Daily Los Angeles herald., 1881-03-30

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r onof1oRy,- which viii appear every
n1w Hernine.
& Rolislsai BssRsspsss.
Ihe purchase Of the election Of .
noouhllean President by no means
1nDlles that Everything will be
lovoly after the disereditabls trans
ooGloa has been contaminated.
onlem the Associated Press dis.
pntohss gsossly misrspressnt the
oatnatlou, there 10 great trouble In
- Ropubliean camp at Washing
-. Wayne Naovesgh 10 repre-
o6n2o1 = be on the point Of resign.
- fkom 0ar1eld's cabinet on ac-
c.11nt oe The nomlnation Of Will
49, r Chandler % 6ollcltor.Gen.
o1nl. This nominatIon was un-
I 1onhledly brought about BY
11nlne, whose rIght-hand man
Qhandlsr has been for years. Then
tkeeo 4 . terrible hullabaloo about
- neminAtion Of senator Robert
- = Colleebsr Of the Port Of New
Yerk. Rebertson 10 the deadly
noousnal enemy Of Senator Conk.
m. and the sworn friend Of
: n1Slne. Il was Robertson who LED
- bseak from Grant in the New
YEA delegation to Chicago. As to
{ - altitude he has left no doubt.
+. talked largely with his mouth
rroeaxatory to the Chicago Con-
vootlep. To . reporter Of the New
Yoek Herald he stated that Jim
Dlaine was the kind Of . Fighter"
ekok suited him, and that third
term fer Grant was not in his cal
oolations. The nomination, on th'
eams day, Of two men like Robert
een and Chandler, IL gall ant
vermwood to Conkling and tn
0rons crowd. The Issues have beei
plainIy outlined. They are Conk
Ilne o. anti -Conkling, Blaine o
AMI Blaine. Probably every bod,
vhe has ever followed the histoI!
os The Democratic party know
that u could never In this worl
have been divsstsd of power bu
~ division In its own ranks. Th
Democratie party had, In the ol
6ays, the strength which grew OF
q an uurivaled discipline. Th
muoh Of this machine strength
!. ! And e has been assisted by fou
lid multiplication Of tn
yederal ol,csholdsrs. One hui
arod thousand ineumbents Of of1c
scattered throughout the Unite
uiates; with their friends and d.
pendents, IL NO trifilng factor /
tbo political problem. Such .
esogshadowing advantage do'
this fact give the Republican pal
q that the prospect Of first elai
0ght bet Wsen the Blaine and Conl
Hing elements 10 not without
gsim Interest to Dsmocrats.l Whe
~ Democratic party WAS nrst Of
ganIsed II elected and re-eleete
JoMbrsop; It elected and re.slscte
Madison; It elected and re-electe
Monroe. When 1t came to th
next elsotien Of President the CT
prices Of our electoral system CAV
ehe Presidential office to job
Quincy Adams, although Andre'
Joekeon was the overwhelmin
oholco Of the American people
ore John Smith, Of Missouri,
warm partisan Of Henry CLAY, q
4 tho lattsr's instance, made MI
Jehn Quincy Adams President
this 10 the one Instance in histor,
u which . Mr.. John Smith con
{ troIlod the choice Of . nation
Thon oame Andrew Jackson's elec
tlon for two terms and Martin Val
Duron's for one. Unfortunatsl.
fer Van Buren,, the tremendou
spAaio Of 1857 made possible the Loi
Cabin and Hard Cider Harrison
( eampalgn, and the Democratic as
oondancy was again broken, for
bsisf Interval. Then followed tn,
aasortion Of the old Democratic
title t. national ascsndancy by th'
Z oleetlou Of James X. Polk, with
ghe incident Of the war with Mexi
- and the addition Of Texas an(
California to the galaxy OF States.
% 70 this date the unvarying Dem
oegatlo sscsndancy had only been
broken In two instances. () BY
~ psculiarity Of our electoral sys.
len, In which the preference Of
1 ~ people counted for nothing,
ID ~ > panic which, following
Jookeon's vigorous policy as to the
kon1s Of the United States, racksd
~ peopls from center to
olroumforence. In l848 O new
stature WAS introduced which
w. oeAln fatal 10 the Democracy.
1t - written In the scripture. that
- house divided against itself can.
~ oean6.u This was . favorite
oDooation Of Abraham Lincoln's In
~ LineoIn- Douglas Senatorial
nnmpolgn In Illinois which pre-
6n1o1 Tie Pfssidsntlal election OF
1cc4 and II deserves the promi-
l1oooo he gave II. In ls48 the