The herald., 1894-06-09
TaB CONVENTION AND ITS LESSONS.

4Ao OON AN WV ava 49, 1880 O"S'
The Republican convention, havini
flashed like leaden colored meteor
athwart the clear skies OF Los Angeles
it is perhaps right that we should seek
to learn the lessons which it has taught
In the first place, it was quite instructive
as showing the strong hold which the
A. P. A. association obtained over that
body. Our esteemed contemporary, the
Times. claims to be a newspaper. Aa
such it ought to have given q fair report
of the proceedings of convention which
gave an official expression to the view
of party to which it assumes to belong.
One of the most striking features of the
report of the Times was its omission to
give any account Whatsoever of the
speech of DR.. MACEDONIAN, who claimed
that the members of the A. P. A. were
present in such great numbers as
to prevent his favorite candidate for
supreme judge, Clark, from secur-
ing an endorsement for that high
position from the convention. The
reason why. Judge CLARK was
slaughtered. it is generally under
stood, was because that gentleman,
when sick nearly unto death, had seen
fit to go to the Ssters' hospital to
avail himself OF the skilled Manifestations
of noble women who happen to be Roman
Catholics. 1t is quite likely that this
does explain Judge ClarS's defeat in
part, but McKinley's success, it is al
most universally conceded, would have
been impossible if it had not been we'll
understood that our expurgating con-
temporary was making a desperate 6gn
to secure his defeat. The result of the
action OF the convention has been to
confirm the conviction in many minds
that the genius who has his eyrie unde r
the gided eagle is a remarkable Hoodoo,
he favors ia sure to get left, while the
lucky fellow whom he opposes is nomi-
mated by the gods for success. 1t was in
pursuance of this idea, which has been
thoroughly impregnated into the mass
of Angelenos, that. on the success of
Mckinley, hundred members on the
floor of the convention murmured,
Didn't tell you SOP" Multitudes of
Republic ana were ready to bet dollars
to marbles that tue fact that the Times
opposed Mckinley was an infaliDle in
dication that he would prove to be the
choice of the convention.
We do not propose to enter into the
pros and cons of this matter, but it ia
certainly somewhat peculiar that the
Times altogether suppressed DR.. Mac
Gowan's speech. This is certainly not
newspapering.
On the whole, the Republican conven-
ton can scarcely be said to have been
partial to its newspaper representatives.
The curled darling of certain faction of
the party, the accomplished editor of
the Express, was turned down in a ruth
less manner. Not all his self-sacrifi cling
labors as Defender OF the Faith" avaied
to keep him from being showed under.
This gentleman would make charming
dictator of the local organization, but he
will doubtless profit by his experience,
and will not hereafter wear mis- heart
upon his sleeve Tor DAVIS to peck at. He
will derive great consolation from the
discontinue of his brother of the quill.
For that discontinue WAS indeed COM
plete. For weeks the Times has been
commanding the convention, on its as
sembling, to proceed at once to illuminate
-, Tow NJ ha 81 a.
the exclusion Of any other point, for a
deep sea harbor. This was the shibbo.
leth which it commanded the convention
to wear, aud it would hear OF no other.
Not only was the candidate against
whom it had directed all ita artillery,
gatling guns, shrspnel. shell and stink
pots, endorsed for supreme court Judge.
hut the convention declined to below in
favor Of San Pedro as the exclusive OBJ
ject OF the governments tender care. A
gentleman who proposed an uncompro.
missing resolution in favor OF that point
was incontinently squeched, and the
etfusion OF his sectional soul was cent to
the committee on resolutions, where it
died the death. With far more wisdom
than characterizes other portions of the
platform, the plank on harbor reads:
We. the Republicans OF Los Angeles
county, in convention assembled, recog-
nizing the great and rapid growth OF
this country and the need OF better deep
harbor facilities to accommodate and
encourage commerce, hereby declare
that we are in favor of deep sea harbor
as selected or hereafter to be selected by
government engineers; and We recon-
mend that our candidate for congress
from the Sixth congressional district be
pledged to vote for and use all lawful
endeavors to secure a liberal appropria-
ton for said harbor.
Here we have on the part OF the con-