Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-08-06
Pregnant Points.

nearly all the leading journals of the
great city of New York, including, in ad
dition to the Herald. Times and EUening
Post, and the regular Democratic journ
ais, most of the really clever pictorial
papers, are outspoken in favor of Cleve-
land and Thurman. 1t is not possible to
belittle a circumstance like this. The
Herald is an independent paper, which
is often incorrectly classed as Democratic.
1t has supported every Republican can
didate for President until the campaign
OF 1884, when it went for Cleveland, as it
does now, since the Buchanan-Fremon
contest of 1856. In that campaign, which
ushered the Republican party on the
national arena, it supported Buchanan,
and Buchanan was elected. That journal
has always had the happy knack of sup
porting the winning man.
In the issue of the Herald Of the 21st
Of July appeared an editorial so opposite
that we reproduce and adopt it. 1t is an
answer to the Tribune's answers to cor
respondent, and is as follows:
The senior Republican organ breaches
the gospel of Republicanism in five texts
in this fashion,
To THE EDITOR OF THE TRIBUNE.
SIR-Please give me five good reasons why a
man should be Republican. J. WALTER.
LONG BEACH, July II. 1883:
l: Because there Is everything in tue record
of the Republican party of which he may be
proud and nothing OF which he will need to be
ashamed 1t saved the Union, emancipated the
slaves, restored specie payments and re-
duced the National debt one-half. Unlike
the Democratic s1,at party it has never
the war for the Union a failure and
sued for craven peace, and it has never ar
| rayed itself against the principles of honest
| finance and National honor.
This will never do! The Union was
saved by Democrats as good as Stanton
Blair, Hancock, and hundreds of thou
sands of others. The credit has been as
high under Democratic Cleveland as any
Republican. The Republicans sought
slave holding alliances whenever they
we're available, crawled after them under
Hayes. They sought the rum alliance
at Chicago by pronouncing for free
whisky against the advice of Blaine. The
most conspicuous champion of secession
in the North, the most persistent suitor
for "craven peace" was the senior Re-
publican organ. This will never do!
2. Because Republicanism does not stand
| for the suppression of single democratic vote
in any State of the Union. In every Republi-
please, and their ballots are counted as they
| are cas-. Democracy stands for the suppressl on
| OF Republican votes by intimidation, crime and
fraud in every State formerly in rebellion.
This will never do! If it were true.
then the wing of the Republican party
which Mr.. Blaine leads is on record
as having defeated the only Republican
measure ever based upon it. Mr.. Blaine
did not believe this when he defeated
the Force bill Nothing has happened
to affirm it since. Mr.. Hayes did not
think so when he sold Chamberlain, of
South Carolina, out to Wade Hampton.
This will never do!
3: Because the Republican party in its tariff
| legislation laid the foundations of a national
prosperity unexampled in modern times and
| defends the cause of American industry to-day
| against the combined attack of English manu-
| facturers and the Free Trade Democracy The
Solid South in the Confederate constitution
| pronounced for free trade precisely as the party
| of Buchanan, Breckenridge and Douglass had
| done before the war and as the party of Tilden
| Hancock and Cleveland has done since Re.
pub icanism is the cause of industrial indie
pendence.
This will never do! The Republican
party before the war had no more to do
with the tariff than with the Greek
Kalends. The tariff was not then
an issue. High in Republican counsels
were eminent free traders who were act.
ing with protectionists against slavery
advancing in the Territories, and who
called themselves Republicans" The
tariff, war measure, accepted, like the
legal tender, from necessity, has been
maintained since the war in the interest
of the worst system of monopoly and
jobbery the world has ever seen, a sys-
tenn under which rich men like Carnegie
grew richer at the expense of their
laboring serfs, who grew poorer. To
maintain it and find some means of alb.
sorbing the criminal surplus thus engen-
dered series of the most profigate
measures Of Neutrality-suspicious., river
and harbor bills, wildcat public improve
ments-have been developed from year
to year to become charge of hundreds
OF millions to the Treasury. This will
never do!
4; Because the Republican party is American
| in its sympath hies and its policy, believes in
| governing and developing America for the ben
| eft OF Americans. and would neither order its
tariff policy for the accommodation and beneti
OF foreigners, nor lower the country in the esti-
| nation of the world by surrendering American
| rights or compromising American honor
| through pusillanimous diplomacy. The Demo-
cratic party is equally un-American in its for
| elgn and its domestic policy
This will never do Unless, perhaps.
the Republican party proposes to revive
the old Nothing spirit in which, as
a statement of the case, it will do very
we'll.
5. Because the Republican party is recruited
from the more intelligent and progressive ele-
ments of American population, and is the or
ganizatiOn in which all friends of civil service
reform, practical temperance legislation or of
any other movement in the direction of good
government naturally belong The Democratic
party is not hospitable to any real reform in
government, as the civil service reformers have
learned to their shame.
This will never do! Senator Platt.
with his squads of Albany heelers, the
managers of the Ager boom in Chicago.
the Pinchbecks in the South and the
leaders OF the whisky and other rings in
the North, will explain the Intelligent
and progressive elements" which com
prise the Republican party in it's later
days.
But this kind Of political preaching
will never do!