Daily Los Angeles herald., 1883-05-19

A Potent Political Tendency.
Tho Hon. Roscoe Conklng dis.
dams to practice anything like
Discrimination. When the worst
things that have been said about
this gentleman have been passed
in review, outside Of his rampant Re.
publicanism, one will not encounter
single allegation that he has been guilty
Of any personally dishonest act, or has
ever gone back ON a friend. While Re.
publican ofiice-holders and newspaper
men are busy in constructing possible
conditions by which the Republican par
ty may retain power, Coukling simply
waves these intangible myths Of
fancy away ana-~-ra1s Hot- All
The signs favor coming Dem.
ocratic ascendancy. He knows
whereof he speaks. The treason OF the
Republican party to itself, to say moth
ing Of its treason to the people, has re-
suited in disaster which cannot be
stemmed short of Democratic blum
ders, which must be those not
of an opposition but of an ad-
ministration party. Once invest
ed with power, if the Democracy shall
fail to do tho right thing, its Republican
opponents can be again rallied unitedly
to the fray. But it will take long time
to heal the Stalwart and Half Breed dis
sension. As matter of fact, to-day, the
Grant element, foremost amongst whom
is Conkling, would far rather see the
Democrats succeed than the milk-and-
water element in their own party, and
pice cersa as to the Half Breeds. But
far stronger elements than these are at
work for Democratic restoration, al.
though these would amply suffice to tip
tho scales against the Republicans. The
people Of the United States have done a
heap of thinking during the past twenty
years. They have seen, as incidents OF
the Republican asoendancy, shameless
surrender Of the public domain to corpo-
rations, subsidies without number and
a bureaucratic insolence Of which the So
called Civil Service reform is simply the
cloak. The voter has noted the fact
that, saying nothing of the concentric
rings, whisky and other, which flour
ished so rankly under Grant, whenever
circumstances have been favorable to
its discovery, corruption without limit
has been rampant in the Republican
party. In the State Of California nearly
all the late officials Of Perkins's admin
istration arc either under or are threat
ened with arrest for political pronigacy,
which even comes within the pale
Of the penal laws. Gray is really
representative type of his kind
throughout the length and breadth of
the United States, California simply en-
jeying momentary monopoly OF expos
ure. The universal demand is for a
national account render: and, with a
recollection OF the Hayes fraud and the
violated compact of Mentor treachery
to the stalwarts of incredible duplicity--
this impulse of itself would be sufficient
to insure Democratic success. But the
really important factor in the proposition
is embodied in the Democratic House OF
Representatives which will assemble
next winter. Never, in its later history,
has the party had a stronger or more
intelligent representation than it will
have then. We can assure those who
look for dissensions in that body that it
will move along in patriotic groove,
without friction and without scan
dals. While it will not menace the bus
mess interests of the country, il will
correct the gross abuses of the
tariff, at the same time standing
by the doctrine of tariff for
revenue, with incidental protection.
The signs are oil propitious for
the election of Mr.. Randall as Speaker,
which fact will of itself be guarantee
of both stability and retrenchment. We
risk nothing in predicting that the cap
sheaf will be put upon the violent pre-
sumptions of Democratic success by the
luminous record which will be made in
the first session of the next Democratic
House Of Representatives The lobby
will BIO retired during its whole ex-
istence, as it was during all Democratic
ascendancies. Legislation will once
again be not only pure, as in the Forty
Fourth Congress, also Overwhelmingly
Democratic, but it will be, as in that
body, sagacious and remedial. 1t is
quite likely that, as result OF the
Forty Eighth Congress- first session, the
Internal Revenue taxes will be entirely
abolished, except as to liquors and
tobacco, and that the cumbrous and
corrupt machinery of that bureau will be
reduced more than one half II we are
correct, as we think we are, i'll our pre-
visions, popular movement, repudia'
tory of Republicanism, even stronger
than that which gave Mr.. Tilden over q
quarter of million of the votes of the
people, and an overwhelming majority
of the electoral colleges, ii they had been
rightly counted, is assured as the car
dinal factor in the coming Presidential
election.
We cannot forbear noting a hope
full auspice for the Democracy in the
coming Presidential election. 1t is one
which signalized tho famous Hayes
Tilden campaign 1t lies in the fact
that John Kelly is now, in time, out
lining himself as mutinous member OF
the Democratic party. He is snarling
and ohoxvinu hia strnnu array, Of toath