Los Angeles herald., 1892-04-20
WEDNESDAY, APRIL go, 1892.
THE PEOPLE WILL TAKE HAND.

some interesting interchanges of com
pliments between the two Republicaf
papers of Los Angeles. The Express
has been indulging in doubleleadee
editorials for some days past in which i
attacks bossism, and it directs goot
deal of effusive eloquence at "boss'
whom it does not name, but plainly
indicates. 1t says that the proceeding
of the coming Republican county con
vention are already cut and dried, tha
the delegates have even now been deter
mined upon, and the distribution ha
already been made of the county ant
city offices. That such programme
has been arranged, and that an attempt
will be made to carry it out, we do not
doubt. The Republican leaders, ely
ing upon their numerical strength al
shown in the elections for some yearl
back, think they have bill of sale O
tine party in this county. They make
no allowance for the fact that they may
encounter a recalcitrant disposition upon
the part of people they undertake to
deliver as so many chattels.
The voters of Los Angeles of both
parties are not unaware of the fact that
great center of bossism has been
growing up in this city and county. 1t
is crvstallized in the Union League.
This organization has it's adherents in
every office of city or county, or, rather,
it monopolizes all the offices, with a few
insignificant exceptions. 1t is emphat-
ically "high roller" club, which must
be run on high-pressure principles. 1t
must convert its henchmen into super
numeraries, for whose elegant leisure
the people have to pay. The controllers
of this club have organized scheme of
lavish expenditures in the city and
county. They have pressed the outlays
until the ordinary citizens taxes yearly
amount to moderate rent. They have
grown insolent and proscriptive in thei r
long use and abuse of power. They
have become as very Belshazzars on a
small scale, and they have no
fear of Daniel come to judgment.
Our spending is on scale of magnii-
cence that is only equaled by the
poverty of what we have to show for all
this outlay. Officials of all kinds are 80
numerous that they are in danger of
falling over each other in the different
city and county buildings. The convic-
ton that there will be no time of reck.
oning has led these Tite Barnacles OF
Los Angeles county to believe that they
can do what they please. Republicans
of merit who will not bow down to this
Union League cabal have no more
chance OF attaining political prefer
ment than they have of seeing wings
sprout out on their shoulders.
And yet these people are not omnipo
tent. 1t is true that they can "down'
anybody who refuses to knuckle to them
in convention. They can shut him
hopelessly out OF any chance of ad-
vancement in his own party. Yet they
by no means own him. He is still a
freeborn American citizen and it is in his
power to shatter the suprema
which has of late years made the tax
payers look so pale about the gills. The
days OF paying $500 for $1OO clocks-for
clocks that are worth nothing-and OF
the appointment of street commissioners
who charge small fortune for opening
q street; OF road overseers who build no
roads. and who yet make the county
treasury lock like patient who had
bsen recently phiebotomized the day
of all these things can be brought to a
sudden close. All the people have to do
is to act independently in local affairs.
AhcIc IL CciIdiuiy HO Hdlloual pOlltlcS III
the choice of our judges, OF our super
visors, sheriffs, county clerks, district
attorneys, and so on. The little differ
ences concerning the tariff, the silver
question, the Bering ses controversy
the Chilean indemnity, and what not,
can all be adjusted without regard to
how the Los Angeles Republican OF
Democrat shall vote on local issues.
The Express makes its appeal to a
certain portion of the Republican voters
who have been left ont of the "com.
bine." The HERALD appeals to the
people at large. Why should lot OF
political tricksters and jobbers be al
lowed to rule and ruin Los Angeles
county? Why should two citizens, each
of whom has an interest in having both
the city and county of Los Angeles gov