Daily Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1876-1884, 1878-05-31

States just now it is not so impor.
taDt that the Democratic or Repub-
licAn parties should rule this coun-
try as 1t is that it should be again
demonstrated that the sovereignty
Of the people is a thing to be as
serted ct stated intervals by the
voter. The kernel of the nut lies
exactly there. Inheriting three
generations Of Democratic blood,
and sensible, as we are the grand
achievements Of the only American
party which has asserted a distinc-
lively National policy, we are en-
tire believers In the doctrine that
the American people have the right
to cashier their servants under
whatsoever party phylacteries
they may range them
selves. We hold ourselves free
to recognize the merits and de-
merits Of both the Democratic and
Republican parties, but there
should be no party domination in
this country az immutable as the
laws Of the Modes and Persians.
1t il worthy of note that the Re-
publican party looks upon itself as
. sort of sacerdotal arrangement.
Its leaders are imbued, to the tips
Of their fingers and to the toes of
their feet, with the pharisaic i'm
pulse, az am better than thou"
These broad United States, and the
fairness thereof, belong to the
saints. They are the saints-that
Is to say, they claim to be the
saints. 1t is usual to ascribe to the
Jesuits the doctrine of doing evil
that good may come. That very
doctrine, whether 1t be rightly or
wrongly imputed to the Jesuits, is
the very animus of the programme
of fraud which has placed pre-
tender, who was repudiated by
large majority of both the pop
ular and Electoral vote, in the
White House.
The devotion we profess TO the
Democratic party has no single ele-
meut of love of office in it. Mere
success has for us none of the
charms which, we regret to say,
are overwhelming in their influ-
ence with many Americans. What
We seek to discover is the right,
and, when found, we desire 10 ac-
cord to it a loyal allegiance. The
Democratic party has always had
our devoted allegiance in ADVERSE
ty. Whether it would continue
to have it In prosperity would de-
pend absolutely on how it behaved
itself.
But the great thing in the United
States, no matter what party or set
OF men profit or lose by it, is to es-
tablish thu fact that the Republic
can party, swollen with a sense of
its Importance, and doing incredi-
bic acts of insolence in violation of
popular sovereignty, has no pre-.
scription of the government. That
was the real issue in the last Fresi-
Dental campaign; and, in urging
1t, the Democracy were assisted in
1875 by the unexampled record of
the dirty practices which had &C.
companied the superfine profess
sions of the Republican party.
II, after the infamous work of
1876, the Republican party should
receive vote of confidence, the
Republic might as well be at once
accepted as tradition of the past.
We should see, for few years, the
thimblerig tactics which would
pre;ede an Empire. The first in
vasions of the popular rights are
made hesitatingly and tentatively.
The conspirators half feel the
halter round their necks, and they
proceed with circumspection. The
assaults upon popular liberty very
much resemble the approaches to
woman's virtue-if the first ad.
vances are suffered without rebuke
the end is near. With the people,
as with Byron's heroine, it Is case
OF "and, swearing she would meier
consent, consented" A people, like
virtuous woman, shoul repel the
first hint of license.
II Is because we think thus that
we heartily sympathizs with the
era of inquiry and fearless exposure
OF fraud which the Potter Commit
tee inaugurates. There are those
who think that the Democratic
party has committed mistake in
opening the doors to the truth. We
are not of the number. The party
Is not impelled by considerations
OF policy in taking this action; but,
In our opinion, policy and right
would both have dictated this very
course. II, in the old, sensitive
days OF Republican honor and SYM
pathy with liberty, the fact that
Henry Clay once merely threw his
influence for John Quincy Adams.
Tor President, in the lIou SO of Rep
resentatives, and afterwards be-
CAME Secretary of State ia the
Adams Cabinet, could, for thirty
years aud more, convuIse the
United States and forever defeat
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