Daily Los Angeles herald., 1881-10-06

think that Bookwalter, the Demo.
cratic candidate for Governor of
Ohio, has a chance Of beating Fos-
ter, the present incumbent. AS
the latter, however, has been at
great pains to make his peace with
the stalwarts, it does not seem
very probable that the Republican
ascendancy in the Buckeye State
can be shaken just now. In Vir-
ginia 1t looks as II the regulators,
encouraged BY the whole patron.
age Of the Federal government,
have at least an even chance of
winning. The Republican party
has hitherto set itself up as the de-
fender and champion of the public
credit and yet Its leaders are to-day
found cheek by jowl In Virginia
with those who believe in repudi-
ating the just debt of that venera.
BILE old Commonwealth. Success
there, brought about by appeals to
the ig norant and interruptions
portion Of the population, will per-
haps have results not dreamed OF
by the scheming gentry who have
evoked the demon Of Reputation.
At the first check to the tide of
prosperity which now chsracterizes
the United States there will
not be wanting demagogues
who will incite the masses
to q policy of scaling I"
and "readiusting" the debt of the
United States. They will argue that
what is sauce for the Virginia
goose is sauce for the national gan
der. The Republican party of Vir-
ginia has permitted itself to be
swallowed up in Mshone's forces,
and the Federal office olders of
that State are compelled to contri-
butte percentage of their salaries
to carry on the campaign. The
Navy Agent at Norfolk waits pa
tientIy every day, just outside of
the gates of the Navy Yard, to col
lect this percentage from the hum.
blest workman. With plenty of
money and the Republican party.
the negroes and the readj listers at
his heels, Malone feels confident of
carrying the State and electing a
huckstering political nondescript
like himself as his colleague in the
United States Senate. His success
would be shameful in the extreme,
and would, In the end, hurt the Re-
publican party far more than the
Democratic party.
In Pennsylvania the situation is
highly interesting, and, notwith-
standing the confident tone of Don
Cameron, it augurs badly for the
continued ascendancy of that ma
lign clan. There are scarcely any
depths Of slavishness to which the
Republican organization of that
State has not descended in the past
in Its eagerness to show it's entire
abandonment to the sway of the
Camerons, father and son. But a
very large element Of the party has
become very FESTIVE of late, and it
IL no longer safe to calculate upon
blind submission. The contest
turns upon the election of a State
Treasurer, an official who, in the
past, has been the Keystone of the
Republican organization in Penn
sylvania. Under such treasurers
as Kemble and Mackey the State
moneys were shamelessly used to
create large personal and party
fund. Don Cameron's influence
was sufficient to force his candi-
date upon the late Republican
State Convention, but there has
since been an ominous bolt. Sen
ator Wolfe, a Republican Of high
character, whose pluck and energy
led to the conviction and sentence
to the penitentiary of Kemble and
others Of the Republican party
leaders, for bribery, and whose un.
tagging efforts blocked Cameron's
game to put Harry Oliver in the
United States Senate, has an
nounced himself as an Independent
Republican candidate for State
Treasurer. He is supported by
twenty or thirty anti. Cameron Re.
publican journals, including such
influential newspapers as the
Pittsburgh Dispatch, and the out
look is, in consequence, decidedly
favorable for Republican defeat
next November. If the bolt is as
formidable as 1T is made to appear
10 many of the Eastern newspa-
pers, the Cameron rod OF iron will
be bent and the Democrats will
eaxy Psnnsylvania-a thing which
has of late years become little less
than . miracle. Don Cameron, in
an interview q few weeks ago, said
that the State outside Of the cities
u Democratic. This is true, and
the fact presents q marked con.
trast to the condition Of things po-
htical in the neighboripg state of
New York, where the cities are
Democratic and the country is
overwhelming y Republican. There