Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-12-17
WITH 4 SHORT TURN.
HOW A NATIONAL GRANGER BRINGS
UP A BOOM EDITOR.
The Ridiculous and Ungenerous Charge
Made by Los Angeles journal
Flatly Denied.

Made by a Los Angeles journal
Flatly Denied.
The bursting of the boom bubble in Los
Angeles seems to have soured some of the
people down there, who apparently think
that this end of the State has been the
cause of all their woe. Last evening
Messrs. William Johnston and George w.
Hancock, members of the Commission
who received and entertained the delegates
to the National Grange during the latter's
visit to the State were seen BY RECORD
UNION reporter and asked regarding the
reliability of statement made by the Los
Angeles Times, charging that the Changers
had been manipulated in the interest of
Northern and Central California. The
Times statement was as follows:
THE n. c. BIS WORK.
There was a good deal of quiet comment
among the visiting Changers last night after
they returned from their excursion, about the
manner in which they had been manipulated
by the Northern Citrus Belt managers in the in
terest of that section, and against Southern Cal
ifornia, and the more they talked the more in
dignant they became. Times reporter saw
two or three prominent members OF the Order
at the Natick House last evening, who ex-
pressed themselves very freely about the way
they had been treated. They said that, on
several occasions they had been carried away
to small towns, where they were kept all day,
and intimated that everything possible was
done to throw discredit on the lower end of the
State. The manager of the affair, Hancock,
they said did nothing for the accommodation
OF the visitors, and would hardly answer any
IN IN
They had come out on the invitation of the
Masters of their Oranges, who stated that Sl0,
600 had been appropriated by the State Legisla-
ture for their entertainment. Hancock they
said, had looked out for his friends; but the
balance of them had to pay their way, except
where the citizens of the towns entertained
them.
On the train coming down they were fire.
quently advised to be on the lookout for the
people of Los Angeles, who would try to make
them believe that this was great place. but
that they must not believe what they heard,
and after they arrived a committee started
out to see what hotel accommodations could
be had, for it had been told that SIS day
would be charged Most of the delegates were
especially severe on Hancock's management,
and said that no provision had been made for
Los Angeles, they having been told that the
programme ended here, and that they would
have to look out for themselves. The delegates
however, expressed themselves as more than
pleased with their reception here, and said that
the country is the best they have yet seen, and
they were only sorry that so much time had
been wasted in the northern part of the State,
which could have been spent so profitably in
Los Angeles and the immediate vicinity.
RIDIcULoUsLY FALSE
Messrs. Hancock and Johnston said they
had read the article in the Los Angeles
paper, and it was absolutely false. There
are five Congressional Districts in the
State outside of the one of which Los An
geles is the center, and in all these other
! districts the National Changers spent nine
days while in the Sixth District alone five
days were spent. True, they were not all
spent in the city of Los Angeles, as the
points visited down there included River
side. San Diego and other places of in
| terest.
Moreover" said Mr.. Hancock, "here is
letter I have received from Grand Lect-
urer Whitehead, of the National Grange,
replying directly TO that article in the
Times You may publish it if you wish,
| just to show the utter falsity of the charges
made by the paper named. 1t should be
| sufficient to set at rest all such scandalous
assertions"
LECTURER wHITEHEAD's REJoINDER.
Or THE CARS, December 5, 1899.
| G. ". Hdncock-DEAR SIR AND BROTHER: AS
we are rolling homewards towards the rising
| SUM- with q little time to think and read over
| through California, have been panied to read
\ the inclosed items, which l clip from the Times
| Los Angeles, December 3, 1889, and at once,
| on beh6lfof the National Grange land know
every delegate will sustain me in the same),
| hasten to pronouce the statements made as not
borne out by the facts, unkind and false in
every particular.
No effort was made to keep us from visiting
| Southern California; on the contrary, we all
know that yourself and other members of the
| committee repeatedly urged us to prolong our
etc hot IrnD mil cog nf no cnt1fh nr
| part of your grand State.
Our visit was necessarily hurried at all points.
| We could not possibly visit every county of the
| State On our journey we visited two and even
| three counties in a single day. Los Angeles
county had one day, so did San Diego, so did
| San Bernardino.
No delegate was, in the entire trip, called up
on to pay single cent of expense. 'Visitors"
as announced in Official circulars, paid one cent
a mile car fare several side trips free) and had
carriage rides, banquets and other entertain
| In none of the many papers published in
| Northern and Central California in giving &C
| counts of our various receptions have we found
| any such jealous, mean and untrue talk as that
contained in this one paper, and probably writ
i ten by some little dude reporter anxious to
make trouble in a happy family and to divide a
1 State against itself.
Brother Hancock, rest assured that you and
| the other members of your committee have the
sincere and heartfelt thanks of every delegate
| of the National Grange and of its visitors, be-
|
| which you have managed this notable excur-
| sion, and expended the money of the State for
| the greatest good of all concerned, and we can
| never forget the boundless hospitality of the
| good people in all parts of your Golden State.
With best wishes, yours fraternally,
| MORTIMER WHITEHEAD,
| Lecturer of the National Grange.
AS everybody knows, the visitors were
given very little rest in this part of the
State, and saw, comparatively, very small
portion of it. They were one-half day in
Sacramento after the session of the Grange
was concluded, and but one full day in
San Francisco. The other seven days oil
| their excursion were spread over several
counties. but there are dozens of other
counties outside of the Los Angeles Con-
gressional District-notably the mining
section-which they did not have time to
visit.
Messrs. Hancock and Johnston, who
labored so hard and impartially to make
the visitors happy and to maintain the rep
utation of all portions of the State, feel
that unwarrantable injustice has been done
the Commissioners by the publication Of
such an article as the above. Surely, after
the strong denial made by Mr.. Whitehead
it would seem that an apology would be in
order.
| AM0sEMENTs.