Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-04-12
Artistic Aspects.

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man. and the natural tendency of
the beast is to prove himself to be
what the Marchioness in "Old Gu.
rloslty shop" called Miss Sally
Brass, viz, a toner"
"A "oner'' is an individual who
goes In for number one. He erects
the ego into q station of supreme
Importance; ergo, he often does
very ridiculous things, under the
honest impression that he is pro-
ceeding by "com pass and squaren
methods.
We think it may be conceded
that the Constitution of California
needed a few amendments. The
present admirable document would
be all the better for feac amend.
nsents-very few and far between.
The Constitution of the United
States, for instance, has been
amended just fifteen times. Those
amendments cover period of nine.
~ years, and embrace, besides, one
OF the most gigantic wars recorded
in the worlds annals.
All those amendments may be
written, in a close hand, on two
sheets of foolscap.
They are none the less valuable
because so brief. It was the old
fool P0lonius WHO, before he was
transdxed by the rapier of the
melancholy Dane under the inn
preston that be was disposng of
rat behind the arras, who embodied
In words the wise sediment, "brev-
ity Is the soul OF wit and tedious
ness the mere limbs and outward
flourishes thereof"
When, In q period of Intense ex.
element. when Kearney was spew.
ing out molten lava and incandes-
cent blasphemy and nihilism, the
people OF California were found to
have voted in favor of change in
our organic law, the discerning
were appalled,. The nisj .,ity iu
favor of Constitutional Conven-
tlon was somewhere about one hun
I dred. 1t certainly did not exceed
three hundred. 1t was mGfii ed
and dubious utterance and was the
voice of accident, not choice.
Meanwhile, the molten lavs
surged higher aud higher. 1t:
waves threatened to engulph, ant
encrust in the fxity OF death
everything that sane people hold
dear. From this mortal fear spraDe
the Non-Partizan party. It was
not Democratic, il was not Repub
lican. The whole animus of its or.
ganization was fear of and opposi
tion 10 Kearneyism. 1t was de.
signed as a sort of st. George tc
the Kearney lion.
The Santa Ana episode proved
what we all beliyed, that Kearney
instead of being lion, is a jackal
But that Is neither here nor there
1t requires time and circumstance:
to prove that Bobadll is pol
troon and Bob Acres a 'iconnubi
ator" who looks only to his p',ysi
cal safety.
The Constitutional Convention
assembled at Sacramento with ar
overwhelming majority of the
members pledged to represent ant
champion the cause of the old par
ties and of alarmed law and order
It is hardly necessary to say tha
they did not fulfill the expecta
tions of their constituents Thi.
compact majority at once dis
solved into band of "oners."
Every "goll-darned" hombre OIL
them was hunting for Guberna
torial or q Congressional nomina
ton.
A few OF them condescended {,
limit their ambition to a Railway
Commissloncrship. These wer,
the sagac;ous "onersu those wht
believed In the "main chance" ant
who respected the sentiment O
Iago, "put mcAey in thy PURSE
Some of them remembered the
injunction of the old farmer to hi.
offspring, "My son, get M oney; ge,
1t honestly If you can, but ge,
money"
Still another few were willing tc
compromise on a State Senator
ship.
We grieve TO record the humili
ating fact, but there were still 9th
ers base enough to be willing t,
take the position of member of th,
Assembly.
Then this body, elected to oppos,
Kearney, got it into its wise heat
that the way to accomplish its end
was to pander to the Sand Lots ant
the Lieutenant General. They
saw, In the perspective, the wreck o.
matter and the crush of worlds
with the Lieutenant.General al
once the Vitruvius and the recon.
structing architect.
They thereupon made a graver
image of the little alien black.
guard and fell down and worship.
ei him, hoping to rise up from
-A's fetish performance endowed
ce and power.
rder to make room fol