Los Angeles herald., 1891-12-01

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operate under the state law, and the
mayor was in hole when he approved
the demand, although he is too stubborn
to admit it.
The mayor says (referring to me) "to
DENY him the right to deal in fiction
would be to rob him OF his stock in
trade" / propose to show that his
honor is a wholesale dealer in fc6on.
Let us see how great and sudden the
emergency was for him to get that $25
| to 90 to Sacramento. January 31st he
was convinced that it was his duty to go
north to get the bill amending charter
passed. He must 60 Immediately, as
the time in which bills could be intro
duced was drawing to close. On this
| day he drew from the city treasury his
January salary, $500. Apparently this
was not quite enough money to take him
to Sacramento in proper style, because
on this same day he explained to City
Clerk Teed that he did not have the
necessary funds to go, and must abandon
the trip, because the time was too
short to bring the matter in the usu
al way before the council. Well,
time was feeting and our city would 60
to the dogs if Mayor Hazard did not 60
to Sacramento and prevent the mis-
chief. | am glad to see, according to
his own intimation, that he was reluc-
tant about taking money out OF this
fund, but he finally yielded to the i'm
portunities of the city clerk, and on
January 81 check was drawn for $25
on the emergency fund. The need of
his honor's presence at the state capi-
tol was becoming extraordinary, but the
treasurer was not called on for that $25
until February 2. Having at last sue
ceeded IN getting his hand into the
treasurer Through this little back
door," you will all imagine that he
started north without delay to save us
from impending ruin; but he did not.
The emergency was not so great after he
got the money. About February this
pompous tin-and-tinsel savior of our
city started leisurely north. Now,
what need OF all this bosh and pathos
about the emergency of his going?
Why all this subterfuge and fiction
about the impossibility of getting this
appropriation from the council in the
usual way? On the very day that
Mayor Hazard drew the $25 from the
emergency fund, February 2, this coun-
Gil held its regular meeting; still our
immaculate mayor has the superlative
gall to tell the intelligent people of this
city that it was impossible for him to
obtain this money in. the usual way.
Here is fiction with vengeance. To
call this fiction is an outrage on charity,
but it is best to err on the side of
mercy. The mayor says: "Goddle-
mighty never made the man who caught
him in hole he could not get out
Of" He can make an ingenious
laI1ar xx-ifh htc
which he climbs. Now I ask our dis
cerning citizens whose cheek should
blush with confusion? Whose head
should hang in shame? Verify "Our
Harry can beat "old Harry" in the
prevarication business. The mayor for
gets the adage which says, those who
do not tell the truth should have good
memories. This rollicking romancer
says he sent and obtained railroad tick
cts for himself and wife, for which he
subsequently paid $50. He procured
railroad passes and he knows they were
passes, although he calls them tickets.
When he returned from Sacramento he
probably thought he could make little
political capital if he insisted on paying
his fare? After procuring and using
these passes he has the effrontery to tell
the public that "ride on free pass
and lunchat the city's expense" The
mayor is like the smart thief, who,
when being pursued began to shout
''stop thief himself, and thus divert
attention from himself to others. When
he catches my wife and myself riding to
Sacramento and back on free pass /
will agree to place twice the amount of
the fare in the treasury of fthe Orphans
home. l believe on two occasions l
have taken lunch at the city's expense,
when the members Of the council, news
paper representatives and a number of
civil engineers took trip to inspect the
sewer route. Fifty cents will more than
pay for all the lunches have had at the
expense of the city, and the mayor
knows that the bills for the lunches and
wagon hire on those occasions were pre-
sented in a proper manner and no at
tempt was made to smuggle the money
out of, the emergency fund.
As to othe $54 illegally drawn by the
mayor from the emergency fund May
10th, beg to inform his honor that this
council was in session the day before
and if requested could on that day have
provided sum in the regular way to
meet the expected demands for jury
fees, and further, If an emergency re-
quires it, meeting OF the council can
be called in ore hour. The mayor claims
that the council authorized him to hire
O'Melveny & Henning by referring this
matter to him. Ichallenge him to show
where this council referred the case to
him. He took it voluntarily, and he,
being a lawyer, the members of the
council thought he wanted an opportu-
nifty to again display his forensic force
and would therefore conduct the case
himself The HERALD of November 9th
reported that Mayor Hazard had stated
that he had paid these attorneys their
fee himself, but Mr.. Henning told me
only last Saturday that the fee was yet
unpaid. so that was another bit of fic-
ton.
/ cannot recall single message in
which he did not, either by innuendo or
crafty manipulation of words, distort
and misconstrue the facts, so as to cast
discredit and others, and promote his
own agrandizemeht. He is prolific in
subtle resources, and never short OF a
subterfuge. In his last veto message,
he says: 81 return contract with +.
Chenoweth unsigned, because it pro-
vides for payment for grading this street
out OF general funds" He knew very
we'll that the contract was only for plac-
ing gravel on a twenty-foot strip on
Central avenue, and not for grading in
the legal acceptation of that term. Ii
his honor imagines that [ have been