Daily Los Angeles herald., 1882-04-09
The Rsss signincasce Of the Dem.
ocratic Party.


The unparalleled prostitution by
the later Republican leaders of all
that dignifies our national politics
impels ne to write hearty, virile
leader, In which the real signifi-
canoe and impetus Of the Demo-
cratic party shall be outlined. In
writing, as we shall In this arti.
Gle, strong impulse, lineal in our
blood, will crop out occasionally,
and ought to so crop out unless the
trumpet notes of American Democ-
racy have been sounded for the last
time, and our people have become
ennuye of the splendid and spirited
programme of the men who made
the American Republic, In it's
present immense amplitude and
majesty, with regard to all mate.
rial aspects, possible.
A very short review of American
history is Inevitable rs prolego-
mena to a story which will at least
be measurably brief. George
Washington belonged to no Amer
lean party. He was surrounded,
In almost equal numbers, by Dem.
ocrats and Federalists, until the
punetilious self-respect and robust
Democracy of Thomas Jefferson
finally induced him to leave the
administrators of the first and best
of American Presidents, and the
best of m en- as-weA, with a major
ity Of Federalists in his Cabinet.
Notwithstanding the subtle INTEL
lect and magnetic influence of
Alexander Hamilton, his Secre-
tary of the Treasury, Washington
always remained the truest of
Democrats, fact cheerfully certi-
fed by Mr.. Jefferson after his re-
tirement from the Washington ad.
miHistration. One of the most in.
teresting passages of Jetferson's
Ana is that in which he tells the
story Of q memorable Cabinet
meeting at which he participated.
at this meeting Washington
picked up copy of Frenau's
Aurora, which had accused him of
meditating kingly ambition, and
exclaimed, with great vehemence,
"By God, I would rather be on my
farm at Mt. Vernon than Emperor
of all the world" No living man
doubts this now, and few doubted
it then. Washington sw0re terri
bly, occasionally. He damned Mad
Anthony Wayne at the Brandy
wine and he blasphemei on this
occasion.
Then followed the quasi mon
archical administration of John
Adams, with its alien and sedition
laws. In that administration was
concentrated all the venom OF
those who wanted caste and livery
and display, and a strongly GEN.
tralized government for the
United States. Fortunately for
the American Republic, John
Adams, admirable as he was per-
sonally, eloquent, impulsive and
interesting as he appears in the
history of the United States, was
spewed out of the mouth of the
American people. A sixty years.
ascendancy Of the Democratic par
ty, only interrupted by the Henry
Clay-John Quincy Adams dicker
Of 1924, which elected the younger
Adams, by the panic of 1887,
which elected Harrison, and
by the Van Buren, bolt of 1S4S,
which elected Taylor, prevented
the grating of bureaucratic and
monarchical features upon the
government of the United States.
The Democratic origin of Lincoln,
and, waving the slavery side issue,
his Democratic bias, prevented a
prostitution of the genuine Ameri.
can idea even during the height of
the war. Fortunately the Repub-
lican party, always Influenced by
cunning and expediency, though
pretending to be governed by in
SEPARATIONS ola far higher order, In
1854 associated Andrew Johnson
on the Republican ticket with Lin.
osln-that Andrew Johnson who
was . typical Democrat, and who
was as true as steel to his early
teachings. Thus, through Lincoln
and Johnson, there was an eight |
years interregnunn, in the interest |
of Democratic institutions, In the
United States. We regard this
simply "a q miracle, In the light Of
later developments, showing that
the Republic IL under q sort of
Providential Protectorate. II a mar
like Grant, low, vulgar, selfish,
with the instincts Of "hogging"
stock jobber, had succeeded Lin
coin, In the height OF the resent
msnts begotten by the war of the
rebellion, 1t would probably have
been the end of genuine Republic
An-Dsnocratie government in this
country. The best that could have
been expected would have been
national and political disintegra-
lion.
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