Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1884-1890, 1889-10-17
A Possible storm and Some Frank
Admissions.

combined scarcely fittingly parallel the
pargs with which the Boyce contingent
of the Republican party are looking out
for the spoils. The organ of that faction
yesterday begs and whines for some
crumbs of local official pabulum, or to
employ a less pretentious word, pap.
The appeal is plaintive and poignant
that Just little official treacle should be
allowed to trickle from the official faucets.
This appeal sounds very much like the
graphic picture of Caesars plight, Help
me, Cassius, or sink" The Admins
tration is reminded that "the next Con-
"gressional campaign is upon US, and it
sis neither good politics nor fair dealing
'to expect the Republicans to take upon
themselves the burdens of another polit-
''ical campaign while lot Of unrepent-
"ant Democrats are holding Federal
"offices and at the same time fighting the
Administration AS it is now, the Fed
"eral patronage is used against us for all
cit is WORTH
How sad all this is, and yet ssdder
things remain behind! The Tribune
continues: "There is an attempt being
"made to create the idea that few dis
"gruntled Republicans of the mugwump
''order are keeping the appointments
''from being made, but this is not the
cease" Here be pretty plain intima.
tions, but the Tribune hews closer to the
lire than even the foregoing. 1t con.
tinues: "The two or three soreheads
"whe don't like the recommendations Of
1.-THE California delegation have never
"been heard OF in Washington, and il
'they have they could have no weight in
''such matters"
It is in this contemptuous manner that
the Irsbane dares to speak of the jour.
nalist who discovered Murchison, and
who just has conceit enough to think
that he can stand off the whole California
delegation in Congress. The rash pre-
sumption of the Tribune recalls Ajax de-
flying the lightning, or the soldier Of
Alexander shifting the statue of Osiris,
or something dreadful of that sort. What
the exact outcome of such fippant irrev.
erence may be, outside Of two or three
columns in the Times devoted to ELUSIVE
praise of the manifold virtues of the re-
sponsible editor Of the Tribune, we are a
q loss to conjecture. The journalistic
barometer on the corner fort and FRS
streets this morning ought to point t.
CLOUDY" Stormy" and all the utter
mediate points which indicate a copioul
precipitation of printers ink.
This much for the storm a-brewing
and which, whether it breaks today, to
morrow or the day after, cannot fail to be
ofishe violence of semi-tropical hurri
cane when it comes, and then word fol
the conclusion of the Iribune's threnody
After demanding that the axe shall fall
quickly on the heads of offending Demo
Gratis, it says: "The Tribune believes
lin the highest sense that to the victors
belong the spoils.'"
care you there, old Truepenny?" So
all your professions of devotion to Civil
Service Reform are at last boiled down
to ravening after official feshpots? To
accommodate certain hungry Republican
aspirants for Office lot of honest and ca.
pable Democrats are to be decapitated
and the platform upon which Mr.. Har.
rison Yves elected is to ba carted off to the
old lumber room where 80 many Other
Republican pieces of ioinery of a similar
awkward make reposei 1t is just as wei
that a litkla truth should he anokan oc
casionally, even if it should have disas.
trous effects i'll region where it is gen
orally 80 little known as in Los Ange
les Republican newspaper Office.