Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-08-16
DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL TICKET.
FOR PRESIDENT
GROVER CLEvELAND,0f of New York
FOR NONRESIDENT
ALLEN G. THURMAN. of Ohio.
To enforce frugality in public eapendi-
lures and abolish unnecessary taaation.
FOR CONGRESS. SIXTH DISTRICT
REEL u. TERRY, OF Fresno.
Pitiful Plight For a Party.

Pitiful Plight For a Party.
The ridiculous parade which it has
; been arranged for Blaine to make in the
Presidential campaign is without a pre-
cedent in our history. But everything
about Blaine is unprecedented, down to
his absolute lack of any real claim to the
regards of the American people or any
portion of them. The prominence which
has been thrust upon him by the Repub-
lican managers speaks most eloquently
of the decadence of that organization.
The last number of Puck which has
reached Los Angeles contains very
clever cartoon in which the Plumed
knight is represented as parading as the
.owner of the Republican party, with the
whole tribe of little great men trapsing
at his heels and Harrison and Morton
peeping out of his breeches pockets. His
imposing bay window is ornamented
with enormous seals, labeled 4" Fort
Smith and Little Rock" and other
charming and historically suggestive
devices.
Democrats are very much amused at
the absurd spectacle of great party
,abasing itself at the feet of man whose
title to fame rests not upon craftsmanship
or public service but upon acts 80 equiv
ocal that Blaine's obvious leadership
will result in the detection of hundreds
of thousands of voters from the Repub-
lican ticket. The sublime cheek of this
man coming from hobnobbing with Andy
Carnegie trying to bamboozle the work
ingman is not often approached, to say
nothing of rivaled, in the United States
or elsewhere.
The New York Times, of the 4th inst,
has an excellent article on this fetish
worship of the Maine man, under the
heading "The Blaine Infatuation."
Speaking Of the preparations to receive
the hero of the Mulligan Letters, that
journal says:
What was known before the Republican
National Convention as the "Blaine.
or-bust" element in politics is preparing
to give grand ovation to the god Of
their idolatry on his arrival here from
his European trip. There is not the
least sign of spontaneous movement to
do honor to a distinguished American
citizen as a tribute to his worth or
recognition of great public services.
There is no ground for it. 1t is solely
the work Of Blaine politicians, elabo-
rately wrought up for effect, and the
effect intended is to magnify the conse-
quence of a defeated candidate. They
are determined to show their
special admiration for a man whom
they ale fond of calling the "great-
est living statesman" whom some OF
them even show the bad taste of speak
ing Of as their "uncrowned King" and
to emphasize to the country their belief
that he is the one great man of the time.
They evidently wish to magnify him at
the expense of the candidate who re-
ceived the nomination which they think
was due to their idol. After parading
him here it is their intention to parade
him about the country in the role of
greatest living statesman and uncrowned
King, and they make no secret of their
expectation that if Harrison is Presi-
dent Blaine will be the premier" of the
Administration and the power behind
the throne.
AA0 kIodt Dldluo ucLuOubLTdLlOu WAS
held. Announced on the scale of two
hundred thousand people in line, it
dwindled down to twenty-five thousand,
although there had been months of the
most laborious preparation to make it
colossal.
The Times indulges in some sensible
reflections upon the bad sense and bad
morals of endeavoring to elevate . man
]ike Blaine TO such absurd heights. A
Republican journal, it tells truths con.
cerning the Plumed Knight which, if
they appeared in Democratic news.
paper, would be ascribed to malice. This
is the way Henry J. Raymond's great
journal talks of the attempts to make
Blaine the great main-spring of the Re-
publican party:
What is likely to be the real effect of
this kind of a performance? Blaine is
is one of the most thoroughly discredited
public men in American history. The
exposure Of his duplicity, OF his tortuous
and unscrupulous methods, of his daring
and reckless character, led four years ago
to the defeat Of the Republican party
after being intrenched in power for a
quarter of century. 1t was de-
monstrated that the people of the United
States as o whole had no confidence in
him. From that time he ought to have
disappeared from the public gaze. But
the disastrous effect of his nomination
did not deter his admirers from making
m organized effort to thrust him upon