anaheim-gazette 1926-08-26

GROWTH OF ANAHEIM Total for 1910 was... 2,268 Total for 1920 was... 5,525 Today estimated at...12,000 VOLUME LVI RICHARDSON, SH GOVERNOR SWINGS NORTH WINNING BRILLIANT POLITICAL CAMPAIGN Delivers Final Address in South to Friends And Supporters; Down With Bosses And the Yellow Press DELIVERING his last speech in the southern counties during the present campaign in the Alexandria hotel on Friday evening, where two hundred country editors from Santa Barbara to San Diego met him and cheered him to the echo, Governor Richardson gave an account of his stewardship as chief executive of California and struck telling blows at the vicious boss system and the alien-owned yellow press, whom he handled without gloves in characteristic Richardson fashion. If Governor Richardson has a single fault, and this is not a fault, he strikes back and tells his hearers what is in him regarding these myrmidons of ward politics, who have been leeches upon the public treasury of this state for so long that they have become a Young an Enemy, Arrant Demagogue No Inyo Co Los Angeles county in Orange county in Los Angeles sho water rights, as the infernal Metr This infamous county of Los An every one in all o California counties We shall not boil lions of money, a a club to brandish it has done to coto that city, which join the city in orc the Owens river a The Metropolitan district the right to What does this m the district may ap in the district and good of the greater As Los Angeles h of population as th ern counties, this s it means that th spells nothing b Orange county. Los Angeles camcounty, the garden into another Inyo; God save our c Young an Enemy, Arrant Demagogue Record Shows Him Unworthy of Support by Republican Party Republicans! Will you vote for a man who has repeatedly tried to wreck the Republican party? To nominate C. C. Young to head the party in California would be a disgrace! He believes in no party principles. He stands only for personal expediency. He is a demagogue to call himself a Republican. What is the record of C. C. Young, who is seeking to become the standard bearer of the Republican party in California? He is the same C. C. Young who attempted to legislate the Republican party out of existence in California in 1915. He is a political turn-coat. He is the same C. C. Young during the 18 years he has been on the state payroll—feeding at the public trough—has at various times been a candidate of the Progressive party, the Prohibition party, and wanted to be a man without a party—candidate of the "no-party" state machine that was in full power in 1915. And now he is back in the Republican party fold! C. C. Young was the author and champion of Assembly bill No. 715 that was forced through the 1915 legislature. The act made all state officers, including governor and members of the legislature, non-partisan. The object and purpose of the bill was to do away with party organization altogether in California—to crush the Republican party as well as the Democratic party and by thus eliminating all organized opposition perpetuate in power in California the state political machine built up through patronage of which C. C. Young was a part. So outraged were the good people of California that the law, after being signed by Governor Hiram Johnson, was promptly held up and submitted to the voters of the state by referendum—and overwhelmingly defeated at a special state election held October 26, 1915. C. C. Young, then speaker of the Assembly, wrote the official argument in favor of the non-partisan law that was placed before the voters of the state. In his argument Young maintained that the tariff furnished the only question upon which the parties divided. Here are quotations from his fallacious argument which show his brand of Republicanism: "The government of states like that of municipalities ought to be merely a matter of humane and enlightened administration and of efficient business management. To inject national party lines into state government is to inject gloves in characteristic Richardson fashion. If Governor Richardson has a single fault, and this is not a fault, he strikes back and tells his hearers what is in him regarding these myrmidons of ward politics, who have been leeches upon the public treasury of this state for so long that they have become a reproach to the people of the commonwealth. Incompetent creatures of the bosses whom he has dismissed from office and pried loose from the state payroll have turned against him and have been barking at his heels during the entire campaign. The governor is striking back and is denouncing them in unmeasured terms. He has persisted in his good work, and has incontinently fired every last mother's son of them, as their howlings go up and vex the people's ears. He was repeatedly applauded by the large crowd of his friends and supporters present, and made one of the most telling speeches of the campaign. It was freely predicted by those in attendance that the governor would sweep the southern counties by a great majority, and telegrams came from the north assuring him that he would carry San Francisco and the north by a splendid majority. The governor departed for the north on Sunday evening, having a dozen speaking engagements in San Francisco and Alameda counties, and has been carrying on a vigorous campaign during the entire week. Betting odds in San Francisco are that the governor will win. Much money is in sight, and Richardson supporters are betting the opposition to a standstill. His address was, in part, as follows: "Do the people of California want a state government run on business principles with economy and efficiency, a government which protects its citizens and stands for law and order, a government which has been most liberal in its appropriations for humane, charitable and educational purposes; or do they want a government run by the political bosses in the interest of incompetent political job chasers and hungry" exploiters of the taxpayer? There can be no doubt of the result if the good citizens of California will turn out on election day and vote. Political machines win only when there is a small vote, for the bosses and their allies (the votaries of vice), are always vigilant. The menace to California of boss control should give every voter deep concern. "During the past three and one-half years all departments of the state government have been put on a business basis. Appointments have been made upon merit and civil service principles have been strongly upheld. The assessment of state employees for political campaigns has been abolished. Henchmen of the old political machine have been removed from the payroll. The" - Continues with similar structure for each section. Endorsement: This paper is all governor. In this that it is for Frank tenant-governor elected, and we have be, the lieutenant—the same time she shows the same ideas as she think Richardson governor, then Merger for lieutenant-governed good team of winning the best interests last four years thru horse and mule—Strathmore Sentence. Dr. B. S. Hayward sermon at the corner city park S audience of nearly twenty minutes at the service providing that they be requested to assist and indexing there performed without under this title C. C. Young wrote in favor of the No-copies were printed at public expense at cast throughout title of "Primary Election, Together We Analysis of the Audit. In his printed article on the expense of this Young deliberately fuse the voters by stating that every year was withdrawn from by failing to point limitation upon C political standing. The leaders of this California united partisan law and for State Committee," concluding: Robert P During the past three and one-half years all departments of the state government have been put on a business basis. Appointments have been made upon merit and civil service principles have been strongly upheld. The assessment of state employees for political campaigns has been abolished. Henchmen of the old political machine have been removed from the payroll. The old political bosses have been ousted from power and are now arrayed against my administration. I know of no higher compliment than this hostility gives, unless it be the opposition of certain yellow newspapers. The support of hundreds of honest and patriotic newspapers, both country and metropolitan, gives me much gratification. The power of the governor's office has been exerted to gain respect for the law, to secure law enforcement and to see that adequate punishment is met out to criminals. Sob sisters of both sexes have received neither aid nor comfort from me. Negligent local law enforcement officers have been prodded into action. The pardoning power has been used only in cases of emergency and the old practice of granting pardons to please politicians has passed. The control of prisons by political bosses and murderous gangsters is no more. Judges of the highest character and ability have been appointed in order to maintain respect for the law and the courts. The national guard has been put on a military basis and built up from 3200 to 5300 members in order to insure the peace and safety of the citizens of California in their homes. The reports of the state accounting department show that the taxpayers have been saved many millions of dollars by wise economy and efficient business methods, and that $15,727,000 in surplus has been accumulated. When I took office, the surplus was exhausted and only the drastic retrenchments in the 1923 budget and the stopping and vetting of several million dollars of special appropriations saved the taxpayers from an ad valorem tax upon their property or an increase in fran- Continued on Last Page NAHEIM GAZETE Anaheim, California, Thursday, August 26, 1926 SHORTRIDGE WILL SWITCH No Inyo County Here! Los Angeles shall not transform Orange county into another Inyo! Los Angeles shall not take away our water rights, as it purposes doing in the infernal Metropolitan water bill! This infamous measure gives the county of Los Angeles ten directors to every one in all of the other Southern California counties. We shall not bond ourselves for millions of money, and give Los Angeles a club to brandish over our heads, as it has done to communities contiguous to that city, which it has compelled to join the city in order to get water from the Owens river aqueduct. The Metropolitan water bill gives the district the right of eminent domain. What does this mean? It means that the district may appropriate any waters in the district and apply them to the good of the greatest number. As Los Angeles has twice the number of population as the other seven southern counties, this means but one thing, it means that this infamous measure spells nothing but destruction for Orange county. Los Angeles cannot transform Orange county, the garden spot of California, into another Inyo! God save our county! SENATOR SHOWS NECESSITY FOR PROTECTION DISADVANTAGES OF LOCAL CITRUS GROWERS COMPARED WITH SICILY AND SPAIN Freight on One Box of Oranges or Lemons Equals Entire Cost of Foreign Production and Carriage Across the Atlantic; Tells Mayor Leonard and Others Course of Procedure for Federal Building Here United States Senator Samuel M. Shortridge swung through Orange county on Thursday in a most thorough and satisfactory campaign tour. Speak- Government Official Inspects Watershed Representative of Bureau of Budget Here This Week C. H. Fulloway of Washington, D.C., representing Director General Lord of the budget bureau, is now in Southern California making a thorough investigation of conditions here relative to our request for a million dollar appropriation for protection of watersheds. The bureau has already approved an appropriation of $100,000, and Mr. Fulloway is to determine whether or not it will recommend the appropriation of a million dollars. A banquet was held in his honor at Los Angeles, Monday evening, attended by a large representation of Los Angeles county men, and Tuesday evening representatives from Orange, San Bernardino and Riverside counties met him at a banquet at the Mission Inn, River-side. Yesterday and today he was taken on a tour of inspection through Orange, San Bernardino and Riverside counties by a committee, and the needs of the district made clear to him. MES OL Inter COL. I publ He was and aff in discu argumente the cou Hartt A Defends The Metropolitan water bill gives the district the right of eminent domain. What does this mean? It means that the district may appropriate any waters in the district and apply them to the good of the greatest number. As Los Angeles has twice the number of population as the other seven southern counties, this means but one thing, it means that this infamous measure spells nothing but destruction for Orange county. Los Angeles cannot transform Orange county, the garden spot of California, into another Inyo! God save our county! Vote for S. C. Hartranft for the Assembly, who stood against this internal bill in the last legislature, and helped defeat it. This bill will come up again in the next legislature, and we need Hartranft on the ground to help kill it. The irrigators of Orange county are against this infernal measure to a man. It means rulination to them. Vote for Hartranft, he will be on guard to protect the interests of Orange county. ENDORSES MERRIAM This paper is all for Richardson for governor. In this connection will say that it is, for Frank Merriam for lieutenant-governor. If Richardson is elected, and we have no doubt he will be, the lieutenant-governor elected at the same time should be a man with the same ideas as the governor. If you think Richardson is not the man for governor, then Merriam is not the man for lieutenant-governor. They make a good team of willing horses working for the best interests of the state. The last four years the team has been a horse and mule—J. R. Gould, Editor Strathmore Sentinel. Dr. B. S. Haywood delivered the sermon at the community service in the city park Sunday evening, an audience of nearly 1000 being in attendance at the services. providing that the author of the act "be requested to assist in the annotating and indexing thereof, such work to be performed without compensation." Acting under this thin gulse of authority, C. C. Young wrote pages of argument in favor of the No-Party act and 10,000 copies were printed by the state printer at public expense and circulated broadcast throughout the state under the title of "Primary Election Laws of California, Together With Annotations and Analysis of the Author of the Bills." In his printed argument, printed at the expense of the taxpayers, C. C. Young deliberately attempted to confuse the voters by failing to explicitly state that every state elective office was withdrawn from the party line and by failing to point out the effect of the limitation upon California's national political standing. The leaders of the political parties in California united to defeat the non-partisan law and formed a "Joint Party State Committee," consisting of the following: Robert P. Troy, Francis V. AND SPAIN Freight on One Box of Oranges or Lemons Equals Entire Cost of Foreign Production and Carriage Across the Atlantic; Tells Mayor Leonard and Others Course of Procedure for Federal Building Here United States Senator Samuel M. Shortridge swung through Orange county on Thursday in a most thorough and satisfactory campaign tour. Speaking at La Habra to a large concourse of people at 10 o'clock, he visited nine points in the county, terminating a hard day's campaigning at Santa Ana at 9 o'clock in the evening, when he addressed a great crowd at Birch park, following the band concert. Towns visited included La Habra, Fullerton, Anaheim, Orange, Garden Grove Huntington Beach, Balboa and Santa Ana. At conclusion of the tour he expressed great satisfaction of the outlook in this county and was assured he would sweep the county by a majority of not less than 5000 votes. He left on Friday morning for San Diego, where he addressed large meetings. On Saturday he toured Imperial county. He left on Sunday evening for the north, sending word to friends here that he was graffited at his reception everywhere in the Southland. He expressed confidence that he would carry the state by a sweeping majority. Speaking to a large number of personal friends and supporters at the Elks Club at 3:30 o'clock in the afternoon, the senator referred to the importance of the tariff as it affects Orange county. He said that in the debate on the tariff bill before the Senate finance committee last year, he showed that the freight on a single box of oranges or lemons from this county to the eastern market was as much as the entire cost of production of these fruits in Spain or Sicily, plus carriage across the Atlantic, and laid down in New York in competition with our home grown fruit. This condition applied with equal force to walnuts, olives, raisins and all other products of California which come into competition with foreign grown fruit. These industries cannot endure without tariff protection, and this is what the present administration stands for and is giving the California growers. As a member of the Senate finance committee which deals with the tariff question, he is in position to fight off a tax upon products by eastern importers, and will continue so to do if re-elected to his office. New York importers will begin a systematic attack upon the tariff in the next congress and he will be on hand, if re-elected, to use his voice and vote in the protection of home industries as against the importers and foreign growers. He had been told that another senator, not a resident of California, was coming to Orange county to campaign against him, but he declared that this man had voted against the tariff on every California product in the bill. Speaking of the World Court, he said it had the sanction of President Coolidge A banquet was held in his honor at Los Angeles, Monday evening, attended by a large representation of Los Angeles county men, and Tuesday evening representatives from Orange, San Bernardino and Riverside counties met him at a banquet at the Mission Inn, Riverside. Yesterday and today he was taken on a tour of inspection through Orange, San Bernardino and Riverside counties by a committee, and the needs of the district made clear to him. The boards of supervisors, city officials and representatives of commercial organizations will meet him at the banquet. THE GREAT COST OF IT It is announced that the cost of the Metropolitan water bill as contemplated by Los Angeles, and including the counties of Southern California, will be $150,000,000. Orange county's part of this great burden will, of course, run into the millions of dollars. Shall we vote these bonds knowing that the district will have the right of eminent domain and may take our portion of the Colorado river water away from us to be used in Los Angeles for "the greatest good to the greatest number?" Los Angeles is now the most rapidly growing city in the United States. It is not improbable that in a few years, being enabled to out-vote the other counties ten to one, she will take such of our water away from us as she may deem it to be advisable to have for herself. Los Angeles shall not transform Orange county into another Inyo, bankrupting our people and beggaring our children and our children's children forever. Rather than see this happen, we would have the Colorado river continue to pour its precious contents into the gulf for all time. Vote for Hartranft for the Assembly. We will use his voice and vote to kill this informal bill. Sleeper's Record Will Be Endorsed Big Interests Cannot Defeat Him for Re-Election Although one of the smallest counties in California is area, Orange county stands among five highest in wealth as measured by its assessed valuation, and to Jim Sleeper, who for 16 years has been its assessor, is due the credit for this remarkable showing. When Sleeper took charge of the office he found that the big interests, notably the millionaire oil corporations, were paying practically nothing in taxes. At that time there were 231 oil wells in the county. The valuation placed on this wealth by former assessors was $100 per well. Sleeper determined that In his printed argument, printed at the expense of the taxpayers, C. C. Young deliberately attempted to confuse the voters by failing to explicitly state that every state elective office was withdrawn from the party line and by failing to point out the effect of the limitation upon California's national political standing. The leaders of the political parties in California united to defeat the non-partisan law and formed a "Joint Party State Committee," consisting of the following: Robert P. Troy, Francis V. Keesaling, H. H. McPike, Walter R. Bacon, John B. Curtin, J. N. Gillett, A. E. Boynton and W. O. Ralston. In an appeal to the voters of the state this Joint Party Committee said: "Believing that the preservation of political parties in this state is of a vital concern and believing that the elimination of political parties in this state as contemplated in these bills is destructive to the very fundamentals of our form of government, we earnestly urge and invite the support and cooperation of every citizen in this movement. "It cannot be too strongly impressed upon the people that the defeat of these bills is essential to the material interests of our state. Without the tie of party organization and responsibility to link us with the federal government, it is a certainty that California will be eliminated from consideration by any national administration which may prevail at Washington. Therefore, the maintenance of party integrity reaches to the very root of our industrial, commercial, financial and agricultural development." And now the author of these bills, antagonistic to the material interests of California, that would have had the effect of ostracizing California from the national system of government that has prevailed in this country for more than one hundred years—this advocate of "no-party" government, the author of the notorious non-partisan bills who attempted to mislead the voters of the state and circulated fallacious arguments to wreck the Republican party at state expense—this is the same C. C. Young who now has the effrontery to become a candidate for the Republican nomination for governor of the state of California. Speaking of the World Court, he said it had sanctioned President Coolidge and was part of the platform of the national Republican convention upon which the President swept the country by more than 7,000,000 majority, carrying 37 of the states of the Union and cutting down the Democratic majorities more than one-half in the remaining 11 states. The World Court alms merely to settle disputes between nations by arbitration and argument rather than by a resort to arms. The world is tired of war, and the American people do not want ever to send their boys again abroad to engage in battle. The bill providing for the World Court passed the House by a vote of 301 to 21, and passed the Senate by a vote of 79 to 17. The minority now seeks to set aside the will of the majority. In supporting the World Court he is following the lead of President Coolidge and is standing squarely upon the Republican platform. He said that more can be accomplished by friendly intercourse and kindness than by warfare. Answering questions asked by Mayor Leonard, Captain Root of the Grand Army and Committeeman Frank Tausch, referring to the course to be followed in securing an appropriation for a federal building in Anaheim, the senator said that congress had appropriated $165,000,000 for a federal building program. Of this $15,000,000 is being devoted to buildings already begun, $50,000,000 to new buildings throughout the country. Valuable public documents are stored in filimay buildings in Washington erected during the war. These will be taken down and replaced by substantial structures. He was informed that the postoffice here was totally inadequate to meet the demands placed upon it, that postoffice business (Continued on Last Page) Although one of the smallest counties in California is area, Orange county stands among the five highest in wealth as measured by its assessed valuation, and to Jim Sleeper, who for 16 years has been its assessor, is due the credit for this remarkable showing. When Sleeper took charge of the office he found that the big interests, notably the millionaire oil corporations, were paying practically nothing in taxes. At that time there were 231 oil wells in the county. The valuation placed on this wealth by former assessors was $100 per well. Sleeper determined that this unjust state of affairs should be remedied, and rated oil properties as something nearer their value. His assessment met with a storm of protest from the big companies and suits were filed against him, but his figures stood the test in court, and he always came out triumphant. Today one 20-acre tract with 11 wells pays more taxes than the 231 wells and 7484 acres of oil land did before he took office. Today the oil companies are paying the county $775,000 a year in taxes. Knowing the futility of trying to influence him or intimidate him, the millionaire corporations are now making an effort to oust him from the office. This is an excellent reason why the people of the county should keep him where he is. Every taxpayer in the county is paying less money annually for maintenance of the county government because Sleeper compels the big interests to pay their just proportion. VOTE FOR HARTRANFT No Metropolitan water bill drawn in the interests of Los Angeles county, and menacing the interests of the people of Orange county! No turning of Orange county, the garden spot of California, into another Inyo county! God save our county! Vote for S. C. Hartranft for the Assembly, who opposed the Metropolitan water bill in the last Assembly, and will stand squarely against it until the interests of Orange county are protected! Vote for Hartranft! Stand by Orange county! Anaheim's city schools will open for the fall term on Monday, September 13. ZETTE ANAHEIM—YOUR CITY Founded by German Colonists, 1857 Assessed Value, 1925, $10,500,000 School System Valued at $951,000 926 Number 46 SWEEP COUNTY MESSMORE’S ELOQUENCE STIRS OLD-TIME DEMOCRATIC MEETING Interrupted by Calls of “Time,” Makes Witty Response Amid Bursts of Laughter; Orator of Pioneer Days COL. I. E. MESSMORE of Orange was one of the best known public speakers here in county division times, back in 1889. He was a man past 60 years of age, was the soul of courtesy and affability and naturally made many friends. He took part in discussions concerning county division, and made many telling arguments in favor of the new county. After the creation of the county, he became a candidate for the office of district attorney, but in a hot Democratic convention at Nell’s hall was defeated by a few votes. He arose in his seat in the convention and, pointing his finger at the chairman, said: "You have nominated your man. Now go and elect him!" It was the only time Messmore ever seemed to be possessed of a grouch. The nominee of the convention. Hartranft Answers Attack on Record Defends Assembly Vote Against Metropolitan Water Bill Assemblyman S. C. Hartranft has issued the following statement regarding his vote against the inlquitous Metropolitan water bill, which was drawn, wholly in the interest of Los Angeles county, and is opposed by every irrigator in Orange county. Voters of Orange county do not propose to permit Los Angeles to transform Orange county, the garden spot of California, into another Inyo county. Orange county's interests must be entirely protected before we can join with Los Angeles in any measure involving the waters of the Colorado river. Assemblyman Hartranft's vote is approved by the people of Orange county. His statement follows: These questions are of vital interest to the voters of this county, and I am glad of an opportunity to make these statements. First—"You are accused of not supporting the Boulder Dam project and was not active in water conservation for Southern California." Well, I am a rancher, dependent almost entirely on the income of the soil. I think that alone should satisfy the most critical that water conservation is one of my chief concerns. Then I claim the credit for the enactment into law of the Santa Ana water bill, appropriating $25,000 dollars for survey and work on the river. I have always favored the Boulder Dam project. I have made this a study for many years. I spent eight days in April, along with a large number of Orange county men, in a careful survey of the river from Boulder to Mexico. After such a study one cannot fail to support every effort to make safe the 50,000 people and their immense investment and conserve and make available to all of Southern California that wonderful asset, the Colorado river. I call the editor of the Register to witness that in an address to the Las Vegas Rotary Club, at which he was an honored guest, along with a large number of the delegation making the trip, that I stressed my ardent support of the project, for which I was heartily commended. Further, I voted in the Assembly for the so-called Finney resolution. Second—"You have been censured for your opposition to the Metropolitan water bill." This criticism I answered, and the Santa Ana Register published it in full. This letter was also published in an attorney, but in a hot Democratic convention at Neill's hall was defeated by a few votes. He arose in his seat in the convention and pointing his finger at the chairman, said: "You have nominated your man. Now go and elect him!" It was the only time Messmore ever seemed to be possessed of a grouch. The nominee of the convention was defeated at the election. Whether Messmore took any part in the campaign against him is not in evidence, but his friends declared that he had been very unfairly treated by the convention. One of the first Democratic meetings held in the new county was in the campaign of 1890. A large platform had been erected on the Lemon street side of the Commercial hotel, which, under the management of J. J. Everhardy, was Democratic headquarters for this part of the county. The principal speaker of the evening was to have been a gentleman from Los Angeles of the name of Portland C. Hunt, who arrived from Los Angeles on the evening train. When he was driven up to the hotel, shortly before 7 o'clock, he was found to be in no condition to make a political speech. He was taken up stairs and put to bed. A large crowd gathered about the hotel along about 5 o'clock. The city band was out discoursing martial music. The meeting was called to order by Mr. Everhardy, and when the crowd saw that Mr. Hunt was not in evidence, a number of his friends called loudly for him. Colonel Messmore had been about the hotel during the evening, and he was prevailed upon to make the principal speech. He was told that Hunt was in no condition to speak, and he readily consented to appear. He was introduced to the crowd, and made one of the most telling speeches of the campaign. He was proceeding nicely up to 9 o'clock, when something happened. Hunt had in the meantime awakened, had come downstairs and said he was ready to go on with his address. He had a personal friend in town of the name of Jack Ryan, who did not like Messmore, and was very anxious to have Hunt take his place. Messmore was proceeding at a lively rate, denouncing the party of the opposition, when Ryan, standing on the opposite sidewalk, yelled "Time!" Messmore paused and looked over in the direction whence the interruption had come. He was visibly disconcerted, but shortly resumed his argument and proceeded as though nothing had happened. Ryan for the second time called "Time!" Messmore was displeased, but on the crowd calling to him go on, he proceeded with his address. Ryan for the third time yelled "Time!." Messmore stopped, and looking over in the direction of the other sidewalk, sald im- smallest counties in Orange county highest in wealth passed valuation, no for 16 years due the credit knowing. When the office he interests, notably opportunities, were coming in taxes. 231 oil wells location placed on assessors was determined that fairs should be properties as r value. His storm of propanies and suits but his figures and he always Today one 20wells pays more and 7484 acres the took office are paying the in taxes. of trying to interprise him, the million now making from the office. season why the should keep him expayer in the money annually county governcompels the big just proportion. TRANFT bill drawn in Angeles county, costs of the polage county, the la, into another tranft for the Metropolitan assembly, and will it until the inlay are protected! stand by Orange will open for September 13. I call the editor of the Register to witness that in an address to the Las Vegas Rotary Club, at which he was an honored guest, along with a large number of the delegation making the trip, that I stressed my ardent support of the project, for which I was heartily commended. Further, I voted in the Assembly for the so-called Finney resolution. Second—"You have been censured for your opposition to the Metropolitan water bill." This criticism I answered, and the Santa Ana Register published it in full. This letter was also published in an extra issued by the Orange Daily News August 17. I quote from the letter: "While all my acts during my term have had the sanction of my best judgment and clear conscience, this one in particular—opposition to the municipal water bill—was so strongly fortified by what I consider the voice of the people in Orange county, that in my action I have a perfectly clear conscience and feel in this case, the Register, to be consistent in speaking to the people of this county, should give at least the names of the men and organizations which at the time the bill was pending, sent their representative the rallying support indicated in the list, each one of which was signed to a telegram asking that the bill be defeated. J. J. Conrad, editor Huntington Beach News; W. Dean Johnston, president Farm Bureau, Westminster Center; J. A. Armitage, secretary Huntington Beach Chamber of Commerce; J. A. Prizer, president Fullerton-Placentia Farm Bureau; D. J. Dodge, president Costa Mesa Farm Bureau; A. J. Crookshank president First National Bank of Santa Ana; Tom Haster, nurseryman, Santa Ana; V. D. Johnson, Orange Chamber of Commerce; W. B. Williams, cashier First National Bank of Santa Ana; A. R. Volk, president Fullerton Merchants' Association; Fullerton Chamber of Commerce, Charles Chapman, Northern Orange County Citrus Exchange of Fullerton, Perry Mathis, mayor of the city of Anaheim; Harry D. Riley, president Anaheim Chamber of Commerce, and E. E. Campbell." Third—"An apparent effort is made to discredit your statement concerning these telegrams. Do you want to say anything about that?" I am sorry Terry did that. I have (Continued on Last Page) Messmore paused and looked over in the direction whence the interruption had come. He was visibly disconcerted, but shortly resumed his argument and proceeded as though nothing had happened. Ryan for the second time called "Time!" Messmore was displeased, but on the crowd calling to him go on, he proceeded with his address. Ryan for the third time yelled "Time!" Messmore stopped, looking over in the direction of the other sidewalk, said impressively: "When the Angel Gabriel shall come to stand with one foot implanted in the constellation of Orion and the other standing upon the sands of the sea, and shall proclaim in trumpet blasts that time shall be no more, some damned fool on the sidewalk in Anaheim will get up and holler time." Ryan's footsteps fell upon the ears of multitude. He was headed south and was never seen in these parts again. A tumult of shouting and laughter arose, and Messmore was cheered to the echo. He proceeded with his speech for another half hour. Hunt was later introduced to the crowd, but his effort was very weak compared to that of Messmore. Messmore was one of the best criminal lawyers in the county. He defended a young man who was accused of a statutory offence by a woman. He succeeded in digging up facts showing that she had a past, and his cross-examination of the fair plaintiff convulsed the courtroom with bursts of laughter. He showed that his client was more sinned against than sinning, and he had no trouble in securing his discharge. Next story, first and only lynching in Orange county. Ralph Polling, truck driver residing near Anaheim, was arrested Saturday afternoon by Frank Vaughn, state traffic officer, who booked him at the county jail on a charge of driving an automobile while intoxicated. Two companions, O. M. Kenkins, box maker, of Fullerton, and C. H. West, Fullerton, also were arrested and are charged with being drunk.