Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1884-1890, 1889-05-16
CONFUSION worse ponfoun ded.

Our Republican frieads have had falr
trial at city government, and they have
made the most conspicuous failure on
record. With single exception, they
have had every municipal office in the
city since the charter election, ana YET
their conduct OF affairs has been markeo
by constant wrangling, by obstruction,
and by the most scandalous police al
ministration this city has ever expert
enced. Great public works, which
ought to have been inaugurated, and
which the party pledged itself to carry
out at once if entrusted with power, seem
to be as far from realization as ever.
The wav in which the Police Department
has been set up, pulled down, turned in
side out, and made to appear and van
len. has been a sight to astonish both
gods and men. There is no telling what
a day may bring forth in that model
branch of the city government. 1t is
"uow YOU zee me; now you don't" No
man on the force can count day ahead
on the length of his official life. Yester-
4 day thirty-eight men were struck Oft the
| list and the same number Of new men
put on. There is no telling how long
these will enjoy the sweets OF
office. or what will be the next
move. There is no stability or
certainty anywhere. Next week there
may be another deal. Reasons for
changes are as thick as blackberries
| with the Police Commission. Major
Furrey was peremptorily knocked out OF
the Board by the Council. The balance
} Of power, as it was, at once went to
: pieces. The Council has only to make
: another knock cut to teeter the balance
; to the other side. At one time the Elk.
cuse for reorganization of the force If
that every man must have bis lungs ex
amined by physician. This gave al
excuse for getting rid OF number o
D men whose morals were in much worse
case than their lungs, and whose ap
pointment had raised howl OF just in
dignation. Now comes another reason
u for a new deal. The Board finds tina
there are too many Democrats on thu
force. A matthew atical fat goes forth
O that there must be thee Republicans t.
q one Democrat Mugwumps and Pro
, hibitionists don't count. This bring
Il up the new deal that was consummate'
60 yesterday. Thirty-eight march out an
, thirty-four march in. The marcher
g out had just got their new uniforms
g The marchers in have theirs to gel
There is bound to be loss in tailoring
!. for the new men have been appointe
without the slightest regard as to thei
sizes agreeing with those of the me-
i going out. If care had been taken o.
e this score the outgoers might have soil
n their outfits to the incomers; but as it is
y the suits will either be dead loss o
n misfits.
o Our sympathies go out to Mayor Ha2
II ard, who has really tried to make matter
g work smoothly, and preserve, in the ad
u ministration. harmony with an 81 as big a
n the beams of pile driver. But he ha
found it an impossible task. The Cour
Gil passes ordinances over his vetoes. an
70 the Police Commission sit down on a
" his plans and propositions. These bodie
u have made life burden to him, an
:, seem to sit up nights to think out way
= to thwart him. The whole municips
70 government comes about as near being
menagerie as anything we can )iken it tc
~ Its members all round seem t
70 do nothing but agree to disagree. Their
y is not enough concord in it to save
y from q change OF weather. 1t is th
greatest fizzle of the times, and if til
n people had the cay it would be tumble
out into the cold quicker than one coul
,s say "Jack Robinson" If an election wei
10 to come off tomorrow, the people of Le
4 Angeles would elect the Democrat
70 ticket by a crushing majority.