Daily Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1876-1884, 1878-05-25
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with which the Republican party
IL preparing to throw itself into the
coming Congressional campaign.
They are imbued with tho spirit of
the drowning man who catches at q
straw. The United States Senate,
from and after tho 4th of next
March, will be hopelessly Demo-
cratic. The Republican party
finds itself now face to face with
the disagreeabls probability that
the next House of Representatives,
like the present and last, will also
be Democratic. or course q great
deal Of wild speculation is INDUCED
sn by men with whom the wish is
father to the thought, and who
cherish the delusion that the Re-
publican party has q chance Of cap
turing the popular branch Of Con-
gress. But there was never q
greater deluslon, In our opinion.
We have been trained in school
In which hope was necessarily q
secondary element in political mat
te-s. We have generally had the
satisfaction Of marching forward to
defeat with the certainty that our
forebodings would be realized.
That has been the experience of
every Democrat who cast his first
vote for President in the Grant
Seymour campaign in 1858. We
had then a most exquisite sense of
the fact that we were throwing our
vote away, except as it represent.
ed our loyalty to the Democracy,
and, as We thought. the best in
tsrests Of the country. We have
always, consequently, taken des-
pondednt rather than q sanguine
view Of the political horoscope.
BUT, Notwithstanding the warp of
tenn permanent derived from e chast-
ening political experience, We can
augur nothing but good to the party
In the approaching Congressional
campaign. There are those who
mistake the flush of fever for the
energy of health. Such feeble but
febrlle documents as that which
emanated from the Republican
National Congressional Commit
tee, the other day, bearing the i'm
primaturs of Eugene Hale and
George C. Gorham, show simply u
political pulse which registers l2O,
and which Is threatened every mo-
ment by syncope. The whole Con-
gresslonal contest may be con-
densed into nutshell: The Dem.
ocratic party is fighting simply
for very narrow margin =
the outposts-of the next House,
while the Republicans will be
hard pressed to preserve their in
ner lines. The Republican party
has done a great number of very
cunning things in its career, but it
has sometimes overreached itself.
It did this when it increased the
Congressional representation of the
South by eighteen or twenty MEM
bers. 1t thought, at the time, that,
by . process of Federal "bull-doz.
Ing" 1t would itself profit by the
increase. But the whirligig of
time has resulted, in its case, in
the yerillcation Of that exquisite
OF Shakespeare, in which
he speaks OF "vaulting ambition
which o'erlsaps itself and falls o.
the other side"
What a pitiable attitude the Re-
publican party will occupy with
both Houses of Congress sec rely
Democratic? 1t will interfere
with the neat little
scheme, which certain Republican
leaders undoubtedly mediate, of
serving up Grant for a third term.
There Is no use whatever of trying
to disguise the fact that there is a
large element In the United States
who would welcome a shoddy en-
pire with hysterical delight. They
are nursing dreams, but the fact
that they are chimeras in no whit
restraints them. The House of Rep.
resentatives which will be elected
this fall will declare the result
OF the next Presidential election.
We all know now what signifi-
canoe attaches TO what was in
tended by the trainers of the Con-
stitution to be mere declaration
q merely ministerial act. Consid-
ering the INSCRIPTIONS use to
which the accident OF the exist
ence OF Republican Senate was
put III iSI6-0, 1t is good to think
that the Democracy will, when the
next controversy comes on, il con-
troversy there should be, have all
the machinery of making the pop
ular preference for them effectual.
"Fhe tools to those who can han.
die them" says TalIeyrand; but, by
all means, have the tools. This is
a gross view of politics, but
II Is ons which has been forced
upon us ty the God and Morality
party. Superfiue sentiments leave
no room in the breast of their pos.
SCISSORS for ordinary fair play, as
was shown notably by the Repub-
Leans little over a year ago.