Los Angeles daily herald., 1890-03-14
The Vote Yesterday-How Will IL
BE Today?


the HERALD predicted nearly month
ago. 1t went as We have told the tax
payers repeatedly it would go unless they
bestirred themselves in their own inter-
ests. We have repeatedly told them the
bonds were likely to carry by their de-
fault. They have so done. The total
vote polled was 5,766, OF which 4,SO7
were for the issuing OF the bonds, ana
l, ,459 against such issue. That is the prop
ositien to bond the city for the interior
system carries by nearly three votes
to one, instead of the two to one vote
required by the law. The total vote cast
is about one-third of the total registered
vote of the city. The vote for the bonds
is about the same as it was last August
a little less, because there is smaller
floating population here at this time than
there was then. The vote against the
bonds is only about one-third what it was
then. That is, the taxpayers stayed at
home and let the case 60 by default. So
be it. The taxpayers did not care how
the election went, the non-taxpayers did.
We are content.
How will the vote be today? There
was no particular effort made to carry
the election yesterday. Will there be
today? 1t was pretty generally ex-
pected that the vote would be favorable
on the interior system. There was no
occasion to waste ammunition. 1t is
different today. There is much more
opposition to the storm-water drains, on
which the election is today, than there
was on the interior system. Rightly 80.
AS we said all along, the interior
system is needed. Our objections were
against some of the features of the pro-
posed plan, and not against the system
itself. But there is absolutely no solid
reason for voting the bonds asked for to-
day. The amount asked for today is so
per cent. greater than that voted yester-
day, and the plan is to throw it away.
1t would be vastly better to spend the
money to pave the streets than to build
these drains. If the streets are graded
we need no storm water drains; if the
streets are not graded the debris washed
down by the foods will choke up and
disrupt any drain that will be built.
There is the whole matter in nutshell.
There is no sewer capable of carrying off
the foods and debris carried down many
of the streets during the past winter.
But in spite of these incontrovertible
facts, the election today may 60 as the
one did yesterday. If the same supine in
difference prevails among the taxpayers
their interests will be voted away at the
polls today. There will be an effort
made today that was not made yester-
day. Those who want the bonds regard
less of the merits of the case, know there
is danger of miscsrrying today, and they
will struggle to prevent that. Many
people voted yesterday in the affirmative
who will vote today in the negative. A
change of 500 votes would change
the result and defeat the bonds today.
But there will be votes cast for the bonds
today that were not cast yesterday. The
matter stands precisely as it has stood.
If those whose interests are at stake come
out today and vote, those interests will be
protected. If they stay at home, they
have themselves to blame, if their in
terests are not protected. Ths vote for
the storm water drains today may be
run up to higher figure than that for
the interior system yesterday. Will
there be $500. taxpayers votes to offset
these?