Los Angeles herald., 1892-07-17
FUSION OR BANKRUprcYq ?

til pretty evident that the Union
League outfit, who have foisted upon us
system of local government that costs
us $4,000 per diem, exclusive of the ex-
pense attendant upon municipal govern
ment, are not in politics from sanitary
motives. The closer that one looks
about him, the more he sees that an
army of men and women who have long
since fallen out with hard work and
shaken hands with what little industry
they ever may have possessed, are to be
maintained at the public crib as con-
sumers OF taxes for an indefinite period.
And this in the name of a party which
claims to be the only real champion of
human liberty and the only consistent
advocate of good government.
Let any man who doubts our assertion
go into any one of the departments of
our county government and satisfy him.
self whether we ''speak by the card" or
utter a falsehood. 1t is the same
in all of them-a legion of depu-
ties hired by the year, regardless
of aptitude for the positions they hold
or of need for their services. In the
meantime, with all this expense of half
idle people drawing liberal salaries at
the expense OF an overtaxed commu-
| nifty, the ends of justice were never as
poorly served as now. Property holders
pay their taxes with punctuality and
then have their property advertised for
sale to the highest bidder to reimburse
the county for taxes already paid; or,
perhaps, to enable some tax collector to
make fees to which he never was once
entitled. Criminals are brought before
the bar of justice with ''ploof as strong
as holy writ" against them. The hungry
array of brieaess barristers whom our
district attorney has deputized, at the
dictation OF the machine, have these
cases called up in court and then "dis-
missed for want of evidence"
Just as long as the battle is fought
upon strictly partisan lines, just so Ion G
will these abuses continue. The great
army OF grasshopper-dodgers that came
into this county in the boom Of 1885,
vote the Republican ticket, and will
| continue to do so. If we put up a
straight Democratic ticket. it means
that our property holders will continue
to be devoured by these Republican
locusts. The only remedy lies in a
fusion with the Peoples party. That's
the way to drive the iron into the Re-
publicans' souls.
Marion Cannon, who aspires to seat
in congress by the votes Of the People,
party, spoke here last night. Whatever
difference OF opinion there may be as to
his oratorical accomplishments, there
can be no doubt of the integrity of his
motives. If he can lead an allied army
of Democrats, coupled with his own inn
mediate partisans, to victory in this
tax-ridden county of Los Angeles, we
would as soon see him so to congress as
| any man we can name. II the election
of president comes down to contest in
the house of representatives, we have no
| fear that Marion Cannon win vote for
Benjamin Harrison.
1t ia only through fusion OF the
Democratic forces with the Peoples
party that we can look for dethrone-
ment of the teredos that are devouring
the fabric of our county government.
If everybody looks at the case as we do
the proposition of fusion will seem to
them as holy gospel as was ever
preached. We are strong in the Demo-
cratic faith, but we look upon fusion
with the Peoples party as the only way
to save Los Angeles county from Repub-
lican rule in the present and from bank
ruptcy in the near future.
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