Los Angeles herald., 1892-08-26
beat the city out Of $500 at one fell
THEY ALL GOT PASSES.

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swoop.
THEY ALL GOT PASSES.
1t turns out that the kindly feelings
which the Eve or elk members of tn
city council manifested toward the cir
Gus people, was rewarded. Every mem
Der of the council got free tickets of ad
| mission to the show, but the city go
mulcted in the sum of $500.
OF one of the municipal statesmen il
is said that he was asked how many
tickets he wanted. His reply was
"Well, have nine in my family" II
was modest request, cleverly put. His
honor, Mayor Hazard, got 10 free tick
| cts.
Councilmen Rhodes and Afford admit
that they consented to the tax collector
getting only $500 out of the circus. They
thought that the license of $500 per day
was too high, anyway. 1t was sug.
gested that II they thought 30. why did
they not have the license ordinance
amended?
THE DEMOCRATS FREE FROM TAINT.
The Democratic councilmen, Nickel
and Innes, never heard anything about
the circus license being reduced. They
supposed until yesterday that the ordi-
nance had been enforced. They were
never asked if it would be all right to
permit it to be violated by the circus
people. Councilman McGarry was also
ignorant of the fact that the laws of the
municipality had not been enforced.
''wHERE ARE WE AT?"
The proposition is simply this. If the
council passes an ordinance and five
members tell an officer that it will be all
right to violate it, the inquiry, "Whither
are we drifting?" becomes timely. All
Of these members are Republicans at
that. Does a majority of the council
pass an ordinance to have it enforced, or
just for fun?
Mayor Hazard is highly indignant
over the matter. He roareth with great
vigor, and says that it is wrong. 1t GER
tainly does look like an unfair discrim-
ination against Los Angeles business
men and merchants, as we'll as q viola
tion Of law. 1t is time for change.
From the Express of this or some other after
noon.l
"The HERALD contains an entirely
uncalled for attack on City Tax Collec-
tor Thompson. We know whereof we
speak, for Mr.. Thompson did not call
for it, the Union League did not call for
it, and we did not call for it; though
we are not tailers and do not live in
Tooley street, the above assertion set
ties it, for we are the people, in our
minds.
The HERALD has the hardihood to
state that Mr.. Thompson only collected
one days license Of $500 from Sells' cir
Gus, when he should have received that
amount for each of the two days' per-
formancea given. With it's usual indif-
ference to facts, the HERALD attempts to
prove these libellous statements by cit
ing the city ordinance covering such
matters, and printing statement that
Mr.. Thampson admitted the act, and
further, that Mr.. George McLain, Re-
publican candidate for sheriff, acted az
Sells Brothers. agent in the matter.
The malevolence of the attack can
be seen at glance, as all the
parties spoken of are Republicans, and
no Democratic members of the city gov
ernment had anything to do with the
matter. Can anything be more rabidly
partizan than this? Somehow or other
all the exposures made by the HERALD
have been about Republicans; the nat
uralization record-changing matter, that
insignificant case of the great register
contract, Judge Smiths and District At
torney MacLachlan's shortcomings,
and others too numerous to mention,
have all implicated Republicans, and
more than that, they have all been
members of that great and good organi-
zation, the Union League.
This fact shows that notwithstanding
Mr.. Thompson's admission OF his act,
there is nothing in the story. It is
painful for US to make 80 many excuses
for our friends, the Office holders, but
we propose to fight it out on an apollo
getic line, as long az the HERALD con-
tinues to print unkind, uncalled for ex-
posures.
Business men of the city who never
have their licenses reduced by the city
tax collector, through the agency of Mr..
George p. McLain (who, as stated, ex-
poets to be sheriff), may feel slightly
annoyed at Mr.. Thompson's amiable
action in the license matter; but thew
must admit that the circus was a beau
tiful affair. The little fact that they
paid for their tickets, and that the great
and good Union Leaguers, who form the
city government, had passes for them
selves and families, should not prevent
them from acknowledging Mr.. Thomp-
sons services, and will doubtless secure
a unanimous sheriff nomination for Mr..
McLain. They should remember. alec
that as far as the two gentlemen named
are concerned, the circus is by no means
over.
We have tried to shut the HERALD
up, but, somehow or other, it will con-
tinue its uncalled for career. The
people should avoid reading it. The
Express gives the same news in the
afternoon that the HERALD has already
published in the morning. Why don't
people take the Express? We do not
see why they read the HERALD, any
way. It never is considerate OF the
Union League, and ita course should be
generally condemned. Ya