Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-10-01

The Right Line Of ID eMar catiOE.

AID can have failed to remark the
fact that of political bigotry, pure
and simple, we have nothing or
very little. The man who cannot
see the difference between warm
and loyal championship of certain
political principles and an intol-
erance to those who hold opposite
views is incapable of seeing the
nice line which divides distinc-
tion with a difference from dis
tinction born Of hair splitting.
Subscribers to the HERALD occa-
sionally have the knack of inter-
viewing US and expressing agree
ment with or dissidence from our
opinions. This is a wholesome
practice. The editor needs to be
hauled over the Goals occasionally.
He hasn't enough trouble with de-
linquent subscribers, aud people
who owe him money and assume
that he is q banker, without that.
He really requires to be keelhauled
at regular intervals. An old Dem
ocratic friend, who yesterday un-
dertook to scrape the barnacles of
our ceppers. thought that in max
ing use Of the expression that We
didn't wish to see the Republican
party die we departed from an
orthodox Democracy. We differ
with our friend, and we will tell
him why. In doing go we are af-
forded an opportunity for little
political dissertation which We re-
gard as called for.
The Republican party. like Its
great opponent the Democratic
party, presents various aspects. Il
is simple folly to attempt to deny
the fact that 1t has history which
firms one of the most epic pages
in our annals. Not all the sniveline
:, hypocrisy which has been expose q
fspany of its members can dis
Euise this pregnant circumstance
Hipocrttes can be repu lated. So
en- electoral "bull-dozers," wi o
4 ,ught to smother the voice Of Il
sovereign people of the Unto d
st ties, as expressed at the ballot
bot. But party with tie
history and its conse quent require
ments of the Republican party can
be relied upon much, better as a
useful feature of American politics
than mushroom party, which
springs into existence by chance,
much as certain tabled being OF
antiquity did from an accidental
meeting of the Gods of classic
Olympus. 1t is exigent upon such
party to get rid of its villainies
and fumigate the places that once
knew them and which should know
them never again.
What the Republican party really
needs, and no fair minded Republi
can will dispute the fact, is expul-
sion from power till such a period
as its opponents may make some
grave mistakes. What has ruined
that party is bald assumption
that the government and the peo-
pie of the United States belong to
1t, body, boots and breeches. Its
leaders have always posturized
rather as the masters than the SER
wants of the people. In this res
pect that party has always pre-
sented a remarkable contrast to the
historical and always enduring
Democracy. The latter party has
been ambitious. 1t has had royal
schemes Of absorption of territory
and of EN- pire, but it has always re-
ferred itself humbly to the people.
In this respect it has resembled the
humility Of the Pope and Bishops
Of the Roman Catholic Church
who, while clad in the splendors OF
the ecciesiastical rank, think it not
beneath their dignity, on special
occasions, to wash the feet of the
people. 1t has resembied, also, In
that single respect. the first Ma
poleon, who always claimed that
his fiber was Ell rapport with that
Of the masses. But the Democratic
claim was sincere one; that OF
Napoleon was not. The ambition
OF tbs Democracy has a ways been
In the interest of the premier ma
tion of the American continent.
It's mistakes have been impulsive
ones, and never in the interest of
Capitalization or despotic govern
ment.
We would rather trust the United
States in the hands of the Demo-
cratic or Republican party, on
the understanding that the latter
Is to be chastened, than commit
1t to the chances of lot of
mushroom organizations with no
political ancestry or hope of politi.
cal po iterity. And, dearly as we
love tile Democratic party, we
would not wish to see it entrusted
with power for more than eight
years at IA time, save as the reward
Of brilliant service to the people,
the rightfil source of all power in
q Republic. We have nothing in
common with the aspirations of II
mere placemau. Nothing pleases