Los Angeles herald., 1891-02-05
DEFENCE OF SENATOR CAR
PEN1.ER.
He INDUCES in Copious Denials-He
Says that He was Misrepresented.

He Indu1ges in Copious Denials-He
Says that He was Misrepresented.
EDITORS HERALD: For your cores
pondent in your issue of the 9th ult., l
have neither ink or thought. 1t is diff
ferent with the HERALD. When a repu-
table newspaper makes mis-statements,
tending to injure my usefulness in the
service Of my constituency, 1 regard it
as duty to make the proper correc-
tions. 1 shall not initiate the tone OF
the HERALD in its article Of the 2Sth ult.
First. did nothing and said moth
ing to arouse the resentment of Senator
Campbell or any other senator. NY ar
gument was that the p1oposers of the
new county were actuated by motives of
personal self-interest, in the shape of
lot for county buildings, the erection OF
the same, and the long catalogue of
officers necessary to complete the county
organization. l attempted to show that
there was no necessity for another
county. That Pomona was within easy
distance Of Los Angeles, and that the
welfare OF the people, the prosperity of
the county, would not be benefited by
the division, and, in this connection.
said the argument was one of coin.
Second. There was nothing in my
speech ''outraging Senator McComas,"
unless contradiction of his statements
made in his speech before the committee
in regard to Los Angeles city may be
regarded as such. Those statements
were that the city OF San Francisco, with
her city and county government, is run
at less rate than the city of Los Angeles
for its city government" that we were
endeavoring to increase the number OF
our judges and courts; "that most of
these cases are felonies committed in
and around the slums of Los Angeles,
while we of the interior are called upon
to put up the coin to pay for those court
expenses; )" 1--WE ask to be released from
the obligations of standing by corrupt
government that is fastened like mill
stone around our necks and is dragging us
down continually; this government that
lie badly conducted, that is corruptly
conducted" that "on the 1st day Of
January, 1891, there were 100grand jurors
subp9naed to investigate the conduct of
our officers, and on the same day one
thousand jurors were subpoenaed to be
in attendance on these COURTS" "that
there are ten volumes of the delinquent
roll )" there are fourteen under sheriffs
and deputies in Los Angeles county,
mainly to keep the peace of Los Angeles
city; LOS Angeles city says to us,go ,and
we give you our blessing when you 60 II
have been beseeched by the bankers
and capitalists of that city who are ask
ing us to come in six miles nearer; l
told them we didn't want to do it, there
is an element there that would not be
nV ~ .1o1
we take in great big hog and hominy
am sorry to say. Los Angeles says, come
in and take the surplus territory
If the denial of these statements and
the assertion that the people of the city
of Los Angeles are law-abiding, intelli-
gent, industrious and honorable people,
be to outrage my colleague, the state
ment of the HERALD is correct.
Third. neither DETAINED or assaulted
or denounced the Jewish race. The
substance of what / said in that con-
nection was, that the unjust policy of
most of the nationalities of the earth
for the last fifteen hundred years had
made the Jewish race one of traders and
bankers, that as rule they did
not take root in the soil, but
were devoted to mercantile and
monetary transactions. That could see
no other reason for these Jewish ner-
chants to sign the petition for the divis-
ion of the county than the increase or
continuance OF trade in the territory pro-
posed to be set off. spoke of the race
in the language Of eulogy. Ifthis was
not the reason for the signing Of the Pc
tition to dismember the great county OF
Los Angeles, / cannot imagine what was