Los Angeles herald., 1892-08-12
LIT rHr DEMOCRATS co IN AND WIN

LET THE DEMOCRATS GO IN AND WIN
There 10 sometimes something very
peculiar about the practical develop.
ments of politics. At time when sue.
cess is just plainly ahead Democrats are
difident or doubtful. When success,
rosy and pink flushed, is about to perch
on the banners of party its leaders are
faint-hearted and dispirited. This is the
case of the Democratic party in Los An
geles county today.
ANY one who will look over the politi-
cal announcements in the HERALD will
know exactly what we mean. In the
expansive advertising columns of this
paper there is scarcely Democrat who
dares to allow his name to figure. And
yet he is all wrong. Although he does
not know it, this is the acceptable year.
The people are tired of local bureau
cracy. They are tired of being taxed out
! of house and home. They are
ennui both of the assessor and of the
tax collector. Multitudes of people,
| who fondly imagine that they had Sc
cured home. after years of privation,
find that they are still, through the
prodigality of the Republican bosses of
Los Angeles county, Obliged to pay q
high rent, and that the fee simple OF
their property is likely, in spite OF their
struggle, to pass into the hands OF the
tax-gatherer at some time when misfor-
tune, in the shape of sickness or some
other mieadventure, strikes hard on the
hearthstone.
| Why should this be 80? Why should
hard-working man or woman, who has
done the best possible to keep the wolf
from the door, be liable to be pulverized
or paralyzed by the hard hand OF the
tax-gatherer, following the more than
hard hand Of the tax-eater?
Ii there is any reason why this should
be so we would like to know it. We are
not obdurate, but we are insistent to the
, point OF knowing why-except for the
extravaganza OF the Republican party
: an ordinary municipal tax in this city
: and county should amount to rent.
} The columns of the HERALD are open
to the solution OF this enigma. AS far
as we can see, it simply rests in. the in
satiate NAV of Republican clique that
is intoxicated with success in the past,
and is insanely hopeful of success in the
future. In this last, however, they are
counting without their host. The reck-
oning is fallacious indeed if the Repub-
lican masses are credited with a GER
, tain amount of horse sense. Why
should the people, who have go often
: been assured that they possess all the
decency and all the intelligence, be the
tools-or continue to be the tools-of 9
| lot of selfish and scheming politicians
} Echo, even, would find it difficult te
J furnish an answer to this plain, common
sense question. Is there anything il
) the personnel of the Union League tha
should make its members indispensable
to the well-being OF the people of Lo
r Angeles county, Democratic or Repub
e lican? Upon what meat have these ou
+ local Caesars fed that they have become
r so great?
The great need of the day in the city
, and county of Los Angeles is that people
! should take a common sense view d
their local affairs. This they are sure
: to do in the coming election. Blood il
thicker than water. The strained and
} splenetic programme of the Peoples
party, together with the empirical and
: irresponsible character of it's nominees
gives to the Democratic party the best
opening which has occurred in long
years past. All that this time honored
organization has to do is put forward
good men to wrest the control OF the
, county court house for years to come
! from the triflers and jobbers who, since
} its occupancy, have madeits arcades and
, corridors the scenes of interminable
] jobs OF most fagitious character.
The people are tired of seeing theil
, substance frittered away. Why should
this procession of the Union League
comprising membership of one hun
dred and eleven, occupy every niche il
our municipal buildings, both city ant
county? Many of them are handsome
: fellows, although some are by no meanl
comely enough to make Narcissus jeal
GUS. AS they can be brushed out of the
: trusts they have abused, as easily as the
dew can be brushed from grape 81
pomegranate, why should they not be
given their walking papers, to be re-
placed by honest Democrats, as tc
whom insolence in Office is not an in
: herited trait? W
If not, why not?
Are these presumptuous officials born
with a caul, that they are to be eter
nally maintained in Office, with servitorl
galore, to make their trust pleasant
and profitable one? w
We trow not. Let Democrats go in
and win.
AREPUBLICAN ScYLLA AND CHARYBDIS