Los Angeles herald., 1890-08-03
SignOr NicOletti Thinks 1t
Should Be Repaired.
He Asks the Courts for Heavy
Compensation.
He Boldly Toys with a Libel
Suit.
Fifty Thousand Dollars Asked from the
"Herald"-What the Plaintiff Has
to Say About His Case.

complaint against the puDllsners OF the
HERALD alleging SANDER. Mr.. Nicoletti
nor his attorneys appeared to know that
the law required the filing of a bond
with such complaint, and it was not
until late in the afternoon that they
presented the instrument, with G.
Tononi, "a capitalist" and A. Peril, "a
laborer," as sureties to the amount of
$500.
The complaint is herewith given in
full.
Stephen Nicoletti, plaintiff, VS.. J. j.
Ayers and j. d. Lynch, co-partners, de-
PENDANTS.
Plaintiff complains and alleges that
they now are, and at all times herein
after mentioned J. J. Ayers and j. D.
Lynch were co-partners and the pub
fishers and proprietors of ''THE DAILY
HERALD, newspaper published in the
city of Los Angeles, county Of
Los Angeles, state of California
that the said J.J. Ayers and I'D Lynch,
we'll knowing the premises, did on the
26th day of July, 1890 cause to be pub
Gshed, and published in said newspaper
of and concerning the plaintiff, and
COuCCIIluS tHO pICulsCs, buC lOllOWlLS
false and defamatory matter, to-wit:
LET US HAVE DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENT.
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.. J. T. Gaffey, 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,
delegate for San Jose, a man who has
served a term in the penitentiary at
San Quentin?
If there is a 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-
cradle injury in 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 Democratic state convention
at San Jose, and he has no hesitation in
saying that he will send in his resigna-
ton as a member of that body unless
this person is expunged from such mem
bership.
No honest Democrat desires to sully
his unselfsh 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 Oro 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. Gafey, if they have paid them
anything, have thrown their money
away. The outrages at the polls Satur-
day week have created a sense of over
mastering indignation amongst the citi-
zens of the city of Los Angeles, and in
the country 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
no they are job lot of shysters and
tricksters, to be handled by Mr.. John
7. Gaffey, late from Santa Cruz, with a
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 Phila-
delphia, presided over by the Hon. Billy
McMullin, of holy, 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
parties nothing more than agencies for
perpetuating 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
rebuking misbehavior in it's servants.
We may also be permitted to quote that
old, time-honored adage, that "two
wrongs never make right"
That afterwards, to-wit: On the Goth
day of July, 1890, the said J. D. Lynch,
one of the defendants herein, at the law
Office of Stephen Nj. White, in the city
of Los Angeles, county of Los Angeles
and state of California, did publicly as
sert that the plaintiff herein was the
person to whom he had reference in the
foregoing article as having served a
term OF Imprisonment in San Quentin,
in words and language as follows, to-wit
II never saw Mr.. Nicoletti before; 1
have no animosity towards him, but I
have right to make the issue which l
did. Mr.. Nicoletti, l was told, had
made a murderous assault with knife
on some person; that he had been i'm
prisoned and tried and that the Jury
had disagreed; that he was then re-
tried and acquitted; the use of the term
San Quentin was perhaps wrong"
That said language was published of
and concerning the plaintiff by the de-
fendants, as aforesaid, with the intent
and meaning to convey, and the same
was, by the persons who read said Ian
guage, so published, understood and be-
Iieved to convey charge that plaintiff
1,oI oorvad q tarrn of impriaOnmanf in