Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-12-10
rne first Notes.


the time when thousand malig.
nant scribblers will be paid tC
oudgel their brains to concoct lies
about the South. From this time
on no story will be too improbable
or too revoltingly false to turn the
stomach Of the average Republican
paragraphist. The last energies OF
that Republican stool-pigeon, the
Associated Press, Will be put forth
to give these malignant fabrica-
tions the widest possible circula-
tion. They will be equally alert to
prevent any general dissemination
OF the truthful contradictions
which will follow fast upon the
heels Of these malevolent MUNICH
ausenisms. The latter. however,
will get the benefit of that old
adage that q lie will travel around
the world while truth is putting on
his boots to follow it. From now
on every personal quarrel which
may spring up amongst a people
who are hot blooded to a proverb,
and whose personal honor always
runs to the punctilio, will be dis
torted into political violence. AT
. later stage of the game, men who
would be shocked to have their re-
spectability doubted will endeavor
to SOW dissension amongst the
Southern people, and even to pro-
woke bloodshed, for political effect.
They will not scruple to tear open
wound already nearly healed.
They will do this through lust OF
power which is devilish in itself,
and which threatens the most dam
gerous consequences to the nation.
Persevered in to q certain limit,
and we should soon find the Repub-
lie converted into that worst OF
deepotisms, a nominal democracy
handed over to the unobstructed
rule Of demagogues, with possibly
. shoddy empire in the near per.
spective. The Democratic party, il
1t wins at all, will have to triumph
In spite Of these malign elements
Of intrigue aud foul play. Let the
subsidized telegraph do its work
nsver SO thoroughly, the brain and
energy of the Democratic party, its
men OF power and will and daunt.
less perseverance, must be prepared
to stand forth, armed cap.a.pie and
In panoply of truth, to beat down
the cohorts Of fraud and sectional.
ism. No holiday task is before
them, but they can do the work il
they prepare for it in season and
know no such word as fail. A
hundred thousand ofiiceholders, de-
termined to hold on to their places
1t all hazards, figure as the skirm-
fsh line Of the Republican cam
paign. They will be bled to the
last dollar which can be wrung
from their fear or cupidity to hire
venal Republican newspapers, or
ators and pamphIeteers to make
the canvass hot and palpitating.
To oppose these formidable agen-
eies, backed up by nearly the
whole moneyed power of the ma.
tion, the Democracy will have
nothing but occasional and scanty
voluntary contributions. But if
the men OF intellect and zeal who
are proud to call themselves Demo-
Gratis do their duty they can arouse
the people to a sense of the danger
which menaces free institutions.
Every movement of the Repub-
lican leaders clearly indicates that
they regard the possession of the
United States government as theirs
BY q sort of right divine not of
Kings but of what Machiavel
would have called king craft
which is concentrated force and
fraud. We separate the body OF
the Republican party from Its
more unscrupulous leaders. 1t could
only be made the instrument
OF such scheme through subtlety
and deception. Iti is because thii
is 80 that a "bloody shirt" pro
Rramme is thought to be necessary
to Republican success. Hundreds
Of thousands of the members o
that party, too clear-sighted to b,
hoodwinked, will decline to figur,
In a crusade which is really design
ed to make the office. holding clas
the masters of the people. The,
Will revolt at programme of ba,
blood and bloodshed. They see per
fectly that it is good, on ever,
ground, that the administration @
the government should occasional
iy change hands. They cannot for
bear thinking that it would be
from every aspect, desirable tina
the accounts of one set of official
should at intervals undergo tn
scrutiny OF their political rivals
All the cant about danger to tn
material interests of the countr,
through a Democratic restoration
not necessarily extending beyon,
four years, will make no impres
sion upon people not utterly blind
ed by partizan feeling. Taking on
thing with another, the campaign
which plainly has already beel
opened by the Associated Prass 4,