Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-10-29
SOUTH PASADENA.
"A Torchlight Procession and
Grand Meeting.
DEMOCRACY ON THE WARPATH.
County Clerk DunSmOOr Hauled Over
the Goals for q Black
Official Crime.

The Democrats of South Pasadena got
mp . rousing demonstration in that
beautiful precinct Saturday night.
Headed by the Pasadena Band, a
torchlight procession, carrying banners
blazing with patriotic notices, paraded
the streets, When it reached the South
Pasadena Hotel, where the speakers Of
the evening stopped, it halted and gave
cheers for the standard bearers Of the
Democracy. 1t then proceeded through
the avenues of the beautiful place and
returned to the hotel and escorted the
speakers to the Graham Block, in the
fine hall of which the meeting was held
Major D. R. Risley made short OPEN
ing address to the vast audience as
sembled, and introduced as the first
speaker, MIR. S. A. Waldron, the Demo
cratic candidate for the Assembly, who
is running against Dad Briefly, the Re-
publican boss.
HOW THE PEOPLE HAVE BEEN swINDLED.
Mr.. Waldron delivered very interest
ing speech, devoting himself principally
to the surplus. In order to impress upon
his hearers the dangers Of the great
money lookup, he went very minutely
and analytically into the history of Re-
publican contractions of the circulation
of the country, and their dire effect upon
the debtor class, who are always the
common people. He cited the fact that
in 1866 the Republicans, in undisputed
power of every branch OF the Govern
ment, at one stroke contracted the circu-
lation one-half by burning up one billion
of dollars of green backs. Then they
demonetized silver, destroying half Of the
half that was left, and added to gold
three times the purchasing power
it had before these acts of
plutocratic vandalism had been
consummated. What was the result I?
Every man whose home had been mort
gagged when money was plentiful found
himself confronted with three times the
amount OF debt he had when his mort
gage was made. Universal ruin ensued
to the debtor class, depreciation of the
value of property all over the land, and
the wealth of the rich increased three
fold. 1t is acts of this kind that create
millionaires and tramps, and yet the
people who by their votes have it in their
power to punish and prevent such public
crimes continued the guilty party in
power for eighteen years after it had
done this stupendous wrong. The sur
plus, which now threatens to plunge the
country into financial disaster, is a relic
OF the policy foisted upon US by the
Republican party, and is in the direct
interest of the money kings, swelling
their riches through the fatal principle
ofcontraction. The working classes, after
all, are the real sufferers from this baleful
policy, and if they do not wake up and
see it, and vote against the party which
would not only keep the present wal
taxes in operation, but increase
them, as they threaten, they will find as
result that wages-low enough now
will go still lower, and the power O
the moneyarchs be further and further
enhanced.
COUNTY CLERKS CRIME.
Mr.. Waldron then touched upon the
campaign locally considered, and paid a
high compliment to the ability and in.
tegrity OF Mr.. Parcels (who was present.
the Democratic candidate for County
Clerk. He drew attention to the fact
that his opponent, Mr.. Dunsmoor, two
years ago the Republican candidate, had
disfranchised 1874 Democrats by refusing
to place their names on the Great
Register on account of trifing inform
allty on the part of the Democratic
Deputy Assessors, in returning the regis
trations before they had filed their ap-
pointments. AS County Clerk he took
upon himself to commit this outrageous
act against the American franchise
solely on party grounds and for
Waldron assured the meeting that
this serious charge was not got up for
political effect or clap-trap. 1t had been
admitted as true by Dunsmoor himself
when under oath. In the testimony ad.
duced before the Notary Public in the
contest of Lynch vs.. Vandever for the
seat Of this district in Congress, after a
recital of the fact that these Democratic
registrations had been rejected by him,
counsel put this question to Mr.. Duns-
moor:
"Would you have registered those names
II they had been Republicans instead of
Democrats ?'
Mr.. Dunsmoor answered, "Yesr"
Now, are you going to cast your votes
Tor the man who committed this high
handed outrage upon American citizen
ship for the benefit of his party? Look
at some OF its consequences to yourselves.
Had not these 1874 Democrats oeen
arbitrarily disfranchised, your present
County Assessor, Mr.. Mason. would
have been defeated, for he only got in by
plurality of eighty votes. This Repub-
can Assessor has made you pay this wear
and last year, by his raised assessments.
over $500, 1000 into the State Treasury
more than the northern counties pay in
proportion to their assessable wealth. He
raised the assessment roll last year over
fifty millions, or from $37 900 900 to $92.-
OOO, 900, and this year he even advanced
Lnat enormous assessment to $107 ,000, 900.
San Francisco, with her vast wealth and
three times the population of this county.
1s only assessed two and half times the
assessment OF Los Angeles county. 1t is
hard enough on the average man to nav
even his just taxes; but when those taxes
are doubled or tri pied by the indefensible
and wanton act of one of our own Off
cials, the outrage becomes both oppres.
sive and calling. You may thank
Mr.. Dunsmoor, who now comes
again before you to ask YOU
to vote for him for County Clerk, for the
iact that when you step up to the Tax
Collectors office you are required to paw
Ssupon the assessed value of your prop.
erty, where your equal fellow-citizen in
the Northern Citrus Belt pays less than
81 upon property of equal value. This
part OF Mr.. Waldron's address made a
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