Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1884-1890, 1886-07-08

By some inscrutable fault OF taste
upon the part Of those who had in
charge the celebration OF the Fourth
OF July in San Francisco that special
ly offensive fellow, Frank M. Plxley,
was selected az the orator OF the day.
While there at times question as
10 whether or no the person selected
to ofIiciate upon such an occasion
ought TO be brilliant or specially
gifted man, there can be none as to
the plain proposition, in civilized
communities, Us to whether he should
be a gentleman. Pixley fails in every
sense to ill this cardinal requisite.
He is gross person and a very un-
desirable man TO mine out OF ten Call-
fornians. lie is rank and he smells
to heaven. The Individual who to-
day posturizes as the Samson Ago
nistes OF Americanism 10 the same
ductile not to say pusillanimous
wretch who, at the celebrated meet
ing at Platt's Hall, omesix or seven
years ago, was the plant and obse'
quious call.boy OF Denis Kesfney.
Few Caliiornians have forgotten that
celebrated episode. II was "fixley
10 here, Pixley 80 there" And THIS
preposterods agitstor obeyed the
command Of Kearney with an incon'
ceivable baseness. This Is the indi-
vidual that has the presumption to
obtrude himself apon the long suffer
ing people Of California as leader OF
the American element. Americans
decline to accept this shallow polit-
ical doctrinairel as = anything
but very small beer. There was
= time, many years ago, IN
which Know X Nothingism had
some virility and power. That was
away back In 1864 and 1856. but even
then, when the ioreign-bo popula-
ton Of the United States was eompar-
atively unimportant as compared
with its Imposing status at the pres
emit day, the Know Nothings were
knocked out. They were out-talked,
and, above all things, they were out
fought Bin Poole and his gang Of
New York ronghs undertook TO run
the Irish and other foreigners into the
sea. II turned out that they had bit
ten off u much bigger chunk than they
could chaw. Poole was very fine
fighter; but, like Rhoderick Dhu, he
encountered in John Morrissey and
his following Of the Irish-Am
foemen worthy Of his steel, and who
simply put Poole into his coffin, nailed
the casket down and stood ready to
perform the same office for his hench-
men. The gallant Henry A. Wise.
the Democratic candidate for Cover
nor Of Virginia, threw himself into
the breach and won, in the mother OF
States and statesmen, an unexampled
victory. Know NOTTINGHAM then
went down in this country, never 10
be resurrected again. TWAS crushed
out both in the arbitrament Of arms
and in the arena Of argument. Ever
since everybody who had ever had
anything to do with has been stead-'
lily engaged in lying out of his con-
ncction with it. Pixley will find him
self in grand, gloomy and peculiar
isolation in tisnew departure. He will
20 down to his political grave I'M
wept, unhonored and unsung. But this
playedout politician and editor, who
travels in an interminable and wearl-
some circle, has no future, just as he
has had no past worthy Of mention.
The wonder is that the Associated
Press has been betrayed into giving
his maunderings even passing men,
tion. II is eminantly a case in which
the play was not worth the candle.
The three tailors of Tooley street
we're at least plural although not eff
fective in their appeal to the world.
They assumed to represent the mai
esty Of the people Of England, and in
truth they only succeeded In making
the boss travesty OF the day. Pixley
has simply succeeded in concentrat-
ing upon himself ridiculs as great
as they shared in common, and in
whose unbroken glare his unlovely
and assinine qualities are disclosed
as with the vividness OF calcium or
a Drummond light. Go to, thou ass
Flap not thy ponderous and all too
flexible ears in the eyes OF a public
which, for now this long while, has
been Disguised with thy illiteracy
and thy absolute lack OF everything
attractive or interesting. For years
thou hast outraged syntax, while TO
any form of prosody thou hast been
an entire stranger! To parody the
Language OF Hamlet. addressed to
Ophelia: "Pixley, get thee to mon
astery," providing any misguided in
stitution will admit thee Go 10
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