Los Angeles herald., 1890-12-01
AGAIN-WHY NO DEMOCRAT SHOULD
VOTE FOR HIM.

reasons why no Democrat should vote
for R. A. Ling for mayor. One was that
in 1886, and at other times, this man
Ling, by his treacherous work in the in
terests OF certain Republican candidates,
defeated some half dozen Democrats,
among whom was Joseph D. Lynch, the
| candidate for congress. To this the
Democratic city central committee have
published an answer in the form of
circular, bearing the signature of the
chairman and secretary of that commit
tee. The little force there is in this de-
nial is contained in these resolutions:
Resolved, That by full investigation,
that the charges published in said paper
concerning Hon. R. A. Ling are false,
personal and malicious.
That we know said R. A. Ling to be
an honorable man, a true Democrat,
and worthy the support of every labor
ing man, citizen and taxpayer, prospect
| i've OF party.
| Our controversy is not personal one,
nor is it in one jot malicious. We think
Mr.. Ling an unfit person to hold the
high Office to which he has the
audacity to aspire. We are fully
confident that the Democratic party
by majority of four to one agrees with
us in this view. But the Democrats
| may feel constrained to vote for this
man because he is the party nominee.
Our purpose was merely to show that
ipntc v~n1itfnol oor hoc hc01voH
every Democrat from that duty of fealty.
The bolter must be prepared to be
bolted. That atthereis no personal malice
in this thing is evidenced by our absten-
tion from making any attack excepting
on Ling's political record.
Now as to the truth of the charges
made. We said and we maintain it,
that Ling was guilty OF playing stool
pigeon for Republican candidates
at the "White house" precinct
voting place, corner of Los Angeles
and Commercial streets, in 1886, and
that he there used Republican money to
defeat Democratic candidates, and that
he did so defeat them. In proof OF
these assertions Ling's own sworn
statement must be accepted as suffi-
cient against himself.
All who were near the White house
precinct the day OF that election will re-
call the condition of affairs. There
were 100 to $50 persons in line all day
long. 1t took from forty-fve minutes
to more than full hour to get from the
foot to the head OF the line. The pro-
gress of voters was impeded by placing
dummies" in the line, who caused from
five to fifteen minutes delay each at
the polls. AS soon as these fellows were
thrown out at the head they got in line
again at the foot, and so kept up the
game all day.
When testimony was taken in the case
of Lynch vs.. Vandever, contest for a
seat in congress, Ling was put under
oath. In the printed form of that evi
dence at pages 2O4 ct seq, Ling testifying,
the following is found:
Z. Who was the Republican chal.
lenger?
A. A man by the name of Short.
Q. What action did be take?
A. He challenged very near every
body that he thought was
Democrat.
Q. Do you know what object he had
in it?
A. There is a good many things con-
nected with this matter that / do not
care 90 say anything about. My posi-
ton was such on that day that would
prefer not to say very much about it. l
am Democrat by politics, but was a
little off on some OF the ticket that day.
@. Well, who were you in conference
with?
A. l got little off. l got little
mad at Hellman, and / kicked out on
the treasuryship a little, and in kicking
out on the treasuryshipa little, did not
kick out on the congressman more than
l could help.
@. Who were you in conference with?
A. There was Joe Manning, and
Short, and Mr.. Hammond-young Ham
mond-and Mr.. Gard, and few more.
Q. All Republicans
A. Yes, sir.
Q. What occurred there?
A. We had little side issue OF our
own there.
@. What was it?
wen, QOli hlOW d6 Will ever
want to run for Office again, but don't
know as like to tell it exactly.
@. We insist upon an answer.
A. Well, it was only-just the mat
ter was we thought Hellman was getting
in too many votes for Broaded, and we
wanted to kind of head him off; that
was all.
Q. Well how did you want to head
him off?
A. Well, the thing was-several
ways to head it off, and was sort of in
the counsels that day, because l was
pretty anxious to beat Broaded, and in
order to do that, could not do it by
working with my own party, so / had to
60 over to the other side little. /
thought l could do it more effectively
that way.
Q. What plans did you arrange?
A. We kind OF got together, and
don't know whether l suggested or some
one else suggested that We obstruct the
polls little.
@. Who do you mean?
A. Brother Joe Manning and some of
the rest of the boys.
@. What plan did you form to OBJ
struct the voting2
A. 1t was to-well, / don't know.
There were lot of ''stiffs" there. They
bought them to get in the line and filled