Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-06-23
Peslties Of california snd Of
the Union.

\ Relstses Of California end OF
shs Unfon.
low that the Constitutional
otlon is over we may well say
y We have never doubted that
Workingmen's party would
nmph In the State at least once.
one respect we We're in error and
disappointed. We confess that
did think, until four or five
ys bsfore the election, that the
pnscracy would carry their own
Inner county. In this We have
In proven to be mistaken; but,
% the grand essential facts Of
) Workingmen's carrying the
logates at large and the San
ancisco delegates, we have never
kvered in an opinion that they |
build do 1t. Fortunately, for the
aok before and for the week fol-
wing the Palace Hotel confer
Aoe, we took the trouble to place
arselvss on record at least q halfa
|Sxen times as to this belief. OF
3urse, In the heat Of the campaign,
- suspended admissions which, as
party organ, 1t would have been
Improper for US to have made.
We find ourselves to-day con-
tonted with the fact that the
Norkingmen have won a victory
Dhich IL only qualified by the other
bet that only half the people OF
3allfornia voted at the last cleo
Ion, and by the further cireum-
ikAnce that the Constitution framed
~ them may be overwhelmingly
1ofsated on the referendum. The
snteresting thing to know is, what
bfEsct will this Workingmen's VIC
berry have on national politics?
First OF ali, it should be borne in
nind that California Is specially
offatic State. In this Common
wealth there are nineteen chances
~ twenty that the party which sue
|roeds this year will be beaten the
ilext. Not to 60 back to the dis
oomflture of Geo. G. Gorham and
John P. Jones, in 1867. let US
take the splendid Independent
campaign which ushered in the
Booth trlum phi of 1878. There
were elements positively epic in
that sharp campaign which Booth
fought with the professional poll
ticlans and the corporations. We
have no hesitation in saying that
II Booth had been as great u man
~ We thought him to be-if he had
possessed a 1.-THE of the magnetism
and strength with which we cred
ltsd him at a time when we leaped
Democratic traces and supported
him 1--WE confess that we can some
times get out of the party traces).
the Independent party Of Califor-
MIA would have ramifisd all over
the United States, and people DIS
trustful Of Grantism and inimical
~ fiufsn-~sn tho Democracy
would have voted an Independent
ticket In such mum bers that Booth
might have been President. The
Dnly effect of that movement was
10 confer upon Booth national
which he has since la
failed to sustain. Yet
he Independent movement was
yraced and buttressed by an abili-
y, q depth CT genuine Jeffersonian
Democracy, a happiness in plat
sorms and an electrical force of ora
Iory, which utterly failed to pene-
Erate the barrier of the Slerras. 1t
not only evoked no response in the
East. but it did not oven penetrate
to Nevada or Oregon.
Will the Wofkingman's move
ment Of California be more endur-
Ing or will it ramify further? We
snswer emphatically not, and We
shall give our reasons for this opin.
ion.
Imprlmis, there has been, for the
last fourteen years, in the East, a
Workingmen's movement which
far overshadows in ability and de.
finiteness of purpose anything
which has 80 far been developed in
California. 1t 10 composed of
two elements. One was that OF
the Workingman proper, as repre-
sented by Gen. Sam f. Carey, of
Cincinnati, who once succeeded in
getting himselfelected to Congress.
The other is made up of European
Red Republicanism, which has a
oocialistlc phase IN Germany and
Q NihIlist front in Russia. Both
these elements have had thorough
National and State organization
for nearly fourteen years in the
United States. They have affilia-
ted with later organization known
IS the National party, and they
have largely furnished the follow
Ing for the greenback movement,
which has been an incident of our
later politics, outside of the range
within which George H. Pendleton
had curbed his theories.
In the East all these elements
have been helpless but they have
really served as an auxiliary to the