Los Angeles herald., 1890-10-08

in consideration of the gen.
erous subscription to the campaign cor
ruption fund of 1889.
In add ION to the passage of this op-
pressive and iniquitous measure which
has extorted even from so patient and
submissive partisan as the late r. B.
Hayes groan of anguish, they have
attempted to pass and actually have
passed through one branch of congress,
a measure which could only have been in
spired by mad burst Of power, regard
less of consequences. In the Lodge bill
that party strikes at the very root of the
tree of our liberties, and but awaits a
vote of confidence from the people in the
shape of hoped for majority in the next
congress to rush it ttriumphantly through
the senate, anG demand its instant ap-
proval by president who doesn't know
how to spell veto. In state and county
affairs the record is hardly less appalling.
With an assessment roll two and half
times greater than the last under Demo-
cratic regime, the tax rate, both county
and municipal, has reached an unprece-
dented figure, and this has been accom-
panied by so many instances Of official
malfeasance and peculation that the
non-political members of the party stand
speechless and dismayed. And when,
in addition to all this, the self-respect-
ing Republican looks around him and
sees that control of the party has been
snatched from the hands of its conserva-
tive and real leaders, and is now con-
trolled naturally by M. S. Quay, re-
Gently described by a Republican
representative upon the floor of con-
gress as "ansunconvicted felon," and
in state affairs into the hands
of Messrs. Burns and Drury Melone,
whose title to honesty depends upon the
statute of limitations. Is it any wonder
he stands aghast and Mortified? And is
it any wonder that under such circum-
stances he should pause and consider
whether the radical cure demanded by
the acuteness of the disease can best be
applied by the hypnotic fist'' of the
complaisant gentleman from Pasadena,
who says he will do whatever the state
committee, with Dan Burns and Drury
Melone, tell him to do, or by the stern
and fearless hand of the great mayor of
San Francisco, whose fist can never be
hypnotized into a forgetfulness of the
way to write ''veto" at the foot of any
and every corrupt or extravagant bill,
no matter who may have passed it. 1t,
day, and Los Angeles county will not
only cease to be the banner Republican
county of the state, but it will cease to be
Republican county at all.
The next order of business being the
nomination of temporary secretary, T.
E. Gibbon, of the Third ward, nomi-
mated Chas. A. Stevens, and G. P. Will
lig seconded the nomination on behalf
of the solid Eighth ward, as did also M.
K. Barretto, of Santa Monica.
Judge N. G. Bledsoe, of the Third
ward, placed in nomination r. J. Hor-
rell, who was seconded by r. NJ. Fur
long, of Pasadena.
On motion of the same delegate the
nominations were then closed and both
Stephens and Horrell were unanimously
chosen to act as secretaries. They were
assisted by H. B. Riffel.
On motion of Conrad Jacoby all per-
sons who were not delegates were re-
quested by the chairman to vacate the
seats reserved for delegates and retire
from the body of the hall, and the ques-
tion OF appointing a sargeant-at-arms
was raised.
Several nominations were made, but
on an amended motion of NJ. G.. Marsh,
the matter was left to the committee on
organization and order of business.
The matter OF appointing the various
committees was then taken up, and Mr..
Davidson of Los Angeles moved that
committee on credentials, of fifteen, be
appointed by the chair. Conrad Jacoby
moved as an amendment that the COM
mittee be composed of one from each
supervisoral district in the county, and
this motion prevailed.
On motion of Judge j. G. Morgan OF
Santa Monica, committee of seven was
appointed by the chair on order of bust
ness and organization.
j. w. Mitchell of Cahuenga moved
that the chair appoint committee of
five on resolutions and PLATFORM but
the amendment of T. E. Gibbon pre-
vailed and the committee was composed
of seven members.
On motion of J. G. Morgan of Santa
Monica recess of fifteen minutes was
then taken, in order to allow the chair
man time in which to appoint the COM
mittees.
At 11:15 the convention was again
called to order by Chairman Patton,
who requested the delegates and specta-
tors to refrain from smoking, and called
upon Secretary Stephens to read the
list of the committees as appointed by
the chair. They are as follows:
Committee on Organization and Order
of Business--J. G. Moagan, Santa Mon
lea; John Bryson, Los Angeles; w.
B. Crisp of Sierra Madre, A. M. Bragg
of Compton, j. G. Hanna of Savannah,
H. M. Mitchell of Los Angeles, R. M.
Furlong of Pasadena.
Committee On Credentials. Davi-
son of the Third district, Kewen Dorsey
of the First district M. H. Con kiln of
the Second district, M. F. Gibbons of
the Fourth district, B. j. Eaton of the
Fifth district.
Platform and Resolutions-J. M.
Mitchell of Cahuenga, 7. E. Gibbon of
Los Angeles, J. J. Ayers of Los Angeles,
II. G. Dillon of Cerritos, j. H. Brewer Of
Vernon, A. f. Mackey of Los Angeles.
On motion of J. H. Brewer, OF Yer
non, the name of Chairman G. S. Pat
ton was added to the committee on reso-
lutions and platform as an ex-officio
member, and on motion of II. G. Dillon
all persons having resolutions were re-
quested to present them to that COM
mittee, 30 that they could be embodied
in its report.
T. E. Gibbon, seconded by Capt.
Mackay. moved that the matter OF ap-
pointing pages be referred to the COM
mittee on organization and order of bus
inaSa which motion prpvailad upaD-