Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-11-27
WEDNESDAY. nov. 81. 1859.

WEDNESDAY: nov. e7. 1859.
A Republican Hesrospect-Uhinek
Bondmen.
It is the unhappy peculiarly of the
Republican party in Los Angeles county
that its possession of power is always
signaliEed by heavy and ever recurrent
defalcations. To confirm this view it is
onl- necessary to refer to the disappear
ance of the city's funds while the Tenn
pie & Workman bank was still on it's feet,
to the further disappearance of those
funds when Hamilton, Republican,
elected on the Workingmen's ticket, had
q chance to get in his brief but effective
work, and to their still further disap-
pearance when Carrillo was the City
Tax Collector. Every dollar OF all these
defalcstions was under q Republican
regime, and not q dollar was ever re.
funded. These remarkable and never
atoned for disappearances of the
city's moneys bring us down
to the blessed regime of El
Hammond, the celebrated vaeuero
Of the San Fernando valley, whom
the Republicans elected as their County
Tax Collector. Ell Hammond, as his
name indicated, was little better than
Turk, and he is supposed to have blown
in the county's moneys--such as he did
not take with him in defiance of the
statute de bonis 'asportatus-in the classic
precincts of Alameda street. Enough to
soy of Ell Hammond that he was good
and typical Los Angeles Republican /;
and thst, as soon as bis expansive fist
had closed upon sufficiently large
amount of the county's moneys, the
places that had known him before knew
hiR never more thereafter. Since he
disappeared, with large sack con-
tanning the county's moneys. his
Republican compatriots have whistled
for him in vain, as also his bonds
msn, as aleo the people of the county OF
Los Angeles, whom his bondemen have
never reimbursed.
El Hammond, the defaulting Republi.
can County Tax Collector, quite naturally
leads up to the present era of Republican
malversation and defslcation, in which q
Republican County Auditor and County
Clerk furnish criminals to the calendar
galore. With innumerable indictments
hanging over the heads of the late
County Auditor and his chief deputy, and
any number of indictments hanging over
the heads OF subordinates in the County
Clerks Office the Republican record of
thievery and maladminlstration in this
county would seem to be pretty full At
least it is quite formidable enough for
the Democracy to 60 before the people
on, to say nothing of the delicate little
advertisements of the Republican Council,
which the HERALD proposes to dig up
and expose to the gaze of a censorious
world, which in this case will take the
form of the enraged and despoiled Los
Angeles taxpayer. Our readers need be
in no hurry. Coming events cast their
shadow before. just as the boodler always
leaves his tracks in the mire. We are
committed to the good work Of the
exploitation of fraud, and it will be per-
formed o nicely of exploitation which
will make the taxpayer writhe in antici-
patory but sure vengeance.
As sort Of Corinthian capital to the
column of fraud which has been erected
by the Republican party in Los Angeles
city and county, the criminated chief
deputy in the County Auditors Office.
Lauterio, was released on bail yes
terday, his chief bondsman being
q Chinaman, Ching Wing. This fact
demonstrates, in striking way, the
tender alliance which is still maintained
in this State and country between the
Pigtail and the Puritan. The Chinese
capitalist rushes, with an elusive SYM
pathy, to the aid of his Republican
friend who has so long languished in
jail. At the same time we would sug-
gest word of warning. Lauterio, with
Chinaman for his bondsman, may i'm
itate the herald Mercury in the quick
ness Of his flight. Once ensconced in a
charming dell in Sonora, the spoliated
taxpayers have had their last recourse.
Ching Wing would not take long time
in getting down to Col. Massac's mines
in Lower California, if the impulse
seized him.
Asa journal of civilization, the HERALD
cannot withhold it's note Of the advent Of
Cinnamon as bondsmen in Californis.
Believing that It is the first incident of
the kind ON record, We celebrate it with
due solemnity. Meanwhile, we suggest
as to that favored of the children OF
Cathay, Lauterio, that it would not be
amiss to keep an eye on him. In the
past, Republican malefactors in this
county have shown that they possessed
nimble heels, and that they could repro
duce, in charming resonance, the refrain
Of the game Of thimblerig, snow you
see them, and now you DON'T"
AS AN evidence that the population OF
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