Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-12-02
TWELVE PAGES.
The Republican Nominee for
Mayor.


The Republican Nominee for
Mayor.
The selection of the Republicans
for Mayor was an essentially weak
one. "Dr." French should not have
place himself in the calcium light
of criticism if he did not desire TO be
tho roughly viewed and discussed.
In the first place he is o doctor"
by the most violent strain possible OF
m exaggerated courtesy, being a
dentist by profession. We have no
dou bt that the Republican candidate
for Mayor, by main strength and
awkwardness, can manage to drag a
tooth out by the roots, but there his
accomplishments end. AS matter
of fact, he is almost the most litter
ate man in the State of California.
His deficiencies in educational quail
ific atoms are as profound as they are
Ii mentable. The subtle s;nuoslties
of any form Of learning are to him far
worse than the Ariadne's web of old,
and he is no Theseus to unravel
them. We are in an unwonted
good humor, and we agree to
give him the support OF the
HERALD for Mayor if he shall
succeed in spelling three out of five
sim pie words that We will PROFOUND
to hi i'm in a public contest AS the
Republican party is shouting itself
hoarse in favor of competitive exam
inations as prerequisite to eligibility
to trusts of any kind, the nomination
OF DR.. French was a gross blunder.
Intentionally or no, it was a dead
give away OF the party.
"But," will say the Republicans,
who know fully as we'll as We do, the
scholastic and other deficiencies OF
French, "while our candidate is
neither recommended by the elegance
of his manner, nor by his intellectual
equipment, he has been wheelhorse
in the City Council, and has super
intended the expenditure of 5000, 900
worth of the city's moneys" 1t is
indeed true that the doctor" has
figured as the dispenser OF the muni-
ciPal coin, and it is also a matter OF
&c neral notoriety how extravagantly
and shamelessly this money
has been squandered. There are
few Angele1os who will fail to
remember how thousands upon thons-
ands of dollars of the city's funds
were thrown bodily into the bed OF
the Los Angeles river, never to be
heard from again. And so likewise
" herever unthinking waste and pur-
poseless expenditure could be
achieved. The profigate expendi-
lures of our municipal government,
of which he was a part, were a lead
ing cause in the local political revo-
luton at the late election.
In his career in the City Council
the Republican candidate for Mayor
was principally distinguished by his
lac k of intelligent purpose and con-
sistency. In a published card he has
DO asted of his having favored high
Ii cense. 1t can be easily established
that he was really opposed to that
m easure, and he now seeks to concil-
late the vote of the godly by out
H eroding Herod in the sumptuary
law line.
No citizen who takes pride in the
growth of his superb young city can
fail to look with disgust at the pros
pect OF French being Mayor. The
tide Of travel towards Los Angeles
during the past four years, has been
very large, and it embraces many |
distinguished people. Fancy their
sur prise and our modification at the
inevitable disclosure of French's illit-
eracy and incapacity? We risk moth.
ing in assuming that the people OF Los
Angeles will not subject their visitors
or themselves to such an ordeal.
The Republicans had 1t in their
power to have singled out many ac-
com plished gentlemen as their candi. |
date for Mayor. In the person OF DIR.
Cochrane they would have had man |
of scholarly methods and fair abil-
ity. In Lieutenant-G Governor Mans
field they would had a gentleman of
whose bonhomie would |
have left an agreeable impression
upon the large visiting element, and |
one in whom his fellow citizens would |
have had implicit confidence. Hav-
ing the ability to choose these gentle |
men they preferred French, with all
that that word implies.