Los Angeles herald., 1890-07-26
LET US HAVE DEMOCRATIC MOVE
MENT.

1t would puzzle any Democrat at pres
ent living in Los Angeles county to know
why he should be moved to any en-
ergy of enthusiasm in response to the
leadership of Mr.. John T. Gaf'ey, under
whose inspiration the polls of the city of
Los Angeles were burglarized Saturday
week, by the aid of Walter S. Moore and
the Orc Fino Club
There is no such enthusiasm; and, we
may add, there never will be.
Why should man like John T. Gaf-
fey, through the aid of a Democratic
club, with his running mate, Walter S.
Moore, of the Republican Orc Fino Club,
be allowed to down the honest Demo-
Gratis of Los Angeles city and county?
and echo answers, Why?
Why should the loafer element OF the
Democratic party, or of any other party,
through money introduced from abroad,
be able to put on Democratic ticket, as
delegate for San Jose, man who has
served term in the penitentiary at
San Quentin?
If there is delegate to the San Jose
convention who has served term in
San Quentin, is it not right that the
HERALD should suffer greatly and should
feel that the party has suffered an intol-
erable injury at the appearance of this
mans name amongst the delegates who
represent great party and a patriotic
and original idea? One of the
editors of the HERALD is one of
the delegates at large to the Dem
ocratic state convention at San
Jose, and he has no hesitation
in saying that he will send in his resig-
nation as member of that body unless
this person is expunged from such mem
bership.
- No honest Democrat desires to sully
his unselfish devotion to principle by
sitting in the same body with pariahs
and pimps. As Mr.. Gaffey has under
taken the control of the Democratic city
primaries, in conjunction with Walter S.
Moore, we would like very much to
know exactly what the Orc Fino IRE
publican) Club and the Tammany (Dem-
ocratic) Club have to say about the
most infamous developments ever known
in Los Angeles county. The people
who have paid Mr.. Walter S. Moore
and Mr.. John T. Gaffey, if they
have paid them anything, have
thrown their money away. The
outrages at the polls Saturday week have
created sense of overmastering indig-
nation amongst the citizens of the city
of Los Angeles, and in the county this
sentiment is immensely augmented.
The Democratic voters of the city of
Los Angeles are waiting with great and
growing anxiety to find out whether or
10 they are job lot of shysters and
tricksters, to be handled by Mr.. John
T. Gaffey, late from Santa Cruz, with
lovely lisp on his tongue and Pixley's
nomination for office, and Mr.. Walter S.
Moore, lately returned from the interest
ing Moyamensing precincts in Philadel-
phia, presided over by the Hon. Billy
McMullin, ofholy, pious' and immortal
memory.
AS matter of fact, the honest Demo-
Gratis, both in city and county, want
none of this "shenanigan." They claim
a fair deal, and they repel with mex
pressible indignation the methods which
make the voter mere chattel, and par
ties nothing more than agencies for per-
petuating political prostitution.
We may be treated to the old refrain
that Democrats have been guilty of such
political malpractices, and are guilty of
them now, in some measure. To this
we answer that the arraignment is per-
haps true, but the Democratic party has
always been quick and peremptory in re-
buking misbehavior in its servants. We
may also be permitted to quote that old,
time-honored adage, that "two wrongs
never make right"