Daily Los Angeles herald., 1883-10-10

PartIxnu Malice-About COrpor
atIons.

their own rs compared with last year.
Partixnn sIalice--About Corpor
ations.
Ono OF the curiosities OF American
politics is the peculiar malignity by
which Samuel j. Tilden has been pur-
sued by the Republican journals. This
is in line with that disgusting instinct Of
the more debased exemplars of human
nature, who never pardon anybody
whom they have wronged. The fact
that, with the experience of the black
puardism Of one Presidential campaign
before him, Mr.. Tildcn shrinks from q
second dose of the same nauseous medi-
cine, seems to these people something
incredible. In declining to be Presi-
Dental candidate, to these persons the
Sage Of Gramercy Park appears in the
role Of theatrical pretender. To them
the idea is incredible that a person OF
large means and elegant tastes should
dislike the tumultuous plaudits OF his
own partizans as much as he despised
the clamors of his enemies; while they
do not even seem to take count OF the
fact that gentleman anda patriot might
distrust his ability, at an advanced age,
To administer trust so multifarious in
its duties as that of the Presidency. MIR.
Tilden NAV or may not have become
paralyzed in one hand, but few human
people, no matter to what party they may
belong, can have forgiven the ferocious
exultation in the Republican press over
this purely natural misfortune, P@ans
Of indecent glee were sung in the Re-
publican newspapers oil over the eoun-
t-y. 1t was grosser manifestation oil
that hatred to the man which was shown
in the yoxatous suits which wore
brought against Mr.. Tilden on the
pretense that he had not paid his
income tax, and which the government
has since had to dismiss, thus confessng
the causelessness of the original actions
and showing the spite which had melted
their institution. Mr.. Tilden has by no
means been the only victim OF this par
tizan malice. The great and pure Horatio
Seymour was abused, II possible, even
more unsparingly than Mr.. Tilden. 1t
was well-known fact that, in 1865. Mr..
Seymour was heartily desirous OF the
nomination OF Mr.. Chase, believing that
that great statesman as the Democratic
candidate could have defeated General
Grant who, though he was the Republi-
can nominee, had been very poor sort
of a pro-slavery Democrat. Compelled
To accent the nomination himself, Mr.
Seymour was held up as hypocrite and
dissembler. These people could not
realize the idea of man being sincerely
averse to the disgusting exeitements oil
an American Presidential campaign,
When, later, the Democratic State Con-
yention of New Y ork, in 1876, adjourned
after nominating Seymour for Governor,
in order that he might not be able to
persevere in declining nomination
which everybody knew to be equivalent
to an election, the Republican press set
up a great OUTLAW, and talked again
about theatrical attitudinizlng They
were obliged to laugh on the other side
of their faces when Mr.. Seymour COM
pelled the Convention to re-assemble and
nominate another man. Since the Sage
of Deerfeld peremptorily declined the
Democratic nomination for President in
1880, a thing which he might have had
by acclamation, these gentry have alter
ed their tone, and now speak of Horatio
Seymour as a patriot and statesman
Mr. Tilden, however, has not been able
to command any such surcease OF mallg-
nant depreciation.
The other day we were assured that
the hopes of success for the Democratic
campaign in Ohio rested upon the large
sums of money which Mr.. Tilden was
distributing in that State. The Chroni'
Gle, of Monday, comes to us absolutely
surcharged with anti.Tilden venom. L
maunders about his being controlled by
the corporations, about his having nc
fixed political principles, and so ON t.
the end of the chapter. As matter o
fact. Mr.. Tilden has shown himself at al
stages of his career to be thorough!
imbued with the genuine principles o
Thomas Jefferson He has believed il
the control Of corporations by the peo
pie. in the responsibility OF publi
servants, in restricting the governmen
70 its true functions, in the Just rela
tions of the States, and in honest an
economical administration. This til
San Francisco Chronicle knows as we
as the New York Times, from which
is fond of quoting, to the suppose
detriment of Mr. Tilden.
All this corporation talk is very tunn
lust as ex-senator Dorsey, the late SCI
retary of the Republican National Con
mittee, has unbosomed himself as
the modus operand by which ia
Gould and c. p. Huntington contribute
an enormous corruption fund to u
Garfield campaign, ON the expre
condition that Mr.. Garfield was
nominate Stanley Matthews, an attorne
of the corporations, to seat on IL
Supreme Bench OF the United States; o.
in the event OF vacancy occurrin
before Garfeld's Inauguration, was
procure that gentleman's nomination b
Hayes. This corrupt bargain with IL
corporations was faithfully carried ou
first by Hayes, who nominated Stanl'