Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-01-03


The situation for the Democratic
party is improving very rapidly IN
California. In the first place, the IL
lustrious DIR. G. O'Donnell has been
playing himself out AT a very expedi-
tious gait. "Two.forty on the Shell
road" Ia snail's pace when com
pared with the lightning rate at which
the gallant doctor has gone down hill.
His Republican employers ought to
have put the brakes upon this erratic
son of thunder. From the moment
when they allowed him 10 stick u
featherin his hat and don military
uniform his power to influence sensi-
bile men was ended for aye. He owed
his election to the stupid laundering
Of both the Democratic and Republi-
can organizations in San Francisco.
II was rebuke to very offensive ma
chimes, which had presumed upon the
forbearance Of the people. These last
concluded that the most effective way
to rebuke "boss" impertinence was
to turn in and elect this bizarre agita-
tor. O'Donnell's chances OF asserting
himself have been further lessened
by the fact that California IL enter
ing upon what promises TO be the
most prosperous year this State
has ever known. Instead OF cluster
ing in the cities and listening to ex-
citing harangues, the brawny men
who have been wont to assemble upon
the Sand Lot will put in their time
proftably TO themselves and the com
monwealth working upon the teeEaing
acres Of the country districts. There
is still another element OF strength in
the Democratic situation which did
not exist three or four months ago,
and that il that the health Of Senator
Miller will scarcely permit of his en-
tering upon the excitement of another
Senatorial campaign. We do not refer
TO this subject invidiously. Miller is
ON many grounds strong candidate
and power in energizing acampaign.
lie has many respectable traits, and
even his political enemies cannot deny
that he has often shown himself to be
responsive to the interests OF the Pa
ciiic Coast. We know OF no canon OF
party fealty which calls upon one to
be unfair 10 a political opponent. But,
above all, the senior senator from
California is backed by the strongest
moneyed influence in this State. How
potent the Alaska Fur Seal Company
is was shown in the Presidential
election OF 1880, when, even against so
strong Presidential candidate as
General Winfield Scott Hancock,
Miller managed to elect u majority of
the Legislature of California, In adj
dition, the rightiul strength of the
Democratic party on all national and
kSthtc iSbutH 10 w bc thhch ihto tiN
count. II is true that right does not
always prevail, but it often does. 1t
comes in very handsomely as IA subsid-
larry proposition. During the short
space in which Mr.. Cleveland's adj
ministration has been in power, it
has never been surpassed in honest
and faithful execution OF its trust. 1t
is useless longer TO talk about local
Democratic dissensions. The masses
OF the party will frown down any
attempt to receive or to give malign
significance to tho purely personal
resentments which cut so large Il
figure in politics for some time. They
have had enough and TO spare OF
these utilities and fatalities,
On all these grounds we are
justified in looking for II sweeping
Democratic victory next Fall.