Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-11-22
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|4V0 W Ato hSttitt oCSi GO "a
- 70 aee straight ticket. He
care much for success per Sc
1omewhere about the 10th Of
n, 1861, II he he had been old
1rh, he would have Joined the
blIcan party. II he is genu-
Domocrat and square-toed
rs man, even after defeat, he is
@1Iy imbued with the spirit of
oncIs Of France at Pavia who,
or : gallant ight which left his
~ routed and himself a captive,
cInlmed that all was lost save
Nor. The HERALD don't care a
11nitlon baubee as to the result
- election, but 1t Is, generally,
~ solicitous that the party. when
Sotlon time comes, shall dress up
<o line and make q square fight.
laugre our predictions, which
) have embodied in the forego-
rs, we feel inclined, as We have
Minated, to philosophize on mu-
cfpAl politics and candidates. We
e obliged to say, as the case
lands to-day, that the Peoples
oket Il aud ought to be ahead.
Imprimis-There is no false pre-
3nces about the Peoples ticket. A
Eomber of Democrats and Repub-
|oAns and the 'many headed null
tude" generally, got together and
Eroed to waive all party bonds
Sud unite on general ticket hav-
E1G In view the good of the city.
ne man or the other, one set Of
2on or the other, were certain 10
Succoed or fail. 1t go happened
hat the favorites Of some of the
nrtles to this movement failed, as
v6s Inevitable. As a result of the
|Db0rs of this body II gentleman
- nominated for Mayor who, we
EAmlt. would not have been select
Sd - his model by the artist who
Resigned the Apollo Belvidere. He
Fees hardly enough height or
= big enough hollow above his hips,
I'D is not retrenched enough in
Bay Window" for that. But it
s. conceded that, as n member of
she City Council and Chairman of
@ho Finance Committee of that
eody, he has done his utmost to
eesngle every corrupt job which
rome up during his whole Council
nsnic career. He has applied to
ne affairs of the city, during his
psFvice as q municipal official, the
5ame careful business aptitudes
lphich have put him personally be-
fond want.
Secundus-We have seen assem-
bic In Los Angeles Working
lnon's Convention which ought to
oave nominated fer Mayor either
4r. Robinson or Mr.. Devens or
paE Skinnefof Mr.. Hughes, or Mr..
:Butler, or some other of a half doz-
IN workingmen we could name.
Had they nominated any of these
gentlemen they would have been
3ntirely consistent and would have
aad q capital chance of success;
or after all, new party, il it is
thoroughly manly, has good
Nance of success once, or twice.
But. instead of hunting up distinct
ve representatives of its own class,
his Workingmea's Convention
1unted up the best dressed man in
Los Angeles for Its nominee for
Mayor. 1t selected a gentleman
vho is down in the City Directory
Is a "capitalist." OF all The men
u the world it selected as the head
4 its tickets a regular curled darling
4 ffortune-one whose hands have |
lot known labor for u time where
q the memory of the Oldest inhab-
tAnt runneth not to the contrary. |
rhe work done by ex-Mayor Tober-
nan Is pre-eminently "head-
york" No effusive and health re-
kRbfiitating s.veats have marked
re csreer amongst us. He has
'een a regular lily of the field, and
1e has gone about clothed in all
,te glory of Solomon. Nor is that
III. We arc half tempt
d to believe that he is
regular "connubiator when
xe ind that he has been large
employer Of Chinese labor and now
Ind him at the head of a Working
mems ticket-of Workingmen who
,elieva that the Chine,e must 70.
&x- Mayor Toberman has distilled
ais living fiom the circumambient
dr itseIi-ln other words, he has
ived aud waxeu wealthy by the
Employment of very fine set of
yits-and yet we find him to-day,
Employer of Chinese labor aud one
q the most chronic Office seekers
2 our midst, the candidate, for the
highest office in our cify. of an or.
sanization which has proclaimed
g purpose to be- to get down to the
tnrd pan of ma nhood; of men who
ave prafessad to believe, with
lobby Burns that "the rank is but
be Ruinea's stamp, the mans the
ovid for a. that" and yet who,
Then II came to arranging a muni-
Ipal ticket, had not the manliness
nd directness to give the people q
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