Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-06-18
rhe " Now and Then " Of Republi.
can Organs.


through, an alembic and reduced to
Its elements, after grand residuum
of "cant," "whitewash" would be
its principal remaining ingredient.
II George Washington had been o
member of the Republican party
and-impossible as the supposition
is-he had participated in the party
dirty work and grown tired of its
infamy, most Republican newspa'
pers would describe George as q
veritable galoot;" unworthy Of
any earthly credence. Moral
character, with the pretenders to
moral excellence Of that organiza.
ton, has depended entirely on
fidelity to party. First McLin and
Dennis confessed the Florida in
iquities. These men were the pill
lars of the Republican party in
that State. They were thought,
by the Republican leaders, to be
entirely competent to make a
Republican President. But, as
soon as the mood of confession was
upon them-a confession which
they were led to make by the i'm.
pulse which leads Macbeth, in the
play, to betray himself a dozen
times before Birnam wood advan-
ces upon the Castle of Dunsinane,
they are, according to Republican
editors and orators, not fit to play
clerk to a night soiler's cart. This
may be true. We certainly don't
feel inclined to deny it. But, none
the less, it leaves the Republican
party, which has "connubiated I"
with and employed these men to
strangle the Republic, in very
embarrassing attitude. A party
may be both villainous and manly,
the manliness somewhat re-
lieving the villainy. But
1t seems to US that,
in repudiating its tools in the
South, the Republican lead ers are
simply outlining their villainy at
the same time that they are eur
rendering their claims upon ro-
bust manhood.
The last confessor of Republican
frauds, and the last subject of Re-
publican attack, is James E. An.
derson, the Republican Supervisor
Of East Feliciana township, in the
State of Louisiana. The columns
Of Republican journals all over the
United States are now mainly de-
voted to showing that this ex-Re-
publican tool is a person utterly
unwo rthy of credence. He, in his
day, was thought fit to make Hayes
President. Yet now he is not
thought, by these Republican or.
gans, to be worthy TO scrape the
streets of the dirtiest purlieu of an
city. Yet this man An
derson, at the time he made his
confesslon, was an assistant editor
3f the Philadelphia North. .An,cr.
can, one of the Oldest journals in
he United States, o journal which
vas Republican from the very
'irth of the party, and which is
'dited by Hon. Morton McMichael,
! Republican ex-Mayor of Phila-
lelphia, and, II we mistake not,
he guiding spirit of the Republic
IAN Centennial Commission. To be
In assistant editor of such jour-
lal, from an intellectual stand.
point, involves q far higher rank
han that of the average Congress
man. Speaking Of Anderson, the
North american says:
SNAKE no mistake in weighing
the testimony of James E. Ander.
son. No man occupying a position
Of honor and trust ever risks max
ing himself the target for obloquy
aud vituperation for the pleasure of
lying. His story is not q pleasant
one, but rest assured it is true"
The New York Times, the lead
ing Republican journal OF the
Uuited States, also sees the
Inconsistency of profiting by
these men to make a fraud
nlent President and after
wards turning npon them and at
tempting 10 destroy the crelibility
Of their testimony. The fact is
that the Republican party, in ac-
cepting their work, has given the
highest testimony to the credibi!-
ity Of these men. The Republican
New York Timcs-the leading Re-
publican organ Of the United
Stntes-says, as to the testimony of
Anderson and others of his guild:
/, judicious Republicans imagine
thai the bad character of the wit
ness justifies them in ignoring evil
dence which does not depend upon
his character, aud IN picking flaws
In his statement as demonstra-
ton Of the innocence of the ac-
cusei. They would conduct the
case as a sharp lawyer would de-
fensl his client in a police court,
caring very little for the methods
that secure acqu,ttal, provided only
that result be effected.
So far, hewever, rs this investi-
CATION is concerned, the public will
pay much less attention to the
Of legal procedure
than to the broad, moral bearings
VI the evidence adduced. Evidence
may be insufficient to convict this
person or that Of u specific offense,