Los Angeles herald., 1892-08-29
CAN ALL THESE THINGS Be?
Charges By the 'Goody-Goody'
Republican Element.
State of Affairs Existing Among the
ssHOlier Than Thous."
In the Second Ward the Ring Thus Far
Has Decidedly the Best OF 1t.
ghe Democratic County
Convention


made by various Republicans in this
city to get fair play ct the party prima-
ries, which are to be held next Friday.
The voters of this county have been go
often told that the Republican party OF
Southern California embodied all of the
noble, the patriotic and the truly good
citizens. that they hold up their hands
in holy horror at the charges Republi-
cans are making against Republicans.
The brethren seem to be unable to dwell
together in peace, and the consequence
is that some startling allegations have
come to the surface. The leaders OF one
wing refer to the leaders of the other as
ballot-box suffers, repeaters, thugs,
FOUNDERS, creatures, swashbucklers, etc.
THE "BLooDY" SECOND.
Now take the second ward, for in
stance. The ring has long been able to
control every delegation that has sat in
Republican convention from that
borough. The ring has for years carried
every primary election of the highly
moral Republican party that has been
held in the ward, by fair means or by
foul. Despite all the efforts made to
overthrow them the leaders of the ring
have triumphed. When they were out
voted they had trusty and tried men in
charge to stuff the box, 30 it is said.
At the last primary, though, the ring
had close shave in the second. They
only elected their ticket by from one to
nine votes, according to the count of the
votes in the box. But one of the
| judges at the primary election after
ward admitted that he stuffed
the box in the interests of the ring to
the extent OF eighty-seven bsllots. Be
! this as it may, the ring does not pro-
pose to have any such breadth es-
cape in the Second ward again.
THE COMMITTEE HELPS.
In this noble endeavor, it seems to
be backed up by all of the machinery OF
the party. They have given to the ring
the officers of election, and have located
the polling place in an inaccessible
| place at the behest of the cabal. A per-
son has been named ss a Judge of the
election who has never figured in the
great register of the voters of this
county, ard against whose character
charges are made by Republicans them.
selves.
Inaemuch as the charges of fraud
come from their own party and no effort
is made to disprove them, there is good
reason toabelieve that they are true
The polling place in the Second ward is
at the corner Of New High and Ord
streets. 1t seems that more accessible
and more desirable location might
have been secured. Certainly, the party
that embodiee all of the eelf-constitutee
purity extant, is not forced to put
primary polling place in locality notet
for scarlet women and low groggeries
Yet this has been done, despite healty
and vigorous protests.
THE REASON WHY.
The reason why such practices ar,
pursued can be given. The machin,
does not want and does not intend tha
the respectable Republicans of the Sec
ond ward shall vote at the primary elec
tion without great and unnecessar,
trouble. They propose to disfranchisl
as many Republicans as they possibly
can by locating the polling place at al
out OF the way point, where the sur
roundiDgs are such 40 to cause the ten
der sensibilities of the ''goody -goody'
element to be greatly shocked.
The aforesaid "goody-goody" element
however, is just now quite active. They
are fighting for what they term thei,
rights to get an honest primary election
Their labors with the executive commit
tee of the Republican county centra
committee have thus far come tc
naught. In fact, they have been cruelty
snubbed by the executive committee
And now what they propose to do is tc
| hold separate primary of their own
and elect set of delegates " no think al
they do. Then the county convention
itself will have to decide which delega
| ton is entitled to seats on the floor Of th.
/ convention. The result will be one Of
two things. Either the entire Second
ward will be thrown out, or the delega.
| tion elected at the corner of Ord anc
New High streets will be seated. In
either event the ring will win.
THE BOYS IN THE SEVENTH.
/ Down in the Seventh ward the Re
publicans are also very considerably dis
satisfied over the dea, they have got OF
the coming primary, at the hands .aI4 o
| the Republican machine. H'he "Hoile
than thou" party in this waro is paoiJ
! split up. The colored contings.rt. i
considerably stirred up. At the Ia
primary they were not allotted a eingle
delegate, although they claim that there
are 250 negro voters in the ward,
The consequence is, they say
that they are against the ring
this time. But then it is hard to tell
where they are. The cohorts of ex-
Constable Fred Smith have in the past
controlled the delegations from the
Seventh ward in Republican conyen-
tions, and it looks very much as though
they would do so this time. The cleo
tion officers are E. Blennerhassett. G..
M. Smell and G. HI. Kolle. They are all
with Smith in bis fight. 1t is said that
there will be three tickets in the field in
the Seventh at next Fridays primary.
THE FIGHT IN THE EIGHTH.
Down in the Eighth ward there will
also be merry time. The polling place
is at the co ner of Arcadia and Los
Angeles street, and the election officers
seem to be satisfactory. Everybody
comedies the ward to Jim Meredith, in
bis fight for county clerk, but who it
will go for as to the shrievalty nomina-
ton, it is difficult to say. Here is where
the rupture will be. The forces of Me-
Toiu oud Ciiua aaarn IN ha O ho,,& avo,1..