Daily Los Angeles herald., 1880-08-19
CONGRESSIONAL NOMINATIONS /,


copied at Its own estimate of itself
every adjective Of the English lam
guags, which is supposed, with
Latin, Greek, Teutonic, and other
derivatives, to comprise somewhat
over forty thousand words. might
be exhausted of every praiseful ex.
pletive to describe its performances.
We have somewhere met the state.
mont that the Arabic vernacuiar
comprises about one hundred thous.
and words. Cons deripg the cour-
teous and toploftical bent OF that
oriental people, great many Of
these multitudinous words nust be
Of complimentary character. The
average Republican editor or
stump speaker could exhaust the
utmost resources of the Arabic
language In praising his party,
and still stand, like Oliver Twist, In
the attitude of crying for more.
Yet the truth is that the Repub.
.ljcan party has been, at all stages
Of tts career, q cunning, calcuiat.
inR and insincere party. 1t has
sacrificed every noble impulse to
enjoy and abuse power-that
power which was associated with
the disbursement of the revenues
OF the United States. There has
never been q time in the history of
the Republican party in which it
would not have sacrificed the ma.
tional dignity to its delight In the
entoyments aud emoluments of Of
d0s. In the history of the Demo-
cratic party there have been twenty
times in which 1t risked war on u
mere punctilio Of the national dig
nifty. Not only that, but it has re.
: pestedly Threatened wars 80 the
ost powerful nations of the globe
;she Interest national terrific.
rate iG;rahdlzement, and always
thsuccess. The only blot which
Ms ever lain upon the Democratic
abarty has arisen from the curse of
slavery, fixed upon the South by
the greed Of gain which fitted out
the slave ships Of New England.
To lie own mind, the Republican
party has been the White Hind of
Dryden's inimitubIe allegory. In
-goaitty, that party has been a sort
ee National Peer Funk aLctioneer,
with the vulgar idea of dolla,s and
cents lying nearest to Its heart. It
hiss posturizsd ill the people are
sick upon the soldier patriotism of
the Western States, supplemented
b. the volunteering Democrats.
1flsh and Germ ans, who made sue
cess in the late "unpleasantness"
Pc sable.
N This party, with all its profess
-dIons Of patriotism, is made sick to
: saaAfh- ~ fi.-- ..-esa4ot <.f a~.ni.o,
reconciliation amongst the Ameri-
can people, which would make rec
ttonal lines impossible. The very
breath Of its life has been riot in
ne Southern States. brought about
BY It's cunning agents. Its greatest
ombarrassment TO day is that the
slghtful restoration of ONE rule TO
) thuse Southern States makes par.
tjsAu riot and bloodshed impossi-
Bile.
There lies the difficulty of the
Republican party. The Southern
States, relieved of u devilish SCALA
vaG and carpet-bsg government,
are profoundly quiet. That people
ore coming together in amity once
more. The Republican party
would to-day disburss every dollar
! ~ It. excheQuer to restore the old
s >slllsh regime Of alienation aud
lopdshed ut the South. But 1t
on't do 1t. Hence these tears.
bloh exuds from every RepubIi-
- Journal and every Republican
lodnpsr.
3ossn Catharine, talking Of Car
lnAl Wolsey after his fall, said:
= professions were, as he then was,
Uighty;
~ pFfefmance. as ho now is. nothing.
Witch contains,in brief comp
~ vaunted history Of tho Repub-
- party. We may add, it like
- pEsagores it, fate.