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Oflice of Publication, 233-225 West Second street. Telephone 156. Democratic State Ticket. (Election, Tuesday, November 4,1890.) » FOR GOVERNOR, IDWAKDK. POND, San Francisco. FOR LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR, R. F. DEL VALLE Los Angeles. FOR SECRETARY OF STATE, W.C. HENDRICKS Incumbent FOB ATTORNEY GENEBAL, WALKER C. GRAVES San Francisco. FOR SURVEYOR GENEBAL, B.C. BOONE Humboldt. FOB STATE COMPTBOLLER, JOHN P. DUNN Incumbent. FOR TREASUREB, ADAM HEROLD Incumbent, FOR CHIEF JUSTICE, JOHN A. STANLEY Alameda. FOB ASSOCIATE JUSTICES, GEORGE H. SMITH Los Angeles, JAMES V. COFFEY San Francisco. JACKSON HATCH, (short term) San Jose. CLEBK OF SUPBEME COURT, J. D. SPENCER Incumbent. SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION. H. CLAY HALL San Maieo. District Nominations. FOR CONGRESSMAN FROM SIXTH DISTRICT. W. J. CURTIS San Bernardino RAILROAD COMMISSIONER—THIRD DISTRICT. LAWRENCE ARCHER Sauta Clara. BOABD OF EQUALIZATION—FOURTH DISTRICT. JOHN T. GAFFEY Los Angeles. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 7. 1800. THE CONVENTION TODAY. The Democratic county convention will meet today. It will be composed of representative men of the party. They will come together with a firm determ ination to nominate the best county ticket that has ever yet been offered to the suffrages of our people. Tlie time is auspicious for victory, and the delegates cannot afford to yield to any other consideration in making selec tions than the good of the party. Friendships for the time being must be laid aside, and candidates must be se lected on purely the highest grounds of fitness and availability. The delegates cannot, in justice to the party, permit themselves to be influenced by any ex traneous or sentimental considerations. They have a stern duty to perform and they ought to do it. We are oppressed with the confidences of Republicans who assure us that they will vote the Democratic ticket if a good one is presented. The people of this county, of all parties, are thoroughly aroused to the extravagant and corrupt way in which their public affairs have been managed, and are anxious for a change. They have lost whatever faith they previously had in the integrity of the Republican party, and believe that it is not wise to again place the party in power that has so grievously outraged them and proven unfaithful to the public interests. They know that not a single stain rests upon the es cutcheon of the Democratic administra tions that ruled the affairs of this county in the past. They recognize the fact that all the boodling and all the defaulting from which the tax-payers have suffered have come from the Republican officials ; and that whilst thousands of dollars have been stolen outright by these de faulters, the county has never lost a dol lar from a Democratic officeholder. It is this authentic record of dishonesty on one side and integrity on the other which will count at the polls when the election takes place. It would simply be suicidal on the part of the convention that meets today not to put the very best men of the Democratic party on the ticket. We know it is a difficult matter to find men who are capable, honest and strong be fore the people to accept nominations. The man who has all the qualifications required is not always willing to run. It is one thing to find iust the man you want, and another to induce him to let his name be used as a candidate. Yet all good citizens should be willing to make some sacrifices for the good of the public and for the benefit of the party in whose principles he believes. These men can be had if they are urged to run, and we have confidence in the ability of the delegates to find them and to bring them out at this auspicious conjuncture. The Republican party is in sad plight. Its standard-bearer on the state ticket is going behind with a velocity that increases with every forcibly-feeble speech he makes. As he loses ground the rest of the Dan Burns ticket goes with him, so that it has now come to be only a question of how great the Dem ocratic majority will be, not as to whether it will win. Now what the imperial county of Los Angeles wants is a Democratic local ticket that will form a fitting corrollary to the magnificent Democratic state ticket that is sweeping all before it. The convention that meets today can not only name the winning county ticket, but it can, by doing so, give an impetus to for the state ticket that will hold down Markbam's majority in the strong Republican counties this side oi Tehachepi to a mere bagatelle. THE LOS ANGELES HERALD: TUESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 7, 1890. THE TAX-PAYERS' CAUSE. Four years ago the Republican party succeeded in capturing nearly all the county offices, and two years ago they made the capture absolutely complete, getting all but a constable in an outly ing district, and a couple of supervisors. It will be interesting to look at things since then. In 1886 the last assessment was made by a Democratic assessor in this county, including the property now embraced in Orange county. In round numbers the valuation reached 187,000,000. Three years later the Republican as sessor had forced this figure up to over $100,000,000, but by tbe grace of the state board of equalization, composed mostly of people foreign to us, this was reduced to $93,000,000. As the value of the property increases the rate of taxation ought to decrease, if matters are managed wisely and hon estly. For the past four years the rates have run as follows, the total tax, the state tax and the county rate after deduct ing the state imposition being given: Tax Levy. TOTAL. STATE. COUNTY. 1887 1-50 .002 .898 1.30 .5»4 .690 1889 1.80 .722 1.078 1890 1.50 .580 .920 The figures mean dollars, cents and mills, per $100 valuation. There has been no falling off in the rates at any point, no matter how high the valuation may have been forced. That is how things are. Let us see how they ought to be. With a valuation of $37,000,000, the figures made by the last Democratic assessment, a rate of even $1 to the $100 for local purposes would pro duce a revenue of $37,000. With a val uation of $93,000,000, at the same rate, would produce a revenue of $93,000, or about two and a half times as much. That is about the difference between an honest Democratic regime and an ex travagant and dishonest Republican one. It may be said that it costs more to run the county government for a county of the present population of Los Ange les, than for one of the population of this county in 1880. There is no doubt that the population has not increased two and a half times as the taxes have. But more than this. Under Democratic rule the offices were supported by fees, and no excess was covered into the county treasury. Since then the law has been changed, and the offices have paid large net revenues into the treasury. Let us look at this feature. Tlie sheriff's office last year took in $31,000; its expenses were $12,000, and there was covered into the treasury $20,000 and more. For four years the receipts of the re corder's office have run as follows : 1886 * 47,534 1887 93,910 1888 72,565 1889 40,820 Total 2U0.57!) Average 65,244 For three years the clerk's office took in fees as follows: 1887 $23,443 1883 35,142 1889 44,015 Total 102,600 Average 34,200 Summing up these averages, and it appears that the receipts of these three offices have enriched the treasury by about $129,450 per annum. The taxes ought to have been less by about that much each year, but instead of that most devoutly to be wished consumma- tion they were raised two and a half times. But perhap« there is a line lot ot val uable improvements all around the county to show for all this increase. Is there? In 1880 the county debt was $651,000. How much is it today? Is it less than twice that sum? Not much. The coun ty property was valued at $260,000 in 1886. How much is it worth today ? Is it honestly worth any more? As a matter of fact, the new court house is about the only thing in the whole wide world to show for all this ex penditure of money for four years. But is the court house paid for? There are bonds outstanding for the greater part of its cost. Our Republican brethren have been making a loud cry for reform hereabouts for months past. Indeed there is need for some reform on their part. But the tax-payers will take a sensible view of the affair, and reform the entire busi ness by reforming the party out of office for a while and trying how a few really honest Democrats can do the business for two years. That is about the only practical reform in sight. It does a hungry horde of pop-suckers no end of good to be put on short commons a while. The Democratic mass meeting in Turnverein hall last night was an ova tion to Hon. J. V, Coleman, W. C. Graves, and Reel B. Terry, the speakers. Mr. Coleman delivered a most masterly address, in which he discussed the issues of the campaign with a clear and incisive logic that was fully recognized by the vast as semblage and awarded its most rapturous encomiums. Mr. Coleman pos sesses all the elements of an ef fective campaigner. There is no effort at ornate oratory in his speeches, but there is a solid eloquence, with a broad basis of fact and logical deduction underlying it, which produces substan tial results in a political*canvass. Mr. Graves, who is the Democratic candidate for attorney general, is also a man of brains and an excellent speaker. He made a fine effort and was well appre ciated by his vast audience. The two gentlemen are an unusually strong team on the stump. Mr. Reelß. Terry wound up the meeting with a rattling speech, which was very well received. Governor Waterman's fickleness has been the cause of a great calamity to a very worthy gentleman in San Francisco. He appointed for registrar of that city, Mr. B. F. Prindle, who, at the time, held a good position in Tabor's photog raphy. But after Mr. Prindle had held the place for some time, and given evi dence of great fitness, the fickle govern* er found another friend he wanted to help and forced him into Mr. Prindle's position. The latter then went into the photographing business on his own ac count, but met with poor success. Financial troubles supervened, and his mind is now a wreck. In his aberra tions he wanders away from home, and is gone for weeks at a time. He is now off, nobody knows where, and his family are in the most agonizing distress. This is another illustration of the axiom so dearly learned by Wolsey and impressed upon Cromwell, who found out its truth at the cost of his life : "Put not your trust in friends." The corrected census returns give California a population of 1,204,002, an increase over the count of 1880 of 389, --308—or 39.2 per cent, in ten years. This gives us seven congressmen, with 14,000 souls over the figure of the congressional apportionment. IMPORTANT MOVEMENTS. Railroad Schemes and Subdivisions of Ranches To Make a Boom. Some little anxiety is felt in California touching the reported combination between Huntington, Mogoun and Gould to head oft' any other roads get ting across the Sierras. The anxiety ought to be quickly allayed. Such a combine is contemplated, no doubt, and in part foimed, but it is very doubtful if it can ever be put in operation, and not a bit doubtful that it can never be suc cessfully maintained. It is like all such attempted structures, it will break by i its own great weight. The importance I of the Pacific coast traffic is so j overwhelmingly immense that all the roadfl that now are this side of the Mis sonri river must reach out for it. The gobbling up of the Colorado Midland, and the attempt to control the Rio Grande route by the Santa Fe, are heavy blows aimed at the Rock Island's aspirations to get further west. But such schemes as these always fall through. If the three systems named above should form such a combination, ; the effect would be to do all theother| roads out of all coast business. The natu- i ral result of that would be to force those roads' to combine in self-defense, and by i a great united effort, by hook or by | crook, to forge their way to the Pacific shores. Yesterday the iirst installment was actually paid over by the Terminal people, for the purchase of ftattlesnake island. The sum paid was $00,000, or a little more than one-sixth of the total purchase price, which is $300,000. This looks like earnestness on the part of the Terminal people. A. H. Denker is jubilant over the prospects of the beautiful foothill coun try. The Westinghouse people seem dead in earnest about operating the Los Angeles and Pacific railroad by means of electricity, and it is expected that work will begin at a near day. But it never rains but it pours, and the present seems to" be a period of absolute deluge in the way of development in this section. Now come the Edison people, with a very definite proposition to hitch on to the end of the I'ico Heights electric road and extend that line straight through Mr. Denker's ranch and that of John Wolfskill, pass above the soldiers' home, and so reach Santa Monica and the sea. It is thought that this scheme, too. will succeed. In view of tliese facts, and certain thftt the coming winter is to be an act ive one in real estate, Mr. Denker has subdivided the beautiful RodeoJ de pas Aquas into 10-acre farms, and he will pipe water all over the 33,000 acres and put it on the mar ket a little later on. Mr. E. St. John, general manager of the Rock Island, who has been here for a few days, visited San Diego yesterday, dined last evening here with his friend, the agent of the road in this city, pop- I ular Fred. W. Thompson. Last night j he went out to Pasadena Over the Ter minal tracks, to pay a visit to Mr.McNally at Pasadena. Mr. McNally is a son of the famous railroad map publisher of Chicago. Today Mr. St. John will go j aast in his special. All the preliminaries for the transfer | of the Pomona and Klsinore road have been completed. It is not exactly a transfer, but Captain John Cross joins forces with the old company, and will at once complete the road and put it in op eration The papers will be signed and filed in San Bernardino next Thursday. REPUBLICAN KICKERS. The Woods are Full of Them Ready to Bolt. Editors Herald : Two of the Repub lican dailies, of this city, say that there are no weak places in their ticket. There are independent Republican voters who are not so sanguine. I am sorry that I, as a Republican, can not en dorse tlie whole ticket. But if dele gates do not understand the temper of the rank and file of their party and select some poor timber, they need not be surprised if a discr iminating|public exhibits better judgment than them selves and elect the best men, regardless of party. In throwing Judge Cheney overboard they committed an error. Even though Judge McKinley did receive the largest vote of any judge before the convention, still it does not follow that the people will ratify its expressions at the polls. Then there is Jabez Banbury, of prohi bition Pasadena, who thinks that he is about the only man in Los Angeles county fit to handle the people's money. He ought to be taught better. There are a hundred men in this county who are capable, honest and civil, who would make good and efficient treasurers. Party lines are not so tightly drawn this year. If the Democratic party puts up good strong men for county offices there are many independent Republicans who will scratch the ticket. Republican Voter. RAILROAD FRANCHISES. Suggestions Made in Answer to Mayor Hazard's Letter. Editors Herald : I see that our mayor wants some suggestions from those who live or own property along the line of the proposed electric rail road, but as this affects not only those to whom he limits his inquiries, but also the general public, I beg space for the following: lam in favor of all public improve ments, but with proper safeguards. Should the franchise be granted, in ad dition to the proposed conditions as to the time of commencing and finishing the work there should also be inserted a condition as to the least number of daily trains to be run on any branch thereof in order to retain control pf the rights granted. It is not well to have our streets encumbered with iron rails ; but no cars running over them, or tripß made only twice a day, as is now done by the Olive street line, is intolerable. The rails are not only an obstruction to the street, but where they are not used as intended they become a positive nuisance ; and strangers also are likely to comment on the decadence of busi ness of the city. Then I also think that instead of granting free franchises that it is not a sufficient acknowledgment of the rights of the people to grant free passes to their servants in office. For the valuable rights granted there should be required of those asking for franchises either a stipulated lump sum of money or else a per ccntage of their incomes. jgThe more particularly is this the case in this city where we are spending money to open new streets. As for in stance $100,000 to open Fort street out into Main street, when the records show that Fort street is laid out as a public highway from its present terminus to Pico street. Very respectfully, J. H. Melvill. A Card. We the undersigned citizens and tax payers of the county of Los Angeles, knowing Edgar_ Monre personally, and recognizing in him a life long Democrat, a man of tried worth, generous, faithful, and of unflinching integrity, and one who on account of his superior merit has been chosen by the present grand jury to investigate the accounts of all of our city and county officials, and being of the opinion that our next auditor should be one thoroughly versed not only in the science of accounts, but one already familiar with our county affairs and county government laws, do hereby earnestly request and solicit Mr. Moore to announce himself as a candidate be fore the Democratic county convention for the office of county auditor. H, P. Bowen, C. F. Harper, Bowen & Childress, G. L. Logan, Wm. P. Martin, D. D. L. Quinn, Edwards & Vance, R. B. Powell, W. T. Edwards, A. D. Childress. Los Angeles, Cal., Oct. 6, 1890. Messrs. Bowen, Harper, Childress and Others: i < textlemen —Your flattering letter i asking me to submit my name to the ! Democratic convention for nomination for the office of county, auditor is to hand and duly considered. I believe tbe time has arrived when the people of this county have realized and begin to appreciate the importance of this office, and will no longer be sat isfied to elect a man on account of his partisanship without any regard to his qualifications. It is a notorious fact that for a num ber of years this oflice has not been filled by anyone duly qualified, and as a natural result the county stands today ! absolutely without any accounts, to say i nothing of the thousands of dollars that have been paid out fraudulently by the | negligence and carelessness of this of fice. I promise that if nominated and elected 1 will give to the county a system of accounts that any citizen can know what has become of the money paid in as taxes, and the settlements required by law to be made by the various county officers with the auditor will be made without calling in the assistance of an expert accountant. Very respectfully, Edgar Moore. .Charles Webster of Phillips, Wis., is interested in a $200,000 car-works pro jected at Montgomery, Ala. Married. MULLAI.LY—CAPPS—In this city, Sunday, Oct. sth, Joseph Mullally to Mrs. EmmaCapps. AMUSEMENTS. ACADEMY OF MUSIC. Corner Fifth and Olive stß. Wyatt & Con ant, Lessees and Managers. Six nights and Saturday Matinee, Commencing MONDAY, OCTOBER, Oth, The Accomplished Tragic Actor, JOHN S. LINDSAY, j Supported by an Efficient Dramatic Co. Monday ingomak Tuesday HAZEL KIKKE Wednesday ENOCH AKDKN Thursday DAMON AND PYTHIAS Friday MIBALDA Saturday Matinee HAZEL KIKKE Saturday RICHELIEU Popular prices, 25 and 50 cts. Seats on sale at Stoneman's Music store, 100 N. Spring 10-2-td ILLINOIS HALL, Broadway and Sixth St. Social and Entertainment by the Illinois As sociation every Tuesday evening. Vocal and Instrumental Music, Elocution, Specialties and Social Intercourse. Citizens and Strangers equally welcome, j Free Reading Room open daily. 9-28-tf ! gCHOOL FOR DANCING. Academy at 313 and South Main street. Class for ladies and gentlemen Monday I aud Thursday evenings from 8 to 10 p. m., commencing Monday evening, October 6, 1890, Class for advanced pupils Tuesday evenings I only, from 8 to 10 p. m., commencing Tuesday ! evening, October 7th. Classes for ladies, j misses and masters, Saturday afternoons only, from 3:30 to 5:30 p. m., commencing Saturday j Oct. 11th. Juvenile class, ages, 4 to 7 years, Sat- I uniavs only, 1:30 to 3:30 p. in., commencing October 11th. Send for circular. A satisfactory reference required from all strangers. HENRY J. KRAMER, Instructor. PALACE RESTAURANT AND SALOON, Corner First and Spring Streets. Tbe Most Magnificent and Popular Resort in the City. FREE CONCERTS) i * , * BY THE CELEBRATED PHILHARMONIC SOLOISTS Every Night from 8 to 12. JOSEPH SOHURTZ. PROPRIETOR. JeS-lm THE AURORA, N. E. Cor. N. Main & Arcadia Sts. ELEGANTLY FITTED. POPULAR REBORT. CONCERTS Every Saturday by a superb orchestra. Finest of wines, liquors and cigars. 9-23 FRED SAUMER, Prop. WALNUTS. CASH PAID FOR WALNUTS. C. J. Shepherd, ' Fruit Packing house, near corner of Main and Jdfferson sts., Los Angeles, Cal. 10-7-2 m rt_lß SISTERS OF THE HOLY NAMEB, J) a branch of the convent of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, Oakland, have opened a boarding school at Ramona, Cal.; the location cannot be surpassed in beauty and salubrity; the course of instruction is of the highest grade. For terms apfcly to the LADY SUPERIORESS. The classes will be resumed Sept. Ist, 1890. 125-llm Fall and Winter-1890 DRESS GOODS fflfflnf ON SALE: now - Fancy and Plain Dress Goods For Fall and Winter wear ever shown in the city, at prices lower than "the lowest. CITY OF PARIS, 203 to 209 North Spring Street BARTLETT'S JEWELRY ■ MIC HOUSE Has Removed to 129 N. SPRING ST. NEXT DOOR TO PEOPLES' STORE PATRICK BROS., Wholesale Dealers in BOOTS, SHOES -AND RUBBERS, Removed to \Wz and 148 North Los Angeles Street. 10-5-im NILES PEASE, IMPORTER AND DEALER IN ALL KINDS OF Eastern Parlor and Chamber Furniture, Carpets, Oil Cloths, Linoleums, Window Shades, Etc. New Nos. 387, 339 and 341 S. Spring St., Los Angeles, Cal. 0-27-0 m J. J. SCHALLERT, President. T. W- BROTHERTON, Vice-Pres. J. 11. BURKS, Secy. & Treas. Cor. 3d and Spring. ICE CO.if CAPITAL, — — $ 100,000. DIRECTORS: J. J. Schallert, T. S. C. Lowe, Geo. R. Shatto, W. L. Packard, T. W. Brothertou. j This company will soon be fully equipped to furnish the citizens of Los An , geles solid ice, manufactured from water, free from all impurities. The ice fnr nisbed by this company will be absolutely pure, so much so that druggists will use it instead of the distilled water of commerce. The Citizens' Company was formed to relieve the impositions of a monopoly, .and they fully intend to do it, and will furnish ice at the lowest rates. Do not contract with any other company. 9-13-tf S. H. BUTTERFIELD, 315 S. Spring Street. TEMPLE BLOCK GALLERY CABINETS, S3 PER DOZEN. UNITED STATES STABLE, PETER CLOS, Proprietor. Horses, Carriages and Saddle Horses To Let All Kinds of Horses Bought and Sold. Horses Boarded by the Day, Week op Month Telephone 255. No. 952 Flower street, Los Angeles, Cal . Jyl4-tf C. F. HEINZEMAN, Druggist & Chemist No. 122 N. Main St., Los Angeles, Cal.' Prescriptions carefully compounded day and night. m2l-tf HALL'S DAIRY. Milk supplied in sealed pint and quart glass jars, fresh from the farm, morning and evening, leave orders at office, 112 S. Spring street, or 10-4 lm CHAS. VICTOR HALL, Prop. REMOVAL NOTICE. P. H. Innes, C. W. Innes, Tlj'e Los Angeles Rental Agency & C. W. Mangruin have removed their office from 101 N. Broadway to 207 W. Second street, where they soli/it the custom of all. j 10-Vtf PIONEER TR/LJOK 00., (Successors to McLain A Lehman,) PROPRIETORS OP THE Pioneer Truok/& Transfer Co. Piano and Safe Moving a Specialty. Telephone 187. 3Mari,etSt. Los Angeles Cal. lel-tl J. C. CUNNINGHAM, Manufacturer of and Dealer in Ms and Traveling Bap 132 S. MAIN ST., Opp. Mott Market. Telephone No. 818. Repairing promptly attended to. Old trunk taken in exchange. Orders called for an* delivered to all parts of the city. au2o-3in NOTICE OP MEETING. Southern' California blue gravel Mining Company, Secretary's Office, 126 South Spring street, Los Angeles, California, October, 2, 1800. A stockholders' meeting will be held at this office at 2:00 p. m., of October 20,1890, for the purpose of electing directors to serve during the ensuing year, and for such other business as may come before the meeting. GEO. BUTLER GRIFFIN, Sect. 1032wks