Daily Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1876-1884, 1882-04-21


Stensman, Ex-Governor johnson, Col.
Hogs - Thorough Democratic Revival
Boruok-The Examiner.
DEAR HERALD: While think q
hard worked newspaperman has q
right to avail himself of scant and
occasional vacations without re-
gard to the ''shop," cannot resist
an impulse to chat with the read
ers of u paper with whom, for SO
many years, I have maintained
such close and friendly com.
munion. Day before yesterday l
encountered on Montgomery
street Hon. Marcus D. Boruck,
who is entirely the bandsomest
public man the Republican party
of this State can boast OF. and who,
In addition to his personal beauty,
has strong claims upon the loyalty
Of the following of his party in
this State. 10 an inquiry as to
how matters looked in Southern
California, I interjecte "agricul-
.turally or politically" to which
Mr.. Boruck replied, "Of course,
agriculturally; we of the Republi-
can party in this State have very
little interest in politics just now.
Even If Mr.. Arthur should sign
the supplemental bill, regard it
as certain that the Republicans
will be beaten In California this
year by from fifteen to twenty
thousand majority" Mr.. Boruck
regards the attitude of the Repub.
licans in both houses OF Congress
as fatal to the pretensions of his
party for come years to come; and,
at parting, called my attention TO
the letter of Ben Butler, of Massa.
chusetts, to John Russell Young,
the new United States Minister to
China, as presenting novel and
forcible view of the great leading
Issue on this coast. There is one
thing about Mr.. Boruck which
must be recorded to his honor, viz.
he Is always outright and manly;
and, when his party .volun-
tarily into the "ninehole," he re-
Allies the fact, and resents the stu
pidity which brought it about.
A THOROUGH DEMOCRATIC RE-
WAL.
am obliged to record the fact
that, never in the history Of the
Democratic party of the State OF
California, since I have been in the
State, has there ever been such
unity and enthusiasm as perme.
ates the party in this city to-day.
Batween the Nv eto" and the Sun
day law the Republican party ia
utterly decentralization utterly,
futterly demoralized. The "old
guard" grind their teeth and mourn
over the situation. AS matter of
fact, however, men wide between
the eyes, whose sad fate condemns
them to period of probation in
the Republican party, mourn as
those without hope. AS respects
the Democratic party, however,
there is an elan and enthusiasm
without parallel in the history OF
the party since the war, as I am
told. In this city and in the State
q Democratic nomination is re.
garded as equivalent to an cleo
ton. The melancholy and ghostly
figures of Denis Kearney and Dr.
O'Donnell are seen on the streets,
but they are looked upon as the
simulacra of q cause which is moi
only lost, but which never had q
rlghtful being. So thoroughly are
they accepted as "piece" strikers
that the broad guffaw, even, of the
loud laugh which Goldsmith says
bsspeaks the vacant mind, goes uT
whenever their harlequin appear
ances cause their names to be
mentioned; and, in this case, the
cachinnatory impulse is dignified
by thd fact that one of the duo is 9
rogue and the other an idiot-per.
haps In their present attempted
pantomime both are both rogues
and idiots.
No expenditure of Republican
money, however liberal, will avail
to disturb the harmony which now
signalizes the Democratic party in
San Francisco and throughout the
State at large. With their eyes
firmly fixed upon the certain tri
umph which awaits us this Fall,
the Democracy of San Francisco
and of California do not propose to
be diverted into any political mas
querades. Substance, not shadow,
will hereafter govern the Califor-
mia Democracy.
CANDIDATES.
It Ia no wonder that, with the
certainty of the election OF the
Democratic candidates, always
providing that they are men of
character and stainless record-and
we do not for a moment believe
that the Democracy will in any
case depart from Jeffsrson's trinity
Of qualifications, viz, "is he hon.