Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-08-07
An Awakening.

The greatness Of the Republican party
consists In its ability to purify itself.
Tho Democrats talk about whisky rings
and Star.routo frauds. II II had not been
for efforts at puritcation, the Democracy
would never have known anything about
these frauds. They were not discovered
by Democrats. Republicans discovered
them, and when discovered did not rest
until the cancerous growths were severed
FROM the body polite. Los Angeles
Times.
There is something very amusing
about the foregoing. The editor OF
our esteemed contemporary seems to bo
unwilling to allow for the force OF the
old adage that, when rogues fall ont,
honest men come by their own. The
Republican party has such an absolute
control of all sources Of Official informa.
tion that II requires some wrangle about
the division OF the spoils. or somo diff
ference of opinion as to the precise line
Of development which new schemes OF
spoliation shall take, to enable the poo
pie to get even an oblique idea OF the
extent to which they are being fieeced.
But this idea Of the Republican party
purifying itself ought to be told in IN
especial High Jinks OF the Horse Ma
rines. assembled from all quarters of the
world to drink in the thaumaturgic
Munchausenism. The Republican party
has never washed. any o, its dirty linen
in public except when compelled to do so
by some disgraceful contention, the de-
tails of which remarkably correspond to
several of those episodes of mutual
''give AWAY" which have been worked
up by Fielding in his authentic history
of Jonathan Wild. These episodes Of
elimination and recrimination in the Re.
publican party have been frequent
enough to suggest bewildering sue
cession of partially exposed enormities.
They are 30 numerous. in fact, that they
telescope each other, like two trains
meeting in a tunnel. We no sooner get
rid Of John Roachs robberies than their
hideous and baleful uglnoss is eclipsed
by the full-aged aud matured enormity
of the whisky frauds. No sooner have
we released ourselves from the malign
fascination of these latter mephitc scin.
tillations than the Star Route iniquities
forge to the front, eclipsing, as does
the sun little twinkling star, all that
had preceded. The Republican party
never tried to punish any of these mis-
creants. That party. in all stages of its
career, has manifested marked spirit Of
condonation of public transgressions.
A jury, in spite of Grant, found lot
of fellows connected with the Whisky
Ring, like Boss Hesing, of Chicago, and
Others in st. Louis and elsewhere, guilty.
and the Judge was forced to sentence
these Republican champions to the pen.
itentiary, but Grant rardoned them out
to man. The farce of the late trial Of
the Star Route oonspirators is fresh in
the memory of everybody. 1t enabled
Arthur, through his Attorney Gen.
eral Beau Brewster, to give his
crony, Bliss, something like hundred
thousand dollars in fees and allowances,
and there it ended. The man who pre-
sided at the New York banquet given
to the Star Reuter- Dorsey was not going
to see Dorsey's crowd hurt very much.
The result was that this self-purifying
Republican party cast the people into
an expense aggregating fully a quarter
of a million OF dollars, most OF which
large sum went to the cronies of Presi.
dent Arthur, and it was all nicely ar.
ranged that all the Republican rogues
should escape. No! The people de.
mand a change. They see that the very
agency of reformatory action is corrupt
at the fountain aud they will submit to
it no longer. They are slowly but ener.
getically awakening from the lethargy of
years.