The herald., 1894-06-24
A JOURNALISTIC CURI0.

called themselves his friends, has never
figured anywhere. His attempts to
force himself upon the attention OF the
public have simply been ludcrous. The
more they have clamored for his recog-
milton the more humilisting has been
his discontinue.
This awkward and rugged provincial
has at no time been sensible of the ex-
treme good nature with which he has
been treated. The most serious menace
to the party to which he belongs is his
traitoroue assertion of mem bership in it.
His fellow-partizans have always con-
tended that the danger which threat
ensd their organization was in inverse
proportion to his fidelity to it, Well
betrayed by Otis, every Republican
candidate has felt that he was safe.
This melancholy msrpiot OF the Re-
publican party in Los Angeles county
and Southern California is happily not
endowed with a perception OF his great
offeusiveuess to his fellow-psrtizsns. 1t
is proba BILE that il the skunk were fully
alive to the high character of the per-
fume it carries its chances OF contain
! mating society would be diminished, be-
cause it would sneak off to secluded re-
treats, and die away from the hsunts Of
man.
The accomplished editor of the Times
has created an impression that he be-
longs to the 7. A. B. order in this COM
munity because he has never been
known to set up a drink of any staple
known to tipplers during his residence
in this community. His psrsimony has
thus passed as an austere order of
sumptuary law ferocity. At the same
time, those who are familiar with COL
Harrison Gray Otis know that he
never declined to consume a large
or small quantity of stimulants
OF any kind that anybody
else paid for on the behind-the-door
principle. AS matter of fact his re-
ceptive attributes are somewhat remark
able when regard ia had to the fact that
his purse is so costive when it comes to
paying for anything of the character of
booze"
The esteemed colonel is naturally
very much annoyed when he learns that
any community has been willing to en-
trust a large amount OF money-for a
Thousand dollars which has been en-
trusted to anybody else to cover per-
sonal expenditures and advocacy of q
section seems to this strabiious per-
rvIl aooAatAi~s lii,a a---~sli:- A-ii--.~'
The only way to get a considerable sum
of money subscribed for this epicene old
GROWER would be on the understanding
that he was to be planted away off on u
desert island, where the probabilities
Of his return would be very indefinite.
If it were understood that Colonel Otis
-''colonel' so.called-could be staked
of, say at Adelisland. on the Antarctic
continent, with no possibility of his re-
turn, or any chance OF our people ever
sgain hearing his barbaric yswps, we
are inclined to think that we could raise
a million TO stake him out in that vague
and lovely region.
| But we wish it to be distinctly I'm.
derstood that this is all tentative. The
people OF Los Angeles have dread
which surpasses that which the chill
dren were wont to have of Blue Beard
of hearing the never-to. be forgotten
cacophonous yawps OF this man OF the
many pretensions to virtue. 1t used to
be said that the mothers in the Tartar
eteppes were wont to hush their babies
to submission if not to sleep by the
mysterious name of Genghis Khan
The Turkish children we're for century
hypnotized by the name of RcharC
Cceur de Lion. Much such an effect has
the name OF Otis on the poor devil who
by any chance gets into his power.
Fortunately, however, the part playec
" children in either the politics or the
jusiness OF Southern California is linn
Ted indeed. The redoubtable "Kernel'
is creature who is exceedingly wei
understood. He is known to be com
posite individual described rs half hors
and half alligator. His principal char
acteristic is his ability to bully wOmei
and children. When to the list en-
braced in this classification ia adde
some poor fellow who ia down on hi
luck, and who is not yet aware of tn
fact that it is perfectly safe to pull To
nose OF this rip-snorting poltroon, W
have about described all the salier
characteristics OF this journalistic curic
Would that our exquisite region wer
SILL, comedy lie thing dear to til
heart of man. aud nobody more per
isctly than this Bombsstes, whom W
have sometimes dubbed Boanergs
realizes the pith of the lines,
Whose shall these boots displace,
, Must meet Bonn bestes face to face.
This admirable comedian, withol
, the slightest power to influence II
f nominations or the actions of any part,
, sits in his SNUG conceit, a monumer
g confirmatory of the old sdage, "Who
the Gods would destroy they first max
t mad" Outside of this attempted an
0 repudiated leadership, there is nothin
g more comical or instructive in our lat
! annals. Why either man or monkt
{ should be so absolutely blind to the I
= pudiation, in all stages and at all time
e of his fellow citizens, we confess we c
3 not know. There is the puzzle.
1 -
3 PROBABLY no party in any other sta