Los Angeles herald., 1893-01-01
FIGHT FAIR.

The Examiner still continues it's sec
tional fight against Hon. S. M. White,
and more and more disgusts the lovers
of fair play. II also keeps up it's fashion
of producing San Francisco members OF
the legislature, name unknown, and
who proceed to deliver lengthy homilies
on the situation, winding up with their
opposition to our townsman. As we
are really informed that there are only
four or five members OF the Legislature
from the Golden Gate who have not sig
nified their intention to vote for "our
Steve,' it will be interesting to know
how long the Monarch can keep up these
interviews. Its supply of legislators
bids fair to run out shortly. That our
contemporary is making losing fight
becomes more apparent every day.
We have seldom seen campaign con-
Quoted against any man in which there
has been exhibited more personal ami
mus or less spirit of candor than has
been shown by the Examiner in it's war
fare against Mr.. White. We are not of
those who dispute the right OF the Ex-
aminer to oppose the election of
Mr.. White to the senate OF the United
States or to favor Mr.. Foote
for that position. But we do
claim that there recertain amenities in
the relation which Democratic journal
ought to bear to distinguished MEM
ber of it's own party which the Exam
iner has not observed in this case. 1t has
attempted to arraign Mr.. White as the
favorite OF the Southern Pacific railway,
and as favorable to the ulterior aims of
that corporation, when all the world
and the rest OF mankind know that his
real attitude is and has been precisely
the reverse. 1t has condemned Mr..
White for saying few words in favor OF
the reelection of Mr.. Cunningham,
while it knows that its own favorite,
Hon. W. W. Foote, did the same thing
at Hanford. In both cases these gentle
men doubtless spoke in an off-hand and
perfunctory manner, and without any
investigation of the merits OF Mr.. Gun
ningham's canvass. In this instance
what is sauce for the goose must be
sauce for the gsnder. 1t is scarcely pos
sible to persuade man OF sense that
what was yenial IN the case of Mr.. Foote
was of the nature of one of the seven
deadly Gins in Mr.. White. 1t was just
six OF one and half dozen OF the other.
What an absurd thing it is for the
Examiner, the Oakland Times, the Peta-
luna Courier and Contra Costa county
paper-this is the list, all told, of all
the journalistic advocates of Mr.. Foote,
Mr.. Lynch, and all the other candidates
outside OF Mr.. White--to undertake to
whistle down the wind the whole Demo
cratic press of California. 1t does not
involve belittling the Examiner as
newspaper to say that it has failed. in
many casee, to show exceptional politi-
cal sagacity in its editorial columns. The
fight against Mr.. White wac ill-advised,
but the manner in which it has been
conducted is even more so.
We are told that il Stephen M. White
is elected United States senator he will
have no influence at Washington. How
does the Examiner know this? It eaye
that the eouain OF Boprke Cochran could
not possibly be expected to have any.
That ia begging the question. We see it
stated in the kilograms that Mr.. Cfeve-
land is willing to accept Bourke Cock
ran as compromise senator from the
stale of New York. It is hard to see
what figure this cousinship cuts in the
matter anyhow. Many cousins scarcely
pass the time Of day with each other in
lifetime, and If this style OF logic were
to prevail man would soon be held
responsible for the enmities accumulat-
ed by his mother-in-law. But the Ex-
aminer proves too much by its argu-
ment. Just little while before
it was contending that if White
were elected to the United States
senate he would see that all the
Offices were given to his Southern Cali