Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1884-1890, 1884-11-20

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The HERALD Is the ofiiclal paper Of the city
of Los Angeles. The city delinquent tax lists
and all other municipal notices appear only
In Its columns
Mr.. b. N Rowe Is the Santa Ana agent Of
the HERALD.
HAD Biood-The True status of
the Democracy.
Mr.. Blaine took advantage Of SER
enade rendered him by his neighbors
and friends at Augusta, night before
last, to make very injudicious and
mischievous speech; an harrangue,
indeed, which contains more Of the
"bloody shirt" than any conspicuous
publicman has seen 1T to display dur
ing the past four or five years. Con-
sidered simply as speech, il must
be described as an able one, but il is
all the more to be deprecated on that
account.
While the defeated Republican can
ddate takes occasion to disclaim any
soreness at the bad fortune which at
tended him during the memorable
campaign which has just closed, per-
sonal chagrin and gall run through
every sentence Of remarks which, UNI
der the peculiar circumstances, should
have been characterized by thorough
good feeling. Mr.. Blaine should have
assumed the virtue OF good humor II
he had it not, and he ought to have
disdained to play upon the passions
OF his countrymen. His present atti-
tude is the more conspicuous because
he did not dare to enter upon such
dangerous ground while the campaign
was In progress. Had he ventured to
introduce this disturbing element into
the struggle he would have been
beaten in New York by n majority Of
fifty thousand, and II IL doubtful If he
could even have carried Ohio, Hi
nois, Wisconsin and many Of the
other States which are trembling in
their allegiance to the Republican
party.
The gravamen OF Mr.. Blaine's argu-
ment is the old, old refrain, "The Re-
publican party freed the negro and ii
therefore must own him forever"
Under such system Of logic the col
ored man would really be political
slave. Taking advantage of unques-
tionable instances OF violence here
and there, the Plumed Knight as
sumes that this newly enfranchised
voter is bulldozcd everywhere in the
South. In such States rs South Caro-
lima and Mississippi he ascertains
what ought to be the Republican vote
by claiming all the black ballots and
throwing in those of the carpet-bag-
gers and the scalawags. No allow
ance is made for the flagitious records
of such men as Governor Moses and
Chamberlain in South Carolina, for
example, in changing the party afIili-
atoms of even the most ignorant of
the black race. Having thus laid his
foundation, Mr. Blaine next proceeds
to build upon it u superstructure OF n
very fanciful and sophistical kind-so
frail indeed, that the first wind
Of argument blows it over. No fair
man can pretend to deny the fact that
the relations between the white and
black races in the South have become
steadily more friendly. The negro
has outgrown the extravagant notions
with which the willy scalawag and the
INSCRIPTIONS carpet-bagger was wont
to tickle his fancy. In very many in
stances he has come to see that his
interests in the main are identical
with those of his old master, and he
has become tired of the craft, chicane
and apacity OF his assumed friends
of the Reconstruction days. Over
great areas of the South he votes
as he pleases, and il has pleased
him lately to vote to great
extent with the Democratic party
That the utmost freedom of opinion
and action prevails in the South is
shown by the very close vote, for ex-
ample, in Tennessee.
Having taken this bigoted and par
tisan stand as to the South, Mr..
Blaine comes to the worst and most
rancorous part OF his harangue. He
utterly ignores the northern Democ-
racy, although, by this time. he
ought to be pretty well acquainted
with the fact that in the Empire
State, for instance, there are more
Democrats than Republicans. He
coolly assumes that the administra-
ton of Mr.. Cleveland will be a gov
eminent of the nation by a minority,
overlooking the fact that even in the
north itself the Republican party
may, when the votes OF st. John and
Butler are taken into the count, turn
up in Il minority. He also overlooks
the fact that, owing to our peculiarly
complex political system, though the
Democrats swept even the north in
1874 and 1882 by overwhelming ma
jorities the Republicans still kept
their hold upon the offices, and no.
body in Democratic quarters was ever
heard whimpering about it. The
Plumed Knight makes laborious eff
fort to prove that the vote of a South
ern man, under the present electoral
system, is worth more than that of n
northern man. He is very careful to
evade the fact, however, that one
half Of his fellow citizens OF the North,
viz, the Democrats and Independent
Republicans, fail to see this All the
agony just now seems to be confined
to the pent up Utica of Mr.. Blaine's
bosom, and even Republicans refuse
to be much troubled in their minds
because some of the colored men OF
the South are at last beginning to
stand in politically with their neigh
bors, who are naturally their best
friends. This is a consummation
most devoutly to be wished, and it is
good thing that it has at last been
achieved
Mr. Blaine utterly failed to advert
to the fact that it is entirely due to his
own party that the electoral represen-