Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-10-26
ECONOMY.
Bartlett, Low Taxes and
Good Government.
DOWN THE HEATH AMENDMENT,
The State Democratic Ticket Pas
sed Briefly Under Review
Once More.

of Hon. Washington Bartlett, no" the
Mayor of San Francisco. In the United
States there is not man whose record
public or private, is more clean and hon
orable than his. No section OF tho
country, no city. no state, has ever hac
more faithful servant of the people
hold a political Office. All the lynx
eyed vigilance of party feeling has time
and time searched through everything Of
that record, and never at any time has
such watchful scrutiny been able to
. point out even feet in any part there
of. In the present campaign after what
we may feel assured was q most prob.
ing investigation, the sole, pitiable re-
suit was the poor Chinese episode, and
this redounded to the reputati On of the
popular Mayor. For, although the
premises in question could be rented to
none but Cinnamon, yet when the popu.
lar will, ss expressed in the boycott was
known, Bartlett at once obey ed that
mandate, and turned out his tenant.
But, it is not on any such trivialities
as this, that the campaign hinges.
B1rtlett was put before the people of
the State as the very embodiment CT
pure, efficient, conomical, business pol
itics. He had made for himself record
in this respect, which would be proud
achievement in the life Of any statesman.
Going into the mayoralty of bis city at
time when her treasury was empty, her
finance es bankrupt, her warrants dis.
hepored, her streets dark as the Stygian
pool, and broken as the proverbial road
that is paved only with good intentions,
her sewers in a most deplorable state of
filth, her teachers salaries unpaid. and
the whole body polite in hopeless chaos,
in Que short term of office, this most
careful and competent financier paid off
debt of $500. 900, lighted and repaired
the streets, put the sewers in order, filled
: the treasury 80 full that every warrant
49, honored on presentation;
.chers, police and city officials got
lDaeir salaries, the offices of the ''shav.
ers" who had "fattened off the misfort-
unes Of the public servants were
closed, and the disgrace of the city
was SDuGuy NDtlC ab thO ohiiC bitiiO bfO
streets were safe to pass through after
dark. Il is ON this record Mayor Bart.
lett comes before the people. He ac-
complished all that, and yet he kept the
taxes at the lowest rate in the history
of the city. When blundering and ex-
travagant Board of Supervisors would
have made the property holder pay
through the nose for these public inn
provements, Bartlett vetoed their bill,
and did all there was to do on the popu.
lar old dollar limit. On this record, the
people of the Bay City, and those all
over the State will give him their suf-
frages. showing under beyond all possl-
bility of ever finding again, the man who
is trying to keep within sight Of Bartlett
in the race.
To counteract the effect of such o rec
ord as Bartlett's, Mr.. Swift was trotted
out with great parade, ribbons flying
from all points of his person, like female
a..fer in circus. One was marked Mag
s,etism," but the Lightning in it would
not do any damage. Another bore the
legend, "Robert Greathouse, the romance
of the age" but that intellectual noun
tain laboring, brought forth mouse,
AuO lOt uuDuoC was SVill-oOihs LhSh
came the flaming sign Of 1.-The Letters
from Spain,' but the people called out
"It is a castle in Spain he wants!" and
that fell fat. 1t soon became a trans
formation scene, and behold! Mr.. Swift
had been converted into the clio wn, and
HARLEQUIN like, he was pie-balled and
spotted with 1925. 900 fee, "The man.
sion on Columbia street, "a check for
81. 200, to my family" "The water
clause in the New Constitution, "The
| ohiuaman who does the family wash, =
why the magnetic candidate became like
a city bill board in circus time, and such
"a frost, chilling frost fell on" his can
vass. that the very words fell from his
own lin, wherever he spoke, cold, stiff
and lifeless.
Tie other night Hon. Henry Edger-
ton. whose campaign methods are so
we'll known from Sissiyou to San Diego,
that he probably never changed the
oourse of a voters intentions in tenyears,
when speaking in this city, took occa-
sion to sneer at
M. +. TARPEY,
who stands by Bartletts side ON the
Al ticket. Now, as q matter OF fact, while
Tarpey is no such orator, as this Repub-
A l;can Cicero is, he is one of the "noblest
Romans of them ALL" Not SO GLIB as
Edserton. the people heard him gladly,
and took note of Tarpey's words. wei
might he say of this Cicero of the stump,
!" Let that Plebeian talk! 'Tis not my
: trade! While Tarpey's language was
u,t,s fluent, it was with power, Tor the
reason that there was man, in all senses
of the term, behind the words. Tarpey
talked to make votes, not coin. botf
speakers accomplished their purpose
Terpey is running against one OF th'
very best men on the other ticket, agans
the one, perhaps. who has any claim OF
the public; but even 30, Waterman will
continue to carry on his mining opera
tions at Barstow, and Tarpey, who9
Edgerton called sneeringly "a statesmeH
viii 20 to Sacramento to serve the peo'
mla' and to serve them we'll in j,ss the
role of statesman. Tarpey mp,e a very
logical and convincing speech not Win
ont elements of elegant sTie therein'
His opponent notoriouslySa not speak
ut all. ,sr,crs
az tho supreme Copt, there are Jack
", Ta,nie ]. f. Sullivan and Byron
son son . On Temple there is no use to
waters. .uard osspace. Even in such
waste w.1v uni WI" i'm, ,fobable event as the
an utteriy part, or of all the rest OF
cefea. on Temple would be elected, in
our ''cx1e xss1e fate of his associates. His
spl.e " can not fall--not by any
nallee, below $4,000.
cSullivan is young man, but he has
made his name dear to thousands OF the
people by his fearless exposition Of the
laws in the face of the most "convinc
ing arguments" at the command of the
great the rich and the powerful. The
man who feels "the halter draw"-tht
world knows what he thinks of the law
tits in this case true to the line OF the
famous Satyrist, All the strenuous