Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-10-22
4 xAs.s 81 Eva, omen.

U1EtY. what between siavisn
a6ulatIon Of everything English
md of the Republican party, and
bIaokguard. foul mouthed abuse Of
he Democracy, the conductor Of
onls unquestionably "smsrt" and
vnsplsh paper has his hands full.
~ ls truo that he runs In single
HEoove, and has drooled in mono
! 1ono that IL worse than anything
Gkxk the settler Of Mark Twain ever
o.perienced In his cabin In the
onllon, over which the mountain
1owered which dropped cows and
steers. But, then, what Is the use
~ being an editor. and an editor OF
The boss" literary paper Of the
Coast. at that. unless you can bore
oeopls with toad.eating to English
men. fustiAn praise of the Republi-
ean party and Billingsgate abuse
~ = party which has seen q dozen
Duohroom political organisations
tlos and disappear, like the exhaia-
tions Of . night, and which intends
50 - . hundred more follow in
ohelr wake. PIxley has found out
that II the Democrats had nomin-
Afed leader ana a gentleman. like
A2oratio Seymour. success would
hovo been certain. He ascribes
ohe defeat Of Horatio Seymour in
10o0 to the detection of the New
York Worid--a detection which
+ noboly has discovered but himself.
!, Ever since Horatio Seymour au-
l1orItatlvely announced his pur-
uoeo q forever retiring from poll
D2ca the leaders, editors and orators
Il - Republican party have dis
ooversd that he Is q magnificent
nan, = Statesman and an honor to
hls country. But, when Horatio
gsymsur was running for President
On the Democratic ticket, in what
different key they piped? He
WAS painted as traitor of the deep
eet dye, as man who was ready
- cell his country at the instiga-
tlen Of his Bourbon Democracy.
Rlslpg to the exigencies Of Re-
publican stump and newspaper
oloQunce, they shortly con-
verted him into q sort of Bene-
dot Arnold and Aaron Burr in one.
No man who has ever lived in the
United States possessed in greater
degree than Horatio Seymour the
gift Of gracious and captivating Or
atory. No man who has lived in
the United States In the past hum
dred years possessed more spot
less character. Yet it was necessary
for the base purposes OF tine Repub-
Iican leaders to psiut i'm ms q sort
Of compound OF Mephistopheles,
traitor aud blackguard, and he was
promptly dressed up in q silhouette
that embraced everything black
and Infamous. He was a respecta-
bic man before he ran for Presi-
dent; be 10 highly respectable,
nay, an iliustrious man now; but,
during his candidacy, according to
4spublicau accounts, he was the
dlrtisst scrub that ever ran for Of
nee In the United States. This Is
disgusting language, but far viler
opithels were bestowed upon Hor-
alto Seymour In that campaign
than any we have recspituIsted.
Next came Horace Greeley. Who
can fail to recall the excess OF
ssurrllity OF which he was m ade the
Victim? The mans long and hon.
ofabls life counted for nothing ss
ooou - 1t was understood that he
desired to stay the hand of oppres-
sion which was visiting the South
beyond its capacity to boar.
But the most artistic and perse-
xering slander which has ever as.
sailed any American public ma n
WAS visited upon Samn el J. Tilden.
There WAS room for both amuse-
mont and disgust At the stages Of
~ development. Every prominent
Republican journsI In New York
olty, including such universally
known papers as the New York
Tribune, TGnass aud Harper's
s Wsskiy, had In the past beslsvered
NJ. Tiidsn with praise. When it
bsoame necessary to paint him as q
blsckguard and q scoundrel they
were = little embarrassed at the
start of, as well they might be.
After having heaped a Pelion upon
Ooss Of adulation upon Mr.. Tilden
- political reform er, the transit
tlon TO tie role Of vilification was u
gflsv0us one, and must have In
I. volved soms little sacrifice Of the
oelf-rsspect these men simulated
We watched with keen Interest the
eoorss Of Harper's Weekly. The
oonduotors of that journal were
embarrassed by two ugly impede
msnts In their career OF abuse n
Mr. Tilden. The first was his con-
opicuous excellence as a public
man, the second was that he was
The next door neighbor, in
0rsmercy Park, Of the head of the
Harper irln. Each had eaten the
ealt Of the other, and the social
ohasm which partizan malignity
4 unonisafl fn he hridnad uaa a daan