The herald., 1896-10-11
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and rant when enthusiastic people de-
corously cheer at the mention of their
favorite candidates name-even when
such good name is mentioned by a rene
gade Shortridge or Senator IS. p"
Carpenter what will the same journals
do when a huge batch Of the sons OF
monopolists, and other things, who are
suffered to exist in this country, so
grossly and wantonly and indecently in
suit the great and good candidate him
self, and prolong the insult for the
space Of half an hour, without the slight
est cause or provocation on the part of
the candidate, and when he acts the part
of gentleman by patiently waiting till
the monopolists' spawn have spent their
fury?
These velvet-clad thugs and their pu-
Htive paternal progenitors are not sat
isfied with hireing, and intimidating and
threatening their employees and dis
charging those who will not declare
themselves lickspittles. They must de-
scend to personal insult of the coarsest
and most disreputable kind No man has
yet uttered a word against the charac-
ter of w. ]. Bryan. No man in all
America has ever charged him with be-
railroad corporations, or mill owners,
or employers, or monopolists of any
kind to bribe or bulldoze employees
in any political fashion. In all this cam
paign no friend Of Mr.. Bryan has even
been charged with such rascality. The
record Of his opponents Is as black as
night. Yet, who is pergecuted?
My mail Is getting heavy with the
complaints of workmen whose employ
ers are using every known means of in
timidation in favor of the golden calf
and Mckinley.
Among the local concerns that are
charged with such villainy the company
that runs the Los Angeles and Santa
Monica Electric car line takes nigh
rank.
That and other concerns will be prop
erly dealt with at the right time, if a
few more of my correspondents and
informants will but have the courage
and the goodness to make their state
ments clear and definite. and will sign
them.
As soon as encounter some inform
ants with sufficient nerve and back
bone and good case to work on, shall
swear out a warrant or two, and shall
try to find out whether the state laws
and the laws of the United States
against electoral bribery and intimida-
tion are frauds or not.
No informant sending his letters in this
direction ever had his name divulged
against his will, nor will such thing
ever occur.
Absolute facts are valuable only when
they are supported by absolute bravery
1t is now evident that the water COM
pany that is absorbing what the other
local monopolists have left is ready, for
a gigantic effort to sell us the goose
that laid the golden egg"
If we need miles and miles Of rusty,
wornout, leaking, improperly laid
water pipe that will not carry water and
which must soon be replaced at enor-
nous expense, we will probably be idi-
otic enough to donate $3,000,000, or
thereabouts to the concern that has al
ready secured most Of our spare cash;
then we must go to work ~pnfa plant that
will carry water after weAput in another
So, 100000.
The preternatural silence with which
the doughty Otis colonel receives the
furious attacks lately made upon his
veracity, as well as upon the reliability
of that journal of his, is something that
astonishes the most rotund and least
liable to excitement Of all our worthy
and unworthy citizens. The truth is,
the attacks made were premeditated
and the statements made were verified
before they were made public. little
truth Is sometimes too much for one who
is not in the habit Of indulging in such
medicine or bitters, or such bitter med
cine. I n the late feverish attacks the
medicine was not administered in homo
pathic doses, and the spasmodic efforts
at ejectment made by the patient were
confined to the Broadway bastie At
no time were the efforts even partially
successful.
Some alleged reformers there are who
talk seriously of the enactment Of laws
for the encouragement of bachelors"
as il present discouragements were not
enough.
Now, it is we'll known that Dame Ma.
ture has already made some very strin-
gent laws looking to the extinguish-
vide against the bloomer straddlebug
and few other artistic things that do
not find favor in the bachelor eye.
We have no reason to believe that the
old maids of both sexes who favor the
proposed law could out-do nature
properly
The elimination of the bloomer thing
and the destruction of the tenement fiat
would go far toward removing the fears
that breed bachelors.
On last Monday morning a conductor
| of Southern Pacific. train, southbound
put off an old lady with two valises in
the sandy region near Twenty-fourth
street. The old lady had come from
Colorado, bound for Anaheim. She had
q ticket to the latter place. For some pc
culiar reason the ticket was not good
enough for the said conductor and, as
the lady had no change to pay further
fare, the gentlemanly Southern Pacific
conductor stopped the train and put her
off in the sand. She was burdened with
bundles. She had no change to pay even
street car fare. No street car was with
in a mile of where she stood. Had not
gentlemanly baker of the courteous
French race taken her in his wagon to the
nearest street car and given her half
dollar from his own purse, the said lady
might have been in the sandy road vet,
Yours truly
EDWARD l.. HUTCHINSON.