Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-09-06
THos. a. HENDRICKS,
roe cosoRsss. SIXTH DISTINCT,
r. r. DEL VALE,
OF Los Angeles.
specimen Jnckasicailty.


Senator Hoar, of Massachusetts,, has
been for many years one OF the solemn
testers Of the country. He is so POM
pous and conceited that he never for o
moment suspects this TO be the case, but
II is so all tho same. He has the
habit Of making q profound ass OF
himself in two ways. In one he sits
himself down and pens hollow, super.
fetal and often absurd article for a
magazine. In the other he gives him
self dead away in speech delivered in
the Senate or elsewhere. No matter
when or where Senator Hoar makes his
appearance, he is sure to say or do some
thing fnicky and ridiculous. In the
language of the 4fishpap, ho never
opens his mouth but to put his foot in
II. When tho people Of Massachusetts,
and the country at large were plunged
into profound grief over the death of
Wendell Phillips somebody asked Mr..
Hoar II he was going to attend the fu-
neral Of the great orator. "No. replied
this modern political Malvolio Hoar,
"but approve of it." We despaired of
ever again oncountering such supreme
ly foolish thing as that, although we
supposed II such thing were achieved
that the Hon. George Frisbie Hoar
would be it's author. II possi-
BILE this gentleman surpassed him
self the other day in political speech
in which he maundered about the Dem
ocratic Conspiracy" to obtain possession
Of the Executive branch of the govern
ment. The effort to in tall Democrat
in tho White House he looks upon
rs one of the gruesome plots which
ought to rank with the darkest imagn-
ings of Guy Fawkes, q Catharine de
Medics or a Duke Of Alva. According
to this peculiar and supercilious person
every man, Democrat or Republican.
who has made up his mind to cast his
vote for Grover Cleveland is veritable
criminal whom it would be polite to
watch and perhaps to imprison.
What indispensable rot" this is, and
to proceed from the mouth of Senator
Of the United States, The veriest
schoolboy could tell this pompous min
compoop that in tho contemplation of
the constitution of the United States
any native born citizen of this
country is eligible to the Presi.
dency, no matter what his politics
may be. The same youth might add
that the franers of that instrument evil
IDENTIFY looked with favor upon frequent
changes in the Executive branch of the
government or they would not have re-
stricted the Presidential term to four
years. The fact is that the Fathers of
the Republic. unlike the man
ipulators Of the modern Republican
party, seemed to have profound dis
trust of anything and verything monar-
chical and bureaucratic. They never
for moment supposed that any politi-
cal party would arrogate to itself pre-
scriptve right to control the administra.
tion Of the government for oil time to
come.
Narrow minded men like Hoar have
erected the Republican party into
fetish which they worship with all the
fanaticism with which the naked black
man on the Congo or the Upper Nile
worships horned toad or a snake.
They are imbued with the fierce bigotry
OF the followers OF old Ironsides. They
believe that the earth and the fatness
thereof have been set apart for the
saints, and that they are the saints. No
development of official malversation, no
disclosures of official fraud, no diversion
of the ordinary functions of the govern.
ment into new and strange channels,
could make these men sensible of the
advisability OF change in the personnel
of the powers that be. There is in them
nothing of the spirit of ride and tie as
between parties. They desire to be in
the saddle themselves all the time. And
it goes without saying that the masses
discount this kind of trash about ninety
nine per cent and are pretty sure to in
sist upon change. They have made
up their minds that men like George
Frisbie Hoar have ruled the roost quite
long enough, and that they should be
accorded an indefinite leave of absence
from place and power.