Los Angeles daily herald., 1884-11-04
A Foregone Coneiusion-A Triad


Foregone ConeIusion-A Triad
Deai.
Il has been the fortune Of the editor
Of the HERALD TO witness a great
many presidential conflicts. They
perhaps seem more numerous TO him
from the circumstance that they all
went one way, and that way not his
way. Such an incident has good
deal TO do with ones appreciation Of
numerals While one may be indif-
ferent TO the pleasant things which
come ones way, one never forgets a
grievous dig Of fortune The sardonic
axiom that gratitude is a lively appre-
citation Of favors yet to be received
doubtless has an oblique reference to
this popularity Of human nature.
The gracious dispensations Of Fate and
Nature leave but passing trace,
quickly obliterated. Our little dis
QUESTION leads up to the declaration
that never, with the exception Of the
Tilden campaign, have we ever seen
brighter promise Of victory than
that which now lightens over the
Democratic party. The rainbow OF
promise TO long suffering cause is
set very brightly in the heavens
to-day. In this connection it
would be ungenerous TO withhold
an admission, and that IL that
never, in the history Of American pol
itics, has man foreordained TO de-
feat made more graceful, trenchant
and sagacious oratorical canvass than
James G.. Blaine. II he had not sal
lied out from Bar IIarbor at the criti-
cal moment, and plunged with his
matcbless ardor and effectiveness in
to tho heart Of the campaign, we be-
lieve that Ohio would have gone Dem
ocratic by thousand or two major
ity. But the very stars fight for the
party Of retrenchment, reform and
rotation in oiTice-the latter the be-
nign and preservativo Democratic
Republican agency introduced into
the government Of the United States
| by General Andrew Jackson.
We can easily picture the future Ct
Mr.. Blaine. Only fifty-four years of
age, in the very zenith of powers ex-
ceptionally strong and charming, he
will doubtless procure himself to be
| elected member Of the House of
Representatives from the Augusta
| district OF Maine. That he will be
| thorn in the side of the dominant
Democratic party cannot well be
doubted. Blaine defeated, IA he will
be tomorrow, will be in the position
of the wayward youth who afterwards
became Henry V. Let us hope that
he will initiate the example Of that
matchless monarch, and that he will
be able to say with him:
"My reformation, glittering DER my fault.
| Shall seem more goodly, and attract more
eyes,
Than that which hath no foil to set 1t OF"
Blaine, the dashing, brilliant and
magnetic partizan leader and corrupt
public man, is unquestionably fore
ordained to defeat in the present CON
flict. II is not an improbable sup
position, however, that he will again
confront the Democracy in 1888; and,
while he will, in all likelihood again
be defeated, we may confidently
| look for much more indulgcnt at
ment in discussing his personal ch, r
| acter than he has received in tie
present canvass. Even for publ {
man there is locus pcaitentia; and,
in the four years which will follow
the Inauguration of President Clcve-
land, he may do much that il meet
for repentance.
Meanwhile, the issue of the current
Presidential election is forcgone
conclusion, Cleveland sits ut the
gate in New York and Hendricks in
Indiana. That of itself contains the
whole story of a sweeping Democratic
victory.
In Grover Cleveland the people of
the United States are called upon to
recognize worth which, ii not snowy,
is abiding and satisfactory. The old
nag Holdiast is worth hundred
steeds without either bottom or speed,
and that merely prance around.
There are amongst our diverse popu-
lation people who even object to
George Washington as a sccond-rate
sort of man because he could not
turn period with the ease and
grace which characterized Alex
ander Hamilton or Aaron Burr.
But the people OF the United States
knew that in George Washington they
possessed citizen of matchless value,
from whom thousand Burrs and
Hamiltons could have been cut with
out missing anything, Coming down
to our more modern days, the sober
and sensible voter, who looks to the
public veal, will throw aside dozen
Blaines, magnetic and talkative, for
a man of action and principle, like
the Democratic leader.