Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-11-06
CLEyELAND'S ELECTION.
The Republican Papers ON Harrf>
sons Defeat.

CLEyELAND'S ELECTION.
The Republican Papers ON Harrfs
sons Defeat.
Los ANGELES, November s, 1S88.-The
Associated Press sends us the following
extracts which will appear in the leading
Republican papers of this morning ac-
counting for the defeat of Harrison and
Morton:
New YoRK, November 8.-The Tri-
bune says: We have received sufficient
results from the pivotal States to show
that the Republican party has suffered
signal defeat. 1t is profitless, after the
fact, to grleve over the mistakes of cam
paign. Yet when a party has committed
grave errors they ought to be pointed
out to serve as warning and lesson in
the future. The first great crime COM
mitted by the Republican party was in
nominating as it's standard bearer a
gentleman who was peculiarly objection
able to the labor element of his own
State, and consequently to workingmen
all over the Union. 1t was also warned
in time that Harrison's record on the
of California, Nevada, and perhaps all
the Pacific Coast States. The event has
proven that Mr.. De Young, San Fran
cisco journalist of prominence. knew
what he was talking about when he
warned the leaders of the Chicago Con-
vention that Harrison could not carry
the Pacific Coast States because of his
PROF. Chinese record. Thus has the great
Republican party been again led to the
slaughter by the lack of political acumen
of the men who had it in their power at
the proper time to direct it to q signal
and overwhelming victory.
CHICAGO, November S:-The Inter-
Ocean: The defeat of the Republican
party is due, first and foremost, to the
weakness and vulnerability, in essential
points, of the candidates given to i. by
the National Convention. Next to the
Inconsistency of platform that was con-
strued as ''free whisky" in one part and
prohibition in another, the selection as
head of the ticket OF a man who
had been notoriously unfriendly to
the labor organizations of his
own State, and who was strongly on
record as pro- Chinese United States
Senator. was the blunder of accepting
plan of campaign from the man whose
smirched character led US to inglorious
defeat in 1884. The war tariff acted as
Republican boomerang, and was an ele-
ment of positive weakness in the strong
Republican Western States. What the
Republican party wants in its leaders is
more brains and less chicane.
CINCINNATI, November S.-The Com
mercial Gazette is indignant. It says:
By mismauagemento of the campaign.the
fatal errors of the National Convention
were continued and accentuated. Quay
might as well have tried to colonize
South Carolina against Cleveland as
but an adept in the peculiar politics Of
Our magnificent organization has been
handicapped by incapacity in it's direc-
ton from top to bottom. 1t has been
outgeneraled and outwitted at every
point, and has suffered defeat which is
more to be regretted from the fact that
victory was clearly ours if we had not
been led by imbeciles.
SAN Francisco, November S.--The
Chronicle: There seems, at this writing,
not the slightest hope for our ticket. We
told the Convention managers at Chicago
tha.. We roulu win WIN any .,s" -.n mt
| Harrison. They thought they knew bet4
ter, and forced him on the party. They
can now see what pretty mess they
have made of it. 1t was hard task for
against what we had sincerely said about
Harrison. But whilst we were talking the
loudest and working the hard est for the
ticket, We bet as we thought and have
therefore made money on the election.
It is to be hoped that our advice will be
needed at the next National Republican
Convention.
SACRAMENTO, November g. Record
Union: The prof. Chinese record of Har-
sion and such speeches as Tom Reed
and Bill Williams made in this State did
the business. The ecoundrels who
Matched out the Murchison letter lost US
thousands Of votes by that miserable and
transparent fake. Everywhere our party
has been made the victim of imbecility.
chicafefy and bold-faced lying on the
part of orators and leaders, and the peo-
pie have spewed us out.
Los ANGELES, November S.-The
| Times: We are defeated on account of
the treachery of the Trombone and it's
cavalier treatment of the Murchison let
ter. If that letter had been handled in
the interest of the party as the Times
handled it, it would have secured US the
lkuuidut 1IlSA VOC0 duu 0uAUieQ us 10
carry every doubtful State. That scoun.
drelly traitor, the Trombone, is response
BILE for the defeat Of Harrison.
Los ANGELES, November S.-The Tri-
bane: What else could we expect but
defeat from the wretched manner in
which the campaign was carried out?
The Tribune warned the party against
relying on the Murchison letter and the
Times. We were on the high road to
victory on the tariff issue, when the MUIR
Gibson letter was sprung upon the coun-
try, and after that the tariff question was
ignored and the campaign was fought out
upon forgery. The Los Angeles Times
is responsible for the reelection Of
Cleveland. That paper is what we have
always known it to be, an enemy in dis
guise-a wolf in sleeps clothing.
The Democratic Party at santa Ana.
The Democracy of Santa Ana and vi
cinity closed the campaign Saturday
with grand rally, torchlight procession
and meeting. The procession was
splendid pageant, ,and one of the most i'm
posing ever seen in that city. The meet
ing was addressed by Hon. R. F. Del
Vale and Lieutenant Governor White.