Daily Los Angeles herald., 1883-09-28

Genus scHeuule, Wnlcn being cOmplttcu
was adopted by the order now appended
thereto Both were printed at the office
Of the State Printer, and as the proof
sheets came down 1t was the duty OF the
Secretary to make the schedule conform
in letter and spirit to the order OF the
"unfaithful Commissioners. II this was
done In the best and most expeditions
manner, subject to his supervisor and
control, as he says, and believe it was,
he is blameless. A faithful compliance
with the governing order was alone ma
tenal. BY this test his work has been
verified and proved by q detaile state.
ment 10 be correct. This vindication Of
the Secretary, the conductors of the
Examiner, with characteristic meanness,
have refused TO publish.
The truth is land here is good place
to tell it) the law should never have
required tho Commission TO draft a
schedule, or to serve q printed copy
thereof. But in the interest and for the
conv enience of all concerned, subject to
orders OF the Commission duly
served on the companies TO be
affected thereby, they should be
required TO draft and post their own
| otnbNuiCbs i lt llt5b Oithtt
by me, and unanimously adopted, relates
to this subject, and intend to make it
the basis OF n recommendation to the
Governor for change in the law. Had
the law been what it ought to be, the
Examiner would have had no pretext
for its last illustrated exhibition OF igno.
rance and malice; and few scrub con
| spirators would have returned to the
obscurity from which they came, with
nothing to read but the prearranged
resolutions of the Alameda Committee
and the loving palnodc of White to the
Democratic party.
The foregoing statement may be an
imprudent notice to the enemies of the
Commission. Any law to subserve its
Legitimate purposes or TO deter
NEWSPAPER FuoM MAKING A rooL or
ITSELF,
fWill doubtless be iiercely opposed by
| the Eraminer. Ii it were, like the
Chronicle, a brainy blackguard and an
accomplished liar, IL would sometimes
blunder into sense, and not so often
abuse the privilege of making itself alb.
surdly ridiculous. 1t would not have
been 80 vain of its late sensational Sun
day edition. 1t would not have given
away whole columns of falsehOod in the
two sentences following; "The net
profit must be enormous when com
pared with the small sums which enter
into the calculation. Thirty thousand
dollars year will not express one-half
the money the railroad will pocket
| through its corrections Of few proofs.
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how much more "enormous' must be
the whole amount Of reductions, which
it hal 50 often denied, than the small
fractional "sums which enter into the
calculation. II would not have ad.
mitted that all its idiotic slobberng was
over the corrections of few proofs.
Ii would not have insinuated the absurd
falsohood that Slows friendship for me,
or his hostility TO an opposing candi-
date, or other motive unknown 10 me,
had Influenced corrections corr ieetly
made. by Secretary Andrews, subject to
an order of record previously aud prop
ely adopted by myself and Humphreys.
1t would not have invited the statement,
clearly shown by the official vote of all
the railroad stations in my district, that
however largely my majority may be
owing TO the coutributory hostility of
the Examiner, there is in it no element
OF railroad or corporate support not
presumably and strictly partisan 1t
would not have challenged the reminder
that having, without my fault, gained
by its positive meannoss what was lost
by railroad indifference, to compensate
for either it is quite unnecessary for me
| In aal M ,xtpolf ,,,,r fo l,t
my friends, my fellow Democrats, or
even my faithful dog.
DO you ask me if | have done so?
You say not for yourself, but for ''the
people who are so often innocently mis-
kled." II is, therefore, for them, and in
Difference TO your friendly solictude,
that for the first and last time | answer:
No, never, in any way or for any pur-
pose. And without any ''vehemence of
reioinder," | answer further that |
never was or am the attorney or agent,
or on the pay roll in any capacity or for
any purpose, of any railroad or other
transportation company in this State.
No such company, or any person for it,
has ever sought by colusion or by any
consideration Or favor, paid or promised,
expressed or implied, to influence me or
my official acts, or any of them Who
ever in public or private has said or
insinuated that there is the taint of
corruption or bad faith in any act,
order, decision, schedule or theory OF
mine, or that | have ever been tempted
to the fall so much desired
by cantng cranks, cinching cowboys
and jayhawking judges of righteousness,
is an Internal liar and an infamous
scoundrel. Confident as Lam that Com.
missioner Humphreys for himself could
JOIN me in this part of my answer, /
cannot forbear saying of him, that life
beginning at Washington and governed
through long and active career in San
Francisco by principles of honor and
manhood, impressed upon it by carly as
sociation with representative men in the
highest walks of society and politics, is
not to be wrecked by the slandering
scrubs who assail it. A gentleman and
q Democrat, he has always stood by his
party and his order, and they will stand
by him.
The long suffering Commission will
survive and leave its footprints deeply
stamped upon the felon's grave of the
lying and loaiing agitation
THAT pEvIsEs OBSTRUCTIVE MEASURES IN
SECRET CoNCLAvEs,
Performs the labor of head and hands
only by throwing its whole weight upon
its voice, and anxiously aids reductions
of fares and freights by zealously oppos-
ing them. 1t has been delayed but not
defeated. The "recreant' members of
it have contributed largely from their
private means to increase clerical force
insufficient for the duties imposed upon
it. And having by strenuous effort ac-
complished much more than the carpng
obstructionists desired, it is proposed to
pursue the line of systematic and pro.
gressive work already adopted, by con-
tinued comparisons, adjustments and re-
ductions of freight rates through their
several classes. The work will be done
as fast as possible and no faster.
More has been done in the freight
than in the passenger department, pre-
liminary to successive schedules, one of
which is approaching completion. This
statement is for those concerned in the
cost of transportation, and not for spec
ulators in commercial politics, who
sack their grain and bale their
freight in empty speeches and resolu-
tions for bumcombe. and can wire them
to any market
Both as n Democrat and officer my
purpose from the beginning has been,
and now is, to discriminate against
speculative dealers in political futures
and their infamous traffic, and to leave
them without margin or a market.
Already the supply exceeds the demand,
In their desperation they would put up
a corner on the church and convert the
temple of Democracy into house of
idols and hobbies. From Whooping-
hurst to Stockton, old reprobates who
know no heaven but office, and no hell
but defeat, are calling piteously for
salvation army. Their appalling war.
cries are graveyard conundums and
fearfulwarnings; and like the foreboding
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