. We have all watched his re-
cent political career without the slight
est knowledge of his purposes. one
day he seems to be q regular, the next
day an ilsurgent. A number of the
regulars say he is an insurgent quite
re co Ia lG q
regular. When the insurgents ask him
if he is a regular he says no. When
the regulars ask him if he is an insur-
gent he smiles and goes out to make
a speech with Mr.. FNredericks."
Mr.. Handley devoted considerable of
his speech to the high cost of living
and the part the tariff has played in
bringing higher prices. His recital or
the things which are on the free list
--ostensibly for the benefit of the poor
er classes-caused laughter. He de-
clared that the tariff should be taken
out of politics.
"Wil Coroner Hartwen reply to
me?" asked DR.. A. C. Pratt, Good Gov
ernment nominee for county coroner,
at the Democratic mass meeting held
last night i'll Azusa. A dozen men in
the audience answered amid enthusi-
astic demonstrations: mo! He dare
not!"
Does it occur to you that when I
charge Coroner Hartwell with having
prostituted his office to pay his po-
litical debts to Walter Parker that /
am making a most serious and vital
accusation? Does it not seem to the
people of Los Angeles county that II
| am telling a lie Coroner HartWell
ought to come out and say so?
Il have charged that Coroner Hart
well is giving almost all of his coroner
cases to one undertaking firm in which
Walter Parker is q prominent stock
holder. Just think of it, gentlemen.
He has deliberately ignored the wishes
of the families of dead persons, and in
the face of their opposition, he has
consigned the bodies of their beloved
TO an undertaking firm which has
created a monopoly of that business in
this city and county, and he has done
these things because he owes his posi-
tion to Walter Parker, the Southern
Pacific political boss.
ASKS CHARGES ANSWERED
Coroner Hartwell has allowed un-
dertakers to Wrangle over dead bodies.
And in all the time Of his office, he
has never returned a verdict against
the Southern Pacific railway company,
however often that company may have
been to blame for the death of one of
its employees. That is another way in
which HartWell has psid Parker.
How long are the people Of Los
Angeles county going to stand for this
kind of thing? Can it be that the
voters of this enlightened community
will permit the greedy, ghoulish hand
of the Southern Pacific to reach even
into the grave and coffin? Is there no
limit to what these miserable dupes
of the Southern Pacific will be per
mitted to do?
Coroner Hartwell, I ask that you
tell the people of Los Angeles county
whether or not L tell the truth, or
whether 1 am lying for political pur-
poses. L have made some serious
not as a man, but as a coroner, and ]
think you owe it to the people to an
swer me. Is it not true that you have
held autOpsies after bodies have been
embalmed? Is it not true that you
have held great many autopsies, at
n considerable expense to the people
of this county, in cases where autop-
sizes were unnecessary? Why don't
you answer, Mr.. Hartwell? Why are
you so silent? Do you expect that the
people of Los Angeles county are GO
ing to elect you to the office of cor
oner i'm the face of these terrible
charges, not one Of which you have
had the courage to answer?
Hardly! The people of Los Ange-
les county are waking up, Mr.. Hart
well, and Ilong with Sheriff Hammel,
Public Administrator Welch, and 9TH
ers of the Southern Pacific machine