Los Angeles herald., 1892-10-18
]. DeBARTH SHORB.

a Republican Compliment for the Next
County Treasurer.
The Alhambra, q Republican paper
published at Alhambra, near where
Mr.. Shorb lives, pays that gentle
man the following handsome compli-
ment in its issue of October 18th. The
reasons it gives why Mr.. Shorb should
be voted for are very good. The Repub-
licans, especially the farmers and fruit.
growers, are getting ready to give the
present extravagant county government
q decided rebuke next month.
WHY WE SHALL VOTE FOR Mr.. sHoRB.
The voters of Alhambra will cast their
ballots for Mr.. Shorb for county treas.
urer because he is candidate for nom
partisan office, and because Mr.. Banbury
has held the Office two terms, which is
long enough, according to the traditions
OF all parties, and especially of the Re-
publican party.
Mr.. Shorb did not seek the office; in
fact, he would have preferred to have
declined, as he did the nomination for
congress-, which he has declined more
than once.
MIR. Shorb has been in public life, Civ
ing his county and the state valuable
service for years, all without a cent of
pay; and now that he has been urged
by his friends in both the great parties
pleasant duty for his neighbors,
been benefited by his public deeds, to
give him the testimonial he has go Justly
| earned, by casting our votes for him on
| November 9th for the office. Alhambra,
without distinction of party, asks the
voters throughout the county to join
them in making Mr.. Shorb's election an
overwhelming vote, as testimonial to
his past services.
As business man, no one man we
ever saw was his superior. His
promptness in all matters is proverb
with those who have had long business
relations with him, as the writer can
testify. We have been closely identified
with the horticultural interests of this
section for over IA years, and we took
our first lesson and our last one from
Mr.. Shorb. He has always been the
warmest friend of the fruit grower.
Mr.. Shorb has been a member of the
vitlcultural commission of this state
from it's organization, being appointed
and re-appointed by the various COVER
nors in that time, and today MI Shorb
is the foremost man in the state in
pushing the various interests of the
vineyard. spending hundreds of dollars
out of his own pocket for that purpose.
1t may not be generally known, but
the official records of the state and ma
tion give Mr.. j. de Barth Shorb credit
for the idea and plan of securing the
vedalia, that saved our orange orch ards
from destruction. Mr.. Shorb went to
San Francisco to urge Mr.. McCoppin,
commissioner of the United States to
the Australian exposition, to secure a
parasite that Mr.. Shorb had learned of
through personal friends and corre-
| spondence. Securing Mr.. McCoppin's q
consent he helped to secure the neces-
sary aid from the department of agri-
culture and department of state to carry
out his ideas that have been worth
millions of dollars to this country. This
is the man we, who know him best, de-
light to honor.
Mr.. Shorb was for years president of
the Southern California Horticultural
society that did 30 much to transform
the COW counties to the garden of the
world.
The people of this county owe it to
themselves to elect Mr.. Shorb as county
treasurer by an overwhelming majority.