Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-06-02
vs.. N..,ona' To,,s'es.

We confess that the situation in
California is such that our interest
Is centered ust now rather on Ma
tional than State politics. In the
State Of California the Democratic
party, and, for that matter, the
Republican party, is paralyzed by
the general suspicion that corpor-
ations and the none yed power
have had entirely too large an in
fiuence over party movements-an
influence which has extended to
the disinteg ration of party lines
and which calls, most imperative
", for q thorough State reorg ami
zation of the Democracy, at least.
The Republican party 10 SO entire
ly devoted to corporations, In its
Instincts and history, that it can
get along very well without reor-
ganization. Subserviency 10 corpo.
ratons IL perfectly natural to 1t.
But we admit that, in the dreary
abandon of o portion of the Democ-
+ acy of California to the dictation
of corporations, we turn, with an
intense relief, to the determined
and manly attitude of the Ma
tional Democracy. The Potter in.
vestigati on is the first note Of re-
surrection, outside Of the commend.
able spirit of economy and re.
trenchment show n by the last and
the present Democratic House OF
Rerresen tatives, which we have
Of late observed in the
Democratic party. If we de-
sire to win, for a season,
the Pre- sidency and the other
br anches of the national govern
m ent, we must show that we are
worthy of the trust. No smascu-
lated party will ever have the op.
portunity of enjoying, even fol
four years, the responsibility ,of
power in the United States. Tn
like our Republican friends, we dc
not think that it is good for any
party to hold power as a prescrip-
ton. "Ride and tie" is the very
instinct of Republican govern.
ment.
We have had in California to
listen to o fearful amount of pro-
vincial ranting about the Potter
investigation. Our kilograms told
US the story of Blaine, of Maine
standing in the hall Of The
House of Representatives, which
has 80 often resounded with
his | elcquence, and remarking
that more than one hundred Re.
publican Congressman were voting
against a resolution of inquiry
which they wished to see passed
while more than hundred Demo.
cratic Congressman were voting
for it, although they devoutly
wished it might be defeated. This
is one of the curious chapters in
the history of the great Presiden-
tial fraud. There will be rare de.
velopmen ts before the majesty of
the American people is asserted, as
it surely will be, and politics will,
meantime, see strange bed-fellows.
1t is useless to rely upon the Re.
Publican Associated press for any.
thing but unadulterated partizan-
ship; but, fortunately, the United
States mails, like the Gun and rain,
favor the politically just and un-
Just alike. The Eastern papers
have at last come to hand and they
tell somewhat remarkable story.
We quote first from the New York
Herald Of May Esd, which has the
following in its Washington cor
respondence of the preceding day:
The republicans, under the lead
of Mr.. Hale, lifted their hands
against the Presidential title this
afternoon. The Potter resolution
was put through last Friday as a
matter of party discipline, but
against the judgment of many
democrats, who are dissatisfied that
1t does not explicitly deny the In
tsntion to attack the Presidential
title. This dissatisfaction made
itself public to-day in resolutions
Introduced by Mr.. Carter Harrison,
of Illinois, in these words:
Whereas a select committee of this
House has been appointed to inquire into
certain frauds alleged to have been COM
mitted In Florida and Louisiana in No
vember, 1876,in connection with returns of
votes for electors for Pa esident and Vice
President; and
like character were committed at the
same time in the States Of Oregon and
South Carolina; therefore be it
Resolved, That said committee be and
1t Is hereby empowered to inquire into the
same II. in Its opinion, testimony thereon
of n substantial character shall be pre-
sented TO 1t; and be 1t further
Resolved, That the Senate and House of
Representatives. OF the Forty-fourth Con-
gress, having counted the electoral votes
for President and Vice President, and II
having been declared that r. b. Hayes
had received the highest number ofvotes
for President, and William A. Wheeler
the highest number of votes for Vice
President, IL is not now in the power OF
Congress, nor is it the purpose of this
House, through said Investigation, 10 an
null or attempt to annul the action of the
Forty-fourth Congress in the premises.
Mr.. Harrison asked their consid-
Grafton as privileged question to
which, of course, they were enti-
tied as germane to the Potter reso.
luton, and the republicans, who
have made such an ado about the
Potter resolution, signifying a rev.
oIut i'm a rv o. taok IN tho Drae;Jo,