Daily Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1876-1884, 1878-05-02
rartisan Unfairness - A Teiitui
Record.

The Republican party has always
claimed to be the pink of perfec-
ton. Appraised ut its estimate
of itself, no party that ever existed
deserved to be mentioned in the
same day with it. 1t sets itself up
arrogantly as the God and morality
party. 1t claims all the honesty
and all the decency, with the intel
ligence with capital thrown in,
as q matter of course, on the prin-
ciple of the tail going with the
hide. Weighty as have been the
services of the Democratic party in
the early days of the Republic,
they have been more than rlvaled
by its matcbless record of the past
ten years. What would have be-
come of the United States under
the food of Grantism, with its dual
tendencies to corruption and to inn
perialism, if it had not been for the
Democratic party? The long, de-
termined and patriotic resistance
of that party to both have given the
country breathing spell and ena-
bled it to take q new departure, q
course in which only can salvation
be found.
In proportion as the Democracy
has been resolute in its spirit of Re-
publican simplicity and economy
has the disposition on the part OF
the Republican leaders to sheer at
it grown in intensity. Since
the fatal Republicans ascendency in
the House of Representatives has
been replaced by a Democratic ma.
jority in that body, the expenses of
the Federal government have de-
creased enormously. You would
never learn from a Republican
journal that the national OUTLAWS
had been lessened dollar by the
Democracy. The people, however,
occasionally see these things. The
last Democratic House of Repre-.
sentatives decreased the national
expenditures fully thirty millions
of dollars, and if they could have
obtained The cooperation of the
Republican Senate they would have
made the reduction sixty millions.
Every dollar of reduction was OBJ
tanned after q strenuous fight,
and the retreuchment owed
its inspiration entirely to the
Democratic party. Tho Demo
cratic majority of the House of
Representatives is now in mortal
battle with the Republican Senate
to add at least another ten millions
of dollars to the thirty millions Sc
cured at the last session. The
struggle will be at least partially
successful, and the country will
owe every dollar saved to the I'M
bending integrity and perseverance
of the Democracy. Next year we
shall not only control the House
by q satisfactory working majority,
but we shall have handsome ma
jority in the Senate Of the United
States as we'll. Then the party can
give full sway to its spirit of re-
trenchment.
There will never be any recogni-
ton of this unselfish patriotism in
Republican quarters. The orators
and journals of that party, to evade
the force Of retrenchments already
accomplished aud Others which
will be made, will set up a howl
about the payment of the rebel
debt and cotton claims, chimeras
which were relied upon to blind
fools to the actual good which is
now apparent In the first install.
ment of a return to even a partial
Democratic rule. But while the
mass of the Republican party will
never, under any circumstances,
concede that any good may come
out of the Democratic Nazareth,
there is small margin of Repub.
licans who note the facts, and who
are coming over to US. This record
of economy is putting the Demo-
cratic party, besides, in excellent
trim for the next Presidential cam.
paign-a battle which would ap-
pear to have been already won.