Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-06-25
MONDAY, JUNE 2s, lsss.
Available Presidential Materiai of
g1ac Two Great National Parties.

Available Presidential Materiai of
shc Two Great National Parties.
San Francisco has for years had two
great newspapers-hermaphrodite in
many senses,-which have never been
willing TO be either halfway decent or
honest in political sense. We need not
asy that we allude to the Bulletin and
tine CaH-the snake aud the snake fly Of
o,lr political history. The Cal has never
been 50 undisguised as its twin-brother.
II can always be relied upon, however,
10 come up in a shrinking aud half
hearted way to the support Of its CO.
adin.or. Without intending any dis
respect to the Call, we shall feel tempted
20 call it the Jacques Strop to the Robert
Macaire of its evening contemporary.
However, just now, we have to deal
with the Robert Macaire OF the combina-
fian. In its issue OF the 22d inst. it had
tine following:
When the Democratic Convention re-
gently assembled, only one name was
announced for the highest Office. There
was great scarcity OF available candi-
dates. The word went round before the
Convention met that Cleveland would be
nominated, because there were no other
candidates. Not single man loomed
mp in the Democratic party other than
the one who was nominated.
If ever there was a disngenuous and
lying presentation of any matter it is en-
bodied in the foregoing. 1t is true that Mr..
Cleveland was the unanimous choice OF
the Democratic party, but he was their
unanimous choice because he was that OF
ahe country as well. The silly fiction has
been invented that Mr.. Cleveland has en-
Qloyed II machine to secure his nomiDa-
fion. The fact is that the most helpless
thing in the world is political machine.
II was the reaction against the Arthur
machine, as shown in the enforced nom
ination of Folgsr, Arthur's Secretary of
the Treasury, that hrou ght Mr.. Cleve-
laud into being as Presidential possi-
biSity, through the one hundred and
ninety -four thousand majority which he
received for Governor over the machine
Republican candidate.
Mr.. Cleveland WAS the unanimous
choice Of the Democratic National Con-
yvntion from the very day Of its assem-
bling. No such political portent has
ever been known heretofore in our
political experience as nation, with the
ezcap ion OF the incident OF George
Washington in his character as politi-
clan. The Bulletin, not content with
lying about the circumstances and the
impulses which brought about the re-
nomination of the matchless Democratic
Presideut, has the following infamous
e untrus twaddle:
The Republicans have always been
able to present statesmen and men who
have earned the gratitude of the country
for this highest office. OF the ten men
who have been named as candidates be-
f0ne the present Convention, it may fairly
bs said that every one is more than
equal in legislative experience and
mental calibre to the nominee of the
Democratic party. 1t has always been a
fortunate circumstance that the Republi.
can party has had many candidates with
the noblest records. Every one of the
ten candidates now before the Chicago
Convention has a distinguished record.
The life of each has been largely devoted
10 the public service. All have won
honors on battlefields or in halls OF legis-
lation. Only one OF them can win the
prize OF a nomination. But of all the
Others it may be said that they have the
qualifications to fill this high office hon
orably for them selves and the country.
The Republican party never before had a
greater mum ber OF strong men to present
for the consideration OF National Con
venticn.
We feel constrained to say that the
man who wrote this stuff would lie from
the very lust of lying. Until of very late
years the Republican party always had
men OF mark before it; or, to be more
exact, many men OF mark. This slavish
Repablican Journal has no compunctious
visitings of conscience in ranging J ahn
Sherman, Ex-senator Harrison, Gres-
ham and the rest OF the inglorious and
unknown lot with Wm. II. Seward
Salmon 2. Chase, Abraham Lincoln,
Xlchariah Chandler, Simon Cameron,
Thadeus Stevens and the rest OF the
illustriDus statesmen that gave charace:
and weight TO the Republican party.
The Greshlms, Allisons, Harrisons and
Algers Of the Republican National Con-
Yention of to-day could not have been
diaeoverod with "ninety-million mag.
liiyiug slsss, Of double hextrs power
even in the days when Oliver P. Morton
had become giant in comparison with
the deeadence OF things around him.
That the Republican party has be-
come wretchedly dwarfed, maugre the
B,dietia, cannot be doubted. The allie
CATION that the Democratic party loses
by comparison with the political mani
kins of its opponent is proposition too
ludicrous even for popular derision.
There are some jokes that are really ghast-
ly. The Democratic party if the transcend
ant claims of Cleveland were once out oi
the way, would have what the French
call an embarrassment OF riches. To be-