Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-02-19
THE EN- NEMY'S FORCES.
Forming the PhaIanxes in
Battle Array.
REPUBLICAN RANK AND FILE
Huv We Shall Route Them, Horse
Foot and Dragons, on Next
Thursday.

Republican City Convention assemble'
in Turner Hall on South Spring street, t.
make ticket for the municipal election
set for Thursday of this week. Long be
fore the Convention was called to orde
the hall on the main floor and in the gal
leries was all filled to overfowing by
great mass of citizens of all parties, in
tent on seeing what manner of men thu
z. o. p. would put up before the people
From that time until P. M, when th'
Street Superintendent had been named
the crowd jammed every available inch
of room in the hall. Then the mair
battle was at an end, and the people fol
the most part dispersed. The precau
ton had been taken to stretch big rope
that would do for hawser for a line-of-
battle ship across the floor to separate
the seats of the delegates from the
stamping ground of the lobby.
TEMPORARY ORGANIZATION.
At the stroke of the clock Captain E
P. johnson. of the City Central Commit
tee, called the assembly to order, and
Mr.. M. R. Higgins, secretary of the
organization, read the call for the Con
venrion.
AS soon as the delegates had sue
ceeded in finding their seats, R. II. F
Variel named DR. Walter Lindley as
temp ,rary chairman. The motion was
seconded amid round OF applause fol-
the popular disciple of Esculapius. r.
B. Carpenter named General H. G
Rollins. A vote being taken, Lindley
received 86 votes to GA for Rollins indi-
eating that the ex-Surveyor General had
some friends to the fore himself. The
doctor being escor ed to the table on the
platform amid wild cheers, said, in sub
stance:
''I appreciate profoundly the great
honor you have conferred upon me. The
heart of every member of this conven-
ton is doubtless filled with love and
loyalty for the principles of the great
Republican party. Each one of us feels
every fibre of his being thrill with joy
and pride when the history of our party
is referred to; from its early days. when
it placed in the presidential chair that
puresr, grandest figure in American his.
tory-Abraham Lincoln-by whose hann
the shackles were stricken from million
of slaves, down to recent times when it
has crushed the hydra-headed monster
of English free trade, and elected as the
chief executive of the United States that
typical American soldier-citizen, Ben
jamin Harrison. l repeat, we are all
enthusiastic Republicans, because We
believe hat 20 he true R4public ms is to
be right, yet there are questions which
strike chord that is above all party
lines; there are Questions, burn
ing questi ,ns, that affect the
very lie and happiness of our
families; questions which cross the
threshold of the poorest laborer and the
wealthiest banker. Shall our children
be educated in great herds, crowded in
lily built, poorly ventilated school
houses? Shall the sewage OF this city of
one hundred thousand souls lie ia our
back yards and in our streets, the
mephitic gases emanating therefrom
bearing scarlet fever and diphtheria into
our households, and leaving misery, woe
and grief? Shall the money you tax
pa, ers pay into the treasury for streets,
police aud light be obliged 10 pass into
the hands of boodlers and political
tricksters? Shall the ghouls, vampires
and humanized wolves who are haunting
this convention and who, to great ex
tent, controlled the late Democratic con-
vention, he allowed to handle and direct
the expenditure Of the thousands If dol
lars that are paid annually into the city
treasury?
"Thsse are the questions we have to
grapple wi b to-day; not mere party
questions, but business questions. We
are all stockholders in the great corpora
ton OF the city of Los Angeles, and we
are here as business men to select busi-
ness men to manage the aft airs OF this
CITY.
81 value highly political merit and the
necessity of political rewards and pun
ishments, but in this crisis in the history
of Los Angeles we should hold as para
mount to all other requirements that our
candidates be honorable aud capable
Hapnily TO-DAY that which is the Interest
of the city of Los Ange es is also to the
prophesy that you will nominate ticket
com posed of such unexceptionable men
that when the evening If next Thursday
comes We will know that it has been ca,
tirely victorious"
Al. R H vvins was named for Tem.
porary Secretary by scclsmation, nd Prof.
~. .. ". 0iiCh "hc lhauC Lis esoo'oeou0
Ralph f. Hoyt put up for Serg.an, at
Arms, W. A. Fortune, a young man oi
color. Others named A. Brown, Louis
Pepper, Louis Martin and = Coleman,
all negroes, for the came Office. They
were all elected. mem con.
THE COMMITTEES.
W. S. Moore moved that o committee
of nine, one from each ward, be ap
pointed on Perua anent Organization and
Order Of Business.
VIM Niles moved the appointment of a
committee constituted as the above on
Credentials
R. B. Carp enter moved for eimilar
Committee on Platform and Resolu
tions.
g. M. Holtou moved that each ward
hand in name of delegate to the
Chair for this committee.
F. Finlayson moved that all resolu'
tions bs referred to the Committee OF
Platform, ETC., without debate.
All these motions prevailed.
A recess of ten minutes was here de-
elared in order to allow the Chair to ap'
point the several committees. At the
re-assembling of the Convention at the
expiration of the recess, the Chair an
nounced the following on the three com.
mittees:
Permanent Organization, etc.-C. n.
Earl. General G. n. Rollins, Major w
@. Furrey, w. s. Moore, F. McCoye
Alexander Crawford, L. J. Lewellyn.
Piatfnrm RasOlutions-D. Gilbert Dox