Los Angeles herald., 1891-01-28
wEDNEsDAY. JANUARY rs. 1891.
4 Los ANGELES SENATOR RUNS A
MUCK.

MUCK.
An excess of zeal is often very hurtful
to . cause. The Republican press has
been so encomiastic in treating upon
Judge Carpenters speech in reply to
Goucher's eulogy on Stephen M. White
that we are afraid that the old gentle
man has lost his head. 1t is quite evi
dent that the great majority of the peo-
pie of San Bernardino and Los Angeles
counties do not desire any division OF
the splendid domain embraced in each.
Judge Carpenter, in opposing Senator
McComas's pet scheme of a Pomona
county, is doubtless in unison with nine
ont of ten of his constituents. But
there was no reason why he should
have gone out of his way to insult those
who have the formation of the new
counties at heart. There is no reason
why he should have aroused the resent
nent of Senator Campbell, OF Solano,
the chairman of the committee before
whom the matter is pending in the sem
ate. According to Mr.. Carpenters
presentation of the matter, every one
who desires to see new county of Po-
mona, new county of San Ja-
cint0, a new county of Riverside
or q new county of Glenn, is
bought. The Carpenter imputation is
that he carries in his pockets, as did
Judas of old, the thirty pieces of silver,
or the modern equivalent OF that sum,
which were found sufficient to bring
shout the betrayal of Jesus Christ of old.
This kind of talk, in addition to being
the merest logical rot" is highly hurt
fui to the cause which Carpenter is sup
posed to champion. 1t recalls the
despairing exclamation, "Save me from
my friends" There is in it something
of the SAVIOR OF being killed in the house
OF ones friends. 1t most pertinently
suggests parody on famous ejacula-
ti0n of Solomon which, in this case,
would read: "Oh that mine enemy
would make speech" As result OF
Senator Carpenters intemperance OF
the people who, in Los An
geles and San Bernardino counties, do
mot desire to see county dismember-
ment, are likely to encounter powerful
opposition in their efforts to preserve
intact the boundaries of their counties.
Insults rankle. If friends have been
made for the people who desire to form
new counties out fold ones in Southern
it will be largely owing to
Carpenters bitter tongue.
But the senator from our own imme-
diate district by no means contented
himself with insulting Senator Camp
bell and outraging Senator McComas.
Il appears that some of the petitions
Tor the formation of the county of Po-
mona happened to be signed by Jewish
merchants OF the city of Los Angeles.
Presto! Senator Carpenter must let his
tongue run riot in defamation of an
ancient and memorable race. No terms
Df insult are too venomous for his ref
erences to the House of Israel. He
nust needs regale his hearers with a
uusty. fusty story o. how some Israelite
OF legislature made his vote
hang upon two thousand reasons, mean
ing two thousand dollars, of course.
Why the senator from Los Angeles
should find it necessary to impeach a
whole race, in order to make fresh
enemies for the cause he essays to
we cannot, for the life of us,
sce. In this case the splenetic, newly
invented orator from the orange groves,
gil find that he has launched boom
srang that will knock him silly. No
man of sense in this age of the world
inds it necessary to antagonize whole
races or religions in order to adjust |
some little matter of purely local con-
eern.
Meanwhile, our Hebrew fellow-citizens
AN console themselves with the refec-
ion that other men than Carpenter
nave been compelled to hang their harps
N the willows and go out of public life.
They can also recall the splendid tribute
said by General Washington to their
lniform patriotism during the memora-
Die period of the revolution. We are
Inclined to think that the House of Is-
.ael will survive this assault, but we are
doubtful as to whether Car
,enter will. The. style OF oratory and
he kind Of arraignment which that
'entleman has sought to popularize in
california will not be signalized by any
marked, success, or we are reckoning |
Without our host. But we do not think
re are. Vale, Carpenter!
WHERE Senator John James Ingalls, |