Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-10-05
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cannot have any foreknowledge of the
horrors which they predict as an adver.
tisment of their almanac, and upon
failure of their prophecies they ought to
be swung up to to the nearest limb
Louisville Times.
Mr.. Edmunds, it is said, will hence.
forth be an open and vigorous opponent
of Mr.. Blaine. Opposing Blaine appears
to be first-rate thing for. Mr.. Edmunds
politically. and if he keeps it up it may
land him in the White ouse.--Chieago
Times, Dem.
1. If New York. furnish the next
Democratic nominee for the Presidency
and indications are now that it will
he will be Grover Cleveland. .. II
Grover Cleveland be not the next Demo.
cratic nominee for the Presidency, he
will be Western n.--[Louisville
Courier-Journal, Dem.
1t would be very disappointing to the
Republicans, but wholly natural, if. in
their effort to ride on two stools, they
should fall to the ground. Too prohibit
zionist for the saloon Republicans, not
prohibitionist enough for the Prohibi-
tionists, they are playing the old double
game on the tenn mperance question with
rather more than usual recklessness.
1t may chance to end disastrously.-
New York Sun, Dem.
Republican newspapers are still wrest-
ling with the Arkansas election as a
Chinese puzzle, the paucity of the Repub-
lican votes furnishing the puzzling part.
The weary old explanatory lies are being
used for all they are worth, but the per-
formance is rather tame and ridiculous.
The true explanation is that the Arkan-
sas negroes are tired raking Republican
chestnuts out of the ashes.--[St. Louis
Post.Dispatch, Dem.
Mr.. Morrison is not man for the free
traders to put forward. He is too shall
low and to open in his hostility to Amer
lean industry to make good impression.
There are admitted inequalities in the
present tariff, which are largely grown
out of the arbitrary way in which the law
is interpreted and revised by the treas.
ury off cials. But to correct them is not
a task to which this Illinois statesman
will apply his mind.-[Boston Adver-
tiser, Dem.
"Give us Swift" says an enthusiastic
exchange. Certainly; take him and well
come. The people do net want him,
and will turn him out on the common in
November Fresno Democrat.
The latest accession to the Democratic
ranks from Republican source is the
Courier de San Francisco, the principal
organ of the French population of that
city. Drop by drop the roses fall, leaf
by leaf the stream goes dry.-Fresno
Democrat.
Col. jackson, editor of the San Fran
cisco Wasp, was Chairman on 0Nder Of
Business at the late Los Angeles con-
vention, but he does not seem to have
absorbed any very great amount OF en-
thusiasm for the head of the ticket. A
late issue of that stalwart journal says:
"John F. Swift is cold, unsympathetic,
selfish and vindictive, cynic without
ma agnetism, and having but few friends. -
-[Fresno Morning Democrat.
Hon. John F. Swift, Republican nom.
inee for Governor, visited Riverside
Monday afternoon. He went from here
to San Bernardino, where he spoke last
evening. The enthusiasm among River.
side Republicans over his nomination
was not immense.-[ Riverside Press.
In the State Senate Washington Bart.
lett voted for the bill making twelve
hours a days work for car drivers,
instead of sixteen. Newton Booth, as
Governor, vetoed it. Bartlett voted
against the veto in the Senate, and John
f. Swift voted in the Assembly to sus.
tain it. The car drivers all over this
State will remember MIR. Swift's vote.
And they will also know how to value
the speeches Governor Booth will make
for his friend Swift.
The prohibition movement grows
apace this year. 1t is going to grasp
the balance of power in several North
ern States. Make no mistake about it.
The prohibition movement is now the
most critical and important feature of
current politics. In New York, Penn
sylvania, New Jersey, Maine, Michigan
and Ohio it promises to assume phe.
nomenal force. Oar examination leads
US to the belief that the third party pro-
nibition movement will steadily gather
force up to the national electionof 1888,
and that it will then poll for the prohi-
bition national ticket far, very far,
greater vote than it has ever had, or
than the ordinary politician has ever
dreamed it would have. There is no
room for error as to the facts upon
which this prediction is based. The
Stree soil'' vote for Birney, in New
York lost Mr.. Clay the Presidency.
The vote for st. John in New York,
lost Mr.. Blaine the Presidency. The
vote for the prohibition candidate in
1855 will determine the political com.
plexion of half dozen great States
Cincinnati Enquirer.
The Democrats of the country, like
the Democrats of California, want no
Republicans in office; offensive partisans
or inoffensive. They want the Republi-
cans turned out because they are Re.
putlicans.-[New York Sun, Dem.
A practice that was wrong and odious
when engaged in by the Hubbells and
Chambers of the Republican party is
not made right or inexcusable when fol.
lowed by the Democrats. The day Of
political assessments has gone by. The
Democratic party can keep what it
gained without them.-[New York
World, Dem.
II it be true that stockmen in the foot
hills are burning the timber on the pub
lie lands in order to clear them for
grazing purposes, it is time we had a
Timber Agent who isn't fast asleep
Oakland Enquirer.
The best way to arrive at correct
estimate of a mans worth is to find out
the grade Of esteem in which he is held
by communities in which he has lived a
long time. The papers and PEOPLE of
Santa Cruz county, where he resided the
greater portion of his life, speak in the
highest terms of John I. Gaffey, Demo
cratic candidate for member of the
Board of Equalization from this
district. And those enconiums are not
confined to any particular sect or politi-
cal party. They are from people