Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-03-26
Genuine national Issues.

way Of looking at grave issues. One Of
the most noted incidents Of the social
life Of the Middle Ages was the Kings
Jester, whose business was 10 make light
Of everything. 1t is curious feature
Of the sscendanoy Of the Republican
party in our national affairs-of party
which has claimed all the morality and
dscency-that the leading feature Of its
control Of tho national administration
has been to beget spirit Of scoffing at
anything like serious regard for purity
In private or public life.
Confronted by scandalous incidents,
like the Leet, Belknap, Robeson and
Whisky fraud scandals; confronted later
by the Star Route infamies, these exem.
plars of the ''God and Morality" pro-
grammo stick their tongues in their
checks and enact the role Of the buffoon.
They not only appear like insensate
fools themselves but they assume that
the people are fools, and they insult the
masses by disprizing their intelligence.
The leading precentors in this role Of in
sulting and outrageous hypocrisy are
men like John Sherman, who have
grown enormously wealthy on salaries
Of $1,000 q year, and at time when
they have been living at rate Of
20, 900 per annum, with no discover
able source of omolument but their pub
llo positions. Every intelligent man
knows that If thousandth part of these
scandals had been developed under a
Democratic administration the super.
calsndared pages Of the eclectic monthlies
and weeklies controlled by the God
and Morality" leaders Of the Republi-
can party would have qptvercd with q
superhsated indignation Yet these
Same worthless have seen imperial
stretches Of the public doman alienated by
their own Congrs3ses without thought
sf pity for the masses to whom the
public landA md been dedicated rs
49, ds. They have seem scandal
IU1s subsidies. like that of $1,000, 600 to
the Pacific Mail in 1872, voted as a
mere incident Of a hogging speoula-
tive deal in Wall street; the
later Developments, before Congress.
ional committees, showing the precise
amounts paid to the snug Republican
saints for their base compliance. They
have seen all the scandals Of the Credit
Mobillsr. without genuine throb of re.
pudiatory indignation.
Perhaps we are wrong as to this last
allegation. The New York Tribune and
several other Republican papers under
took to denounce Che Credit Nobilier
thieves. Their idea was to gain a cheap
reputation for purity. Amongst the
most vehement denunciators of James
A. Garfield was this same New York
Tribune, whose columns abounded in
what many Republicans even regarded
- conclusive evidences Of his guilt.
When his name came up before the Gin.
cinnati Convention that powerful Repub.
licAn organ, the Cincinnati Commercial.
Gazette, was scintillant with reminiscen.
ces OF Garfield's Credit Mobilier com
plicity. 1t was suggested that if Gar
field wers-- nominated for President
gfknap ought 10 be the Republican
nominee for Vice. President.
Yet, presto! change. Without an
Alteration of an iota in the facts, both
tho venal and slavish New York Tribune
and Cincinnati Commercial .Gazette were
amongst the most vociferous of Gar
hslds supporters.
We have aimed TO give salient hint
Of the Snug Republican hypocrisy and
Republican betrayal Of the people of
which we complain. If one were per.
mitted the compass of magazine article
the record might be made as voluminous
~ q chapter from the annals Of Gibbon.
We contend that the first and leading
national issue is to retire to private life
this band of modern Tartuffes, with
their bureaucratic adherents, who have
20 lsng been entrenche1 in power and
emolument in Washington, and who
have become SO pampered by long en-
joyment Of Office that all they think they
have to do to retain it is to tickle the
people with straws.
Christ once said, "Seek first tho King
dom of Heaven and its justice, and all
things else shall be added unto ye.' We
venture on respectful parody on this
passage, which would run, "Expel first
the Republican bureaucrats and their
chicane, and undrsamt of good shall be
developed to ye, people of the United
States"
The second great national issue is, il
Mr.. Tilden can be persuaded to accept
the Democratic nomination for President,
to give the American people an oppor.
tunity to show how they loathe the
Great treason to republican institutions
which pisced fhe husband of Mrs Lucy
Hayes in the White House.
Here We have issues enough to con.
vulse and energize the honest people Of
continent even as broad MS the United
States. Even though the great fraud of
1876, through the possible infirm health
of MIR. Tilden, should not enter into the
Presidential controversy, there is enough
in the interminable frauds which have
characterized Republican ascendancy in
this country to make the liveliest and
most successful Democratic campaign,
if they are vigorously exposed, ever
chronieled in the political annalsof the
United States.