Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-05-20
samue, J. T,lden.


ncters whom the American people,
In q fetish worshiping and fatuous
moment, have chosen to apotheo-
eize. John Van Buren's wittlclsm,
in an off hand speech, which ran
Z that the Republican party, while
denouncing Democratic statesmen
- third rate. had only, for the
most part, replaced them by forty
Third rate statesmen, never held
better than 1t does to-day. For the
past twenty years we have had
Iiliputian statesmen in Brobdig.
naglan country. A nation which
stretches from the Atlantic to the
Pacific ocean, and from the bluffs
0f Maine to the buttes of Mexico,
has not, under Republican Admin
tetration, during that period, devel-
oped . single impulse which the
Roman Republic of two thousand
years ago was not too enlightened
8 to tolerate. The Roman Republic
OF Bcylla aud Marius, of Pompey
and Cee sar, was rigid in its repudi-
ation Of sectional differences. 1t
was law Of this antique and ad-
mirable people that no Roman
should be accorded triumph for
victory over portion of his coun.
ffymen.
Now England, with her boosted
nineteenth century civilization, is
not yet up to that antique and mag
unanimous standard. The most she
= has been able to do since the war
ended has been to approve herself
: small-minded and "nagging" TO-
mentor of dissension. No South
ern man can to-day open his mouth
1n the Senate of the United States
WLthsut being "bounced " instant
OF by the bully Blaine. No mat
ter what direction the comments of
the Southerner may take, whether
be advocates retrenchment of the
National outlays, or return to the
non-intimidating methods of elec
tisn which preceded the war. he
+ y told that he was once a
rebel and mayhap rebel Briga-
dier.
1t Is now too clearly apparent to
admit OF doubt that the "bloody
shirt Is the medium to which the
Republican party intends to resort
to prevent, If possible, tardy
amende by the American people to
Samuel J. 1'ilden, the rightful but
the defrauded President of the
United States.
The revolutions of the earth
around the sun have been pretty
certain things since the time OF
Galileo, at least, but they have not
bsen q whit more certain than that
4 Samuel J. Tilden, should he be
4 alive and in fair health, will be the
next Democratic nominee for
PRECEDENT of the United States.
There have been few more respect
able and self-contained characters
In American history than Mr.. Til
den. With every Democratic thief
and every Republican of the State
OF New York "double banked,
against him, the Empire State has
always shown itself sensible to hi,
supereminent personal merit. He
has been assailed by volume and
vehemence of Republican abuse
which forms compliment SO
high that it could only be
overtopped By the compliment
i of the deadly hostility of Mr..
I John Kelly, the chief of the. SO.
called Democratic Tammany Hall.
| The only man whom the Republic
can party would put itself to the
i trouble TO abuse SO long and SO per-
J eistenly, or put itself to the
trouble to slander SO UNANIMOUSLY
and heinously. is a man who, it
knows very we'll, can triumph over
both 1t and its Democratic allies of
Tammany Hall, the latter, of late
years, of thievish and tyrannicaI
antscedents.
Tho attitude of Mr.. Tilden, the
most wronged man In American
political history, has been simply
perfect siuce the fraud Hayes was
installed In an office to which he
was not elected. He has been ener-
gstic yet dignified In his assertion
lot the violated majesty of the
s American nation. He has not been
personally querulous or complain
Ing. He has, in the scriptural
I phrase, "possessed his soul In pa.
4 Hence" A man of large wealth,
and the frs. social standing in the
country. the possession of the Pres
1dency would rather be All onerous
duty, of the character of vindicat-
Ing the popular rights, than a
pleasant thing personally to Tilden.
But the last years of an old mans
life may be itly rounded out and
.osnsecrated by the rectifcation of
. great national wrong, in the in
terest Of . great and growing peo-
ple.
i Occasionally evidences come to
ms from the East of divisions in the
democratic party thereof defeats,
I'm fact. These evidences are quite