Daily Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1876-1884, 1884-10-01
Foa cosoarss. slsra DISTRICT.
RIFF. DEL VALE,
Col Markham and His Attitude ON
the Chinese Question.

The HERALD has been uniformly fair
to Col. Markham during the Congress
sional contest which has been for fully a
month under way in the Sixth Congress.
sional district. We have been so for
two reasons. ID Personally we like
the gentleman passably WE'LL and, out.
side Of the domain OF politics, we have
found and will doubtless continue to find
great pleasure in social intercourse with
him. (2.) We have made up our mind
inhexibly never to strike an opponent
below the belt, and we would rather de.
stroy our types than be guilty of parti.
zan meanness.
But waving Col. Markham's agreea-
bic personal qualities, he belongs to a
party whose continuance in power,
especially under its present leadership,
in our Judgment, threatens the stability
OF republican government On that
ground he ought to be beaten, II on no
other. In addition, as far as the evi.
dence has been developed, he has out
ragged the anti-Chinese sentiment
Of this State by introducing
Mongolians into the mines of
Southern California, discharging white
miners to admit OF his doing SO.
The testimony on this point has thus far
been overwhelming, and the letter pub
lished in the HERALD, and signed by
Messrs. Bristol and Turner, was simply
the pediment of superstructure which
had been already erected, of which DIR.
Cougar, Col. Markham's former business
partner, and Samuel James, his former
superintendent at the Orc Grande mine,
were the corner stones.
Referring to this letter Of the Messrs.
Bristol and Turner, the Times of yester-
day contained the following
Now, whether or not this letter is a
forgery outright, we do not say, but this
is true of it: The name Of II. Turner,
one Of the signers, is brought into this
controversy without his consent and
against his direct order and protest,
previously made. On Saturday night
last the Times received telephone
message from Pasadena, asking whether
we had received letter bearing MIR.
Turner'S signature relating to this con-
troversy A reply in the negative was
at once sent. The further message then
came that if any such letter had come
it was against Mr.. Turner'S wish that
his name should be used; that its
use was unauthorized. Furthermore,
we have since learned that similar
message was sent to the office of the Los
Angeles HERALD; but no attention APP
pears to have been paid to it, as the let
ter bearing Il. Turner's name mot
signed by himself), appeared in the
HERALD Of the following morning (Sun-
day. after the message forbidding its use
had been sent to that office, as we are
informed.
What kind of political tactics are
these? What shall we think OF the
man or the men who are resorting to
them, and the cause which they find it
necessary to bolster up by such unscru
pulous supports!
The facts of the publication of the
letter, as far as the HERLAD is concerned
are, briefly, thus: DIR. Cougar on satur.
day visited this office and displayed to
us what purported to be the original let
ter. He afterwards gave US a copy,
stating that he intended to give the
original to the editor of the Times.
Later, he came to the HERALD Office,
said he had twice tried to see the editor
of the Times, had failed to obtain an in.
terview and had sent it through the
mail.
As to the telephone message to the
HERALD the facts are that, at late hour
Saturday night, this office was rung up
by Pasadena. One OF the signers Of the
letter. Turner, requested us not to pub
fish it because he had given it to Cougar
privately, with no intention Of having il
printed. He did not intimate in the
most oblique way that the contents of
the document were untrue. We replied
that we had not received the letter from
him and cared nothing about his wishes
in the premises.
The truth of the matter, as far as the
Times is concerned. probably is that the
receipt of the letter through the mail was
used to put pressure upon the Messrs.
Bristol and Turner to induce them to
withdraw it or repudiate it. The HERALD
having received it from DR.. Cougar for
publication published it. 1t was short
and sweet and bore all the ear.marks of
truth.