268 ~ HISTORY OF PASADENA. 



men were acquitted and released in three minutes by the jury. Another case 

 is worthy of mention. A man was convicted of unlawful whisky selling 

 here, after a jury trial, and appealed his case to the superior court at Los 

 Angeles. During the re-trial there the liquor attorney demanded that the 

 printer's certificate as to this ordinance having been published in accordance 

 with state law when enacted should be produced in court. That document 

 was filed away in some pigeon hole in the city clerk's oSice in Pasadena, and 

 of course could not be then and there produced. The city clerk had been 

 in court with the ordinance book, had sworn to the due and lawful enact- 

 ment of the ordinance in question, and then at his request he had been ex- 

 cused by the judge [McKinley] and had returned home. But now, because 

 the printer'.s certificate was not produced right there, this sharp criminal 

 lawyer claimed that it had not been proved to the court that any such law as 

 his client was accused of violating did validly exist in Pasadena ; and there- 

 fore it was not proven that his client had violated any law. And on this the 

 Los Angeles jury brought in a verdict of " not guilty," in spite of the fact 

 that whisky which the defendant had sold for dram-drinking was produced 

 and verified in court by two witnesses. 



The " Progressive League," with the principal newspapers at its service, 

 continued its fight against the city council and the Enforcement Committee ; 

 and its managers especially planned and manceuvered for carrying the next 

 city election in their interest. Of course I can only give a few main points, 

 with dates and references, so that anyone wishing to pursue the matter 

 further can find what he wants on either side. My present business as his- 

 torian is only to cite a few of the more prominent historic facts, impartially 

 and without comment. 



The city election was to occur on Monday, April 14, i8go. During the 

 preceding November, December and January, the Daily Times and Daily 

 Star both advocated the nomination of a straight republican ticket for that 

 election. But early in February [Feb. 8] a plan of campaign was made up 

 privately for a so-called Citizens ticket, and a platform was put forth which 

 was in substance a repetition of the Progressive League's resolutions adopted 

 October 20, 1889, against the city council, though with a few additional 

 points of wrongful and grossly unjust accusation; and on the liquor question 

 . it declared : 



''Resolved, That we are in favor of otcr hotels being allowed TO furnish 

 WINES AND LIQUORS TO THEIR GUESTS." 



The platform was not signed by anybody, and no report given as to its 

 origin ; yet the Times and Star [of February 1 2 and following] both came 

 out in support of this non-republican scheme and its unfathered platform. 

 And the Los Angeles Daily Tribmie, then edited by ex-Gov. L. A. Sheldon 

 of Pasadena, in an editorial upon this strange state of affairs said : 



