Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-01-06

which counted an old man out OF
the Presidency to which the peo-
pie and the States elected him, in
order to seat therein a sort of
Pecksniff or Chad
band who, in his greedincss to OBJ
tain Mr.. Tilden's place, undoubt-
edly has attached his sign manual
to certain written agreements, at
present In the possession of the
Messrs. Lamar, Gordon, Proctor
Knott, and other Southern Demo-
CRATE. Mr.. VIM. E. Chandler, a
nephew of the Zachariah of a
I" little blood.lsttipg" notoriety,
supervised that portion of the Pres
idsntial conspira cy which related
to "bull-dozing" the electoral vote
Of Florida. Well, William E. has
lately spoken his little piece In the
shape of an address to the Republic
cans of New Hampshire. He says,
what We have frequently said In
the HERALD, that the Messrs. La
mar, Gordon, etc., have such an
agreement as that we have indl-
Gated, and he reiterates the well.
wern monotone that If Packard was
not elected Governor of Louisiana,
and Chamberlain Governor of
South Carolina, Hayes was not
elected President of the United
States.
II we possessed the private ear
Of Mr.. VIM. E. Chandler, archi-
tect of fraud in Florida. etc., by
virtue of deputation from his uncle
Zaohariah, q member of Grants
Cabinet, we would tell him that
he 10 giving currency to twenty
times told tale. We would not
give him a penny for his Informal
tion, for he is mouthing what we
knew long ago-what every body
not born idiot knows. When
you give forty-second rate man,
who mouths "potatoes, prisms and
prunes" morality, like Hayes, a
chance Of cheating a statesma an
out Of the Presidency to which he
has been elected by the people, he
will embrace it every time. 1t is
true that he will encounter his
Nemesis, but his intellect Is gener-
ally so feeble that he does not
know that, and he exhibits the
spceta1ia ol --5e ra-5a 1uttering for
2 .,w n.uu. .e5# the candle,
-usIe - a spienutu element in
things mundane which, to our
mind, incontestably indicates the
existence of Providence. When
your Nero harms Romo and fddles
the while, he does not dream that
he will one day fall over his tomb
and, too pusillanimous to finish
himself, ask his freedmen to do it.
When a Heliogabalus, fearful of
assassination, frames his ordinary
living apartments with mirrors, so
that he may see the approach of
an assassin and thus guard against
assassination, he does not dream
that a man oowardly enough to
take such precautions would never
have nerve enough to confront and
overcome a robust bravo
who approaches to take his
worthless life. Belisarius, in
the heighth of his victories,
never believed that, blind and
helpless, he would live to crave an
o>olus. Hump backed Richard
never thought that he would fall
before Richmond on Bosworth
Field, nor did Macbeth think the
wood of Dunsinane would ever be
put In motion. Iu the moment of
power, frail humanity, unless it is
OF f1ne cast. Is apt to think that
Its ascendancy will endure forever,
but it Is as unstable as the shifting
sands upon which the man built
his house In the parable of Christ,
as related by Matthew. The storm
comes and everything is undone.
Every fabric Of insolence and in
justice hitherto, In the history of
the world, has gone down, and that
erected by the Republican party
has proven no exception to the
rule.
When Napoleon went down the
old guard stood by him to tue last.
The noble Camtronne responded
to the English summons to yield
himself up, 1.-THE Guard dies, it
never surrenders." But the Repub.
lican party, in its day of adversely,
has different experience. 1t is
now awakening to the fact that it
has been slaughtered sin the house
of its friends" The retribution tor
the lost opportunities and the OPP
pressive insolence of that party
would not be complete without
such finale.
Some of our Republican friends
may think we write bitterly of
their party. Not whit. We
know human nature, and we
know how much happier they
will be when, under the just and
good natured administration of
the Democratic party, which has
no stilted and extravagant profess