The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1896-03-29


States. Where is your certificate Of
election or appointment, legally signed
by authority Of said 100000 600 people
to represent them and to attack de-
crees of courts, patents and acts OF
congress?
These courts and congress and exec
utive departments you accuse of open
fraud were elected by the 100000
people and can produce their proper
certificate of that fact. Presumably
and legally their official acts are the
will of the 100000 people. Presuma-
bly, your bombastic claim to be working
for the 100000 people is all the re-
suit of your desire to grind your little
ak and line your pockets with pro-
ceeds of your efforts to undo what TO-
100000 people have done.
Probably it is. we'll to advise the
members of the Settlers league to COM
nit no violence on those resting under
the document reading, "Know ye that
and ending ~. s. Grant, president"
or some other president.
Some 70,000,000 people are back OF
that document, and it would be danger
GUS to monkey with them.
But We have announced new cam
paign, in which the work of intimida-
ton of courts and legislators is boldly
foreshadowed. To quote Mr.. Joe Mont
gomery's language in The HERALD of
the 231, until the rottenness of these
|, titles shallso stink In the nostrils of
the people that neither the land de-
partment, nor congress, nor the courts
can respect them without themselves
FORGETTING the respect of all honest
men,"
That is, these would-be land-grabbers
enter up q Judgment in advance in
their own favor, and prepare ''stink-
pot" campaign to intimidate the "land
department, congress and the courts"
We have here an explanation of the
interruptions and unfounded misrep-
reservations in the case of the Fer
nando grant. 1t has been an attempt
by such course as advised to lntim-
idate the ''land department, congress
and the courts" Some day there will
be sdded to "justice's" mortuary list
another Dead" and bshold it stinketb.
Well, now, "One that knows the rec
ord" 80 you are Goliath rushing into
the fight with an "esgerness for COM
bat that is not always evidence of
ability to successfully maintain it,"
Well, I will throw few stones at you.
First-ln your article Of the 23i
inst. you intimate 80 as to mislesd the
public-but you dare not assert it
that Mr.. Hammel WAS not deputy sher-
if when he elected Rogerio. You then
quote some dates to try and strengthen
the idea. Now you assert that you
know the record. Therefore you know
that Mr.. Hsmmel was deputy at that
time, for, as matter of fact, he was.
Now, knowing that he WAS, why did
you try to lead the public to believe
that he WAS not? SO you are Goliath.
Take another of your statements,
that 1.-THE ejectment was prior to the
judgment" You then quote the writ as
returned Nov. IA, 1885," purporting to
be under judgment rendered Dec. II,
1885, manifest impossioility.
Again you would try and mislead the
public by peNifoger's trick that you
would not dare seriously to present in
court, and il you could trench on those
facts above in this case you would not
even file complaint in court knowing
you could have no case. Clerical er-
rors in dates Of court matters always
correct themselves by the record of
the case and do not affect the proceed
incs of the case.
You know the record" 30 you say.
then you know the judgment was
dated and entered Dec. II. 1888. You
80 state in your article of Odd inst. and
in the same article where you say the
"ejectment was prior to the Judgment"
Really did you not have O creepy, An
nanias chill run up your back when
you put those statements down? Well.
Goliath, you will pardon me for cutting
your head off with yoar own
weapons. They were the most
convenient to use, and did the work.
Your forces seem to think that the
Fernando patent is especially void on
its face. Why do you not know (of
course you do, for you say you know
that under such an idea lot of poor,
hardworking men we're induced by
certain parties to go on the said ranch,
assured that they would get title as
public land? Don't you know that dol
lars we're taken from those confiding
laboring people, each dollar represent
ing thousands OF drops Of sweat, and
really needed for their families, taken
under the representation that thew
could hold the land against the patent?
Do you not know when the case went
into court that instead of the patent
being declared void on it's face, that it
WAS held valid, and that your side of
the CAGE was held to be the fraud? Did
you ever give nickel of those dollars
back to the poor deluded settlers from