The herald., 1896-05-31
CONFUSING THE ISSUE

Day after tomorrow, Tuesday, June 2.
the Democrats Of Los Angeles county
will be chosen the delegates to the
county convention having authority to
appoint delegates to the state and Sixth
congressional district conventions. On
that occasion it will be determined
whether the Democracy of this county
is to be numbered with the properties of
the Buckley Southern Pacific combine
or retain the ownership of itself.
That the most strenuous efforts will
be made to deliver, properly gagged and
bound, that portion of the party in this
county within the camp of this motor
ious league with its nefarious purposes.
and that every influence and device, fair
or foul, will be employed to that end.
goes without saying. That it is the
duty of every honest Democrat, really
DESTROYS of preserving his party's free
dom and keeping it in purity and
strength for the accomplishment of its
rightful mission, to oppose with voice.
vote and every proper personal effort
the execution of the despicable bargain,
hardly needs assertion.
A cunning attempt to confuse the is
sue has been made through the intro
duction of the coinage question with the
statement that those members Of the
party which opposed the proposition of
ward primary and are antagonistic to
the domination of the Buckley Southern
Pacific agents, are for a gold standard
and champions of the federal admins
tration, while their opponents stand for
free silver and are NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
in proclivity. This palpable falsehood
has been passed along the line and VEN
tilated, in the guise of disinterestedly
published news, through the columns of
a local Republican organ, all for the
purpose of winning the support of those
Democrats whose convictions have led
them to espouse the cause of free silver
coinage and to become disconnected
with the administration of President
Cleveland. This fabrication is espe-
cially intended for circulation among
the Democrats outside of Los Angeles,
or 'in the country" as the popular
phrase has it, where its promoters are
weakest but the financial sentiment
they profess to appeal in the name of
is supposed to be strongest.
Rank deception of this character
should avail the Buckley-Southern Pa
cific crowd little or nothing, but its use
Is significant in its illustration of the
kind of methods being resorted to and
certainly fixes the status of the people
composing that crowd.
Neither the coinage question nor the
federal administration constitutes the
subject Of the differences that have
arisen lately in the ranks of the Los
Angeles county Democracy. Neither
silver nor Cleveland cut the smallest
figure in the contest regarding the pri-
mary election settled at the late meeting
Of the county central committee Meth
er silver nor Cleveland will be gem
timely in evidence when the primary
election comes off. The sole issue is
whether the Democracy of Los Angeles
county is to be controlled in the interest
of the people or of Buckley and the
Southern Pacific.
ho In,
are making a manly, uncompromis-
ing fight against the ex-boss and
the railroad have been drawn from both
the sound money and the silver factions
of the party. Unfaltering friends and
unsparlng critics of the president have
united in opposition to the program of
the odious partnership. Such avowed
and sterling supporters of the cause of
silver as George S. Patton. Judge AL
bert Nj. Stephens and Joseph Simons, of
Pasadena, co-operated warmly with
Abbot Kinney, L. NJ. Order and other
pronounced gold standard members Of
the county central committee in bring
ing about the defeat of the ward pri-
mary plan, before that committee and
these same gentlemen differing, unfor-
tunately, as they do about
the money question and some
features of the policy of the
administration, will continue to bat
tie with The Herald for the immunity
of the Democratic party in the county
of Los Angeles from the power of the
corrupt and corruptirG ex-proprietor of
the San Francisco Democracy and the
corporation that is at once his partner
and employer, the Southern Pacific of
Kentucky.