Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-12-17
Word 90 the "Bioody shirr'
Tribe.

While the outcome has not been
- thorough as We expected, the
ate elections have left the Demo-
5ratic party in q commanding posi-
Hon. The "short session" will
blose on tho 4th Of March next and
bly, Congress which may assemble
thereafter either by the special call
bf the President or limitation of
law will be Democratic, and that
~ effective working majorities in
both branches. There will then be
presented the spectacle of mere
Residential flgure-head so bound
1own and hedged around with Re-
Publican enactments, in the shape
pf the 'sTenure of Office'' and other
Daws, framed to embarrass Presi-
dent Of Democratic antecedents and
pympathies, that he will count for
= mere cipher. The whole SUBJ
btauce Of power-the Initiative Of
any legIslation-the payment OF
oAlaries even-will rest entirely
ID the hands Of the Democratic
party.
New we desire to reason a little
With the "bloody shirt" shriekers
Of the Republican party. We are
ready to admit that it is possible
that the next President may be a
Republican instead of a Democrat,
I've hope, for. the best interests OF
the country, he may be the latter
aud what then?
Are the 'bloody shirl' shriekers
aware that there are no possible
developments OF the politics OF this
oountry In which, under an aggres-
slve and rsactionary policy of vio-
lence, the Republican party can get
possession Of either House of Con-
gress, with the consequent ability
to frame o law, even II they should
elect their President? If they are
not aware Of this obvious fact they
possess less Intelligence than we
give them credit for. In a Presi-
Dental election one party or the
other gets every one OF the electo-
raj votes of New York and Penn
sylvania and of the other States.
In the elections for members Of
the House Of Representatives, on
the other hand, the Democratic
party, while it may lose the electo-
raj votes Of New York and Penn
sylvania and Of other States which
We should like to have, will carry
= certain number o. the Congress
eiOnal districts OF iaose States.
They will never fail 20 carry
enough members from the North,
added to the delegation from the
"6olid South" which would stay
compactly "solid" under q policy
Of oppression adopted by the Re-
publican party, at the instance of
the "bloody shirt" shriekers, to
keep the House of Representatives
eternally Democratic. The merest
political tyro comprehends the full
Significance and the indefeasible
verify Of this statement.
Now as to the United States Sen.
ate. There are thirty-eight States
In the American Union and sew
snty-six Senators. OF tho thirty.
eight States, sixteen-with the
state Of West Virginia created by
the Republican party-go to form
the "Solid South" Thus we have
thirty.two Of the seventy.six Sem
ators ut blow and from the whole
North 1t is only necessary to secure
seven more to guarantee majority
OF that body to the Democracy.
Now even in the b hsight and bitter
ness OF the war,whcn every human
agency was brought successfully
into play to slandsr Dem ocratlc
motives, the Democratic party
never had less than seven Senators
from the Northern States. No hu-
man conjunctute can arise, in the
| present aspect of our politics, which
/ will leave the party less than twice
that number. especially as the
United States census of 1880
10 not far distant, which
will rectify, in favor of
the Democratic party, many gross
inequalities of legislative repre-
sensation. Whether we elect q
Democratic President or no, both
Houses of Congress will be hope
les1Iy Democratic, and the
"bloody shirt" shrieker may ex-
pand his lungs to their full diap.-
son with an absolute inability to
alter the political situation one jot
or little.
OF course this view of the matter
leaves Republican rebellion out
Of the question. Conditions exist
which would render resort to VIC.
isncs BY that party, with the forms
spirit Of the law against 1t, ex-
ningly disastrous to itself.
II SOUTHERN policy is to pension
rebel soldiers. Democratic Con.
grossmau Russell, from North 0.r.