Daily Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1876-1884, 1879-10-01

THE Associated Press of the
United States is making great
howl because q brother OF Mr..
Blaine has been removed from his
position as Assistant Keeper
Of the Document Room Of the
United States Senate, and has been
replaced by . Democrat. A howl
Of oven greater resonance went up
when the Democratic Senate, in
the exercise of its undoubted pow
or, chose to replace Gorham as Sec
retary Of that body, by Democrat.
Republicans are not so much in the
humor of growing at the latter
event since the California cam
pAign, in which Gorham did his
best to defeat the Republican tick
ct In this State. What a ridicu-
lous and insincere thing these
yawps at the inevitable are? The
frat thing the Republican party
did when 1t got into power was to
sweep every Democrat out of of.
f1ce who could possibly be spared.
The few who were kept from pru-
Dental motives, with view to
teaching the official routine, as
soon as they could be dispensed
with, were made to walk the Offic-
iAl plank unless they turned their
political coats. There never, in
the history of politics, was a more
remorseless official prescription
than that set in motion by Lincoln
TO sweep Democrats out of office.
No Democrat has ever been heard
to complain Of this. 1t is the rec
ognized practice of all parties; and,
should the Democrats get hold of
the administration, nothing 10
more certain than that the official
edifice will be cleaned Of Republi-
cans from turret to foundation
stone. Further than that, we will
venture on prophecy: Should the
Republicans, after term or terms
Of Democratic administration, re-
Hain the control of the Washington
machine" not q Democrat will
be In Office three months after that
event, the Republican civil service
reform cant to the contrary and not
withdrawing. In the full and I'M
disturbed possession of from sixty
to eighty thousand offices for twen-
ty years, as their fellow partizans
have been, the Republican editors
and orators are found to set up O
hysterical scream of agony and
horror when q half dozen
Democrats are appointed to posi-
tions Of which their own party
have the clear and undisputed
right of bestowal. There will be
Pelion piled upon Ossa of griev.
ances should the Democratic party
have the power, as it probably Will
shortly, to turn out the barnacle
kit who have encountered the gov
ernmental coppers SO long. 1t is in
order to inquire what right Blaine
has to pension every living relative
Of his upon the. government? He
slgnalized his arrival in Washing
ton as Congressman from Maine
by having his brother John E.
Blaine appointed to some position
while q mere boy, in the House of
Representatives. His brother Bob,
ct the same time, was billeted on
one Of the departments as clerk,
while his brother-in-law, Major
Walker, was appointed Paymas-
ter In the United States army. AS
John E. Blaine grew up in years a
position was found for him as Sur
veyor-General of Montana Terri
tory, and afterwards as Paymas-
ter in the United States army.
The family has battened on
the government ever since "Jim"
became an important public man.
He himself Is understood to be
quite wealthy, although the only
avocations he has followed during
his whole life have been those of q
school teacher, q country editor.
and member of both Houses of
Congress. Yet, forsooth, with an
asserted claim by the whole Blaine
family to feast upon the United
States Treasury, 1t is found to be a
crime upon the part of Democrats
to exercise their right to advance
few Of their own partizans to office,
even though the offensive element
OF nepotism be left out. The Amer
loan people are far gone in their
dotage II they can be gulied by
such drivel as this.