The herald., 1898-01-24
MONDAY, JANUARY "a. 1898.
THE sYNDICATED vILLAINIES

Other cities peSlutS LOS <ah6SiSS, &iN
snr experience with boodlers, have dis
covered that there is very little genuine
partisanship in that kind of cattle.
Held together by the cohesive power OF
thunder. it makes little difference to
them whether they masquerade as DEM
ocrats, or Republicans, or what not, so
long as they get hold of the booty.
Any careful observer in Los Angeles
during the past ten years must be cog
infant of the fact that each of the old
parties has been cursed by gang OF
these freebooters. And between the
Democratic push and the Republican
s.pull" there has at all times been the
utmost good-fellowship. A few days
ago The Herald reverted to the we'll
known fact that during the session of the
last Democratic congressional conven-
ton in this city a certain element, who
held a place on the floor of the conven-
ton, reported regularly to Hervey Lind
lev. the Republican boss, and took their
orders from him.
Those who have taken the trouble to
look beneath the surface of local politics
have seen on various occasions the
Democratic "push" loaned to Repub-
lican boss and carried about in hacks
from polls to polls, stuffing the paiiot
boxes. And they have seen the service
reciprocated in kind when Democratic
boss needed the assistance of the Re
publican pull" That there is a firm
fellowship between the boodlers OF the
two parties, and that they stand togeth-
er on any occasion when either side is
menaced, is so we'll understood that the
fact is no longer subject to question.
A forcible demonstration of this was
recently given, when the school board in
fanny developed and certain Repub-
iican boodler seemed in danger OF con-
dign punishment. Under the fire OF pub
lie Indignation, that boodler found his
most ready and ardent apologists and
his first defenders among certain So
called Democratic politicians. The dis
grace Of it does not belong to the DEM
ocratic party. 1t is simply an outcrop-
ping of the longtime fraternal feeling
that, as stated, is entirely non-partisan.
It is simply a demonstration of what
might be aptly termed the syndicated
villainies of politics. This element-the
allied Democratic "push" and the Re-
publican "pull-frightened by the recent
exposure of public school plundering,
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holds. menaced by the best elements of
all parties-who have learned the power
of organization and who are gradually
drawing a Gordon about the plunderers-
finds itself in desperate straits. In fact
it feels that it is fighting in its last ditch.
Hence it's fight will be more determined
and more vicious than ever before.
The Herald, having helped in this
movement for reform, and having ap-
piled the lash with impartiality to
every exposed boodler, irrespective Of
his professed party affiliations, has
earned the enmity Of both gangs and
does not expect any mild retaliation. 1t
becomes simply a question Of laying
on, MacDuH." Wen fight it out on this
line. In so doing The Herald believes it
is performing the highest possible SER
vice for the Democratic party. One
thing is certain The party can never
achieve great success in local politics
or long maintain its ascendency, if
gained unless it drives off the disreput-
able element who have been practicng
politics in its ranks, aided and abetted
by like element of the Republican
party. This infamous commerce for
Doodle only must be stopped, both in
the interest of the party and for the
public welfare. 1t is time for the best
elements of all parties to join in the
crusade and give a death blow to the al
lied villainies.