Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-05-25
SAN DIEGO.
A Municipal NIuddle There as Wei
As Here.

they first make mad ?" 1t would indeed
seem as though that classical adagt
would apply to our Republican friends
and the party generally, but more par
ticularly to them in your fair city an6
ours of "Baynclimate." l gee by the
HERALD the "monkey-and-parrot" time
you are having over your police affairs.
and the action of your Board of Police
Commissioners would indicate that they
were doing all they could to hurt their
party, not only for the present, but az
we'll for the future. Your city govern
ment is, believe, almost, if not entirely,
in the hands of "our friends the enemy"
the Republicans.
A MUNICIPAL MUDDLE IN SAN DIEGO, TOO.
With us, we, too, are having mud
die, but not quite so bad one as yours,
yet still serious conflict between our
Mayor and Council. He has sent ap-
pointment after appointment before the
Council for confirmation, which they,
whether for good and valid reasons, or
from mere captiousness, refuse to con-
finn, and still the fight goes on.
Large powers were lodged in the Mayor
by our Charter, as l believe is the
the case with yours, and it was urged
that it was wise to do 30, in order that
some one, individually, might be held
responsible; but if the Council is going
to absolutely control the chief executive
make him a mere machine in their
hands-where, then, rests the RESPONSE
bility? Certainly not with him. At the
time of the adoption of our Charter by
the people, it was fondly hoped that it
would result in an able, honest and capa-
BILE administration of our municipal
affairs. This, believe, was the case
with Los Angeles. In both cities the
new Charters were adopted by an over
whelming majority, yet, it is true, not
without some opposition. No sooner was
ours adopted by the people and confirmed
by the Legislature than the question OF
nominations for city officers arose, and
there was most determined effort on
the part of the ultra Republicans to
nominate and elect none but Repub.
licans, and those of the most virulent
type, to those offices. The better sense
of the people. however, came in, and the
citizens held convention and put in
nomination a ticket consisting very
largely of Republicans, but with few
DtUOCIdbb W lCdNCu UhO 4u0D
came the tug of war. The Repub-
licans of pronounced dye strained every
nerve TO elect their ticket of cerulean
hue, and spared neither toll, time nor
money to effect that end; but again the
good sense of the people prevailed and
the "Citizens' Ticket" WAS elected. This
was not Democratic victory, but it was
a Republican defeat; yet the number Of
Democrats elected was 30 small, that
with the Republicans rests the response
bility of our city government, as it does
with yours; and now in both they are
playing such fantastic tricks before
high heaven as make the angels weep"
--or laugh, if these celestial beings
deign to notice mundane affairs.
Well, if our Republican friends but
realize it, they are hurting their party.
and I hope they may keep the fight up,
provided the public good is not thereby
sacrificed to too great an extent.
IN NATIONAL AFFAIRS
They are but little, if any wiser. There
they are laundering, and the people-the
workingmen-begin to see that the loud
mouthed promises made SO lavIshly be.
fore the election are far from being full
filed. The wool interest has been pro-
tected to such an extent that the Mission
Woolen Mills of San Francisco have been
closed and the Woodland Woolen Mills
are under attachment, thus throwing
hundreds OF men, women and children
out of employment; while in the East in
other manufactures ard industries the
same lamentable result either has been
reached, or is being rapidly brought
about. But, Mr.. Editor, what do you
think of such an admission as this?
clip it from cur leading Republican pa
per OF yesterday morning:
Louisiana sugar-makers have new
method CT extracting the juice from the
cane that saves former loss of nearly
forty per cent. They show no disposi-
tion yet to let up on the tariff for their
benefit, which compels the consumers to
pay duty on sugar greater than the
value of their entire crop. This is an
ecceptricity of protection that can't be
corrected too soon."
There you have it. although Louis
lana sugar-makers save former loss oil
nearly forty per cent, yet strange to say
they show no disposition to let up on the
tariff, which compels consumers to pay"
etc. Is it not strange? Mirabile dictu
And then notice-"this is an eccentric:ty
of protection" "Eccentricity thank
thee. infidel, for the word" It's good
word-a charming word-and fully ex-
plains the wonderfully beautiful working
of the tariff. not only in that one article
of sugar, but in wool, in tin, in jute, and
thousands OF other things that the con-
sumer has to pay most roundly for under
our present system of protection.
THE HERALD.
BY our new time table we now get the
HERALD quite early in the after
noon, in stead OF, as formerly, late
in the evening, or perhaps not
until the next morning after
its publication. This gives it an almost
equal show with our own morning daily.
We hail the change with pleasure, as the
HERALD is, / assure you. a welcome visi.
tor to our Bay City, and permit me here,
even at the risk of making you a little
vain, to speak few words of commen'
dation. /, with the most of your other
readers, cannot but admire the enterprise
and the tone of manly independence
which cbaracterizes its columns. All
classes and all creeds are treated with
fairness and with justice. Only in yes.
terday's issue you spoke of Mr.. Blaine's
position as to the Samoan Conference,
now going on at Berlin, and commended
his course, winding up short article
all too shortly saying: eff Blaine has
taken the stand the latest dispatches in
innate, he is right" l like that it is bold
and manly. No one can doubt the Dem
ocratic soundness of the HERALD, nor can
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