Daily Los Angeles herald., 1881-09-28

PUCK is really the cleverest OF all
the caricaturists of the United
States. The pages of Harper't
Weekly are so stained by the ma.
Lightly of Mast that the devilish
genius of his cartoons is often OBJ.
soured. But the object of satire,
whether Of pen or pencil, unless it
is purely brutal and ferocious, and
aims at murder, is to prick, not to
stab. There are no butcher Access
series about the real caricaturist,
which truth Is forgotten by Mast
almost as often as he picks up bis
pencil in political cam.
paign. In the last Issue of
Puck there is a really delicious
cartoon, in which q stage coach,
labeled "Rural Regulars" "Regu-
lar Democracy" Ia represented as
on the road to the coming Demo-
cratic State Convention. On the
drivers seat, as coachman, Ia
perched Samuel J. Tilden, with
whip In hand, ready to lash the
tail-bosrd vigorously. On the lat
ter are seated John Kelly, of Tam
many Hall, and John Fox, Of Irv'
ing Hall, in the guise of boot
blacks. Within are the rural Dem
ocracy, with pitchforks ano
shovels protruding from the win
| dows and hay-seed dripping from
their hair. Above these politica
bootblacks appears the fatal line
mo Admission" which applies t
the Messrs. Kelly and Fox, VIII
are about to be whipped by Tildel
off their temporary coigne of van
tage. There can be but little doub
out that this amusing pictorial ef
fort prefgures the course of tn
coming Democratic State Conven
tion in the Empire State. Al
these absurd Halle, with their in
solent autocrats, ought to be ga
down upon forever by the Demo
cratic party. No matter whethe
or no defeat shall follow the frs
application of genuine Democrat
usages, the departure should b
made. The brute Kelly defeate
Hancock, but he is no longer Cor
troller of the city OF New York. I
his extrusion from office one gres
Democratic victory has bee
achieved. The next thing to do
the nsedful and inevitable thing
is to lash the traitor into the RI
publican ranks. To do that is t
draw bis faDgs. He can only b
hurtful as long as, like the trescf
erous fellow he is, he is permitte
TO sit in the Democratic Counc
Chambers and slaughter the part
in the house OF its friends. SUI
cess Is absolutely certain to gray
tate to the Democratic party soor
er or later; but, for our part, "
would prefer to have that era {
national regeneration postpone
for ten years to seeing Kelly
treason condoned. 1n electin
Cornell Governor Of New Yorl
and in his betrayal Of the cause I
Hancock-by either or both {
these things, and more esp'
cially by both, Kelly has earne
the doom of a traitor a Thousand
fold. From what quarter he sun
mons the effrontery to still prt
tend to be Democrat
one OF those inscrutable thing
which divine Providence Pc
mits to occur to vex th
human intellect. Everything
shaping, as the cartoon In Pt.c
gracefully and pictorially int
mates, to the exclusion Of the rel
resentatives Of all these presumptt
GUS and insubordinate halls frol
the coming State Convention
They will be thrust from the doc
, and set down upon the eurbstone
They will be emphatically il
formed that their room is preferl
BILE to their company, and thi
their rightful business ia to hui
up locus penitentio, In which, b
: many Illustrations and purgation
they may be so purified as to az
NIT Of their petitioniDg to agai
humbly enter the ranks of the pa
ty on probation.