Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-12-09
JosEpH D. LYNCH & CO., PRorRlEroRs'
RepubIican Reform.

and hypocrisy by which
he leaders of the Republican party
,ereabouts assumed that this city
needed to be rescued from the un-
,lean hands of the Democracy, to be
recenerated and made pure by the
,potless officials, efficient methods
honesty, probity, morality and high
motives of said leaders and their
oolitical confreres. Well they have
had their trial at it, and what a INST
they have made at the business.
of the great" men OF that
party look down on the city and see
what your degenerate followers are
= s municipal statesmen. Take care
not to fall into the "hole" where the
city hall should be, and take care not
to peruse too closely the books where
our taxes and their expenditures are
recorded. Take the police office as
an example Of how these great, wise
aud good people have improved on
the "moss- backed" methods OF the
terrible Democracy. In the old times
games ran unmolested, the dealers
had nothing to fear-excepting the
visit monthly, or more frequently,
when "toll" was due and payable to
the guardians OF the peace who were
blind as CUPID and Justice combined.
But, the sanctified representatives OF
God and morality got the upper
hand in the Council. There could
be no more place in the office for
such "unregenerated" rascals as
Henry King and Tom Cuddy. There
must be nice, clean, righteous
Chief at the head OF the office, and
the terrible Irish like McMahon had
to get up and dust. Every man on
the force had to pass as rigid an in
spection as If he were about to join
the church. Then the high license was
put in force, so as to lessen the saloons.
Now all was in trim to stop every
game in the city, from the low-down
fam tan of Chinatown to the high
to ned green-covered table where the
elite of the gaming fraternity resort
all was to be swept as with the very
b esom of destruction.
So Mr.. McCarty, new arrivalfrom
that most righteous city, Denver, was
installed as Chief. He was Repub-
lican of the Republicans, and was
vouched for by two members OF the
Council, also men who move on
high moral plane, and both from
Denver. Well, the history OF the
McCarty fiasco is a matter of recent
date. The fact is that McCarty
was probably insane to degree from
the use of opium-a most moral hab-
it-so much better than whisky to
kill ones self on! But, all the same,
he did not stop the gaming any bet
ter than the Democratic fellows who
resorted to the plain, old-fashioned
Mountain Dew.
Then came Horner. AS for our
sc Ives, we do not know of anything
ter rible about John. He did not
shut up the games worth cent. He
was decapitated officially, as hisparty
journals assert, because he not only
did not shut them up, but because, las
alleged, if we mistake not, he was so
ar forgetful of what he was as to
m AXE monthly visits to the proprie-
tors, just as if he had been Demo-
crat and a foreigner.
The third time was to be hit,
sure! A Chief was found of the true
cut OF the very elect, with eyes Sc
we're and beard of formal cut" no.
thing Irish about him, not even his
name; man who moved in the
charmed circle of the very elect He
was not only go, but he was strict
temperance man, too! And so
Mr.. Davis was made Chief to
enforce the high license law,
aud to put down the gambling
with an iron hand. No, not that,
"gently, but firmly" was the modus
operandi OF the new chief, whose
face would do to model saint for
church window. Now, we have never
been disposed to be hard on Chief
Davis, and are particularly lenient to
him-or rather to his memory, for,
alas he is gone-now that he is lit
tie under a cloud. But he did not
stop the games. We have the word
of the moral party itself for this. 1t
is a matter we are absolutely in the
dark about. That is disagreeable
thing to confess-that is, for journ-
alist. But, really, we have to take
their word for the existence of this
horrid naughtiness. Not only so, but
we ore obliged to shine by a bor-
rowed light again, when it comes to
the charge that this wonderfully
nice chief, who walks on so high a
plane, actually took bribes of the
gamblers not to raid their games.
Then he tried to bribe one OF his men,
through another, to hush up about
him and the captain. Fopck tells
of himself that he allowed his house
to be used, and that he acted as GO
between for Chinaman and Captain
Ketlar to fix the price OF the "priv-
ilege." Then Benedict comes into
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