Los Angeles herald., 1890-11-26
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER go, 1890.
SOME HOME TRUTHS ABOUT THE CITY
ELECTION.

ELEOIlON.
For two years past the people OF Los
Angeles have been bewailing their hard
fortune at the hands of the city council
and the Republican ring. Their plants
have reached up to the very empyrean
and pierced the dome of heaven itself.
The yawps of the whangdoodle mourn.
ing over his first born were not more
heart-rending than the gruesome growls
of the Los Angeles taxpayer, including
Democrat, Republican, Prohibitionist,
Nationalist, the Young Mems Christian
association, the Young Mems Catholic
institute and the American fellow citi-
zen of African descent who fought nobly
during the late war. Go where one
would, and encounter whom one would,
the refrain heard on all sides as the
council jabbed its snickershee into the
taxpayer was, "This thing will not last
always. There will be an election some
day. Then you'll see." Or words to
that effect.
Now. dearly beloved man and brother
OF the Republican party, you have an
opportunity OF showing how much in
earnest you were in those fiery
declarations. The very men whom you
have been denouncing in unmeasured
terms, have been renominated. Those
who credited the leaders OF the Repub-
lican ring with any degree OF sagacity
whatever, thought they would in the
city nominations initiate the intelligent
policy they pursued in the makeup of
their county ticket. But they have not
had the wisdom to do this. Freeman
&. iced, who has surrendered his atten-
tion to his duties to become political
boss, is renominated for city clerk. M.
d. Johnson, who, in defiance OF the let
ter and spirit of the city charter, held
the city's funds for the benefit of ring,
when he should have permitted them to
earn money for the municipal treasury,
is renominated for treasurer. And so
on, to the end OF the chapter.
Now, oh Republican Man and Brother,
let us see the stuff you are made of If
you have the true ring about you, you
science. A change of very few votes
is all that is needed to show that the
taxpayers can resent injustice and NAL
administration and even malversation
itself. If you do not make your actions
at the polls conform to your talk during
the past two years, why, shut up when
the fresh exactions to which you will be
subjected tempt you to make the welkin
ring with your howls OF agony.
All the reasons which should make
you vote right in the case OF the ring
officials apply with tenfold force to the
ring councilmen. There would be
sort of poetic retribution in replac-
ing the present iobbing and die
tatorial Republican council by one
largely Democratic. Ii it were
unanimously Democratic the rebuke
would be all the more significant,
although the HERALD, as a general
thing, is not in favor of jug-handled
legislative bodies. Any Republican tax
payer who votes for any OF the four Re-
publican councilmen who have been
renominated condones all the jobbery OF
the past two years and gives license
for new excesses in the future.
Weigh your ballot well, oh Republican
fellow citizens! There is plenty of room
for heated politics-for "politics as is
politics"-in the great state and national
conflicts. The matter of securing a good
and economical government for the city
of Los Angeles will cut very little figure
in the xtpresidential election and even
in the election OF the next United States
senator. But it may figure largely in
your bank account. Stand in with your
Democratic fellow citizens, and go in for
an era of honesty and reform in our mu-
nicipal affairs. Vote as you have SO
often said you would vote, and it will be
many long years before a ring can again
be gathered within the limits of Los
Angeles which will dare to act as il your
property were their own. If you fail to
do so, you will deserve whatsoever fate
may befall you at the hands of the tax
eater.