Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-11-05
An Evensfui Day.

An Evonsfui Day.
There IL no possibility of using
qualifying terms in describing the
malevoleuce Of the greater por-
tlon OF the Republican press of the
United States in characterizing
anything Democratic-it is abso-
lutely murderous. From the dilet-
tanti and hypocritical George Will
liam Curtis, in Harpers' Weekly,
down to the provincial rag, tag and
bobtail sheets, no charges are too
Infamous to launch against Demo-
cratic statesmen-no imputations
are too gross to make against the
party aud its policy. The animus
underlying the cool assumptions of
these gentry is that majority of
the people and of the States, if it
be Democratic, is entitled to no re-
Coguitlon. This is the real mean
ing Of their attitude. 1t suited the
purposes Of the leaders of this
pharIsaic party to inaugurate a
crusade nominally in the interest
Of freedom, but their purpose was
fell sectional one from the very be-
ginning. They invented negro
suffrage In the Southern States be-
cause they thought they held
. chattel mortgage over the
late slave, which they could for
ever flourish as lien over his vote
It IL really not too much to say
that, II it could be prudently done,
the real love of the Republican
leaders for freedom would be showr
In the Acknowledgement of every
one who dared to offer a Demo
cratic ballot.
To-day the battle will be fought
which will tell who are the practi.
cal rulers of the United States
There is no Disgusting the impor.
tance Of the Congressional cleo.
tions. Four sessions of the United
States Congress-, including the ex.
ira session, have been held in
which the Democratic majority o.
the House of Representatives have
battled bravely, step by step, fol
important and material reductions
In the national expenditures. Ster
by step these reductions have beer
resisted by the Republican Senate
1t is no exaggeration to say that
owing to the innovation made in
the tidal year and since of Demo.
cratic House of Representatives
one hundred and fifty millions OF
dollars Of the peoples money have
been saved. OF course the party
gets no thanks sfor this from any
newspaper or oratorical representa-.
tive of Republican opinions. II
would be the same, exactly, if the
expenditures were voIun.
tarffy betrayed in their entirety by
Democratic subscriptions. But all
Republicans are not blindly parti.
xan, and we are much mistaken if,
to-day, many of them do not show
their appreciation of Democratic
retrenchment by voting for Demo-
cratic candidates.
1.-THE Democratic party wins the
elections for the House of Repre-.
sentatives to-day it is the real mas.
ter of tue United States. There has
never been a more pitiable specta.
Gle than President who had to
meet an opposition majority in
both houses. Even President
with an unimpeached title might
we'll dread the ordeal. This was
the case before the passage of the
tenure OF office bill, but it will be q
hundred fold more so now. The
fraudulent President will, indeed,
be little more than a bound boy OF
q husking. His attitude will ne.
cessarily be hesitatingan rebuked.
On every hand it is conceded that,
from and after the 4th of next
March, the Senate will be largely
Democratic. BY day after to NOR
row we shall know pretty reliably
just how the House of Represents.
tives will stand. five win this
substantial victory we can well af-
ford to allow tile senile New York
Tribune to play with its toy-a lot
OF silly and in many cases forged
cipher kilograms.