Daily Los Angeles herald., 1882-05-19
a Little Less OF the Self-Ap-
pointed Lector.

n A1ttke Less Of the Selt-Ap-
pointed LectOr.
We who belong to the Democratic party
have heard great deal about the
Bourbons" in our time. Bourbon,
as applied to Democrat, in the mouth
of the pampered Republican press of
the East, has meant a man endued
with the Nemean lions nerve of prin-
ciple, who has declined to respond to the
Establishments of power, as administered
through the filtrations from the United
States Treasury. There is not a bright,
good looking, square-looking Democrat
in the length and breadth of the United
States who would not, during the last
twenty years, have been welcomed with
acclaim into the ranks of the Republican
party. For him they would, at any
time, have killed the fatted calf Eager
hands would have Invested him of the
rags which were symbolical Of his ex-
clusion from office. Yet, when an eagle
eyed Democrat, who conld not forget
that his party had made the country all
that it is, like Christ, on the high mount
on which Satan tempted the Saviour,
had repulsed these "Greeks bearing
gifts, he was at once dubbed "Bour-
bon" Nevertheless these "Bourbons"
have stood in the breach, with dauntless
gallantry, and prevented the whole
original scheme of the government of
the United States from being warped
unutterably out of the intent of its
founders. 1t was these "Bourbons, !"
and none other, to whom it is owing
that, step by step, the Southern States
were emancipated from Republican con-
troll. 1t was owing to the "Bourbons"
or thoroughbred" thorough
breds" you may truly call them-that
even the resistless power of the Republi-
can party was finally made to feel itself
responsible to the will of the people,
and to the old time Democratic tradi-
tions of government of the people, for
the people and by the people.
As a result of the candidacy of sin
gle man we find the Democracy of the
State of California to-day threatened
with revolt in certain quarter,
We are told that, unless he
is nominated, everything will go by
the board. We pity the candidate who
is the beneficiary of this sort of advo-
cacy. If it is not authorized it ought to
be rebuked; if it is authorized, that can
didate will find himself in most perilous
ways.
As to the HERALD, its position has al
ways been symmetrical and consistent.
It will give hearty support to any
reputable man who shall receive the
Democratic nomination. In the year Of
grace 1882 we believe that such nomi-
nation is equivalent to an election. We
may be mistaken, but we violate no
party usage in expressing our confident
opinion. Should that nominee be our
townsman, Gen. Stoneman, we shall
labor from the opening to the closing of
the polls to insure his election.
What men have the. right-who are
the men who claim the right-to stand
over the Democratic party, to dictate
who shall or shall not be its nominee for
Governor of the great State of Califor-
mia! As corollary to this proposition,
we would also like to ask, What other
State in the Union is in such degrad-
ing state OF vassalage as is thus asserted
of the Democracy of the Golden State.
Go to! There is no such right, ex-
press, implied or conceded. The Demo-
cratic Convention which will meet at
San Jose on the goth of June will nomi-
nate suitable candidate for Governor,
and the Democratic masses will rally
round him Loyalty. There will be an
attempt to organize third party, per-
haps; it will be pitiable fiasco, and
that is all there will be to a grand pro-
gramme in which the event of the war
win fall SO far short of the promises of the
manifesto that there will be tremen-
dous amount of hilarity in consequence.
If the people who take refuge in the
Democratic party, or on its edges, to
serve their uses upon it, wish to see just
how numerous they are, when robbed Of
favoring and adventiticus circumstances,
like those of some years ago, this is ex-
actly the year for them to try the peril
GUS experiment. The Democratic mass
es were never more harmonious than
to-day. Ten thousand Democrats have
already joined the Democratic clubs in
San Francisco, and the delegates from
that city will represent popular con-
stituency never hitherto paralleled in a
State Convention. As to the State at
large, there will be ten times as many
delegates directly empowered from the
people as were ever seen in a Demo
cratic State Convention before.
The Democratic party, here as else
where, desire little less of the self-ap-
pointed lector 1t can and will take care
of itself.