Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-11-28
Trouble in the Ring Camp,

smooth of late, and though the old
engineers are busy tightening nut
here and oiling a bearing there, the
machinery still creaks and groans
and manifests q most decided inclina-
ton not to work. The ring oil-can
seems to have lost its difliculty-re-
moving power, and though frequent
consultations have been held by those
old engineers who were wont to boast
that they controlled Los Angeles,
they have as yet failed to find what
is the matter Emit der machine"
From what transpired at the Satur-
day night meeting of the old engi-
neers-which, by the way, was largely
attended by the stokers and serfs of
the Gas and Water Ccmpanies-it is
quite evident it has never been the
purpose of the ring to support Mr..
SABICHI for Mayor any longer than it
became apparent they could not COM
mand sufficient number of votes to
elect him. The old engineers who
govern and control the members and
retainers of the two monopolies
moved Mr.. SABICHI forward to deter
mine the strength of Mr.. BEAUDRY;
but in so doing they never stopped to
consider what would be the extent of
the injury sustained by Mr.. SABIcHI
by this skirmish in force. The move
was made and resulted in serious loss
to the ring, while it developed an un-
looked-for strength in Mr.. BEAUDRY.
Something must be done. Mr.. SABI-
CHI would fill the bill, but nothing
was more plain than that he could not
be elected. Too much ring had killed
him. Mr.. TIFFANY would be equally
available, were he once in the Mayors
seat; but the fact that he neglected
his legitimate duty as Foreman of the
Grand Jury to go up and whitewash
the Water Company's reservoir, could
not but expose the rings collar about
his neck. In this dilemma it was
proposed to drop both SABICHT and
TIFFANY, and nominate well known
Main-street grocer; but that gentle
man, on consultation, declined the
proffered honor, with the bit of infor-
nation that no man known to be the
nominee of the ring could be elected
to any office in this city. Then the
old engineers consulted again and
finally it was resolved that Mr.. TIF-
FANY is and has been from the outset
the actual candidate of the cormor-
antic monopolies; but, said the chief
of the old engineers, the manipula-
tions of the monopoly forces are poll
tic enough to know full well that their
open advocacy of any man for Mayor
will be the signal for his defeat; there
fore, while it is our purpose to elect
Mr.. TIFFANY If we can-we must
keep him in the shade, and pretend to
be for Mr.. SABICHI. The chief
sat down amid a small shower
of weak applause from the
serfs, but the associate engi-
neers did not see it so plain. They
reminded the chief that promises nau
been made to Mr.. SABICHI and his
few retainers which it would be diff
cult to fulfil and they warned the chief
that Mr.. SABICHI knew the ring too
well to attach the least Importance to
their promise that if he would drop
out of the Mayoralty fight and work
secretly for Mr.. TIFFANY, they would
elect him to the Assembly next year.
Another difficulty has been encoun-
tered by the close corporation in their
work Of transferring the SABICHI re-
cruits to the service of Mr.. TIFFANY,
which s,Ithat twelve hundred dollar
purse made up by Mr.. SABICHIs per-
sonal friends and which is said to be
held by a Main street firm to be used
in aid of his election. The makers of
that purse do not care to have it eX-
pended in the service of Mr.. TIFFANY.
Mr.. SABICHI himself does not cheer
fully accept the terms now offered
him. He fears the ring is losing it's
power and should they keep faith with
him-a probability in which he has no
faith-they will lack the influence to
redeem their promise. Thus the mat
ter stands: The Gas and Water Com
.panies dare not say outright to Mr..
SABICHI that they cannot elect him to
the Mayoralty and they dare not ad-
NIT to his friends that Mr. TIFFANY
will answer all their purposes as Mayor
because they have tacitly admitted by
asking Mr.. SABICHI to withdraw that
the moment it is publicly known that
Mr.. TIFFANY is the rings choice the
few supporters he now has will drop
him and vote for Mr.. BEAUDRY as the
only candidate for Mayor whom the
Gas and Water Companies cannot use.
La Cronica" on the 4" Express"