Daily Los Angeles herald., 1882-04-05
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4UGt0 WILL D0 nv 0iDPue0 0ANVAS7s
falr-minded people that the lead
ors OF the Republican party Of the
Eastern States are imnovably op.
posed to granting the relief the
people Of the Pacific Coast have
demanded, again and again, with
an unparalleled unanimity. All
the pltiful little shifts, delays, eva.
sIons and beating absut the bush
and running from pillar to post,
have 1t last resolved themselves
Into that rugged and concrete fact.
Just as true rs 1t Is that James G..
Blaine, OF Maine, and one or two
other public men Of his party,
have been warmly responsive to
the aspirations Of the people Of
this section is the other fact that
nine-tenths Of the leaders of the
Republican party are violently and
uncsmpromisingly the other way.
The vsts on the passage Of the
bill, both In the Senate and House,
proved this incontestably. When
the question came up in the United
States Senate, on Senator Farley's
amendment forbidding the natur-
alization Of q Chinaman by any
State or United States Court,
twenty -sight Senators put them
solves on record against the
amendment, and 1t was only car
risd By tho slender majority Of four
votes. OF the twenty-eight Sena-
tsrs who voted against Farley's
provision oil but one were Repub-
Iicans. This exception was ex-
Governor Brown, Of Georgia, q
gentleman who has never been
heartily with any party or any
cause, and who is really but o
Democrat in name, having only
lately formally and censpicueusly
deserted his party in the election of
ollcers of the Senate, at a time
when even that great trimmer,
David Davis, cast his ballot for the
Democratic candidate for Sergeant
at-Arms. The Democratic party
makes no claim on the allegiance
of Mr.. Brown. He has shown, by
his whsle career, that when the
party needs his services 1t can't
get them, while when it is imma-
teriaI whether he votes with or
against US, he is always found
close at our heels, with the as
sumption Of the airs Of . genuine
Democrat. The fact is that the
vote against this amendment
preventing the naturalizing
Of Cinnamon really stood
twenty-eight Republican Sen
aters and one hermsphrodite
Senator. Amongst tho thirty-two
votes which carried this most vital
amendment there were only four
Republican Senators.
In the House of Representatives
the record was just as bad for the
Republicans. OF the sixty-fve
votes In that body against the bill
q Il came from the Senate sixty
one were Republicans and four
were Democrats, several Of the lat.
ter Substantially belonging to the
category in which Senator Bro wn
ought to beranged.
In considering this question, an
ether element Of the contest should
net be overlooked. There can be
little doubt that many Republican
Cengressmen voted for the bill in
the eenfident expectation that it
would be vetoed; and that, In
some manner, it would finally fail
Of effect, either by being eviscerat-
Cd Of its really remedial features.
OF by downright force, through
: vigorous gathering of the
Fatherhood OF God and
Brotherhood OF Man clans. 1t
may be said that we shew q lack
of charity in ascribing hypocrisy
50 eur Republican fellow citizens.
10 that We rejoin that the history
81 both the two last Republican
Natlenal Conventions elbows that
that party has dealt largely In just
that kind Of thing. Fortunately
the last Republican Convention,
which met at Chicago and nomi-
nAted Garfield, had amongst the
delegates frsm California q keen
observer, man of great force and
oloquence and q gentleman devot-
"a to the interests Of this Coast,
who was historiographer Of that
body. We of course allude to Mr.
Trank PIxIey. When he came
home, In his paper, the Argenaut,
- told the inner history of that
1Ionvention in his usual graphic
ood racy manner. From his un-
oontradieted narrative 1t appears
that Il required unanimous threat
from the Pacific Coast delegations
60 the effect that they would leave
tho Convention In . body to pre-
vent the introduction OF . plank in
thc ChIcago platform plsdging the
nepublican party to nsturalize and
make votsFs Of the Chinese.
Dot enough Of retrospection. We
kovo simply said 30 much to show
1Sof fhe real undercurrent OF Re-