Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-03-09
A Phase or Local Politics.

We endorse none of the person.
alities of the correspondence which
IL now taking place between per-
sons who either now are, or who
were, members of the Working
mems organization of Los Angeles
We don't like coarse per-
under any circumstances.
Tho whole controversy, however,
brings into marked relief the ten
der solicitude of the Republican
managers here for the organization
OF Workingmen's party. There is
an old adage which says that, where
there is much smoke, there must be
some fire, and I'VE suppose we are,
therefore, justified in assuming that
Republican coin was used to vital.
ize the1ast campaign of the Work
i9anhen. We say this without any
1disrespect to the present organiza.
ton of that name, which, undoubt-
edly,embraces many respectable ell
ements. Nor does the fact necessa-
rily involve an arraignment of the
former organization. A party, like
nation and an army, must have
the sinews of war. Frederick the
Great said that the God of war fa-
vored the strongest army chest.
Napoleon the Great said victory
Inclined to the heaviest battalions
and the heaviest artillery. But
heavy artillery and heavy battal.
ions are impossible without money.
Moses borrowed the precious YES
sells Of the Egyptians when he COM
menced his great exodus, and the
Workingmen Of Los Angeles car
therefore be excused for taking the
funds of one of their political adver'
sarIes to work their overthrow. II
there is questionable politi'
cal morality in such an
operation there is a STRAIT
egy about it which almost redeems
the moral obliquity. Edmund
Burke says "vice itself loses half its
evil when it loses all its grossness."
The mercenary element shown by
the Workingmen last Fall in alb
sorbipg Republican cash is more
than atoned for by the Jael.like
determination of these worthy peo.
pie to drive a nail into the forehead
of the Republican party.
Whence all this energy shown 10y
Republicans to organize Work
ingmen's party? Politicians are
really and emphatically in earnest
when they will distribute theil
shekels in aid ofa party whose pre-
tensions are rival? Why is it thai
Republican organs alternate one
day praises of their own party and
next day, fulsome laudations ofthe
Workingmen?
The reason is very simple. Los
Angeles county is Democratic
citadel. Our Los Angeles Republi-
cans parody the old Democratic
party aspiration of anything tC
beat Grant" into anything tC
beat the Les Angeles Democracy
With that end in view, they art
ready TO employ honeyed persua'
sions and, if need be, coin.
Now ii the W0rkingmen can ge
away with the Los Angeles Dem
ocracy in fair, stand-up fight, lie
them, say we. We are quite read,
to take the chances Of battle. The
Democratic party is inagnanimou'
In victory and undismayed in de-
feat. 1t has earned the nick name
of "the unterriiieI.n The Working
man is as fully entitled to offic'
as anybody else, il he can get it
But wha. we desire to recognize il
the Mephistophelian attitude Of
the Republican party. No organ
ization that was ever created ha
less in sympathy with the Work
ingman than it. 1t has created al
the class distinctions, all the grind
ing corporations and nearly all the
aggregated wealth in the United
States; and yet, out of pure
"cussedness'' and jealousy of the
successful Democracy, in the mere
Dog-in-the-Manger hope that, il
they can't longer feed at the oflicia
rack themselves they will do thei
utmost to prevent their old tim,
opponents from doing so, they ar
engaged in stimulating an organl
cation which is, after all, a guerilla
Democracy. They would be will
ling, no doubt, at the next election
to patch up a sham alliance with
the Democracy, with the view o
selling us out, body, boots ant
breeches to the Workingmen wher
4 1t comes to work at the polls. We
don't believe the Los Angeles De-
mocracy will fall into that trap
and we feel perfectly confident
tn 1t, with straight-out party nomi-
nations, we can hold this county
against all corners.
WE noticed, the other day, the