Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-04-03
why Los Angeles County Will Ne
Ruggedly Democratic.

why Los Angeles County Will Ne
RugGedly Democratic.
A very amusing thing to experienced
observers is the complacent way in which
some Of our Republican friends are rang
ing Los Angeles in the list OF counties
sure to return Republican local and leg
islative tickets this Fall. 1t matters
nothing to these wiseacres that, at the
last election. this county was Demo
cratic by msjorities ranging from eight
cen hundred down to six and seven hun
dred. This complete Democratic tri.
unph was not referable to the Stoneman
''boom, because at least three of the
local candidates, viz, the Messrs. Potts,
White and Miles, received majorities
many hundreds greater than that rolled
up for our present Executive. In view
Of the fact that Garfield, in 1880, re-
seived slight plurality over Hancock
In Los Angeles county, this state of
things requires some explanation, and
we have not far to 90 to find it.
Los Angeles is county consecrated to
the vine, and to the beneticent work, in
the line Of true temperance, which will
BE- accomplished, without fanfaronads
and pharisaism, by the salutary substitu-
tion Of light and wholesome wines for
tn, gross intoxicants which, hitherto.
have been popular in the United States.
The Republican party. where its policy
has not been DETECTED by the existence
Of some great metropolitan center Of in
ts,ligencs. like New York city and Chi
cAgo. is emphatically provincial party
-one In which the New England bigot-
ries have survived the fanatical but hon
est faith which made the early vagaries
Of the people Of that section, in certain
sense, respectable. In rustic common
wsalths, like Iowa and Kansas,
which are graced by no redesming and
discriminating metropolitan constitucn.
cies, the Republican leaders and masses
are inoessantly seeking to revive the old
Blue Laws Of Connecticut in the modi-
fed form in which only they would be
permissible In this modern and enlight.
ensd day of grace. For years they pru-
IDENTIFY refrained from introducing the
Sunday law issue in Los Angeles-that
Sunday law which smacked Of the re-
pressive days of Snug New England
Puritanism, and whose correlative is the
modern temperance which, in California,
is represented by leaders who have not
hesitatsd to say that they would gladly
see every vine in the State uprooted
rather than tolerate the making OF
wholesome wines and brandies, En-
couraged by the outcome Of the Garfield
Hancock campaign, the goslings who run
the Republican party in this State
threw of the mask and donned the obse-
lete Blue Law garb SO dear in New Eng
land hundred years ago, and Whose
ungraceful folds, in all possible ampli.
tude, have been seen and admired OF
men for now these so many years past
In Iowa and Kansas.
There was rung the death knep Of Re-
publicanism in Los Angeles county.
Sensible Republicans, who realize that
slavery is dead beyond resurrection, and
that their party has become hopclessly
corrupt, thus had an opportunity Of en-
tering into new and more congenial asso-
Citations than those into which the negro
issue had thrown them, for the time
being. They gladly embraced the open
ing, and there are to-day thousand
men in Los Angeles county who have
cast their last Republican vote.
Nor was that all. This Puritan esca-
pade at once released the German,
French and Latin race voters from their
adherence to the Republican party. The
Teutonic element saw with disgust
their quarter of a century's devotion to
the Republican party repaid by a crusade
which threatened to abrogate their right
to take peaceful glass of that beverage
which cheers but not inebriatos, on Sun
day. The vignerons took up the cry,
and the last state of the Republican
party was much worse than its first in
ssmi.tropic California.
In brief way we have outlined the
history OF the Rise, Decline and Fall Q
the Republican party in Los Angeles
county. We have not made our nara.
tive volumiuous for the reason that the
record of the Republican party in thii
county has been one Of uniform defeat
That that record will be maintained ant
even improved upon cannot be doubted
when regard is had to the fact that W,
are now making S2,00O,000 worth o
wines and brandies ycnriy--a tota
which will be swollen to $4,000, ,0Ol
worth in ten years. Our voters hav'
no earthly purpose of killing the COOS,
that lays the golden egg. On the con
trary, they will stay by this remuner
ative bird, and see that it does no
moult an UNI ecessary feather even
Which is another way OF saying tina
Los Angeles county will remain rugged!
Democratic. The present free and cas-,
local masquerade of the Republican
party will not secure to it single vot
which abandoned it in 1882. On tn
other haad, it will lose to that organiza
ton great many votes of fanatical so
called temperance people who will b
thoroughly disgusted with its double
dealing and hypocrisy.