Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-05-08
rhe pe,necrasle Party.

may be relied upon at this office.
The Democratic Party.
We quite frequently have occa-
sion to feel hugely amused at the
comments we encounter in Repub-
lican and so-called Independent
newspapers on the Democratic
party. We claim to possess an
average degree of Intelligence, and
we have been diligent student of
passing events. As q result of our
observation We are prepared to say
that, at no period of its history, has
tho Democratic party exhibited
greater self-control, more sagacity
or more determined purpose than
1t shows to-day. No political Or
ganization with which we are &C.
quainted, either in this country or
abroad. has at any time shown the
vitality of the Democratic party.
Its death has been announced over
and over again. 1t has simply
found nourishment in defeat and
has drawn inspiration from disas-
ter. 1t has known how to pluck
the flower safety from the nettle
danger, and to-day, II they knew it,
aspiring young men, who look only
to future success, find their true
station in this party, which is as
much the party Of the future as it
has been emphatically the party of
the past. We can find nothing
that so perfectly symbolizes the
present status of the Democracy as
the scriptural legend of Sampson.
The Democracy has been tempo.
rarily shorn Of its locks, in which
lay its strength, but its hair isnow
full grown and it will use its recov-
cred strength not to pull down the
pillars which uphold the fabric OF
national life but to support them.
We have marked the stature Of the
fools who are in the habit of sneer-
ing at the Dem ocratic party. They
require the magnifying end of the
telescope to invest them with any
appreciable size. The only really
masculine policy which has digni-
fed the United States has ema-
mated from the Democratic party.
The time has arrived when, here
after as heretofore, we shall have a
recognizable national policy, in
which the United States will count
a. q factor in the affairs of the
world, and 1t will be entirely owing
to the eternal vigor of this much
maligned party that we shall re-
gain our national significance.
The Democratic party is the
Workingmen's party with COM
munism left out. 1t is the " So
cial Contract" of Jean Jacques
Rousseau adapted to the multiforu
complexities of civilized life. 1t is
local government to the extreme
consistent with the cohesion of the
several parts of the body polite.
1t aims to realize the aspirations Of
the pastoral man within the bounds
of the attainable.
1t is a lamentable commentary
on the self.exalted mission of the
Republican party that, notwith-
standing its eighteen years posses.
sion of power, a power that was
obtained under grandiloquent pre-
lenses, there is now disposition
to sneer at any phase of politics
which is not low and selfish. The
Republican party has always needed
a strong smelling bottle to conceal
the gross odors of selfishness and
littleness which have woefully dis
credited its professions.
There are to-day people in a
strong Democratic county, like Los
Angeles, who have the impudence
to assure us that with victory every
where in the broad Uni ted States
not only imminent for the Demo-
cratic party but inevitable, we
should disband and acknowledge
that We have no excuse for exis-
tence. What supreme farce it
would have been to have acknowl.
edged any such insulting assump
ton? Nothing attracts US so much
in the Los Angeles Democracy as
the thoroughly masculine and res
olute way in which, the other day,
they resolved to maintain the iden-
tlty Of their party. Organizations
which have no excuse for contin.
ued existence, like the Republican
party, may seek political alliances.
The Democratic party, confident
i'll its mission-the party of the
future as of the past, the guarantor
OF capital within its proper bounds
and the champion Of the poor man
would commit an act of suicide
we're 1t to seek counsel of its enc.
mica.
THERE are are some anomalies
In European politics which are