Daily Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1876-1884, 1878-02-26

A word OF warning.
The HERALD is too genuine q
friend of Democracy to be afraid to
give its party friends in the Cali
forniA Legislature q word Of warn
Ing and advice. Iago.like friends
can afford to suppress the truth;
and. with honeyed words, lure the
OBJ ject of their professed devotion to
destruction. Not SO with the
Democrat from conviction, who
loves his party. The Democratic
party has filled to the American
nation, during the last hundred
years, an office analogous to that
of the tribunes of the old Roman
Republic. 1t is the representative,
par excellence, of the common peo-
pie. The "cod fish arlstocracy -
OF the United States have delighted
In styling US "the great unwashed. !"
The man who has to earn his daily
bread In the sweat of his brow cam
not, 1t Is true, be as particular In
his additions as the curled darling
OF fortune; and, to that extent, the
reproach was just one. The DEM
ocratic party has always proudly
accepted the "new riches" style Of
insolence of its adversaries. 1t has
realized perfectly that, in new
Republic, the popular party-the
party that embraced the sinew and
muscle-might be sublime and epic
from its energy and Democratic
force, but that pulling, Legitimate
straining after aristocracy should
only meet with unmeasured con-
tempt. As consequence, the DEM
ocratic party has always counted
amongst its members the finest
gentlemen in the United States,
though it has never, as a party, set
up the pretence of being the "gen-
tleman's party"
The Democratic Legislature of
California should bear these facts
Of our almost immemorial history
In mind. Ours is not the party of
corporations, and we should concede
nothing to them not exacted by
the strict letter of justice. The
Democratic party should oc.
cupy the middle ground between
communists and the men who are
willing to sacrifice everything to
rich men and corporations. The
Democratic party of California
made pledge, two years ago, to
restrain the insolence of corpora.
lions. 1t devised, at that time, an
incipient measure of legislative re.
straint on railways which has had
excellent effects so far. Its Board
OF Commissioners of Transporta.
tion has gone on, in good ia it'll,
and has perfected scheme of re-
strictive legislation, supplementary
to the O'Connor bill, whose enact
ment into a law would put the
people of this State beyond the
reach of railway oppression. 1t
secures the fruits of all the i'm
provements already made, and in
PRODUCES new and admirable fea.
lures of administration into the
government Of railways. The duty
of the Democratic Legislature is a
plain one. 1t should pass the bills
of the Commission with no
other notifications than thuse
which lean towards additional pre-
cautions in the interest of the peo-
pie. 1t should legislate emphati-
caliy In the interest of the masses.
There is only one way to render
Kearney a perfectly Insignificant
fellow, and that is to show that
the great and invincible Democrat.
ic party is now, as always, the
champion of the people.
If the Democratic party shirks
its duty, we leave to the Republic
can organs the much relished task
Of telling what will happen to its
candidates. or one thing we are
assured, and that is that the Dem.
ocratic party of the nation will re-
main true to its traditions. Any
development of Laboringmen
strength in the Eestern States will |
only contribute to the Democratic |
victory. But why have hiatus
q mere temporary hiatus, it is true,
only involving a change of Demo-
cratic leaders-in California. All
that the Democratic majority In
both branches needs to do is to pass
q just fares and freights bill, and a
few statutes rendering the sojcurD
OF the Chinaman in California as |
disadyantageous as possible to the
Mongolian, repeal the "gag-law,"
with few ringing resolutions and
call q Constitutional Convention.
With these things done, together
with the usual quantum Of expedi-
ent local legislation, the Demo-
cratic party will be invincible.
With these things left undone-
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