Los Angeles herald., 1891-11-08
THE HERALD RIGHT. AS ALWAYS.

THE HERALD RIGHT, AS ALWAYS.
The issue of our esteemed evening
contemporary of yesterday is almost
pathetic. 1t positively cannot get over
its reverential feeling towards Governor
Markham, Gen. E. P. Johnson, the
board of supervisors and the local lead
ers of the Republican party. Its feel
ings towards these gentlemen are very
much on the order of the ecstatic lover
in Tom Moore's poem:
know not, care Motif quilts in thy heart,
but know that love thee, whatever thou art.
Now this is all very pretty. 1t speaks
of deathless devotion to the men who
undoubtedly need limitless loyalty.
But, outside of super-sentimental people.
it is all ''mere leather and prunella.
The taxpayers care little for the Elk.
press's conformation of the short
comings of it's party leaders. They
are interested solely in their
ducats, which have been hornswoggled
to most extraordinary degree. The
fact that Governor Markham in his ca
pacity of president and principal stock
holder of the Los Angeles Furniture
company has been able to appropriate a
good many of them does not please them
in the least.
The Express assumes that we know
very little about the details of the monu-
mental steals in furnishing the new
court house and the Whittier reform
school. We admit that, as to details,
we are not as fully informed as we shall
be. We are in hopes that the grand
jury, whose opportunities of information
could he made overwhelming, in author
ity, extent and energy, will do
much of this business for us, thus
lessening both our labor and expense.
If they shall do so, as we have every
reason to believe they will, the HERALD
will not be obliged itself to employ a
furniture expert to go over the court
house to make estimates of what its fur
nishing should have cost. No consid-
Grafton for persons in high station ought
to restrain the grand jury for moment
in probing this jobbery to the bottom.
Intelligent people think that the fur
nishing of the new court house ought
not to have cost over $40, 900 at the out
side. If, out of regard to the governor
of the state and his business asso-
ciates, this amount has been run
up to $S2,000-as far as ascer-
tained-the people are entitled to
know all the facts. In any case there is
extravaganza, and there is every reason
to believe that there has been robbery,
both in the furnishing of the new court
house and the Whittier reform school.
In throwing itself into the breach this
| journal is actuated solely by devotion to
the interests of the taxpayers of Los
Angeles, and by respect to common
decency, which would keep the gov
srnor g. {. 4 great etate like California out
Of making a proae.t out OF peddling fur
niture dickers.
Our esteemed contemporary refers to
some observations made by the HERALD
quite while ago, and which were based
upon some purported expert work OF
one Moore, Edgar, OF that ilk. This
person was employed by the Citi-
zens Protective association, which
comprised many OF our most
valuable citizens, and which was
presided over by Mr.. Louis Lich-
tenberger. Moore visited US personally
and assured us that he had discovered a
defalcation of large amount in the ac-
counts of County Tax Collector Omri
Bulls. The Express INDUCES in the
laughable supposition that the conduc-
tors of the HERALD did not know that
Mr.. Bulls was Democrat. 1t is only
by this ridiculous proposition that 1t
can sustain its theory that in such mat
tiers the HERALD is blindly partizan.
We assure our contemporary that, in
such matters, "Tyrian and Trojan are
alike to u.s." Mr.. Moore's strong per-
sonal representation, backed by the
highly respectable company he kept, led
us to believe that there was some
thing in his statements. He has
since acted in such an unaccountable
manner that we count his narratives for
nothing. His repeated promises to
make good his statements, coupled with
his repeated failures, have led US to be-
lieve that his pretentious manifestos be-
long to the category of fairy stories, al
though exceedingly dull ones.
We can further assure our Jealous
evening contemporary that we are now
on very fresh and promising trail, and
that in this case our reliance is upon the
grand jury, in the first instance, and
upon furniture, not an accountant ex-
pert, in the second. The governor Of
the state should not be allowed to job
in furniture.