Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-06-14


been named as possible to make out O
this matter. But such an Augean sta
BILE Of political corruption as was her,
referred TO the reporter was disposed tC
look upon as fable only worthy of som,
Munchausen or the Arabian Nights
He knew that whereas other chief
of police had been specificalll
charged with taking such bribes, that NJ
one had dared to ever hint that Mr.
Cuddy's palm had ever known the fee
of dishonest coin. The Mayor proceeded
to enlighten the reporter thus:
"Last February | began to take testi
mony as to the receiving Of money to lei
games run. got a good deal OF informa
ton from Cinnamon. got it from othel
"sports." At one conference with som,
Of these Colonel Otis, of the Times, wal
present, as was Colonel Ayers, o
the HERALD. The evidence taker
at that meeting was taken il
shorthand, and / have it still
Gambling, | find, has always existed
here. | followed this up. have in al
about 800 pages Of this testimony abou
the games. got my detective force, a
the head of which was Emil Harris
With the help OF Mr.. Humphreys l de
termined to stop the games. To stop The
paying OF this money to some one to le
the games run. ! wanted good govern
ment. No, it was not my purpose tC
raise revenue for the city. | know
talked about this with some OF the sport.
ing men. They wanted to have some
thing fixed. / hardly thought we could
stop the gambling; but did wish to stoE
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and all the tribute is stopped"
The reporter said:
"Mr. Mayor, prior to May Is, was ii
not all stopped by Mr.. Cuddy?"
"Well," replied the Mayor, "the
Mayors detective force, aided by Chiel
Ouddy stopped all the games at that
time"
"How were they reopened?"
"Before | went to San Francisco there
we're few white games running. When
l came back found the games all open
found they were paying a tribute of $50
a month each for the privilege"
"To whom did this go?"
ri could not find out who got it,"
Reference was here made to the epi-
sode of prosecuting under the city ordi-
nance, instead of under the State law.
As to this the Mayor said all he had de-
sired in the premises was to secure tc
the city any revenue to be derived from
the games. But he wanted the games
closed for all that. He had no thought
of scheme to let them run if they could
be closed.
THE MAYORS CATEcHsM.
A copy Of the HERALD was in the
Mayors hand, and he turned to little
catechism addressed to him by Demo
crat. He said:
Gas to Captain Loomis, / have and
never had any idea of making him
Chief. Mr.. Humphreys and wanted to
make him Captain instead Of Fletcher
That was only putting one Republican
in the place Of another"
The reporter suggested that good civil
service reform demanded that a Demo
crat should always be put in the place O
a Republican. But the Mayor held tc
his position. The Chief favored Fletch-
er, a Republican, and he favored Loomis
another Republican.
AS to Mr.. Breed and the Mayoralty
His Honor said:
81 never have had any idea of making
printed in the HERALD | went to Breed
and asked him if he was candidate, and
he told me no, that if both parties nomi.
mated him he would not take the Office.
The next question in the catechism in
ferred that the Mayor had appointed
most OF the members Of the police force
On this he takes direct issue with any
such statement. He says the Chief Sc
lected nine-tenths OF them and he exhib-
tied list in the Chiefs writing to show
this. Then came a question as to the
Mayors intimacy with mem
ber of the Council from the Fourtf
Ward, who was alleged to have obtained
$500 for the Turf and Grain Exchange
and to have kicked because he did no
get 81 900 more. AS to this Mr.. Work
man said
"I have known Mr.. Chandler TO
years. His family and mine are init
mate. As to his attack on gambling
admire him."
He acknowledged that his admira
ton was based ON the assumption tina
his friend was not guilty as charged il
the indictment Of "a Democrat"
He said if a man went in and be
against the famous clock with the hop
of beating the clock, and when the clocl
beat him, ii he "beefed," such a cours,
would not be one to admire.
Democrats next conundrum was as t.
whether the Mayor did not pledge him
self to do all he could for the Democrat
party when he was nominated. He sal
in answer to this:
"When / was elected Mayor I thin
my duty was to the whole people, not t
any party. The course which | hav
adopted Will rebound to the goo
Of the Democratic party. l do nc
believe in politics in the police Office
And while some OF the Democrats war
to read me out of the party, and Will
the HERALD may burn me up still al
a good Democrat"
The reporter assured the Mayor this
being himself Democrat, he saw
good many members of the party, an
heard of no proposition to read him ou
The party regretted squables within il
ranks and might not be able in all case
to approve Of the wisdom OF His Honor
course. That was all. As t
the HERALD the reporter sal
that from his position on the paper b
was forced to read nearly all it said. Il
had not discovered. any disposition
burn up the Mayor. Its position was
very simple one all through. 1t coul
not find that Los Angeles was so bad ;
the Mayors crusade would NAL
it out to be. The HERALD thougl
there were other important ma
ters connected with the municip
government which were being neglecte
because OF all this sensation about gar
bling. Here the city suffered in tv
nays. First, by giving her bad nan