The herald., 1896-05-06
THE SIXTH DISTRICT REPUB.
LICANS

The Sixth district Republican con-
| gressional convention has done splen-
did work for the Democracy Its con.
| gressional nomination and the harbor
! plank in its platform more than fill the
measure of Democratic hope. In the re.
nomination of Telegraph Jim the Repub-
lican convention has again placed be-
/ fore the voters of the Sixth district
candidate almost as comprehensive in
his weakness as a congressman as the
author of the My Dear Pard" letters.
the hypnotic handed Markham whose
only salvation from the abyss of total
obscurity, while in Washington, lay in
the oft recurring call of the house roll
Telegraph Jim will not be absolutely de-
pendent on the aye and nay votes of
the house to furnish evidences of the
fact that he once served a term in the
popular branch Of congress. His alac-
rity as dispatcher of Huntingtonian
harbor propositions will serve to keep
alive, for awhile at least, the memory of
his congressional career. The resolution
of the convention relative to harbor ap-
propriations for the district is of the
kind that will not inspire resentment in
the bosom of Coils P. Huntington.
The people of the Sixth congressional
district have awaited with interest the
utterances of this district convention re-
garding the subject of harbor appropria-
tions, and now that the convention has
spoken they know where not to look
for protection from the selfish and
greedy schemes of the Southern Pacific
Of
Republican party with the plans ard
purposes of the railroad monopoly is ex-
pressed too plainly by the conventions
harbor plank to be denied by the honest
and candid men of that organization.
This precious platform concoction
reads like one of the standard railroad
resolutions of the versatile Billy Carl
son of San Diego. 1t is intended to de-
ceive. But in the light of the circum-
stances that surround the Los Angeles
harbor situation it will deceive none
but the ignorant and the obtuse, of
which kinds of people the Sixth con-
gressional district has fortunately not
many. 1t reads:
"Resolved, That we favor the apprc-
priat of adequate and liberal sums for
the purpose of coast defense and for I'M
provement of all harbors within the dis
trict, and that we are opposed to the
Improvement of none"
All of which translated in it's spirit
means: Resolved That we favor the
appropriations of the sums sufficient to
build deep-sea harbor at Santa Mon
lea and an inner harbor at San Pedro"
The convention did not have the candor
and the courage to say what it thought,
but INDUCED itself with vague express
as to cover what it meant. 1t is just the
declaration that the Southern Pacific
and its friends desired. 1t takes within
its liberal scope the so-called double
harbor" scheme, and gives the backing of
a powerful political party to that at
tempt to defraud and deceive the peo-
pie, not only of Los Angeles and vicin-
ity, but of the entire country and it was
written at the behest of the Southern
Pacific by men who serve without COM
Function as the tools of that insufferable
monopoly.
The members of the convention under
stood the exigencies of the harbor sit
uation in this district, and if they were
people instead of that of the railroad
they would have declared in unmistak-
able language for the appropriation of
public money for the building of har-
Dor where the people wish it, and where
the Huntington interests do not desire
it. They knew, as every intelligent per-
son reasonably conversant with the sub
iect has known all along, that the ques-
ton before the people is not Shall We
have two harbors or none," but shall
we have free harbor or monopollzed
harbor"
The outcome of the conventions work
viii be the driving of the harbor ques-
tion into the arena of politics, where it
does not belong, hut where under the
circumstances it will have to GO The
next Democratic convention for the
Sixth congressional district will of course
declare, like the the last unequivocally
in favor of the free harbor at San Pedro
and against the Huntington project at
Santa Monica. There will be no eva
siveness, no vGgueness about the Demo-
cratic utterance on the subject. And the
man who will be nominated to contest
with Telegraph Jim will reflect in his
person the sentiments of the platform
The result will be that the line that di-
vides the free harborites from the
Huntington harborites will be the line
that divides the Democratic and the Re
publican parties in the Sixth congress-
ional district of California.
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