Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-10-28

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est they are not. Mark it! They
are Republicans, and they will vote
the straight out Republican ticket
when they get to the polls. Mark it !
and watch the tickets as they come
out of the ballot boxes next Tuesday.
The regular Republican ticket will
not be scratched to any alarming ex-
tent by the pretended Know-Noth-
ings. These fellows are Republican
fishermen angling with a gilded bait
in Democratic holes for gudgeon and
suckers.
Study the effect of it. The fate of
the Republican ticket was foregone
conclusion week after the Conven-
ton adjourned. To pull it through
some desperate means had to be
tried. A great deal was at stake.
Six Congressman and United States
Senator were among the things in
jeopardy. Every Democratic Know
Nothing who voted for Swift was as
good as two votes. When Swift re-
fused to run Pixley got very angry
because he had to take up Wiggin-
ton, to whom a Democratic vote
is only half one for Swift,
and every Republican vote
is one and half against him.
But then down all the rest OF
the ticket, every Democrat who stul-
tifes himself by voting it, casts the
equal OF two votes against his own
party, and directly for the Republican
So he helps elect Water
man, the Congressman and others OF
his political enemies. Imagine the
OF this scheme in the
case of General Vandever. The
chagrin of his friends is great, be-
cause he threw away his chances of
benefit from the conspiracy. He went
the district abusing
the Democratic party past and
present. He faunted the bloody
shirt IN the very faces of Southern
Democrats along the San Jooquin
V alley, and elsewhere. He fought
the war all over again, instead of
letting these dead issues sleep with
the dead heroes in their fiower-clad
graves whose presence covered the
corruption within, and the sad men,
ories of that internecine strife. But
what an instructive spectacle that
had been to see-these staunch Demo-
Gratis from the North or South cast
ing their votes for one of the most
liberal, cranky and bitter of Re-
publicans, the regular nominee OF
he Republican party. They would
nave voted for man whose opposi-
lion to the Democratic administra-
tion was of the most pronounced hos
tility, whose influence and votes
wo uld be cast against every distinct
i've Democratic measure-Silver,
Chinese, protection of wine, redemp-
ton of the bonds, retirement OF the
national bank notes-each and every
act proposed by Democrat, or fa-
vored by the party, or in consonance
with the policy OF his party.
1t may be replied that this course
Of reasoning would initiate against
the formation of any new party for
all time to come. Not SO. This
sideshow to the Republican circus is
loud in d isclaiming all descent from
the old Know Nothing party OF the
sos. 1t has hardly a distinctive
plank in its platform. Every one OF
hem is a bit OF secondhand lumber
from some Republican pile, or a slab
cast out from one of that party's po-
itical sawmills. The candidates are
nearly without exception those OF the
ticket. 1t is a mere
,ideshow set up near our cir
,us for the purpose of get
ing a few of those who right
y belong under our canvass. 1t is
not in any sense genuine movement
on its own merits, and con-
lending for principle. 1t has no
to live for, and merely does
service for its Republican grand
mother from whom it derives descent,
md for whose aid and comfort it ex-
SITS.
1t were well for the Democratic
press, in the hot-beds where this
political gourd was forced into life, to
AXE this aspect OF the matter up and
warn all Democrats to vote their own
ticket, and to vote it straight.
AS said above it does not matter
much here. The fishermen are out
with long poles and gilded bats.
They are fishing in our holes, but the
Democratic fish hereabouts are all
,rout and gamy. There are no
gudgeons nor suckers in these clear
streams. In Southern Cal
fornia the party is made up OF
horoughbreds and stalwarts who sup
port tie ticket straight.
Local Autonomy.
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