Los Angeles herald., 1892-09-02
THE GREAT BATTLE on TODAY,
Respectables Fighting the
Court House Ring.
Imported San Francisco Jugglers to
Work the Primaries.
All Hope OF Downing the Ring Dissi-
pated-The Outlook Promising for
Trouble of Serious
Character.

Todsy the Republican primaries are to
be held, and the great battle will be
over by O'Clock tonight. Then it will
be known who the delegates to the Re-
publican county convention are, which
is to assemble next Tuesday, at Illinois
hall, to place In nomination a county
ticket.
The struggle at the primaries today
will be q momentous one. The question
at issue, within the ranks of the Repub-
lican party, is, shall the ring still con-
tinue to control as it has in the past, or
shall the decent element of the party,
which is generally inactive at primaries,
step in and have something to say about
who shall stand as the party candidates
in the present campaign.
THE POWER OF THE RING.
The truth of the matter is that the
ring has foisted upon Los Angeles county
a number Of officials who are not only
incompetent, but notably reckless in
dispensing county funds. This same
ring is responsible for the $l2 per minute
government which Los Angeles county
has today. 1t is responsible for the ex-
travagance and official rottepness exist
ing at the court house today whereby
thousands Of dollars of the taxpayers
money is dispensed among favorites of
the ring. 1t is responsible for vast
army of deputies employed at the court
house IN the various Offices, who are en-
tirely unnecessary, and who are COM
PEELED to fall over one another in mad
endeavor to find something to do. They
render no service yet they are kept upon
the pay rolls, foisted upon the count y
simply because they render service to
the ring in primaries and conventions.
These barnacles upon the people are the
ones that will be found at the primaries
today advancing the interests of the
ring.
EFFORTS UNAvAILING.
As has been before stated, the respec-
table element of the party, the element
that is moved by principles and not by
selfish interests - that element that
wants to see an honest government,
economically administrated - has not
heretofore taken much of hand ct Re-
publican primaries. The result Of it all
is that this year they find that the
party machinery is in the hands Of the
ring, and they are not in it. All of the
| machinery is dead against them. Every
demand that the respectable element
| has made of the county commit
tee, has been ignored and re-
fused. In many instances, where
the ring ticket is threatened with
defeat the ballot box is to be in the
hands of men whose characters are most
questionable. Men have been named
judges OF the primary election whose
only claim to fame is founded upon the
! fact that in the art of stuffing the ballot
box, throwing out ballots that are
known to be against them, bulldozing
voters and like primary election tricks,
they are adopts and graduates.
1t is in vain that the selfrespecting
Republicans have objected and pro-
tested. The result of it all is that
against overwhelming odds the decent
| Republicans have decided to battle
| against ballot box suffers as best they
can. They are alive to the fact that the
fight they make is a hopeless one, but
they are waging an energetic contest
just the same, and will be found out in
force today.
| TRoUBLoUs TIMES AHEAD.
There is going to be trouble at some
of the polling places or the signs of the
times are not to be believed. The out
look is most promising, for numerous
and sundry battered faces and marked
up countenances, to be. seen by O'Clock
| tonight.
1t is indeed sad to note this moral
decay in the ''Holier Than Thou" party
in Los Angeles county. The time has
arrived when the members of the party
which involves all OF the patriotism, all
of the morality and all of the respecta-
bility extant, in the country, according
to their own claims and statements, are
forced to spend thousands ofidollars, and
to form organizations to protect them
selves from the ballot box suffers, bull
dozers and prize fighters in their own
ranks, at primary election. 1t is with
feeling akin to sorrow that the HERALD
feels called upon to note these evidences
of certain and early dissolution of a
once mighty political combination.
Let it be understood, though, that
the HERALD predicts that the ring will
prevail at the primaries today. 1t 10
entrenched in power and has become
very arrogant. 1t will stop at nothin g
to retain it's much abused authority.
The outrages that will be committed in
its name at the polls will fill volumes.
Such is Republication in Los Angeles
county.
THE SECOND WARD RESPECTABLE.
In the Second ward the Republican
Protective league has issued the follow
ing circular. Two thousand copies have
been mailed to the various voters of the
ward:
We earnestly request you to support
the ticket of the Republican Protective
league of Second ward for delegates to
the county convention. The election OF
the ticket will be the most evident and
positive protest to the late manipula-
tions at the primaries, and the best as
surance of honest representation in the
future.
The ticket is unpledged, and was nom
mated by committee appointed at a
meeting held August 22d, at which a
large representation of citizens of the
Second ward were present, and was SUBJ
mitted to meeting August 31st, COM
posed of upwards OF 100 citizens of the
Second ward, for their approval, and un-
animously endorsed.
The Republican Protective League is
composed of citizens of the Second ward,
the roll has been signed by 175 repre-
sentative citizens, and is open to the
signatures of all who favor an honest
count at elections, whether primaries or
| other, and all in sympathy with the