Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1910-10-29
FREDERICKS FINDS
FROST At BEACH
Santa Monica Turns Out with a
Band for WoolWine I'M
promtu Meeting
G. 0. p. MAN is FROZEN OUT
Crowds Throng to Hear Good
Government Nominee and In
dorSe His Strong Speech

SANTA MONICA, Oct. 2S.--In con-
test for the attention of Santa Monica
voters tonight, Thomas Lee Woolwine
won out over his Republican adver-
sary and addressed an enthusiastic
meeting at the city hall. With the as
sistance of Gregorys municipal band,
the Woolwine crowd got the majority
of Democratic and Good Government
voters and a number of Republicans
together in the council chamber and
held the most lively meeting of the
campaign here. Candidate Fredericks
was advertised to speak to the Santa
Monicans at Linda Vista park, but
when the party arrived on the scene
there was not single person to greet
them and the meeting was declared
off.
f. L. Edinburgh, a republican, served
as chairman of the city hall gather
ing, which was made up of representa-
tive citizens. The chairman explained
in detail the remarkable work done by
WoolWine in cleansing the municipal
affairs of Los Angeles which resulted
in the political decapitation of Mayor
Harper. He declared emphatically
that although he is a staunch Repub-
lican, he will vote for and support
Woolwine because he considers him the
most suitable man for the office of
district attorney. That the crowd was
with him was manifest from the hearty
applause given these remarks.
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For more than an hour Woolwine
spoke, forcibly arguing his claims for
recognition before the voters of the
county because Of his record while
prosecutor. In fearless language he
described from the beginning his work
while in that office, explaining clearly
the part the present district attorney
is accused of playing in alleged COM
bine to extract money from the deni-
zens of the tenderloin, charging that
Walter Parker kept a set of books
in a room at Second and Broadway,
where the foot" was divided. This
charge impressed the audience and to
all appearances lost for Fredericks
whatever prestige he might have had
with them at the beginning of the
meeting.
When Woolwine apologized to the
half dozen women present for speaking
so plainly, one of them arose and in
sisted that he continue as she was
ready ito listen to anything" The
woman is active among the local work
ers for political equality.
DR.. A. C. Pratt, candidate for county
coroner addressed the meeting, fol-
lowed by Walter j. Desmond, can
didate for county tax collector.
In introducing Mr.. Woolwine, Mr..
Edinburgh said:
"These are times when many
thoughtful people have come to be-
lieve that good citizenship is para
mount to party loyalty and that duty
to home and country demands the Sc
lection of the best men for public Of
flee regardless of the particular label
that may happen to be attached to the
top of the ticket. Party loyalty is be-
coming a myth. A party can be no
better than the principles it advo-
Gates and the candidates. it espouses'
ISSUES ARE CLEAN-CUT
"a most interesting contest is be-
ing waged for the office of district at
torney. The issues are clean cut and
go to the very essence of good gov
eminent Some of my best friends
are favorable to Mr.. F'redericks, and
/ believe that many other well inten-
toned citizens are supporting his can
didacy; on the other hand the strong
men who have been fighting the cause
of good government in Los Angeles
and other parts of the county are urg-
ing the candidacy of Mr.. Woolwine;
in addition to this, and of the utmost
Importance, is the fact that Mr. Wool
wines candidacy is opposed by that
element of society which makes profit
OUT OF q lax enforcement VI lllO law
at have endeavored to fairly con-
slider the issues involved in this con-
test that I might come to a correct
decision. ! am a Republican, but l
stand unequivocally for the candi-
dacy of Mr.. Thomas Lee Woolwine.
His courageous and manly fight for
the suppression of protected vice her
aided him as the man of the hour
when Los Angeles in shame cried out
for some one to lead the fight to blot
out the cesspools Of iniquity that eX-
listed and thrived in defiance Of law,
but with official sanction. He is the
man, more than any other who drove
from public life the shameless men
who were wringing dividends ont of
the ill-gotten gains of fallen women.
AROUSED CIVIC CONSCIENCE
'"Thomas Lee Woolwine is the man
who aroused the civic conscience
of Los Angeles to reallza-
ton of it's perils, and helped to make
it's city government one of the clean
est in the land, and if he were the
nominee of the Republican party the
leaders of the Republican organiza-
ton would use him as the headllner
of the campaign, proclaiming him as
the ideal public official. I care not
what ticket his name appears upon.
He looks just as good to me on one
ticket as another.
"Principle is what should govern.
Our great American, Theodore Roose-
welt, advocates cutting the party
ticket in the interest of good govern
ment, and if Theodore Roosevelt, Rob
ert M. La Toilette and Clifford Pin
chot were living in Los Angeles coun-
ty what do you think they would do
in reference to this matter? I'll tell
you They would vote for Mr.. Thomas
Lee Woolwine, and they wouldn't be
at all backward in letting it be known.
No man need be ashamed to enlist in
the cause of right"
At Sawtelle yesterday afternoon Mr..
Woolwine addressed an audience of
500-a remarkable crowd for that
place. He was met by the Venice band
band and parade through Sawtelle
followed
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