Los Angeles herald., 1890-10-05
SALIENT FEATURES OF THE CoNvEN-
TONS WORK.

geles. That there are some strong
names on the ticket cannot be disputed
but its weakness is even greater than
most people had expected, in many re-
spects. We do not propose to review it
at length in this article, but simply to
refer to some salient aspects of it.
The judicial portion of the ticket is
noticeably weak in spots. A singular
circumstance as to one of the nominees,
Judge Mckinley. is that the Los Ange-
les Times declines to hoist his name at
the head of its columns. This is GER
tainly an unusual action, and one that
no party journal would venture to take
unless it had or thought it had, suffi-
cient ground for its course. Mr.. Smith,
another of the Republican NOM
inees for Judge, has always been
looked upon by the bar as rather
real estate agent than lawyer, and the
bar will find it difficult to reconcile
themselves to accepting such man as
dispenser of justice if the Democratic
party, as it assuredly will, gives them
better material. There is no harshness
in commenting with considerable as
perity upon such nomination. The
bench has always been regarded in
properly constituted communities as
something that should be kept above
the plane of ordinary politics. To place
upon it incompetent or unworthy men
is calculated to degrade tribunals that
ought to be backed by the approval of
q general public sentiment. The trend
of the political current is such that the
Democratic judicial ticket as whole
should have an excellent chance of
election. The temptation OF the voter
is great to be Democratic in all lines
this year, but there certainly ought to
be no difficulty, even were it otherwise,
in knocking out at least two Of the Re
publican candidates for judgeships. The
bad precedent of nominating such men
as Smith ought to be discouraged. They
ought to experience the fate OF the
Irishman, who was discharged before he
was hired.
As intimately allied with the judicial
nominations we may fifty refer to the
nomination of Mr.. McLachlan, of Pasa-
dena, for district attorney. The people
of Los Angeles county have learned from
bitter experience the peril OF intrusting
this important Office to tyros. They
cannot afford to take any one on trust.
The gentleman who was nominated for
district attorney may hail from Pasa-
dena, but none the less he has not
earned the confidence of the people OF
this city and county. He has given no
evidence of either the requisite ability
or energy needed in that office-and
much of both are called for. Either of
his opponents would have inspired mort
confidence and would have polled
much larger vote. Above all things we
need in that important post man with
iron nerve, marked legal ability and
proved integrity. Why Deputy District
Attorney Hardesty and Major Donnell
were thrown over to accommodate the
Pasadena fedgling 1t would puzzle
Philadelphia lawyer to explain. d
The legislative ticket will undoubtedly
be a surprise to the mass of Republicans.
Judge Carpenter is an amiable old gen.
tleman, who can make very fair address
to jury and appear to some advantage
on the stump. To Offset these advantages
he is very recent arrival in Los An
geles, he has not been prominently
identified with any of our interests and
he is unquestionably classed in the pub
lie mind as a carpet-bagger. His devo-
ton to Senator Stanford rises to the
point OF fanaticism, and if he is elected
he will do his level best to re-elect that
gentleman to the United States senate.
There are not wanting those who assert
that the Judge has had his eye on the
prospect of being appointed attorney for
the Southern Pacific, but this is of course
the merest surmise. That he will labor
with might and main for the election of
Stanford goes without saying.
Capt Marion, one of the Republican
nominees for the assembly, is, we under
stand, foreman of the Evening Express
office. He should be an easy man to
beat, but we defer extended notice of his
claims to an early day.
The climacteric of the surprises was
reached in the nomination of Mr.. Wal
ter S. Moore for the assembly. That
gentleman's phenomenal defeat in this
county in 1886 will be remembered by
most Angelef1os. He was showed under
by an unprecedented adverse vote when
he ran for secretary of state. In fact,
it would have been difficult to have
gathered up Mr.. Meore's political re-
mains in anything but bucket. The
Los Angeles Times ought to be very in
teresting reading this morning on this
agile and hardy politicians candidature.
OF one thing we may be sure, and
that is that if the whole Republican
county convention had participated in
the legislative nominations, they would
never have been made. The 'short
hairs' laid low and got in their work at
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