Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-10-28

True, the republican party was helped
/! by that great mass Of noble souls who
ever hold principles above party, and
who, whenever principle beckons are al
ways ready to follow. Such men have
always been the saviors of their country,
for whenever selfish and designing men
get control of the party they Immediately
cut themselves loose from party ties and
stand on their principles. Policy never
enters into the minds of such men nor
has any influence on their actions.
At the present time there has arisen
one of those occasions in Southern Cali
fornia, in which party and principle are
striving for the supremacy. The repub.
lican party has failed to meet in prop.
er way one of the vital issues in Southern
California, and the question to be decid.
ed is, shall fealty to party bind us?
The question of riparian rights Is not
one of merely selfish character to the
individual, but it is question of momen.
tous Importance to society and the state
of California. 1t is the assertion of u
great principle; the principle that our
hardy pioneers shall go into barren
and desert country and appropriate the
natural resources of the country for the
building up of useful and beautiful homes
without "let or hindrance."
To bring it nearer home: Shall the
hardy pioneers of Riverside take 6O00
acres Of land that would not provide a
single family with the necessaries of life,
and that is of no value to society, and
give it an actual value of at least twice as
much as any similar area in the State
that is depending entirely on its own re-
sources? Can zoe be allowed to appropri-
ate water that is running to waste and
cannot be used anywhere else profitably,
to give that land an assessed value of
81 500, 900 in fifteen years? The Supreme
Court of the State says, no! The Repub.
lican party says, no!-unless we are pre-
pared to pay the value of our homes for
the privilege of using that water to some
body who would never have thought that
water had any value to him but for the
decision of the Supreme Court.
Tho Democratic party answers the
above questions in the affirmative.
Shall love of country or party alle-
glance control us? This is what exer
cises Republicans in Riverside to-day.
Shall we 60 counter to our convictions
because Of what the Republican party
has been? Was it thus that the great
Republican party was formed and
| guided in its darkest days? Let us get
rid of the idea that we must support
any measure because it is endorsed by
our party and we eliminate one of the
most corrupting elements in any party:
The Tweed ring could never have had
an existence in New York If this idea
had been carried out. But for the
hoisting of the "bloody shirt" in years
gone by and the abuses arising there
from, to-day we could not have had a
Democratic President in the White
House. Carry out the idea that we will
vote against bad men and bad measures
and we begin to restore the whole coun-
try to greater prosperity than it has
ever known.
Conditions have arisen in Riverside
which renders it desirable to vote1r
Democrats for certain offices; but such
is the power of the ''party lash or the
party cash" that many voters dare not
speak their mind. Ex-REPUBLIcAN.