Daily Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1876-1884, 1881-10-13

After.
WE have no hesitation Ia saying
that the Democratic party of these
United States, from this time for
ward, will be characterized by an
amazingly different spirit than has
sig nalized it since the grand "sell
out" of 1875, by which Mr.. Tilden
was sacrificed. The manly and
action of the Democratic
Senators in electing Thomas Fran.
els Bayard President pro tenn. of
the Senate, and virtual Vice Presi-
dent of the United States, has act
ed as bugle call to the faint
hearted and Disguised of the DEM
ocratic fold. What man, who is
not Intellectually besotted, that
does not know that to-day inf1u-
ences are at work in the Republic
an party equivalent, III intensity
Of feeling, to those which created
the sect of Ali in the NOLAN red
an religion We refer all lovers
of pictorial writing to Macaulay's
splendid pen picture of that sacer-
dotal episode. To-day the follow
ers of Ali meet and rend their gar
ments and fiagellate their flesh in
memory of their martyr idol. The
fool Guiteau, although from any
standpoint he don't amount to
"deuce aces" has nevertheless
created an Ali in the Republican
party, over whom the Half Breeds
of New York, and their correlatives
in the rest of the country, will
hold comm EN- orative and vindic-
tive ceremonials. Union, here
after, in the Republican party,
will be impossible, while the cpl.
sode which made Thomas Francis
Bayard President of the Senate b as
cemented and vitalized the Demo-
cratic party. President Arthur, in
view of the Fall elections, is dis
creetly Withholding nominations.
But Ephraim is joined to his idols.
Stalwartism is bred in the bone of
the new President, and, We are
constrained to confess, stalwartism
Is the brain and sinew of the Re.
publican party. Arthur is simply
the eff1orescencs of Grant and
Cankling. He would be less than
nothing were he to give his friends
the go.by. Not in the elections of
this Fall, but in those of next year,
will the real helplessness and dis
Indignation OF the Republican par
ty make themselves apparent. If
the Democratic leaders could have
restrained personal animosities
within their own ranks, they would
have held power uninterruptedly
from the opening of this century
to the present day. The
panic of 1887, long endur.
ing and far.reachipg, to.
gether with considerable Democrat.
ic detection, made Harrison Presi-
dent. In 1s4S the partizan quarrel
between Martin Van Buren, and
Gen. Cass, In the Democratic par
ty, made the Wing Gen. Taylor
President. In both of these cases
the Vice Presidents who were
made President practically acted
as though they were Democrats.
The quarrel between Stephen A.
Douglas and certain Southern
statesmen made Lincoln Presi-
dent, since which time the Democ.
racy went apparently into the voca-
tive, and for series of years have
bsen out of power. But the Dem.
ocratie impulse has always been
virile and unshrlnking. The par
ty has always borne the epithet of
the "Unterrified" and has deserved
1t. 1t has always been, par ezceI-
lsnce, the ruling impulse In the
affairs of the United States, and at
no time in its history has its fu-
ture looked brighter than it does
to-day. The accidents of the mo.
ment count for nothing in the his
tory Of the splendid and indestruc.
tible Dem ocratic party.