Los Angeles herald., 1892-03-20
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"ceedings."
Did you learn that fact as to the ''pub.
lie policy and the laws of this state"
before you "iully examined" all the
other members of the late grand jury,
or did General Bouton call your atten-
tion to 1T when you attempted to brow
beat him? Now it may be that you are
endowed with judicial functions, and
that all you did in the matter was done
! by you as judicial officer, and that
your report to Judge Smith is judg-
ment in the case, and that hereafter the
accused will have plea of former jeop-
ardy. Your report to Judge Smith un-
doubtedly jeopardizes every person that
you therein attempt to defend and
whitewash. If you really are judicial
officer, hope you will not construe my
language into contempt OF court, and
send the sheriff after me as you sent
him after the late grand jurors. 1
would have to plead guilty, for the truth
is l feel most profound contempt for
you and all your kind. If you only had
power to punish by fine all persons who
hold you in contempt, what golden
harvest you could reap in Los Angeles
county at this time!
will state right here that wrote the
letter published in the HERALD under
the non.de-plume of Republican" I
am solely responsible for it. No person
other than myself saw it until it was
ready for publication. used the non
de-plume to avoid notoriety, but it was
an honest one, and although l believe
you to be an ardent Republican (for
coin) l think my Republicanism is of as
good and enduring quality as yours. I
| q UnrEin for 10 al Nf kr,b bo,
Lincoln when you were probably living
on "kail" and potatoes somewhere in
the kingdom of Great Britain. Sir, 1
wish to deal fairly with you, and candor
compels me to say that heard your Re-
publicanism and even your citizenship
doubted. Your name is not on the
great register of 1SSS-at least | am un-
able to find it there. 1t does appear on
that of 1890 as follows: Name, flames
McLachlan - age, 81; country of nativ-
ity, Scotland; occupation, lawyer, local
residence, Pasadena; naturalized by
naturalization of father. That makes
you about 80 years of age at this time.
You are no "spring chicken" You
probably have as much sense now as
ycu will ever have. Experience may
do something for you, but of that there
is no great promise. am told that you
taught school at or near Ithica, New
York, few years ago. Will you kindly
answer few questions? When did you
leave Scotland for Canada? How long
did you live in Canada? In what part
of Canada did you live? When did YOU
leave Canada for New York? How long
did you live in New York? What por-
tions of New York have you lived in =?
If you have lived in any other portions
of the United States, state where and
how long in each place, if more than
one? When and where were you ad-
mitted to the bar as an attorney ?
When and where was your iather natur-
allied?
You call me liar. 1 can think of
but one assertion in my letter to the
HERALD to which by any possibility
that term could be applied to me. 1
did say: "You have publicly stated
that you owe" your nomination and
election to the Office OF district attorney
to Mr.. Hervey Lindley. 1t may be
that | did put 1t little too strong, but
that is the way it was told to me. l
submit the affidavit of Mr.. Blackman:
State of California, county OF Los An
geles, ss.
j. l.. Blackman, being fret duly sworn
sSSCAuihS w AoWS ooyo 90 lOllOW6. vi
or about the 18th day OF November.
1891, and while the late grand iury was
in session, while standing with James
McLachlan, district attorney of Los
Angeles county, in front of the Temple
block, corner of Temple and Main
streets, in the city, of Los Angeles,
county OF Los Angeles, state of Califor-
mia, Mr.. McLachlan said to me in SUBJ
stance as follows: am under obliga.
tions to the Lindleys for the assistance
rendered me while getting the nomina-
ton and election to the office which
now fill. have a friendly feeling for
them; nevertheless l can do my duty
in the matter. Thereafter, at the Office
of the district attorney in the court
house of Los Angeles county, on or
about the 1st day of March, 1892, Mr..
McLachlan, while conversing with me
after my examination was over, said
that he owed the Lindleys nothing;
that they had been amply paid for all
they had ever done for him.
J. L. BLACKMAN.
Subscribed and sworn to before me
this 18th day OF March. 1892.
[Seal.l JOHN G. PLArT,
Notary Public in and for the County of
Los Angeles.
Ii you were under obligations to the
Lindleys when the grand jury was in
session in 1891, and had paid the debt
OF gratitude on or about March, 1892,
how did you pay it? OF course you
could not pay that kind OF debt with
coin; but lone good turn deserves
another" You have had no chance to
pay it politically. Tell now, how did
you pay it? Is the report to Judge
Smith record evidence of how the debt
was wiped out? If 80, take my word
for it, the Lindleys can hereafter sue.
cessfully plead "no consideration"
Your report is not worth to them the
paper it spoils. You are still in bond
age. Were you not district attorney,
nor member of the Union league, you
would not be known or heard of outside
of your voting precinct, and therefore
this report is giving you too much
notoriety.
am informed that you are a candi-
date and working for reelection. "'Tis
lost hope" If you understand and
love the principles OF the Republican
party better than you love the spoils OF
Office, listen to reason. The people of
this state have long and bitterly COM
planned of the undue interference OF
corporations in the politics OF the state