Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-04-28
The Pros and Cons OF Delicate
Political C0niuncture.

he HERALD
The Pros and Cons OF a Delicate
Political Coniuncture.
Our Republican friends have quietly
assumed that the result Of the special
session cannot fail to be disastrous to
the Democratic party of California.
From the way matters are drifting, ON
the surface, such an inference would be
not only gratuitous but wrong. The
HERALD has all along expressed grave
doubts as to whether the people would
sanction any extreme projects of legisla-
tion. In fact we do not believe they
would. But tho grub state in which
legislation was sprung in the Assembly
will have to reach the chrysalis before
II passes in the Senate and
is enacted into law by the Gov
ernor's signature. No well wisher
ideas Of any faction crystallized into
statutes. They would be certain to
overshoot the mark; and to give, for the
thousa, dth time, an illustration of that
vaulting ambition which o'erleaps itself
aud falls O. the other side. Fabricated.
apparently, in sympathy with the peo-
pie, they would be found TO be, in some
esssDtial particulars, unlawful and void.
With the active cooperation Of the older
heads Of the Senate, however, there is a
guarantee of usefulness without violence
and of the evolution of revenue law
which will do justice to the long suffer
Ing people withent being conceived in
the spirit Of vengeance to the corpora
there are lot of mousing politicians,
who are supposed to have profited by
the railway favor in 1875 and in other
years, who do not really care a eonti-
mental for the people, but who think
that the amended Denis kearney role
can be worked to advantage in the pres
ent day aud generation. The HERALD,
while it ardently desires the triumph
of the people. also hopes for the
defeat of this element. 1t does
not desire to see Snug hypocrisy
triumphant. Such result would be
too dscouraaing 10 men of honest i'm
pulses. After all, the best warrantors OF
good and patriotic impulses in the future
20 with the most extreme demands of the
masses, in their moments of irritation,
are always certain to turn up with pur
pose and principle, and who do not
make their bread through mercenary
politics. We predict that the salvation
of the Legislation begotten of the special
session will turn, finally, upon these
men. They will be found to comprise
such gentlemen as the Hon. b. ID. Muir.
ply, of Santa Clara, men who could
not be bought by all the money Of all
the railways in the country, and who
are staunchly for the people at all times.
Such Legislators will do their faithful
and effectual work under great disad.
vantages. In order to secure the best
attainablo good for the masses they will
have to appear, to certain extent, to
have to submit to the dictation of such
luminous exemplars of devotion to the
public good as the Hon. Christopher
Buckley, the Prize Patriot and Mo-
mentous Mover of the Politics of San
Francisco, for some time past. The de-
served prominence of this Patriot with
big, big P, compels us to capitalize all
/, the aspects of the comedy in which he is
now one OF the prime movers.
At the same time that the gentlemen
party will be subject, in the evolution OF
just scheme of legislation from the
special session, to suspicion of respond
ing to the personal dictation of the Hon
Christopher Buckley aforesaid, gamb-
Ter and saloon keeper of great eminence
in the city and county of San Francisco,
and an individual. by the way, of con.
siderable brains and personal magnetism,
they, coincidently, will encounter anoth.
er difficulty. In order not to make the
outcome of the special session entirely
ridiculous, they will be obliged to in.
fx,aa al NF a Il
sense into the deliberations OF this body
which, with a lot of halfbaked fools,
will subject them to the suspicion of
having distant acquaintance with the
managers of the Central Pacific Railway
and with corporations generally.
Here We have a sort OF melancholy
Scylla and Charybdis for the Democratic
statesmen in Sacramento They will
have to emerge from the inevitable or
deal by showing themselves both wise
and patriotic. We have an abiding be-
lief that they will do so, and that tins
the special session will prove t. have
been a substantial good which will
strengthen instead OF weakensne tha
Democratic party.
On the Other hand the Republicans
of both houses of the Legislature can
only justify their chuckling and PR.
mature exultation by uniting to d,ieut
all remedial legislation whatever. Tue
logic OF the situation cOmpeis them 10
Join in with the conservative and wise
portion of the Democratic party or t.
leave themselves exposed in a sort ot
Marplot role which, while it might de
feat the rational objects of the special
session, would surrender them subject To
the just imputation of seeking a party
advantage at the expense OF the veal of
the commonwealth. We doubt very
much indeed whether such an attitude
would commend them very much to the
good opinion of the average voter.
Herein we have stated the honest
difficulties OF both parties in trying to
make great advantage out of the
special session.
1T would probably be difficult to
indicate the rapidity with which Los
Angeles has grown within the past two
years better than by the statement that
the service from the mains OF the Water
Company has doubled during that