Daily Los Angeles herald., 1880-07-23

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Ioser tie United 8 ates at the Re-
publican demand for q campaign
conducted on the s'decency" basis.
n : y nat the enterprising gentle
men who run the Republican news.
psrsrs have to do with Democratic
nominees whom Il IL absolutely
irposslble to smirch, when they
look upon their own pied and teal
icou candidates they are In des-
pair. They take refuge in hypo-
critical demand that there shall be
no personalities in this campaign.
Their changed mood very much re-
eembiss that dwelt upon in the
couplet, "When the devil was
sick, = etc., etc. The whole thing
Is the more amusing from the fact
that The Republicans have been
absolutely murderous. hitherto. in
tnsir assaults upon the private and
publia careers of candidates. The
death Of poor old Greeley is as d.
rsctly due to Republican abuse as
are the alterations Of night and
day 10 the revolutions Of the earth
around the sun. II was pitiful
and cowardly slaughter, for, while
Greeley ought never to have been
the candidate Of any party for
President, and especially not of the
nocratic party, he was man of
IA uostained and punctilious per-
sonsl honor and possessed many
;sobe and amiable traits Of char
acter AS 10 that Mephistopheles
Of caFicaturists, Mast, for four years
he has devoted his best efforts to
annoying and belittling Mr.. Tilden.
The peculiar feature Of this pitiful
bus ness Is that Mr.. Tilden and the
senior member of the firm of Harper
G Brothers were next door neigh
bora aud had been SO for years and
year. 1t was some time before
the Harpers who. until Mr.. Tilden
became candidate for President,
were loud In his praise, could leap
the chasm which decency inter-
puser between the new born hatred
AMI an intimate personal friend
end neighbor; but, the gap once
crislged. all the proprieties have
been heartlessly outraged. To-day,
after Mr.. Tilden has formally and
uneq ,ivocalIy retired from public
life, the dIsgraceful war goes on.
Mr.. 1'iIden Is sixty.five years old
an age at which most men are
staaliDg very near the brink of the
grave. Yet Harper's Week.
~ after his publicly an
noanced return to private
life, vas not ashamed, In a gross
and ofensive cartoon, with MAST,
filssy imprint attached, to exhibit
cilden enclosed in q coffin
WIZ shocking and realistic Access
series. This is not wit, but gross
malevoIence. The attempt al
lumor is so brutal and CHASTITY al
70 fepel any fair minded man o.
any party. The men who could
pub SD such y thing would b.
sqaa TO the psrpetratior of a phys
tcal Eourder did Eot the pains ant
penalties of the law stand in thu
way. We note that Puck, really
the wittiest of all the current peri.
oileals, IL doing good service tc
Aancock aud English. In a re.
cent ssue 1t says:
W are neither Republican MOI
Der cratic. We have only one
pisisorms aud that is: The right.
Accusations of being sold wont
tighten Us into saying that Gem
Graf Hancock IL . nipcompoop, or
ti.as ne jumped on the corpse of
Mrs. 3urratt. The man has a Glenn
fscurtls and there is no use in w.
tng snout It. Nor are we going to
r.a.e Ehat General Garfield's past IL
snotsess Rs the pin-feathers OF an
i-lige., for 1t is not.
The fact is that the Republicans
deliberately nominated the most
vulnersble candidates to be found
IN iheir party, and are now reap
ing the consequences. On the
other asnd, the Democrats, in the
selection Of their nominees, exhib-
tied fare sagacity and wisdom and