Daily Los Angeles herald., 1880-07-07

Eessaey'a Lissis 0ame U sassssoea.
Nothing is more patent to an OBJ.
server Of California politics than
the fact that the lamentable and
insxplicabls influence OF Denis
Kearney In this State Is at an end,
and at an end forever. No brawler
who has figured in great popular
concerns has ever been 90 con.
tennptible ~ this man. Affecting
to have regard for popular rights.
and an antagonism to the monop-
olles which have oppres sed the
people, every act Of his brief and
melancholy career has been that of
q hired henchman of the en-
lranched wealth which he pretend
81 to attack. Mainly through the
demaEogic and unceasing exer-
tons 4 Denis Kearney, George G.
Perkins, personally very worthy
fnan, nut the head of Q steamship
cerpoE alton, was made Governor
of California. While pretending
TO seek political reforms, this mans
Attseks upon the Democratic party
were so gross, violent and insult
ing, aud purposely SO, as to make
any union Of the elements opposed
70 the Republican party impossi-
bio. A professed enemy Of corpor
aiicns, he purposely ignored the
fact that, in the whole history Of
Che nsonopolies which have made
heavy the burdens of the people of
the United States, not one owed Its
cresl OH to the Democrats. Pre-
tending to sympathize with the
struggling poor In search Of home
siesdJ, this man Kearney has
managed every act of his political
career so that the upshot shall
enuse to the advantage of that Re.
publican party which, in its short
life, sas given to the corporations,
from the public domain, an amount
Of land which aggregates within
six thousand square miles of equal
log the whole territory embraced
III tho original thirteen States Of
the american Union.
This humbug and hypocrite pre-
teuta to be in favor of making the
Chinese ''go." But watch
bis consistent, harmonious ac-
lion, oil in favor of the Re-
publican party, which would
thousand times rather see Irish
men like himself "go," than the
mute and accomplishing Chinese.
'ras Democratic National Conven.
ilopi held 10 st. Louis. in 1875,
pledged itself to rid this Coast of
the Chinese pest. The very first
Congress, Democratic in both
branches, which assembled after
That declaration, honestly carried
ont me pledge by the enactment of
the Fifteen Passenger bill-a bill
vetoed by Republican President
who secured his office by fraud. OF
the two national Conventions
which have lately assembled every
one knows their history on the
Chinese question. A Republican
dsiegate to the Chicago Conven.
ton, Frank NJ. Pixley, has told,
iruthfully, the history Of the Re-
publican juggle with this question.
ybs leading Republican organ Of |
che United States, the New York
Times, has candidly commented |
on the emasculated plank in the |
Chicago platform which relates to |
ttis subject. 1t has frankly ad-
mitisd that 1t Is in 10 sense repre-
sentative Of the convictions or the
purpose Of the Republican party; |
and has, besides, stigmatized it as |
inslncere aud hypocritical. On the
other hand, the Democratic Ma
lional Convention has planted It.
self squarely on the proposition of
only allowing the Chinese to come
here for purposes of travel, COM
msrcs and education, with these
provisions carefully guarded"
Notwithstanding this shambling
and insincere attitude of the Re.
pnblicans, and this manly grasp.
ing OF the question BY the Democ.
racy, we find this fellow Kearney,
to the coin juggling in
III pocket. doing his level best to |
dlssipate -<be Democratic vote In |
The Republicans hav-
Ing engaged one Weaver to get up
) Republican diversions vain
liope-Kearney is all for Weaver. |
No man expected anything else.
What Ksarney and his employers,
however, did not expect, was that
|hls purchased minion has utterly
oet influence and standing.
rhe men whom he has hitherto
|uped now thoroughly understand
lin. The occurrences ct the Sand
Iot last Sunday merely mark the
awlmm1nw "a the end Of the noak IA