Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-06-25

evidences wllcn are uhlly accuiiuiu'hB
that ut last conscience is being awak-
ened in the Republican party. For de
cades that organization has been claim
ing all the education and all the decency
Of the country, honoring itself with the
Pharisaic distinction of being the "God
and Morality" party. Nevertheless, it
has had the nnblushing check, while
dealing in moral plattudes, to conniye
nt public villainics Of colossal order
and IL has taken malign delight in ad-
vancng TO exalted public station men
utterly unworthy Of the honor. Scan.
dals of an unprecedented gravity have
characterized every department of the
government. and the greatest villains OF
the lot have been traced to the vestibue
of the White House itself. Thousands
of millions Of dollars have been absorbed
by parasitic Republican politicians, and
the evil has by no means stopped there
The mere pecuniary less could well have
been sustained by people so rich and
prosperous as those of the United States,
but the moral gangrene has entered the
fiber Of tho young and lowered the
standard of official honor and private in
tegrity. When tho long roll of men who
have controlled the Executive and Leg
islative departments of the government,
and who have betrayed their trust. is
taken into the count, the sum total is
most distressing. A distinct science OF
chicane was created, and its leading
postulate was addition, division and
silence" No arraignmcnt OF any public
man for dishonesty acquired wealth,
however strong the presumptions of his
guilt, was allowed to initiate against his
personal popularity or to bring about his
defeat at the polls. There was a brief
interval, mainly caused by the panic of
1873, which resulted in the retirement
of Schuyler Colfax and few other of
the "tattooed' men, but the spasm was
momentary one, and even Robeson,
who had been one of the most Infamous
Of the jobbers who made Grants admin.
istration smell rankly to heaven, became
the leader of his party in the House OF
Representatives after it had passed over.
But the fact remains that, twice in the
last twenty-four years, the Republicans
conscience is not dead within them.
They allowed Robson to be defeat
cd for reelection and they permit
ted the Democrats to bury Folger
under an adverse majority of nearly
two hundred thousand votes. They are
now going to subject Mr. James G. Blaine
to the process known rs crunching
q man between the upper and the neither
millstene They will give him to under.
stand that, although the mills of the
Gods grind slowly, they grind exceed
ing small, The Republican conscience,
though sluggish as snake which has
scarcely got through alternating, shows
every sign of being ready to strike.
The New York Times, in the grave
and studied article in which it announced
that it would not support Blaine, said
that that agile statesman represented
the Republican party as it exists to day.
1t added that he was strong candidate
on that account, and the whole tenor of
the article was equivalent to the dcclara.
tion made by the HERALD the day after
his nomination, viz, that Blaine was ut
once the strongest and weakest OF all
the candidates named The conscientious
Republicans that will act with the
Times, the Erening Post Puck, and
many other leading Republican papers
which cannot stomach the "Tattooed
Man, represent in the State of New
York alone fully fifty thousand voters.
Half of these will stay at home while the
other half will vote for the Democratic
candidate. This will of itself make n
difference of seventy five thousand votes,
will lose New York irrecoverably to the
Republicans aud assure Democratic
President. Any Democrat who carries
New York goes into the White House
with flying colors and a most gratifying
majority of the votes of the Electoral
Colleges.
The friends of the "Tattooed Man"
can writhe and wriggle as they may,
this is the law and the prophets of the
matter. 1t is as inevitable and as mex
orable rs proposition in the rule of
three. There is a margin of Republi-
can voters, amply sufficient for all the
practical purposes of Blaine's political
annihiation, who cannot be made TO be-
lievc that public man can rightiully be.
come millionaire with no other resource
than a poorly paid Office, who will not
regard the author of the Mulligan let
ters is other than criminal, and who
are afraid to trust the future of the
United States, even for period OF four
years, to u politician whose lingo policy
ms Secretary of State of the United
States is generally believed to have had
a money-making basis, with a view to
Peruvian guano aud nitrates. Blaine
partizans here and there may make II
good deal of noise and splutter, but still
waters are running deep in this cam
paign, and they will enguIf the Plumed
Knight in their flood in the droar days
of November.