Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-18
MAKES REPLY TO
]. D. FREDERICKS
WooIWine Produces Affidavit to
Show Parker'S Pull with
District Attorney
RElTERATES ALL CHARGES
Candidate Takes Up the Reply OF
His Opponent at Long
Beach Meeting
REITERATEs ALL CHARGES
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Los Angeles, S. Adolph Berliner,
being first duly sworn, deposes and
says: That I am about 60 years
old; that 1 have been a resident OF
Los Angeles for about six years,
and am now residing at 95S1a South
Ffgueroa street; that about the
month of January, 1903, being
anxious to obtain a position as de-
tective under District Attorney
John D. Fredericks I inquired as to
the best method of approaching him
and was told to see Walter Parker.
THAT l obtained a written intro
duction from friend of Parker's
and presented it to him in his office
in the Pacific Electric building.
Parker read this letter, then
took a card with his name printed
on it and wrote o. K. with some
signs or characters which 1 could
not read underneath and handed 1t
to me and told me to give it to
Fredericks.
az handed this card with Parker's
o. K. on it to Mr.. Fredericks in his
office in the court house, and he
sent me to his chief detective, Mr..
Browne, who gave me a job at
once. ADOLPH BERLINER.
Subscribed and sworn to before
me this 10th day Of October, 1910.
"IRNIE BATEMAN,
'SNotary public in and for the
county Of Los Angeles, state of
California.
"(Notarial seal.)
GAS to the fallacious charge made by
Mr.. Fredericlzs against Mr.. e. T. Earl,
1t is unnecessary for me to go further
than to say that in spite of the sup
preston by Mr.. Fredericks Of the grand
jury investigation into the Harper ad-
ministration, he, as a private citizen
secured sufficient information to enable
him to force the resignation of both
Harper and Kern, and thus did a SER
vice to the city of Los Angeles which
should entitle him to the undying graf
itude of the community. This charge,
so obviously false, coming from a
faithless public official such as Mr.
Fredericks is so preposterous as tore
quire no further comment"
MAKES STIRRING APPEAL
Clarence M. Taggart, city tax col
Iector, made a stirring appeal for pa
triotic voting predicting that this year. s
election will signalize the end of boss
rule in Los Angeles county. Mr.. Tag
gart said:
THE present political situation in
Los Angeles county is the most COM
plicated that 1 have ever known, and
it seems to be the purpose of some of
the party leaders to kick up so much
dust that the eyes of the voter will be
blinded to the real issues of the cam
paign and become so confused as to be
undecided as to the proper course to
pursue. 1t has always been a trick of
the party bosses to divert the attention
of the voters from the real issue in the
campaign to personal controversies be-
tween candidates and others and then
give advice to the voter to vote the
straight party ticket without regard to
the character or ability of the candi-
dates.
1--WE have already in this campaign
heard some of our men talk with great
oratorical effect about voting the en-
tire ticket. Now these same men are
men from whom we have a right to
expect better things. Some of them
are men who have been closely affiliat-
ed with the reform movement in this
county and to whom a great many peo-
pie are looking for guidance. This
is a trick, however, that has been
played upon the people Of this country
for so long that 1t will surely fail this
time.
WILL STOP BOsSISM
1.-THE bosses who have so many times
in the past succeeded in using the
whip of party loyalty to elect to Of
flee men who are absolutely unfit for
the positions to which they aspire,
have this time reckoned without the in
telligence of the voters of today. Never
before in the history Of the country
has there been so much independent,
individual voting on things political as
today People have come to a full
realization of the fact that the govern
ment is fast getting into the hands of
special interests and with this realiza-
tion have come to a full determine
tiOn that this must be stopped and that
representative government in it's broad
est sense must be returned to the peo-
pie.
1.-The Good Government organization
was conceived and brought into be-
ing to provide fit candidates for Of
flee, regardless of their party affilia-
tions, but with special regard to their
honesty and fitness to hold public Of
flee. In city and county affairs we be-
lieve in applying the same business
like and common sense principles as
we do in our private affairs.
ASKS HONESTY FIRST
1--WE, as the stockholders of the cor
poration Of Los Angeles county, care
not whether our business managers and
heads of departments have a working
knowledge of the tariff or have decided
convictions upon principles that affect
our national government, but we do
want to know that they are honest
that they have ability and judgment
and that they can be depended upon
to manage our public business as we
would expect them to manage our pri-
Vate business if they were employed
by us in a private capacity.
1--WE want men who, if we have bonds
to sell, will not lock themselves up in a
closet and without notice TO any one
sell the bonds for 100000 less than
they are really worth, or if we want
to furnish the administration building
of our corporation, will not pay $780,
600 more for the furniture than it is
worth, We have d direct primary law
reluctantly given us by the grace of a
foreign corporations political tools,
who are termed our legislative repre-
sentatives.
BARS PARTIsANsIIP
"Under TINS primary law we must
make our pre-primary fight along party
lines. Consequently the Good Govern
nent organization, being non-partisan,
took no part in the pre-primary fight,
and If both of the old parties had nOmi-
mated good men for all Offices the Good
Government organization would not
have taken any part in the present
campaign. Such, however, was not the
case. In a number Of instances unfit
man rrrara nominated T,rr aIfbots ,,,. c,,