Daily Los Angeles herald., 1882-03-25
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4 3 fneHsss resisisss Drs". -
II there IL one highly absurd
thing in this world IL is the as.
vumptiop that the party Of Grant,
- Bslknap, Secor Robson, Leet,
- Boss Hesing. Bose Shepherd. Wood
Pulp Miller and President Arthur
r. has any thing in common with the
party Of Lincoln, Seward, Chase,
fS Geselsy, And the other old war;
Z k6rses slao gave to that potent or
ganizstion All the respectability 1t
can claim. The modern perform-
! Sa6css 81 thess later leaders Of this
dsmoraliEsd party have about the
8 same relation to the record Of the
ofieinators OF the Republican par
" that the antics Of the sham
c3K Kitchen 9 Lords } sud Q ladies. In
.sHigh Life Below Stairs, /" bear to
the polished II pointlsss careers Of
9 Us RAJ Lords and Ladies' OF the
parlor and drawing, room. The
fact 10 that, just SO soon as the re.
straining hands of Lincoln, Chase,
<seAd<nsn OF that Tx, were removed
from the Republican machine, it
gave birthto, the most sune exam-
pied era OF plunder and political
z spolistion ever known on earth.
Then began the melancholy pro-
z cssyion Of tho Grants. Dents, the
thousand aud one relations of both
ali ,fAstaAsd like remorseless
lseches On the national treasury
the Leete, Babcocks, Belknaps.
Il Hhaphsrds, Jay Cookies, and so on
4 70 the end of the chapter. 1t was
the aim of all these men to inRugu.
rate an era Of corruption and gaudy
splender. founded on robbing the
national treasury. They we're i'm.
bued, from the crown Of their
hoads to the tips Of their toes and
I 0DGerS. With an insolent bureau-
J soSAtio prstsssion. They assu med
that they were the masters, in
- ptesdof the servants Of the people.
II the public conscience had not,
fortunately, been awakened from
that Republican sleep of death,
there,would soon have been So
&c 3oaited Republicans, but no Repub-
lie. The celebrated safe robbery
case In Washington city showed
Y thew nearly the whole administra.
tioB of national affairs had passed
into the hands Of q set of low polit.
ical advsnturers almost without O
- rpAratte hin history for bsseness.
Fortunately, about this time, Re-
publican robbery ran riot with
such smiling impnnity that the
membsrs Of that party in Congress
'bs0Ams reckless. they no longer
4; th0ught It worth while to dissem-
bls--te keep on that cloak
sbrof hypocrisy which, keen
thinker tells US. is the homage
vice pays to virtue. The enormi-
ties the Credit Mobilier job for
the time being petrified the nation.
Witty old BsDjAmin F. Butler
who, If hsstols spoons during the
war, was nevertheless in peace i'm
psscable, went about rubbing his
hands and chuckling and intimat-
ing that that would be q bad year
for the saints, az it soon proved to
be. Perhaps the nation would not
have bsen aroused to such q pitch
OF fury and dsnunciation had it
not been for the "Back Payn
swindie. Even the stupidest and
aoat trustiRg Republican Of the
Western Reserve in Ohio could
see what that meant. So great
was the storm against the mex
pressibly prostitutsd party Of Lin
coin that House Of Representa-
tives which had been three. .fousths
lCCRep0blican became two.tbirds
IocD cDemscratic--psrhaps the most re-
markAbIe revolution in the history
Of constitutional governments
ii revolution which was brought
& tRbont Altogether by the unexam.
pied of the Republican
party.
So uniform and consistent has
been the jebbsry OF that party-se
obsolete are Ali the questions aris
ing out Of & war which was fought
TO successful conclusion fifteer
years ago, that, even without the
Half Breed and Stalwart split, W,
) regard 1t as almost inevitable tha
Q the Republican party will be driv
en-, at least for a time, from th,
possessioh Of the national govern
mont. Sensible people. who ever
failed to recognize the splendid
service Of reform and retrenc b men
wrought by the memorable Demo
cratic House of Representatives o
the Forty-fourth Congress-, nov
begin to see the necessity for 1
change. They are imbusd with .
profound distrust of the men who
While making glib professions o
devotion to Republican principles
cpnspired to cheat one rightfully
elected Democratic President on
of bis efIIcs and tried their best I,
elect Grant to third term, which
simply meant the subversion Q