Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-07-31
Current Paiiticai Mates.

Judge Delos Lake, after Mayor
Bryant, was the leading fugelman
of DR.. Glenn in the late Democratic
State Convention. lie is mem Der
of the Democratic State Central
Com mittee and, like Hon d. r.
Stephens, of Sacramento, also a
member of that body, he declares
that ne will not vote for DR.. Glenn.
Apropos of this matter the San
Francisco Examiner says:
The Aita and other Radical pa
pers publish this: "a dispatch to
the Record Union announces that
Judge Delos Lake, lifelong DEM
ocrat, and influential in his party,
who was also delegate from Mono
county in the late Democratic State
Convention, will not support DR.,
Glenn for Governor"
The sender of the dispatch must
be practical joker, but he is not,
evidently, conversant with his SUBJ
ject. In the first place Judge Lake
Is not a "life-long" Democrat. His
politics are very nearly patterned
after his arguments in Court
which depend entirely upon which
of the parties to the cause secures
his service as counsel. 1t is true
that he appeared in the late Demo-
cratic State Convention as the
proxy delegate for all the regularly
appointed delegates from Mono
county, but so could any other
have secured the same proxies on
the same terms. 1t is suggestive,
however, that the presence of
Judge Lake in that Convention
was in antagonism to the voice Of
the Democracy of his own district
in his own county; and that he ap-
peared as the representative of a
constituency he never saw, from a
county in which he never set foot.
Why he does not support DR..
Glenn's candidacy is one of the
Dundreary conundrums. 1t is sim
gular, however, that a gentleman
who pertinaciously contended for
the fusion of the Democratic and
New Constitution parties, to the
extent of having the Democratic
State Convention nominate all the
candidates on the New Constitu-
tion State ticket, should now be
found in opposition to the heads of
both tickets. If the Mono county
Democrats happened to have their
votes in the Democratic State Con-
ventiou fall into the hands of Per-
kins man, by proxy arrangement,
it will be in order for them to make
safer preparation for their rlghtful
representation in future. Judge
Lakes vaccination with Democra-
cy is not to be assured beyond the
immediate attack, and it rarely
reaches even the varioloid stage.
We referred, the other day, to
Pixley's impertinence to Demo-
crats, and recalled his pusillanimous
kotooing to Kearney in that cele
brated Platt's Hall meeting. The
Examiner has the following perth
nent observations on this head:
Frank Pixley says "Kearney's
in this city ought to make
every man born on American soil
and every foreign gentleman blush
for his cowardice; it ought to make
every respectable Democrat go and
either hang or drown himself.u
This from Plxley, after the Platts
Hall Water mass-meeting, more
than q year ago, Is refreshing. Iu
whom was the cowardice, and who
s he that should either hang or
drown himself, when the scene is
recalled wherein Mr.. Pixley acted
As Denis Kearney's Secretary and
reader? 1t was as hideously hu-
initiating as the scene in the Boar's
Head tavern, where Francis waits
lpon old fat Jack Falstaff, with his
Anon, anon, sir" If ever a man
lumbled himself more to Kearney
han Frank Pixley did on that oc-
,asion the public have never
whisper OF the event. No Demo-
rat ever bent so low to the sand
OF blackguard mountebank as Mr..
oixley bent then.