Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-07-07
A Marked Contrast.


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A Marked Contrast.
The great drawback with nearly all the
Republican aspirants for the Presidency
was the tendency they had shown to
make official station an agency for ac-
ouiring great wealth. John Sherman
was notable instance Of this kind OF
statesman in which the G. o. 2. is 80
prolific. Jim Blaine himself was an
other. In fact, every Republican who
had chance for the Presidential nomi-
nation was either rich or had acquired
riches by prostituting public trusts to
purposes of private emolument. The
principal arraignment of the head OF the
Republican ticket lies in the fact that he
has been the tool, creature and executive
agent of great corporations, and that he
has effusively and actively sympathized
with the interests he gladly championed
for a fee. At the present writ
ing we know of no case
in which Gen. Harrison prostituted
. public trust to his personal emolument,
although, being Republican politician,
and compulsorily statesman, as that
range OF goods 60, from his present ex-
alted status, such developments are
liable to be chronicled at any time. But
as to Levi P. Morton the case is entirely
different. As to this manifold million
aire paragraphs are floating around
which show that he reproduces in his
person the worst phases Of the regulation
politician of the Blaine and John Sher-
man type. We encounter in our ex-
changes passages which speak OF Levi
p. Morton's connection with the so
ciete Generate de Credit Industriel ct
Commercial while he was the United
States Minister to France, and the testi-
mony taken by the House Committee on
Foreign Affairs in the Chili-Peruvian
investigation in 1882, is now being care
fully studied for campaign uses. MIR.
Morton need not be surprised, therefore,
If he finds the Democrats making use OF
the fact that while he was Minister to
France he became, as member OF the
firm of Morton, Bliss & Co., interested
in contract with the Credit Industriel
for the sale of Peruvian guano and
nitrates in the United States, and that
this contract was contingent upon the
intervention of the United States Gov
eminent in the troubles between Chilli,
Peru and Bolivia, by which the conces-
sions claimed by the Credit Industriel
were to be recognized and secured.
1t will be remembered that Blaine
himself, during his brief "Jingo" SER
vice as President Garfeld's Secretary
of State, of the United States, figured
very discreditably in his attempts at in
tervention in the dispute between Chill
and Peru, and that the incident formed
an inglorious episode in the diplomatic
history of this country. Chill, in terms
not mentionable to ears polite, told the
United States to go to sheol. Morton
appears to have been fully mixed up
with this inglorious escapade, which al
most rivaled Blaine's surrender of Amer
ican citizens of Irish birth who were i'm
INJURED in British prisons. 1t is a very
regrettable circumstance that you can
scarcely ever strike a distinguished Re-
publican official who is not imbued with
that fine instinct Of the Lorse leech's
daughter, which impelled her to look to
the practical usufruct of ordinary affairs,
and which in her case was embodied in
the damnable iteration of "give, give"
"Now look upon this picture and then
upon that" Contrastthe clean and pure
record OF Allen g. Thurman, man as
poor, and honest, and as noble in pur-
pose as Cincinnatus himself, with that OF
q man who, representing his country
abroad, seeks to use exalted station for
private gainl And for private precun-
iary end, in which the name and honor
OF the United States are smirched, and
for which its armies and navies might
ultimately be engaged, with bloodshed
galore and all other digraceful in
cidents, the tail Of the Republican ticket
was content to sink his noble official
functionl