The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1894-08-09
THE SAMR OLD ASS.

One OF the delightful advertisements OF
the peculiar creature who, for its des-
tructlon. lie permitted to govern the COL
umns of the Times, ia the attempt to
put on hobnailed boots and with them
to stamp the life out OF the poor. He is
always getting up quarrel with some
body or other, and generally with half
q dozen people or associations at one
time. His very nature is in the line of
dissension. That popularity and his at
tsmpts to terrorizs labor and ride over
better men than himself in the party to
which he oslensibly belongs, have made
him the best hated man in Southern
California. Perhaps we should have
said, the most despised person in this
section.
No sooner has this fellow Otis got him.
self thoroughly embroiled with large
sections OF the population. through his
own natural and incorrigible "cusssd-
ness," than he sets out to below like
stuck calf. Himself individually the
most remorseless "boycotter" that ever
lived-so repulsivsly proscriptive that
even the dogs sniff at him with distruet
as he passes them in the streets-he is
always bawling boycott" These can
ines know a man when they see him.
and their brute instincts show them
that he is creature to bs avoided.
However, as soon az this marplot has
succeeded in gstting up great excite
ment-all of it referable to his own ugli.
ness of personal temperament-than he
Immediately begins to yell that he is be-
ing persecuted. Great God! 1t is pitt
ful--it is really pitiful-ths way this
tender-hearted ourang outang is perse-
cuted All the while the persecution ia
in his own eye, and be is himself the
most remorseless prosecutor that has
ever appeared in this or any other region
of the United States. To compare q
scrub with persons OF i'm portance equally
hateful. Baiszst, Genghis Kahn and
Tamerlane were not more peremptory or
murderous in their ideas and methods
than he would be. During the late
troubles he was the only person in Los
Angeles who tried to break the peace.
and he showed his ungovernable ferocity
as we'll as irreclaimabls poltroonery by
striking poor little Davies. OF the Ex-
press. person who weighs only one
hundred and ten pounds, behind the ear.
This is the person who is now postum
izing az the preservator of order In
1,r cd IN, h ,oh
all our people who had any senas aimed
to keep their temper and be exemplars
of a respect for the laws. Having found
out that Judge E. M. Ross stands high
in the community, he has adopted the
device OF "Me and Ross" just as before
he had go often formulated the PROPOSE.
ton OF "Me and ORDER" in a period in
which the workingmen OF Los Angeles
had shown extreme moderation. Judge
Ross discharged his duty as laid down
by the laws, without any intempersnce
of expression, but this epicens journal.
let raved and screamed like zany with
out sense or discretion.
Why should any man Of sense counte-
ferrous ass? All the crises suggested by
him are created by himself, and are
altogether reierable to his own wild Don
Quixote fancies. He seems to think
that he is created to carry out dual
fuuction-one dancing on the bodies OF
poor men, and the other that of postum
| izing as the ELUSIVE and offensive para
site of the rich. The rich do not need
him and do not want him, while the
poor and those informed ate between
the poor and the rich despiae him.
MR. PATTON AND THE DEMOCRATIC CON-