Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-12-10
a,.sh y.. yasassey.

Et1ttM PI@sSce VII brAN~@N 40 = .r
be contest election case 10 be made
by tbe Democratic candidate for Con
gsess in this district against Gen.
wm. ysndeyer. The result is the
manufacture Of = certain amount Oi
y pnblie opinion in the case. The pur-
pose Of all this is TO ini1re the party
70 which Nr. Lynch belongs or TO
br ing Democratic pressure to bear Oh
that gentleman TO force him 10 ioreg"
his rights. There can be no other
purpose, for, with all due respect 10
the Republican press, it IL not tbe
tribunal before which this important
contest is 20 be made.
The latest attempt Of this sort ap-
pc AIRED last night in leader IN the
Erpress. Here, as in all these out
gisiBgs, The case is, 0f course, pre-
jud ged. Nothing less could be ex-
pe ected; nothing less could be possi-
bic. But, more than this, there If
here, az in all these efforts, the at
tempt to in iect into the readers mind
the idea that Mr.. Lynch knows he IL
beaten fairly, bat trusts to be seated
unfaIrly by the sympathy of Demo-
cratic House. There il suggested the
thought that he may be needed to
elect President two years from now
This notion originated in the San
Francisco Chronicle, and has since
then been most industriousiy dissem-
mated.
Gentlemen, this whole business is
sim ply begging the question. There
is no desire on tie part Of Joseph u.
Lynch TO win BY any unfair means.
II tucb purpoee were 10 develop IN
his acts, we do not know friend he
has who would stand by him in the
attempt. As for ourselves, we would
be the first man to abandon bis cause.
Bat it seems plain as day TO some Of
Mr.. Lynch's friends that he has the
clearest case in the world. A part OF
the case has been frankly developed
In these columns. These facts, with
others, will be laid before the House,
and II the Committee on Elections and
the House decide against us We viii be
satisfied. But the judgment Of a
newspaper, biased by partisan pre-
jndice, will not be accepted by US,
nor by any Of Mr. Lynch's friends,
nor by any Democrat who is true TO
his party or his country, or TO fair
play.
ii voting precincts are 10 be gerry
Wandered 20 as to prevent citizens
from voting; il the registration Of
voters il 10 be so manipulated as 10
let one party get on the lists while
the other il left out in the cold if a
notice is to be published that the
voters Of a county already on the old
register will be transferred to the
new; il. then, the Democratic names
are 10 be left off while the others are
scrnpulously put on; il men who
have taken out only their first papers,
in Republican precincts are to be al
low ed to swear in their votes con-
trary to law il, in such precincts, the
po iIs are not opened until high noon,
and Democrats who come there be-
fore that hour conclude they will not
be opened at all and go about their
business: while Republicans throng
in all the afternoon and roll up a big
majority for their party, is Repub-
lican, is Democratic, il American, il
fair, in the way Democrat Is TO be
beaten, then there is nothing 10 say.
II the Espress thinks it can throw
dust in the eyes Of the world, and
while pretending to deprecate foul
play, enters the list 10 uphold all
these legions Of wrongs by the old
trick Of crying stop thief" while
the thief escapes, then argument is
1T an end.
How much fair play there is to be
nccor ded our side in the matter is too
plain from the way the Byington
affair IL treated. The HERALD only
10 uched this after Vandever | imself
ga He'd the matter up out OF the ddst
Of that past in which his own mind
is buried. He sneered at Byinton, or
The interview did, as a Copperhead.
lie sneered at Lynch, with the threat
that he would worry him as he
had Byington, and hold the fort
again. Now, the HERALD had the
right to give the other side hear
ng. 1t did it. 1t stated frankly
hat the matter was reduced to a
question OF veracity between Bying.
ION and Vandever, with this qualifica-
ion, that the formers statement
Ieemed TO US frank, while the Gen.
,rals seem ed to us bit twisted and .
,olored for some purpose. But where
s the Republican journal that does
rot brand Byington as deliberate
lar? where is the Republican that
Ioes not condemn in unmeasured A
erms the publication of our side Of !
he story? The paper that does not, v
nd the partisan that does not, il r
vhere those. are that protested t.
gainst the counting out of Tildep. il
,y the way, the Eapress halfway b
cknowledges that to have been a 5
raud because it suits it's purpose il
,r the sake Of an argument. 1t will b
4. Sim plv unrestrained in ita wrath. ID