Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-12-07
Final Suggestion.

With this mornings issue of the
HERALD we make our final suggestion
to the people of Los Angeles as to
whom they should place in the May
or's chair. From the opening of the
campaign, which has been rather a
long one for a municipal election, the
HERALD has espoused and advocated
what it conscienciously believes to be
the cause of the people. In doing this,
it has attacked no mans private char
acter and made no statements other
than those it has believed, and yet be-
lieves to be strictly true. When we
have mentioned individual candidates
by name it has been to call attention
to their public or official record. We
have charged that Mr.. TIFFANY has
permitted himself to be made use of
by the ring to divert votes from Mr..
BEAUDRY which they could not Sc
cure for Mr.. SABICHI, and the charge
is substantiated by Mr.. TIFFANY him
self in remaining candidate while
admitting that he did not expect to
be elected We have charged that if
Mr.. TIFFANY should be elected he
would act with the Water Company
and against the interests of the peo-
pie, and he sustained that charge,
when he as foreman of the Grand
Jury, went out of his line of duty to
visit and whitewash the reservoir of
the company for the sole purpose of
strengthening the company's libel
suit against the HERALD. The cor
rectness of these charges are so patent
that Mr.. TIFFANY has never attempt
ed to deny them through the columns
of his own paper. In preferring these
charges against Mr.. TIFFANY our pur-
pose was not to attack him as q pri-
yate citizen, but to show that he is
under influences and bound by ties
which will prevent his equitable per-
formance of the duties he would be
called upon to discharge as Mayor of
the city of Los Angeles. The HERALD
has opposed the election of Mr.. SA-
BICHI on the ground that he was the
nominee of a ring who have boasted
that they,and not the people, were the
managers and controllers of the mu-
nicipal affairs of this city. We have
made this charge OH the ground that
the ring have admitted him as their
candidate, that he is so recognized
and spoken of by all, that they are
using their money and Influence to Sc
cure his election, and that he is in
nightly conference with the managers
of that ring. We oppose the election
of the rings municipal candidate, be-
cause with municipal officers they are
able to control, the ring will seek their
own profit at the expense of the peo-
pie and the sacrifice of much private
t.-1-~-tv-- rrL@s, s,-iiI defy file law re-
quiring the creation of Board
Of Water Commissioners, and there
by maintain the present or still
more increased water rates. They
will obtain possession of more
city property, they will close
up public streets, they will destroy a
large amount of private property on
the side of, and along the base of Fort
Hill by erecting a reservoir on the sum-
nit of that hill; they will secure the
unconditional privilege Of construct
ing long flume through and over pri-
vate property, to the serious injury of
that property, and they will endeavor
to destroy the system of water works
which now convey an abundance of
water on the high lands on the north
west side of the river. More than this
the election of Mr.. SABICHI will inau-
gurate scheme for turning the water
from several zanjas now supplying the
gardens and vineyards in the western
part of the city to the eastern side of
the rivera measure calculated to
work immense damage to the residents
of the western half of the city. For
these reasons, and none other, the
HERALD is opposed to the election of
Mr.. SABICHI. He will owe his defeat
to the fact that he has permitted him.
self to become the instrument of ring
and not the candidate of the people,
and to the pledges he has made to
carry out measures for the benefit of a
few individuals and to the injury of
the masses. The HERALD advocates
the election of Mr.. BEAUDRY because
it believes him to be the only candi-
date who will stand between. the peo-
pie and the aggressions of those who
care little how great they may oppress
the many so the few are enriched. OF
his integrity as man and worth as q
citizen, we are assured by the people
Of Los Angeles, with whom he has
lived and been intimately associated
for the past twenty-five years, and
this opinion is endorsed by the very
journals that interest is now causing
to denounce him for everything that
is vile. He is an active, enterprising,
liberal, live citizen. He is so closely
identified with Los Angeles that her
interests are his. No better evidence
need be required that Mr.. BEAUDRY is
a man of the people, standing with
and fighting for them than that h,A ia