Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-06-29

The Real Political Key Note.
1t IL q lamentable fact that there
are but y limited number Of. journ-
ais of genuine ability in the United
States which float the Democratic
banner. 1t is true that this state
ment is qualified by the other fact
that the Democratic party has
quite q number of newspapers
which are characterized by a mark
ed ability and intellectual vigor.
The Republican party, which is
the capitalist party, commands
most of the practiced pens of the
press. 1t Is lamentable that brains
should be venal, but it is fact
that, since 1t was discovered that
Bacon himself was 1.-THE wisest,
meanest, greatest of mankind" peo-
pie handy with the implement rec
ognized as mightier than the
sword" have been approachable.
Through its command of all even.
ues Of power and Of q public purse
which has 6isbursed, during the last
eighteen years, over twenty bill
lions Of money, the Republican
party to-day controls two.thirds
Of the presses of the United States.
Yet even these influences OF
money and of educated public opin-
ion have been powerless to repress
the public conscience. Not even
the so.called Republican party,
with all its glamour of success and
all Its suppression OF its asserted
cardinal impulses, which were sup
posed to be Democratic Republic
can, but which are really monarch
ical, have been able to silence that
still small voice which first spoke
through the soul Of Jefferson, and
which will continue to dominate
the United States, we firmly be-
lieve. The Republican party is
profoundly hypocritical and intri-
guing organization. 1t is to poll
tics what the Jesuits are vulgarly
supposed to be to religion, an in
stitutfon In which the spoken
word Is not responsive to the real
purpose.
In q laundering sort OF way the
people Of the United States are at
last beginning to realize how diff
ferent the professions of the Repub.
lican party are from its perform
ances. They begin to see that that
party exactly realizes Queen Cath
armies indignant summary of Car
dinal Wolsey after his fall, of whom
Shakespeare makes her say, "his
promises were, as lie then was,
mighty; his performance nothing"
The people of the United States
-UsEgets4dord to trust the Republic
can party longer with power. They
cannot afford to gamble longer as
to the perpetuity of the Republic.
1t is small matter whether Re-
publlcans or Democrats fill the ma
tional offices for a season, but it Is
. great thing to have it establish
ed that the American people can
still turn out one set of people who
were supposed to be their servants
until the Republican party made
ofiics-holders the masters Of the
masses, and replace them by an
other set.
OF course the Republican press,
from Maine to Texas, from New
York to San Francisco, with a deep
Thessalonian bay, denounce any
thing which seeks, as the Potter
Committee does, to show the innate
rottenness of the Republican party.
But the masses are in a different
mood. They see the necessity Of
rebuking this faithless organiza-
ton, whose over rown pride will
simply precede the greatest fall
recorded in history.
The Congressional elections OF
next fall will tell the whole story.
The Democratic party can enter
those elections, can fail and still
have their hand on the governor"
Of the governmental machine. The
Senate Of the United States. from
aud after the 4th of next March,
will be overwhelmingly Demo-
cratic, which "cribs, cabins and
confines" the power of a RepubIi-
can President even in the grossly
Impossible event of his being elect
ed. But, If the signs of the times
may be relied upon, the people are
determined, in the ensuing Con-
gressIonal elections, to put beyond
peradventnre. the fact that they re-
p1diate Republican Secretaries Of
the Treasury and United States
Senators who gladly make them
selves the stool-pigeons of fraud in
Louisiana.
We have seen many Democratic
summaries Of approaching elec-
tlons, but we have not seen one in
which the gain of the single Con-
gresham Of Oregon was claimed.
We have not seen q single Demo-