Daily Los Angeles herald., 1883-09-28

morrow we shall review the whole qnes-
ton, with the lights thrown upon the
subject by Commissioners Carpenter and
Foote. --EpIToh
JOSEPH d. LYNCH, ESQ. Dear Sir:
Your open letter found me four days
after my arrival hero, where for the
first time in more than eight months /
am trying to enjoy little rest at home.
But pursued and waylaid by restless
foes, and Lynched by impatient friends,
there seems to be no peaceful
retiremeDt or rest for me. So be
H. without truce or parley, from
my mountain heath, return
your earnest and friendly greeting,
with my defiance Of the chivalrous camp
followers and the plundering marauders,
who style themselves the Democratic
party and seek to make IL the guilty
agent Of their nefarious purposes.
From the day entered the Office of
Railroad Commissioner have given to
its duties and requirements my entire
time and almost undivided attention.
Knowing little enough of the subjects
requiring my constant study, without
reading such newspapers as displayed in
their discussion the greatest ignorance
and assurance, il became necessary to
seek information where it could be
found, and by methods adapted to the
purpose.
This was treated as studied atfront
10 those scolding bands of the press, who
demanded extreme measures and ex
parte decisions, dictated by themselves,
And not finding in the Commission
subservient purveyor and pupet, they
mistake the echoes of their own vapid
and vindictive abuse and the noisy re-
sponse of windy blackguards, Tor the
roar of q coming cyclone. To me their
furious outcry has been silence, and
silent contempt has been its answer.
But, as You suggest, the recognition
which one can never owe to foul
mouthed political outcasts, may be due
to the common decencies of public and
private life which they insult and belle.
THE CHIEF PROMOTERS
OF these shameless and malignant as
s,ults upon the Commission, were first
made conspicuous by their defeat at the
San Jose Convention. But from present
appearances they would seem to have
achieved the ''insolence of office, with
out the credentials. And to make their
calling and election sure, they under
take in the name of Democracy, to
change and falsify its platform wherein
it declares: "That the railroad fares
"and rates should be materially re.
"duced, determinations in favor of per-
"sons and localities should be prohib-
"ited;" and promises that the party and
its nominees will "relieve the people to
{" the extent of their jurisdiction from the
exactions and injustice now practieed
with impunity by the railroad compa.
"nies." By these clauses of the resolu-
tion relating to railroad fares, freights
and determinations, all questions of
time, amount, percentage, process and
principle of regulation and reduction,
were necessarily left where they had
been referred by the constitution and
laws. Not one OF them was predeter-
mined by the convention, which prompt
ly aud decisively rejected the amend
ment offered and urged by Tom Fowler,
proposing a specific and uniform reduc'
tion of twenty per cent. Upon this
final and definite disclaimer by the Dem
ocratic party in convention, of any pow
er or purpose to usurp the functions of
Railroad Commissioners, or to forestall
their decisions, it went with its nomi-
aees to the country.
Led by Stoneman, the Democracy
commenced its march to victory al
ready achieved. 1t needed only dash
ing aud reliable party journal at the
chief city of the State, not so much to
assure, as to announce, the coming tri.
umph. The San Francisco Examiner
had not then sinned away the character
and good will inherited from gentlemen
and Democrats. Although slow and
blundering, it could and should have
had the post of honor, and been useful
and happy. But blind to accidental op'
portunities, while sullSing in its garret,
it was beaten without rival. Furious
with impotent rage, it became the
moAAh.piece of defeated minority, by
most of whom it is now held in deserved
contempt.
With the trembling duplicity of a
spaniel it growled at the head and lawn
ed at the foot of the ticket. With a
vicious enmity of which it alone is
capable, it brooded over the antagon-
isms OF the Convention, and in the un-
dermining interest OF statesmen without
biography or following, itignored and
insulted the best elements and most de-
serving leaders of the party in the State.
Secretly plotting to get even at the cleo
tion, it was again doomed to disappoint-
ment Driven at last to hopeless despair
by defeats and victories, which it was
powerless to prevent, it bewails the late
success OF the Democratic party as the
death or dispersion of its political tribe;