Daily Los Angeles herald., 1880-07-11

Aonemovaag ara Hsls-Hs carried Re-
s. Dubs1ssn Cs0pefEa.
~ have feeling akin to pity
ne lamentable plight In which
- Republican leaders now find
61oeelves. They try TO assume
- port and majesty Of the old Re-
1<lcsu party, which included
- leaders as Lincoln, Seward,
- Wade, Charles Summer, VIM.
- Eessenden and Lyman Trum-
They are really guided to-
W men who would not be as
1unod to the role of laclng the
- 81 the fathers of the Republic
Do1 party. A party in which such
zen a. Roscoe Conkling, Of New
4 oFk Thy far the most respec table
noxnon who has lately figured as
- luglemAn of the Republicans
7nod, Ct . great remove, Don Cam
:foeon and Black Jack Logan, figure
30 the coryphees, has got SO far
S4oWn that lower depths would al
1dot Seem to be an impossibility.
But they have been reached, and
I WITH : vengeance. Whatever oil
the remnants OF dignity might
hese inhered In Conkling, Cam
egon and Logan, has been lost, be-
& eaose they are really not in unison
With the current Republican cam
pAlgn. They are alone and apart;
and. with their chief, Grant, they
~ heartily hoping for Republican
yDefeat and discontinue.
The Republican party, reduced te
onch leaders % might have figured
a Dean swift's conceit of Liliput,
IN really to-day without leaders al
al Garfield, the sneaking hypo.
! orile, Credit Mobilierist and attor
neg for De Golyer pavement con.
y eeacts, has been hoisted to the chic
%eommAnd. With him. Is associates
4 Geeater Absolom Arthur, q rather
'kMonly fellow, who has stained
HIMSELF with the pitch which al
Weys adheres to any Republican
ooenpaut Of the New York Custom
Houss. We pity Arthur because,
tAsssgh he appears, from the
Hayes Administration stand.
point, to be the principal culprit,
! he really only yielded to the force
\ Of circumstances. Republican ad.
: nlntstratIon Of any office involving
dduciary responsibility has OF late
beeu SO consistently corrupt. that 9
tolerably well.meaning man nigh
Gnd himself Infamous before he
ssg0t used to the ropes"
!. The Republican party is on the
down grade, and no brake, though
Z S may be patterned on the West.
tnghouse, can check its descent
We have the tradition, from classic
unes, that the descent to hell i.
easy. Precisely with the velocity
ond the momentum involved in
1 that Virgilian axiom is the head.
long speed with which the Repub.
sltean machine, without its
ssbosses," poor chooses" though
they be, Is hurtling the old party to
instruction.
TO Republicans who are disconso.
late We offer . word of consolation n.
While the nomination Of Hanc oc L
+ and English has rendered phenom.
( email In Its proportions the APP
psoaching Democratic victory, the
psmocrats could not possibly have
u0minated candidates who would
not have been successful. The
American people have fine pre-.
ssrvatIve instinct. They saw the
Eight to Seven" count with infin.
~ disquiet and disgust. They real.
ised, after that unprecedented in
famy, that tie majesty OF the peo-
PIE must be asserted at all hazards.
Not 10 interpose q full stop, after
such m Astounding insolence on
the part OF the Peoples servants,
meant . surrender Of all the tradi-
tlons OF government Of the
people, for the people and
by the people. With such q
dsspotic hiatus In the succession o.
popular rule, All the prophecies
called for great popular uprising
z r. u 1t hand.
With the certain return of the
Democratic party to power the PEG.
pie Of the United States may again
breathe freely. DEMOCRATS believe
4 Constitutional government.
hat 10 more, they believe in an
STANDARDIZATION Of the governmsnt
n The interest Of the people. No,
: = single purse-proud and overgrowI
1cfltutlon can trace it's endow
+ n6nt 70 the Democratic party. o
~ The naonopoliss which have
{ 1Do1lated upon the people Of this
o4untrys not one owed its origin t,
~ Democracy-the party OF tn,
4 DoopIe. The New York Herald
v610h has ALWAYS hitherto Opposef