Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-08-03
For PRESIDENTIAL tLEcToRs
Tho Campaign In California.


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Tho fanfare and buster with which
the Republican party opened their cam
paIgn In California contrast very marx
edly with ths listlcss and detected MI
which characterizes them now. Thet
wo were treated TO confident predictiont|
that California and the whole Paciiic|
coast would 20 Republican, and thai
not 90 much as q greasespot would bt|
left Of the Democracy on the hither sid'
Of the Rocky Mountains. A short'lived|
run was made on the hat stores, and
what were Of old known rs the Greeley
tiles, mstamorphosed into the Blaine
hat, were eagerly snapped up for o.
while, aud that by enthusiastic Repub'
lioans who were undoubtedly ignoran
of the fact that this same hat was tn,
distinctive headdress Of the Tammany
Hall Democracy. As the case stand'
now, however, the demand for this spe-
cies Of castor has fallen of lamentably, !,
and those who wear IL have rather
lonely aspect amongst the thronging
thousands who prefer other capital
adornments. The Blaine gush in Cali
fornia has already assumed the little
faded flower" dimensions, and its simili-
tude to the Last Rose OF Summer" is
something realistic beyond even the
limnings of Zola. To employ an idio-
matte but vulgar form Of speech, it has
s'petered out;" or, in other words, it hat
''gone where the woodbinc twineth,
which Ia the poetical way Of expressing
the prosaic idea that it has ''gone up
the spout" To got track Of it at this
stage OF the canvass it will be neces'
sary to hunt with search warrant un
der tho caves of Republican headquar
ters. Let US family hope that, some
whers about the cornices of tht
buildings which been hired t.
stimulate Republican enthusiasm,
there may be found, here and
there, o reminiscence of the conf
dent spirit which ushered in the opening
chapters of Blaino's candidacy. Certain
ly nowhere else is this discernible.
In sober verify, why should there
have been any well grounded expecta
tion that Blaine would carry California!
The HERALD believes in being entirel,
fair, and it therefore frankly admits tina
the Plumed Knight made capita
speech in the House Of Representative
In advocacy Of California IDEAS on th'
Chinese question. Granting this. how
ever, is 1t to be supposed, for a moment
that the people Of the Golden State ar
to show themselves inseusible to tn
glaring facts of the agitation which ha
resulted in measurable Chinese exclu
sion. The dullest ncwsboy knows tina
but for tho spontaneous and unanimou
Democratic adoption of the California
anti Chinese propaganda in both houses
Of the Congress Of the United State
we should still be witnesses of the mel
ancholy spectacle of hordes of Mongo
lians pouring into this State and int
the United States. To get the thin.
down to an arithmetical ratio, the Dem
ocratic movement for Chinese exclusion
in both houses Of Congress was forty Il
one OF that which was chronicled o
either the Republican Senators or Rep
resentatives. The plea, therefore, whicl
can be made for Blaine personallyis is sub
merged in the indictment which can b.
drawn up against his party on this car
dinal issue.
Even as to this question Mr.. Blaine i
handicapped by his associate on tn
ticket, "Dirty Work" Logan, who botl
spoke and voted against the Chimes
restriction bill.
So much for the Chinese question
which, In national politics. is general.
accepted as the leading national issue
But, il indeed it be such, the question
of anti-monopoly and anti-sumptuar.
laws are of almost equal rank. When /
10 borne In mind that, on these tw
propositions alone. the Democrats car
ried California only two years ago by
plurality OF twenty three thousand, tn
supreme impudence of claiming thi
State for Blaine may be realized. Bot
on ell matters grouping under the hea
of monopoly and of sumptuary laws MI
Blaine is distinctively and hopelessly a
wrong. His letter to Fisher, Will
Speaker OF the House of Representatives
10 which he told that gentleman that,
admitted to the spoliating clique whicl
controlled the Little Rock and For
Smith Railway, he would prove to b
no dead head, shows how well adapte'
he is to receive the votes Of such dis
tinetively aHti.monopoly State as Cali
fornia. His long connivance at all tn
exactions of the Neal Dow Maine hquo
law extremists in his own State proves
also, how ineligible he is to receive tn
suffrages of the people of our vine-grow
ing and wine and brandy producin
State.
Blaine ought not to carry California
All the probabilities point to his deci'
i've defeat in a commonwealth wit
whose aspirations, in all his career, h
has had but one point OF sympathy.
So much for the logic of the situatio
in California. When we get down t
the political status as it exists, we fin
the Democratic party splendidly orgar
lied. Devoid, as we are, Of all the T,
sources incident to the possession I
the government and the trcasur
of the United States; nevertheless
the Democratic hosts are turnir
out with splendid spontaniet
and enthusiasm which shame their ~