Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-08-01
THE CAMPAIGN.
what N Third ward Democrat Has
10 Say ON 1t.

and an admirer OF your paper Ior many
wears and cannot forbear to congratu-
late you upon its increasing popularity
and the immense power it wields for the
advancement of Southern California and
the good of the Democratic party. The
HERALD has ever been steadfast, true
and faithful to these two cardinal prin.
ciples and it is with satisfaction l note
that the people of this distric! appreciate
and laud your efforts.
Political matters are absorbing much
public attention just now, and If not out
of the established ethics of newspaper
ing will ask you to give an old Demo
crst of the Third Ward little space in
which to ventilate his views and say few
words in favor of what he considers the
best interests of the party.
OUR CONVENTION.
In the first place, l am informed that
the Democratic County Central Commit
tee, which meets to-day, is seriously con-
sidering the proposition Of putting the
County Convention off until the latter
part of September. This will be most
unwise step. We have the second most
populous county in the State, there are
many new comers and many new voting
precincts have been established
since last election. 1t is essen
tial that a candidate should show
himself to and meet the people and
il is impossible for him to do 80 in a
campaign lasting for only four or five
weeks. The Convention should be held
either in the last week of August or dur
ing the first week of September, by no
means later.
REGISTRATION.
Another important thing is the matter
of registration of voters. The Republl-
cans now have both branches OF that
service, the disfranchiser of Democrats
Dunsmoor and that star assessor, Mason.
This puts the whole thing in the hands
of the Republicans, and the Democrats
who fought R. Bilderrain 80 bitterly
two years ago are wishing
shat they had never been born,
or if they are not wishing
it the Democratic party is. Now so far
as appears on the surface nothing has
been done by our very excellent County
Central Committee looking towards the
registration Of people friendly to the ad-
ministration. Let the Committee awake
self little committee, and see that his
next door neighbor is registered and
votes right. This matter should be taken
hold Of at once.
REPUBLICAN NOMINEES.
The enemy has placed ticket in the
field, and it has been pretty thoroughly
discussed in our ward. It is not re-
markably strong ticket, but it is aggra-
waiting, though certainly amusing to me,
to see some Democrats, who ought
to know better, stand around and look
wise and talk about the weakness of the
ticket, and how 1--WE are going to win
hands down this time" That is all right,
anc if standing around on the street cor
ners and chewing plug tobacco would win
= race, we have champions enough to
pull us through, but it won't.
Let me take up the ticket. There is j.
Il. McComas for SENATOR. He lives at
Pomona, and L. J. Rose can knock him
higher than Gilderoy' skite, however high
that may be. Some malicious scoundrel
started the report and the Times pub
Eshed it, that Mr.. Rose had gone into
the ranks of the enemy. This / can au-
thoritatively nail as base lie. Mr.. Rose
is the same tried and true Democrat as
of gore.
The Republicans have nominated for
Assemblyman to represent the District
comprises in Los Angeles city. ]. M.
Damron. "Jim" is lawyer with an
uncertain practice, and he could afford to
20 the Legislature, though he ought to
wait until there is United States Sena-
tor to be selected-more in it then. But
while Damron is rather popular fellow.
the Democrats can put up a gentleman
who will carry the election nicely.
The nominees for Superior Judges can
be classed this way: Wade and Van
DYKE will be beaten out of sight by Hut
ton and Gardiner. Clark, for the short
Term, nil III MAKE i. very warm for his op-
ponent, and the man whom the emo
Gratis honor with the nomination against
Clark will have to get up and "hustle."
Still Clark can be beaten by good man.
We now come to the portion of the
ticket that interests the boys who get out
and work at elections. Martin Aguirre is
their nominee for Sheriff. The nomina-
ton is a strong one. 1t is true that a GER
tain prejudice exists amongst the Repub-
Leans from the farther East ac:.;isv ac:::istv TIE
native born Californians or Spaniards or
Mexicans or whatever you may call
them, and Martin will lose many of the
votes of the hide bound. l have even
heard q dozen of these tenderfeet call
Martin q "Greaser'' and say they would
not vote for him. They are misguided
people, you know, and there is no use to
try to remove prejudice when it takes
hold of Republican. On the other
hand, Aguirre has some Democratic
friends, and with Characteristic liberality
they say "what if he is a Mexican,
he is q gallant and a good fellow
and we will vote tor him."
Another thing that makes Martin popu-
lar with q certain class of Democrats
will recite. / heard him say and l
heard man say who saw his ticket that
two years ago Martin voted for seven
Democrats including the Democratic
nominee for Congress. How this will
advance him with the iron-bound,
moss-covered, old-oaken Republicans
remains to be seen. l also imagine they
will get the idea that Martin will appoint
q great many Democrats as deputies and
will be chary Of voting for him. Be
that as it may, the man who runs against
him will have no picnic and will
have to combine elements of personal
popularity with strong Democracy to
beat him. Thomas ]. Cuddy could win
ON the Democratic ticket, and he could
get the nomination almost by acclama-
ton if he would consent to take it. The
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