The herald., 1896-04-23

Judge Littie's keyoinoef
Monrovia, Cal, April 20, 1896.
Editor Herald: In the Sunday Herald
appears a letter from w. N. Monroe,
purporting to be a reply to my COM
munication published in your paper OF
the 18th instant, but which beg to say
is no reply at all. In fact Mr.. Monroe
very descreetly refrains from contradict
ing anything whatever said by me in
regard to our recent municipal cleo
ton, it's issues, results and significance.
or in regard to his own relation to the
demolished ring, his disreputable con-
duct, and the mendaciouS rweport made
by his friend. Moulsby, to the Times
that the overwhelming vote against
corruption and ring bossiSm was a vic
tory for Republicanism and protection.
Ele judiciously avoids all reference to
those matters of public concerns and
by so doing confirms all L have said
about them But hoping to make some
sort of diversion in his favor, he alb
surdly poses as injured Innocence, I'M
truthfully recounts personal services
rendered me, falsely accuses me of
1ngratitude to him, and whimpers for
sympathy. Such fictions will not do
In this community he is too well known.
His remark about assumption of titles
Is utterly false in so far as 1t is meant
to imp3S an accusation against me. and
for one who has been for many years
frippery of a title that never belonged
to him, it is a matchless piece of impu-
dence. Mr.. Monroe cannot divert pub
lie attention from the damaging facts
disclosed by me in regard to himself
and his associates a id tools, touching
matters of public interest. by ris,cuious
maundering about imaginary services
done the world. the state, the county,
our little city and my humble self. |
speak in the interest of the people ard
Try to clearly and correctly voice the
feelings and sentiments of the electors
who, on the 18th of this month, smote
him and his malodorous crew hip and
thigh, and to whose nostrils they are an
acute aftliction. The exposure made
was the performance of a public duty.
IT was not prompted by any personal
feeling. My personal affections and
enmities are never permitted to affect
my conduct in affairs of public con-
cernment. But men like Mr.. Monroe
have no knowledge of any other than
personal motives, or any capacity TO
understand such things as civic patriot
ism and devotion to the interests of the
people. For the primal virtues they
have no regard. They are SO constructed
that they cannot believe in any motive
not wholly mean and sordid.
Mr.. Monroe's modest declarat ton that
he built the town of Monrovia is quite
as true as his claim that he made me
city attorney, and both are just as true
as his denial of the promises and pledges
broken by him to obtain the funds ne
cessary to enable him to get away from
the county in which all his wonderful
works were wrought to join "the Amer
fcan colony in Chill" 1t is matter of
regret that he does not choose to con
fesS his reasons for withdrawing the
light of his countenance from "one of
the prettiest towns in Southern Califor-
11in Et,i1 hx, ,i
the whole of his native land to shine
upon the american colonies" in Mex
leo and Chill. But perhaps he will tell
US in his next letter.
OF his amusing inventory of imagn-
airy achievements l do not care to speak.
He is, so far as | am concerned at lib
erty to applaud himself with both hands
and both feet, cover himself with bo-
Quets and caper ludicrously in a par
oxysm of self -adulation ad libitum. ]
care not. / would not stop such per-
formances if l could, because they
amuse both him and me, and also his
readers as much as box pof monkeys.
But one thing is very saddening. Mr..
Monroe's letter is so ineffably puerile
and silly as to give rise to the painful
apprehension that he has entered upon
the incipient stage of dementia. 1t can
hardly be accounted for on any other
hypothesis If he ceases to build
towns and decamp to American colon
les in foreign lands, what shall we do?
AS for the ''insinuation" that he was
natulalized in Chill, that slander he
has refuted by his signature to the
Herald letter--"W. n. Monroe Ameri-
can" Who can longer believe that the
truly good man, my useful friend, ever
washed his hands of his native land
and swore to defend the little republic
in the distant south against our presi-
dent and all his heirlings in blue and
brass? F. w. LITTLE.