Los Angeles daily herald., 1873-10-18
The Election Abroad.

The Election Abroad.
1.-THE mills of the gods grind slowly,
lut they grind exceeding sure" Now,
for long years the party in power has
been misgoveming the nation. Start
ing out with probably earnest and hon
est purposes, as almost all new parties
do, the Republican party did its work
well. 1t guarded the interests of the
people, and used moderate economy.
While not accepting all the principles
upon which the party was based, every
candid man must grant that at first its
general purposes were honest. Sue
cess and continued power brought
pride and arrogance, and they, in turn,
all kinds of dishonesty and corruption.
Instead of the Iincolns, Chases, Sum-
ners, Stewards, and others, who, what
ever were their faults, were honest,
there came in nest of vipers, the Nor
tons, Chambers, Camerons, Buffers,
and thousond others of their ilk, with
whom honesty was a reproach, and a
good name thing to be abhorred.
Long the Republican, attached to his
old ties and his old friends, refused to
leaue the party of thieves and corrup-
tionists, and take new departure.
Long the nation groaned under the ills
incident upon corruption in its legisla-
tive and executive departments, for
..the mills of the gods grind slowly, but
they grind exceeding small" In 1872,
an attempt to correct abuses proved
ahortive. 1t died from mismanage-
ment. One was nominated for Presi-
dent, whom all believed to be honest,
but in whose Judgment few had conf
dence. Honest Republicans deemed it
better to suffer the ills they had than
fly to those they knew not of. AS re-
suit, Grant and his ilk were again
placed in power, and new lease given
TO dishonesty. Again new thieving
went on, and the old was covered. The
Credit Mobilier and the Construction
Company were unmasked, the 'ssalary
grab came close ON their heels, and
thousand and one lesser larcenies fol-
lowed.
Honesty could no longer concert with
dishonesty, and began to say: How
long shall these things be?' New or
ganizations were formed, called Farm
ers' parties, Independent parties, Lib
eral Republican parties, Liberal DEM
ocratic parties, varying in name but
all on the one platform honest adj
ministration of affairs in all depart
menis of the government. With these,
sometimes the Democratic party coa
lesced, and sometimes Ii absorbed
them.
AS the result of the election, there is
awhile cloud il the distance betoken-
ing coming era of honesty. Iowa has
been won, California has been won,
Ohio has been won from the cOrrup-
tionists, and still the good work goes
ON. The November election will cons
tinue in the same direction, and hon
esty will be the rule again and not the
exception. The golden age Is coming.
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Through the special dispatches which
were received by THE HERALD ALONE,
the public was placed in receipt of the
raost accurate information in regard
to the result. BY means of these dis
patches the Express was enabled to
Issue Especial" work on which was
commenced Immediately after copy
of the HERALD could be obtained.
With the exception Of few unim-
portant county precincts the material
for the Express special ~ was obtained
entirely at the expense and labor of
the Los ANGELES DAILY HERALD.
The above, from this mornings HER
AID, is, simply, false. We received
fifteen pages OF State returns during
tie night OF the election, and the dis
patches Gained by the HERALD were
not sD c.a, or exclusive. One would
think &roia ne persistent assertion of
the HERALD that It OWncd all the
news in the country. 1t has yet to
learn tnat bra, Goes uot constitute q
merit and that profusion is not a
mark of EXCELLENCE Express.
In our Placer county table, the votes
summed up give Mckee 134, and Dwi-
nellie "a. This should be changed.
Mckee should have "a and Dwinelle
1Sl. The cypress stole the same from
the HERALD table, and made the
same error. If any one wishes to
learn the truth of this statement,
there are the files of both papers to
prove the statement. No news is
claimed by the HERALD except it's
own, and that it will have. 1t is not
known how much telegraphic news
the Express did have, but it is known
that what news it published, it took
from the HERALD.