Los Angeles herald., 1892-08-07
THE PaoPLR's TICKET.

strange faces on our streets Yesterday
rendered it perceptible that something
unusual was going on in Los Angeles.
And SO there was, for at Turner hall we
saw assembled sturdy yeomanry to the
number OF about 400 strong. During
the morning hints were thrown out that
the Democrats were willing to mske
fusion with the new party, in order to
insure a wholesome defeat of the Re-
publican ring that is shaping the'course
of Les Angeles county as closely toward
bankruptcy as it very well can go. But
the Alliance men had no use for Demo-
Gratis any more than for Republicans.
What they were after was o top-to-
bottom victory, and they would elect a
whole ticket or none.
It's all very well for these gentlemen
to put on fierce front and spurn COM
binations, if they can only win, but ii
not, this course does not speak well for
their political sagacity. We are in a
position to know that, if fusion
had been favorably regarded by
had the nominee for congressman andfour
out of the six assemblymen, together
with one-half the county offices. This
would have insured the defeat of every
Republican candidate and thoroughly
emancipated this county from the politi-
cal control of the Union league. Now
| it is too late to talk about any attempt
at a coalition. The bell has rung to
clear the course and the riders will
soon be up for the biennial race.
Should any of the Peoples party nomi-
nees meetwith defeat (and it is not
probable that they will elect one candi-
date out of five) they will have their
own greediness to blame for it.
The trouble was that there we're not
offices enough to 60 round, as matters
stood; and the idea of any of those can
didates drawing off to insure the elec-
.tion of those that remained, was not for
a moment to be thoughtof. The upshot
of this will be that three tickets will be
in the field on election day; and as the
Republicans have all the offices and all
the emoluments thereof, they will prob
ably buy up enough mercenary and
conscienceless votes to renew their hold
upon the keys of the treas
ury for the next two years.
The meeting in the evening was big
| turnout and an enthusiastic assemblage.
The presence of General Weaver and
Mrs. Lease had good deal to do with
this. Weaver made fairly good
speech, although he elucidated no great
plan nor advanced any new ideas for
governing the country. Mrs. Lease is
his superior by long odds in the art of
oratory. Anybody who expects to hear
one of the ''crowing hens,' usually to
be found~at the ordinary woman suffrage
meetings, is doomed to disappointment.
She is no longer young, but still pre-
possessing in appearance, and has evil
IDENTIFY given the rcstrum an unusual
amount of study. We did not wonder
that she made Ingalls, private citizen,
| for she is an uncommon orator and can
count out nine male speakers of every
ten.
Well, the battle lines will be drawn in
day or two and the pickets will COM
mence firing along the skirmish line.
The Democracy made a fair offer to the
Alliance people and that offer has been
contemptuously rejected. There is
nothing now left for the Democracy but to
make bold and energetic fight and to
welcome both Republicans and Populists
with bloody hands to hospitable
| graves"