Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-07-29
INCIDENTALS.
Cold Water Men to Knife the
Republicans.
DAsHEs OF CITY LIFE
A NewsbOy's MisfOrtunes-A Miss
ing Minister - Minor
Notes.

The Prohibitionists of Los Angeles
have no idea Of being left out in the little
scrimmage which is to come off next
November. They are girding up their
loins and preparing to light on some-
body's back with both feet. From this
time forth their meetings may be
counted upon as forming a regular
feature in the campaign, and the largo
and enthusiastic crowds they call out are
full of meaning. The meeting last night
on market street brought together nearly
1000 people, who listened standing for
about three hours to the speeches of the
evening. MIR. ]. H. Blanchard. who
presided, introduced Father F. X.
Nunan, who made long speech, de
nouncing the liquor traffic and those who
supported it. He turned aside occa-
sionally from the course of his argument
to touch up the Republican party.
"I hear" said he, that some of my
countrymen in this city have gotten up
what they call an Irish American Repub-
lican Club. They haven't had the luck
they hoped for in the Democratic party
at getting offices, and now they will try
the Republican. If they are temperance
men that is no place for them. The
Republi IAN party is not for temperance,
it is for free whisky, and no one here
dare question it."
The next speaker was the Rev. J. HI.
Hector the famous colored preacher. He
kept his audience in constant good
humor by his broad humor and charac-
teristic stories. He started out with the
announcement that he proposed to pay
his respects to the Republican party, and
he wanted to say some very hard things,
| only, being parson, he couldn't use the
words he wanted. He read short selee-
ton from paper published by one of the
prominent Republican politicians of Los
Angeles, who happens to be of the
same color as Mr.. Hector himself.
"Look at that!" he said, "they accuse
US OF getting up third party movement
for the sole purpose OF destroying the
helped knock out the Republican party
four years ago. 1 own it. We plead
guilty and we are going to do it again
this year. They call it the g. o. P. Do
you know what that means? 1t means
they have got to get off the perch. We
have no wish to assault the Republican
party but they force US to it by false
accusations"
81 want my colored Republican friends
to listen to me-" he continued. ''They
tell us that we are ungrateful if we dare
to leave the organization that freed us.
Freed us? 1t wasn't the Republican
party that freed U.S. [Cries Of your
wrong.'] Wait, I'll prove it. I'll show
you what good Republican says on that
subject. Here is Los Angeles news
paper containing associated press dis
patches:
A voice-"What one is it ?"
"The Los Angeles HERALD" Cheers
and voice, "No flies on that"
Here is speech of Ingersoll's, in
which he reminds his OWL party of what
they offered to do in 1860: To agree
that negro slavery should never be
touched in the Southern States, if they
would only not secede. They betrayed
us then, and they stood ready to do it at
any time during the war. We followed
them as our Moses, but now we want
the Lord to give us new leader, be-
cause we shall never get to the promised
land behind this one.