Daily Los Angeles herald., 1882-01-20


Weighing all the kilograms
which have reached this coast
from Washington during the past
elk weeks, and adding to them the
voluminous correspondence which
has been sent from the national
capital, 1t seems very probable
that ex.United States Senator
Aaron A. Sargent will be Presi-
dent Arthur's choice for Secretary
of the Interior. This nomination
means, neither more nor less, that
President Arthur, In addition to
his preference for Grant and his
friends, lie attached to the corrupt
methods of the Grant regime. OF
course smooth Presidential
Ephraim, like the successor Of Gar
field, does not wish to shock the
country all at once. He believes
ia administering the reactionary
medicine In homeopathic doses, a
little at q time, If of no great benefit
to his party at least no great hurt.
But the impulse is, nevertheless,
really an uncomfortable one, and
the fret violent departure from the
expectations of Republicans who
are really actuated by principle
would be followed, day by day,
week by week and month by
month, in the same unwholesome
order and with the same signifi-
canoe. Aaron A. Sargent is, by
common consent, the incarnation
of all that is shrewd, tricky and
unprincipled in the Republican
party. In addition, he is the ex-
emplar OF that debased portion Of
that party, of whom Arthur is now
the chief, which pushed forward
Grant 40 the candidate for q third
term, with the ultimate view OF
subvertipg Republican institutions
on this continent. There is no
question of the fact that there is a
large moneyed and monopoly ele-
ment of the Republican party
which, after designedly creating
an enormous national debt, de-
sired TO replace the Republic by q
shoddy empire. Even the first
Cesar, and his nephew Augustus,
introduced their subversion OF the
old Roman Republic by subter-
fuges. Nay, even Caesar Angus.
tus, when the shameful scheme
had been completed, arrogated to
himself no higher title than I'm.
perator-then q comparatively Re-
publican term, which has passed
through all forms of Emperor,
Kaiser, Gear, and which meant
autocratic domination from the
day that Cesar Augustus defeated
Antony. Caesar and Imperator
were used, In the old days, to Jug
gle the masses. Had Grant sue.
ceeded In getting himself elected for
. third term we should have had
an empire in the United
States in q much less space OF
time than that comprised between
the date at which Julius Cesar
overthrow Pompey and Cesar Au.
gustus annihilated Antony. The
people of the United States ought
to have an intense contempt for
the vulgarian Grant and for all Of
his distinctive followers; for, far
more than Aaron Burr, he has
meDaced the perpetuity OF the
Republic Of the United States, and
be has done it consciously and
with design. The appointment OF
Sargent will be confirmation as
strong rs proof Of holy writ
that, although the third term,
under the name of Grant,
IL dead, all the corrupt
methods OF the old Grant regime
are to be revived, with the corol-
larry that, il the nation should be
found sleeping for a moment, its
slumber would be the sleep OF
death, as far as the Republic would
be concerned. That lie to say, the
c0nspirators would again take the
chances. We believe that they
would be worsted, under the most
favorable circumstances, when the
clash came. Meanwhile. we know
that Grantism Is dead forever, and
only await developments to see
whether, ut this early stage, Ar
thur has determined to commit
hari-karf on himself and the Re-
publican party as well, by the os.
tsntatious and indefensibIe nomi-
nation OF Sargent which, particu-
larly on the Pacific Coast, will
leave the party defenceless and
without recodrse-will leave it
hamstrung, as it were.
IT is pleasant to note that not