Los Angeles herald., 1892-10-16
"FGUREs THAT WON'T LIE"
The Hon. H. G. Dillon Tells
Where the Money Goes.
Ecathing Rebuke of Extravagant
officials.
How Public Funds Are Used to Control
ttons-Retrenchment and Re-
form the Watchword of the
Campaign.


ney, Mr.. Dillon, nominee of both the
Peoples and Democratic parties, spoke
as follows, and we reproduce it to our
readers. as the ablest presentation OF
county affairs we have yet seen. We
are informed that the facts were COM
piled by an expert accountant, and can
be relied upon as exact.
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN Accept my
grateful thanks for your hearty greeting.
Upon my farm and home at Cerritos, IL
miles south of here, l have long been q
neighbor to the people of Downey. In
former times you have known me as
Farmer Dillon" and as such we have
a friendly acquaintance in the Alliance.
Tonight l greet you as Lawyer Dillon"
nominee of the Peoples and Democratic
parties, for district attorney of this
great county. These gentlemen who
surround me on the platform are lead
ing representatives of those great parties.
Backed by such power and influence.
there ought to be no doubt OF my cleo
ton, and indeed there is none. AS /
travel over the county, and talk to and
with the people, and read the quiet de-
termination in their faces, am more
and more convinced that victory awaits
the people in November, such as has
not been seen since the first election of
Abraham Lincoln. The people are tired
of ring rule and boss rule. The unscru-
pulous use of money in our elections,
by men who have grown rich and inso-
lent out of special privileges conferred
upon them by the people, has at last
aroused us to the great danger now
threatening our institutions. To use the
language of Marion Cannon in his letter
of acceptance, "The people of this coun-
try are engaged in a gigantic struggle to
free themselves from the exactions of
corporations which have been builtup by
grants of sovereign power, and fattened
with gifts of land and special privileges
denied to individuals. These corpora.
tions have grown to be so powerful ard
become 80 insolent in their strength, as
to virtually take the reins of govern
ment into their own hands. They die
tate nominations, debauch our legisla-
lures, corrupt the ballot box, and pollute
even our courts of justice. 1t is high time
that all lovers of liberty, all believers in
good government, all who hope to have
and enjoy the full product of their toll,
the wage-earners, the producers and
consumers, the independent men of all
parties should rally to the defense of
our homes, and present an unbroken
front against these producers of poverty,
these insidious foes of free govern
.ment."
In the languague of Mr.. Cleveland,
s'it is condition and not a theory
which confronts u.s." The demands of
the Peoples party are not to be answered
by the jeering question of party
whips: ''What ticket did you vote last
year?" My genial opponent, Mr.. Nc
Lachlan, cannot frighten the independ-
ent Democrats and Republicans now
in our ranks, back into the
old party folds, either by cursing the
Peoples party, or by exhibiting
chariot wheel, as horrible example
of a Republican who turned Democrat,
and now finds once more his
refuge and his consolation in
'grandfather's hat" Mr.. Ling tells
the people that he did not leave the
Democratic party, but the Democratic
party left him, standing solitary and
alone, l suppose, as the only example of
virtue ever in it. This reminds me of a
political campaign in Colorado. Jim Bel
1OTu, WhO OnCC ICP1 CcOhiC0 lllC INCputll-
cans of that state in congress, left the
celebrated canvass that year he defined
his position, and told the people every
where that he had not left the Republi-
can party, but the Republican party had
left him. In the course of his travels he
finally reached the summit of the Rocky
mountains. at Leadville, and there he
fell, like McGinty, to the bottom of the
sea. He had no sooner told the miners
how the Republicans had left him, than
an Irishman in the rear of the hall
yelled out: "Begorra. Mr.. Jim Belford,
it must be id name man that a
whole party will ave!'
Another four years have rolled around
and the people of this state and nation
are again called upon to choose their
public servants-thoee who shall con-
duct the business of the people, from
the Office of president to that of consta-
BILE. By what principle shall we be
guided in the selection of these men ?
Will you farm the business out to few
politicians who hold high carnival with
public funds from Washington to Los
Angeles? or will you put into
practice the same business princi-
pies upon which you select a clerk
in your store and help upon your
farms? In other words, are you going
to vote for the man or the party? In
the selection of president, you will be
compelled to divide on party lines.
Nobody will gainsay the personal fitness
or honesty of either Mr.. Harrison, Mr..
Cleveland or Gen. Weaver Each is
pledged to carry out the principles of
the platform upon which he was nomi
mated. Therefore, in voting for electors,
you will vote for principles and not for
men. But when it comes to purely ad-
ministrative Offices, like those on our
county ticket. from sheriff to consta-
BILE, no party principle is involved, and
you will be guided wholly by the fitness
of the candidates. If you are satisfied
with the way your county business has
been conducted in the past. you will
wisely retain your public servants in
their several positions of honor and
trust. If, on the other hand, you be-
lieve the trust which you reposed in
them has been abused, if you have
reason to doubt their honesty, capa-
bility or devotion to your best in
terest, you will discharge them
and put others in their places. To
use the trite saying OF Patrick
Henry. we have no light to guide us
but the lamp OF experience. We have
no way to judge the future but by the
past. Ii any man or set of men have
taken from our people. already over.
burdened, as we are, with direct and in
dirpct TOW moro of ho nro1,ate &c -,