Daily Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1876-1884, 1880-08-18

It seems to me, that the men who
have controlled 1t, and through 1t
the government during the last fif-
teen years, shall be dislodged from
power. The persistent usurpation
by the national government Of
powers beyond its constitutional
sphere, and it's conversion into an
fundamentally of robbery and OPP
are not. In my judgment,
to the maintenance Of its
within its constitution
al limits. I do not think that re.
spect for and obedience to the gov
ernment can be- enforced by using
1t to foster monopolies or to subsi-
die private enterprises at public
expense. Moreover, 1 flud it diff
cult to believe that the equal civil
aud political rights Of our citizens
and the purity of our elections are
to be secured by placing the ballot
box under the exclusive control of
the party in power-even If this
control be not i'm nediately exer.
cised by ruffians, hired for the de.
clared purpo.e OF suppressing AL.
verse msjorities-or by the meth.
DDS counlenanced and promoted by
Gen. Garfield after the last Presi
Dental election in Louisiana. And
1 am wholly unable to understand
that the appointment of Madison
Wells aud his cOmpeers to Office as
reward for the most infa nous po-
litical crime recorded in the annal Is
Of our country, or the attempt to
place Chester A. Arthur in the
Chair of the Seuate, afford very
striking evidence of a sincere pur.
pose to reform and purify the gov.
eminent service.
"Whether or not the Democratic
party will make worthy use OF
the opportunities which the con.
troll OF the government ffJrds, re-
mains to he seen. For the present
II Is enough to say that 1 very
much prefer its platform and Ito
nominees to the platform aud nom.
inees of the Republicans. The Re.
publican platform (Which Is, OF
course, to be interpreted in the
light of the Republican nomina-
tions), so far as 1t is more than
mere senseless fustian aud rhOdO
mOntade, is simply an audacious
-neer at public morality; and the
Republican candidates appear to
have been chosen for the express
purpose Of compelling the voters OF
The Republican party distinctly to
indorse aud approve the iniquities
which have driven SO many of Its
members from its ranks. Or In
what other sense is James A. Gar.
deld offered to US as the represent
ative of Republican detestatiou ot
bribery AMI corruption, aud Ches-
ter A. Arthur as an index of Re
publican enthusiasm for Civil Ser.
vice Reform?
"The Democratic platform on the
other hand, is, In the main, All &C.
curate statement of my political
creed, and IL your party will hence.
forth live up to 1t more faithfully
than has been its wont in the sad
days of it's degeneracy and confus.
ION, I shall feel proud to be enrolled
amOng its members.
"Of the Democratic nominees II
Is hardly necessary to say that
they command the respect, II not
the admiration, even of their polit.
ical antagonists. Mr.. English is
distinguished by the courage with
which he has stood up, with and
against his party. for his convic.
lions. And what American is
there, native or adopted, Republi.
can or Democrat, whose eyes do
not glisten when he looks up to
Hancock, the intrepid soldier, the
patriotic champion Of the indIssol.
utility of the Union, the man with
out fear and without reproach, the
citizen who is illustrious not only
by his public services but by the
uDsullied purity Of his life-whom
l., tor one, honor even more for his
fearless vindication OF the princi-
pies Oh which the American Union
IL founded than for his heroic de-
tense of the Union itself.
"The nomination of Gen. Han
cock, however, is not only fit as a
graceful recognition of his merits,
out is peculiarly suspicious In view
OF the exigencies Of the time. 1t
10 the most trustworthy assurance
that the results of the late war are
ut least AS safe in the keeping
OF q Democratic as in that Of q
Republican Administration. And
what is equally important, it IL an
auRury of the restoration Of peace
and goodwill among all the Cit.
zens of this Union. The men of
the South, who once bore arms
against the Union, have not only
laid them down, but they have re-.
newed their allegiance to our com
mon country with demonstrations
OF affection whose very sadness IL
tne best proof OF their sincerity.
rhey have for years been strug-
CLING against the disorders neces-
sarily consequent upon the com.
plete subversIOn of their social and
Industrial system aud the misfor.
tunes entaiied upon them by the
war-misfortunes which Certainly
have not been alleviated by the
practices OF q majority of the men
who came to the southern States lis
he agents and representatives of
the Republican party. Aud [ can
not conce We anything more DIES.
pioable than the attempt OF certain
Republican politicians who aspire
60 the highest hOnOrs and trusts OF
the Republic, to fabricate pAriizau
capital by q constant rpfaranca T..
the Inevitable incidents in the re.
organization OF our Southern CO
nunIties as evidence of the contin-
ued disloyalty Of tile whole South.
-rn people. With the election of
HANCOCK all this will come to u
speedy emo; the insane. vocifera-
ton about q "SOlid South" will be
silenced; and I am not without
hope that at the Presidential cleo.
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