Daily Los Angeles herald., 1883-09-02

tober States left since the reformatory
impulse and the constitutional Conven-
tion held In Pennsylvania, In 1874, blot
ted out the Keystone State from that
category. and similar body in Indiana,
In 1870. withdrew the Hoosier State
from the October maelstrom Of corrupt
politics. just now the signs are not
auspicious for Democratic victory in
the Buckeye Commonwealth. II is use
less to deny the fact that the Demo.
cratic, like the Republican party, has an
unfortunate faculty and facility for maxi
ing mistakes. The evil resulting from
such blunders by the Democratic party
Is intensified by the fact that we have
not, as the Republicans have, the com.
mand OF the treasury of the United
States to retrieve our fatuity. Neither
have we, as the Republican party has
in unquestioned plentitnde, the enthusi-
nstic support of the innumerable corpo-
rations and monopolies which that or.
ganization has created. Consequently,
when we make mistake, we are Obliged
to take the inevitable discontinue which
always accompanies stupidity or lack of
principle or both. There has never been
time since the editor of thu HERALD
welded an unshackled pen in which he
has not deprecated surrenders to the en-.
emy, from the Greeley episode, of unfor.
tunate memory, down to the present
day. The people of the United
States, heartily sick as they are
with theRepublican party, its corruption,
imbecility and treason to the Democratic
idea, are not seeking sort OF diluted
Republicanism- one might call n
day after tomorrow acceptance of Re
publican ideas-from the Democracy.
When the Ohio Democratic Convention
assembled 1t ought to have nominated
square and honest Democrat, like Gen,
Durbin Ward, for Governor. Had II
done so IL would have had the satisfac.
ton of seeing its candidate go into office
with tremendous acclaim. Instead OF
doing so, it selected as its standard
bearer an able and highly respectable
gentleman, in the person of Judge
Hoadly, who has been politically every
thing by turns and nothing long. The
party naturally felt that, given con.
juncture in which the long suffering
Democrats of Ohio could be rewarded,
some thoroughbred, consistent and com
bative man, fully imbued with Demo-
cratic ideas, ought to have been the
Democratic nominee. II may he that
the hearty support of the German voters
will, after all, elect Hoadly, but it is
impossible to disguise the fact that the
situation is highly complicated. Ohio,
which voted for Fremont in 1856, for
Lincoln in 1860 and in 1854, for Grant
in 1868 and 1872, for Hayes in 1876 and
for Garfield in 1880; in word, Ohio,
which gave Brough l0i, 900 majority ms
the Republican candidate for Governor
over Clement l.. vallandigham, was in no
event likely to throw her electoral vote
for Democratic candidate for President
in 1884, but we might just as well have
carried that State this year as we did
last. We decline to accept the idea
that Hoadly followed repeated Repub.
lican precedents and purchased his NOM
nation; but, whether he shall win or
lose, his selection as the Democratic
standard bearer was most unwise one.
Even should he achieve victory, it
would have been much more decisive
under a different leadership.
The situation in Ohio was compli-
Gated from different source. The Hon.
George II. Pendleton, elected as a
Democratic Senator, introduced, and
was largely instrumental in having
passed, civil service bill-the idea
darling creation of Republican hypoc.
risy--in which no Democrat is eligible
for anything in the departments at
Washington higher than the lowest
grade of clerkships, viz, of the $1,000
order. In other words, this Democrat
loaned himself to the creation OF n
bureaucratic system most offensive to the
traditions of our government; and which
would, in effect, insure a practical per-
petuation of the present Republican
aseendancy. The whole proposition is
one-sided, hypocritical and bureaucratic
to the highest extent. Every man who
has a two inches breadth of brow
knows that, were the Democrats to
get hold of the government during
the four years following the election
and installation of 1884, and were
to be replaced by Republican admins
tration in lSSS, the last man OF them
would be swept out of office thereupon.
As soon as this operation had been ac-
complished, the Republican ineumbents
Of the offices would again begin to snivel
about the propriety of "snivel service"
reform, the necessity for a permanent
tenure of office, and so on TO the end of
this insincere and hollow chapter of our
recent politics.
1t was to such scheme that gentle.
man George" lent himself and We are
not sorry TO know that the Cincinnati
Enquirer has antagonized him, and that
in the late Democratic nominating Con.
vention of Hamilton county, where he
lives, the whole fifteen Democratic can
didates for the Legislature have turned
out TO be anti-Pendleton men. Of
course, such a state of things, in view OF
the fact that George II. Pendleton was
elected five years ago to the United
States Senate by a spontaneous and
unanimous vote OF the Democratic mem-
bers Of the Ohio Legislature, indicates a
serious feud in the party Pendleton, no
doubt, has his friends, and there will be
serious defections all around. All the
same, it is just as well that the battle
should be fought out now, in the "off
year.
We shall not regard it as an unmixed
evil if the result of the campaign in