Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-10-10
THEIR CANDIDATES
Condemned, Themselyes Being
she Judges.

Condemned, Themselves Being
she Judges.
In answer to Republican who asked
by letter why the Press did not place the
ticket at the head of the columns. it
made the following reply:
Why haven't we put the ticket at the
head of our columns.-we will tell you.
For three years we have been laboring
for irrigation laws in the State of CALI
fornia; we have labored faithfully and
honestly. The contest has cost us much
time and more money than we ought to
have spent. We assisted to get an ex-
ira session of the Legislature; as we be-
lieved, that with six,y-seven Republican
members and twenty.three Democratic
members the water question could be
settled by such session. The Rspub.
lican State Convention condemned the
session, condemned the irrigation move
ment, called Governor S5oneman by
name the champion idiot of the age for
calling the session and by implication
made 6rst-class idiots of the members
and others who favored the session and
the purpose for which it was called. 1t
may be that we are all as big idiots as
the State Convention said, but please ex.
cuse us from turning on our past record
aud kissing the hand that slaps our face
and throwing up our hat for the men
that have SO villihed us. No, thank you.
We may belong 10 the idiot class, but
there is limit to our idiocy, and we de.
cline to support the ticket that has been
put up by the foes of irrigation. There
esoad ha tiniraf for
whom we shall have good word to say,
Notwithstanding the company they keep.
The good word will be said because OF
the men and not of the platform on
which they stand. Ii this is treason to
the Republican party we are q traitor
We place the good of the State above
loyalty to party. Riverside Press, tRs.
publican.)
General Vandever spoke, as announced
last Thursday night at Pythian Hall.
His audience was fair but not so large as
turning out better, considering, than the
Republicans. The speaker held his au-
dience pretty well, but yet his address
was but a rehash of historical events
which although true, belongs to the past
with its glories and its triumphs. Itseems
to us that public speakers should break
away from the old groove of the past
and present the topics of the living pres.
tnt, such as will make people awake to
better consideration of their presentin.
terests aud those who are TO live after
them. The events of quarter of CEN
tury ago came in their appointed time to
pave the way for the better aud grander
status of to-day, which has come and
demands at our hands new provisions to
keep up the motion of the rolling wheel
of progress. The sands of time are shift
ing rapidly and in this age of giant
strides in the arts and sciences, political
civilization should not bs held to The
monuments of the past beyond the les
sons which they teach OF their own stir
ling times. The cause of secession is lost
although it was written in bloody gashes
across the nations brow; and, the insti.
tuition that served as its corner stone,
slavery, has sunk under the pillows of
blood poured out by 800, 900 brave men.
Notwithstanding the great sacrifice, the
starry banner is triumphant, a Union of
all the sta'es is preserved. the civillzi
tion of Plymouth Rock dom mates the
civilization of jamestown aud in this
year A. ID 1856, We can afford to and
ought to preach a political gospel for the
present aud future and let the past alone
as good enough. h.-Hanford Sentinel, Re-
publican.1