Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-06-18
mexnAY. AuNE 1s. 1858.
y gage Ealso Noics Jim Blaine and
HrAgh Protection.


THE California Republican delegates
20 tlie Republican National Convention
hrvD always attended the conventicles
og their party under great disadvantages.
Ia the iirst place, since and inclusive Of
2ssD, they have always gone TO their
Datiunal loye-feasts either hampered
With instructions to go for Jim Blaine
8rst, last and all the time; or as, in the
present instance, so loaded down with
personal enthusiasm for the Pine Tree
statesman that they have been able to
aas nothing else but his fascinating
rlhouelte. To trust to the percolationa
Of Pacific Coast opinions which reach us
Through telegraphic media, in spite OF
repeated letters supposed to bo eonclu-
siye Of the matter, Jim Blaine, in spite
of himself, summarizes 81 the Repub-
7iean excellence. lie is the white-haired
boy lhe prize political PETITE sum
aaun bonam Of attainable good in the line
nf q Republican Presidential possibility.
Now ail This is highly absurd. When
Garfield was nominated in 1880 Cali
fgrnia was shut out Of all participation
5n ihe Gclat OF his selection because it
had been, under instruction, steadily
hsiloEing for Untruthiu James. Her
delegates were then, under instructions,
ma they seem to be now, without instrue-
hons, under the first, last and only jim
E3.ne craze.
In 1854 these obstreperous California
delegates we're able to ring in their first,
lasi and only time cadence. They got
Jim wilh the result that We are now re-
5oiciDg under Democratic administra-
9innwhich will undoubtedly be continued
Ear four years more, with an indefinite
continuance Of that nearest possible ap.
preach to the millennium.
Now they are bowling for Blaine more
l0ldly Than ever, with the certainty that,
ii lhey get him, they assure q Demo
uTsiin walk-over; while, il they don't
get him, the California delegation sink:
ip 1855 as in 1880 intoa position Of painful
insienflcance in the councils OF the Re
publican party.
This is q great mistake on the part q
gae Calilorniaus aforesaid Ii Blaine shall
be nominated, as we think it not at all
unlilrely he will be, it simply confirms
tlleir folly; while ii he should not be,
tlleir pronounced advocacy Of their some
what silly affection for dead cock in the
FSt will simply diminish the influence
which rightfully attaches TO the repre-
Geptatiyas OF n section which ought to be
distinctive rather for intelligence than
numbers, and which ought to be weighed
Arc0rdinEly.
Then onr Pacific Coasters are making
smother mistake in bowling so loudly and
dauonshatiyely for a high protective
f8rH. It is assumed by them that Prosi-
Gent Cleveland has evoked no echoes on
tais Coast to his message advocating a
revision Of the oppressive war tariff and
q reduction OF the tremendous surplus
Nhich is to-day restricting business and
zninilying real estate and other values
Tlle fact is that our people desire to
Aail8 railways right and left, and they
know that the tariff as it stands to-day
2aplsas railways cost $4,000 a mile that
rould be readily built for $4,000 a mile.
9.et amy one who is curious in this matter
aslS somebody who is interested in our
railway enterprises whether OF no we
3ssge exaggerated in this statement.
Not only that, but our wool interests
3ioye languished for years, and they have
30 }an-uished because the high tariff on
iong etapled foreign wools, which are
ueedeG 10 combine with our short stapled
v-ools, have kept the former out Of the
soIntry and have thus restricted manu-
sarsrring. With long stapled wo5ls com
7lu into the United State without pay
7aeut Of duty American manufactures oi
$500 win be SO energizod that growing
Eoal win again be remuneraiye in Cali
surnia as elsewhere in the United States
The California Republican delegates
are again making fools OF themselves in
saiaaing to putting lumber on the Tree
t Nowhere more than in California
Is &c desirable that we should have free
ambcr. AN over the west, south and
ahwest free lunber would mean aa
n.ola blessing. The white haired bog
1I thc California delegation to The
Republican National Convention, Jim
Rlauna himself, has put him.
f upon record as to free
-mher. In a speech delivered by him
ra tha a9or OF the House Of Represents
tivas On the Josh OF June, 1868, Dir.
zlaine had this to say as to this most i'm
1,1ztant staple:
Sow, as to the article Of lumber, !
ughin remind this House that there has
newer been tax upon this article. The
gentleman from Ohio may talk of this
question rs he please7, but | say that
rs llsrayer the Western frontiersman uu-
darsakes to make himself home, to till
the soil. 10 carry on the business OF life,
he NEEDS lumber for his cabin; he needs
.unber for his wagon or cart; he needs
l1nbsT for his plOw; he needs lumber
J9r almost every purpose in his daily
4js.
The "Western frontiersman" is quite
Ia Enlly devoted to free lumber as he was