Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-12-12
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He Is Elected.

He is Elected.
Still the Republican press OF this
section goes wild, gets up before
breakfast, howls itself red in the face
with rage, and then turns pale with
fear at the mention of any contest be-
ing made against the Republican
who ran for Congress in this district.
1t is the regular, old Puritanical splr-
it, so long and so well known to the
world-"Our doxy is orthodoxy; ev-
ery other fellows doxy is hetero-
doxv. am dead right and can't be
wrong. You are wrong because do
not agree with you" Or as the boy
said: cit is so, because my mother
says it is so and when my mother says
it is so, it is so, even if it is not So"
Now, the HERALD is not engaged
in any effort at the manufacturing OF
public opinion. This journal has not
dragged the subject up. excepting un-
der pressure from the other side
The question is not to be tired nor
decided by the press of this or OF any
other section. 1t is not to be SUBJ
mitted to the public for their decis-
ion. That was done once. and we
think the decision was by all laws OF
fairness made in favor of the Demo-
cratic candidate. The apparent plu-
rality in favor of Gen. VanIever was
brought about by Irregularities OF the
grossest nature, which, if allowed to
prevail, would utterly subvert all pos
sibility of popular government.
Knowing these schemes to defraud
the Democratic ticket OF votes and
Democratic voters OF their franchise,
the Democratic candidate does not
propose to lie supinely idle and allow
his opponent to take the seat by de-
fault.
There has been no concealment OF
this matter. At the very outset Mr..
LYNCH announced his determination
10 contest. There the matter had
rested SO far as the newspapers were
concerned, the papers would have
been made up and submitted to the
ultimate tribunal in the matter, had
not the Republican press made such
systematic efforts to PREJUDICE the
case, manufacture opinion, and simply
"bull-dose" the contestant into not
making contest. The General him
self got out with the stale story OF
how he held a seat against a contest
ant in 1862. When the other side
came out in the HERALD how loud the
howl was that it was all false. All
any one here knew OF it was the two
tales of the principals. But there
was no doubt, according to the Re-
publican press, that the Generals
side was right. The purest prejudice
in the world.
The Times of yesterday denies all
wrong on its side. If such denial
would settle anything, a Democrat
would get little comfort in this con-
test or in any other of his rights or
wrongs. Fortunately it does not set
tie anything. That journal also IN
sinuates that there was fraud in the
election on our part. Now, our
course has been most open one.
There are no insinuations. Ii there
was any wrong on the part OF MIR.
Lynch, will the Times prove it, and
not let the matter rest on its own un-
supported allegations. Such proof
must be laid before the committee
on elections, and before the House
of Representatives. Allegations from
the Times are of no avail. 1t must
prove it's allegations, and such proof
is invited, is challenged. Those al
legations, these loud cries to influence
opinion, all this wrath at the men
ton of a contest, are futile as the
signing of the summer wind. We
think, we know Lynch is the choice
of the people of this district; he is
duly elected; he will take his seat,
and of that there is not a shadow OF
a doubt. The proofs OF all this will
be laid on the desk of the Committee
on Elections they will go before the
House of Representatives, and SO
clear, SO unquestionably will they es-
tablish the position here taken, that
Lynch will be seated in spite OF all
cries and allegations.
1t is the strangest thing that the
Republican partisan press cannot
comprehend the difference in the cir
OF this time as compared
with fifteen or twenty years ago. 1t
was rather easy in those days to raise
a loud cry, let that rest on the air OF
its own creation, and thus defy a
ID emocrat to get his seat. That time
is passed. 1t will return no more.
The men that sit in the Fiftieth Con-
press of the Union will ask for proofs,
will insist on proofs, and the man
who presents these proofs will be up
held. The man who comes there
with allegations smugly made, ,andthe
man who comes there with loud cries,
shrieked out, to bull-dose
people and compel opinion will fail
Our case is good, is honest, is plain.
Like truth, it will prevail.
Heal Estate Values.
so rapidlv has the value OF realty