Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-11-04
THE TAMMANY ORATOR.

The Triumph of Democracy Is the
True Emancipation Of Labor.
The Republican press have good cause
of announcement of the Tammany ora
tor. He. conspicuously among their
Democratic opponents, is gifted with the
genius of attack, whose resulting success,
in exposure of Republican fallacies,
sophistries and political fraud, is only
equaled by the gracefulness with
which the work is done. Under
the penetrating light of his logical
analysis of the Republican theory OF Gov
ernment, the shams and hypocrisies OF
the war tariff school Of political economy
and of the assumed protection" which
war taxes afford to the American wage
worker, are laid bare and broadly open
to the laughter and ridicule of the gen.
eral public. Seen through the calcium
radiance of the Grady presentation OF
the facts of the case, the Republican
orators, as evolved and developed out of
and by the present campaign, present an
amusingly grotesque series of political
profles. They are detected and depicted
in the very act Of attempting to grossly
deceive and mislead the people, to falsify
the record, even where that record has
been made by acknowledged Republican
chiefs and leaders, and to stigmatize to-
day as reasonable that which yesterday
they swore was loyal and patriotic.
Mr.. Grady illustrates in his speeches
the force and persuasive power Of truth.
''Tell the truth" is the only legend which
the Democratic party needs in this cam
psign to symbolic and emblazon its way
to victory in November. But Grady
"tells the truth" with the charm and
rhythm of such inimitable drollery that
the people ''hold their sides' with laugh
ter, while viewing his contrasting car
toons of Republicanism of 1882, 1884 and
1888, and of the desperate but vain at.
tempt of the Republican party to appear
to be that which it is not In his att-
tude Of defence Of the manhood and in
telligence of American citizens of Irish
extraction grossly and gratuitously in
suited, as they and the whole Irish race
repeatedly are being insulted by the pal
try tricks and traps set by Republicans to
catch the supposed political sensibilities
of fIrish-Americans towards Great Britain,
Mr.. Grady administered to the whole
Republican party a merited rebuke
Every American citizen claiming affinity
with the Irish race should thank Mr..
Grady for placing the dignity of Ameri-
can citizenship. no matter whence its
extraction, on the just and high ground
Of equal devotion to American institu-
tions and of equal hostility to all men
and measures inimical to American in
stitutions--a position clearly defined by
the history Of Irish-American citi-
zens since the foundations of our
country were laid. Stupid in
deed to the teachings of that history
must be the party which hopes by such
silly, transparent and contemplate
frauds as that OF the Pomona Murchison
letter to the British Minister at Wash.
ington to influence, for this or that can
didate, the Irish-American vote. Such
q detestable political ruse is not
only dishonorable +! to the party
mortal insult to the class Of citizens
i i deliberately intended to fool: And
this truth, if not already apparent to the
Republican party, will assert itself with
tremendous emphasis on Tuesday next
worker in every industrial avoca-
truths of history by plain, simple
statistics and Legislature enactments
facts, that only real true and solid pro-
lection which the American toiler ever
had, or which he now enjoys, came to
him by and through the Democratic
party. He showed how strong the iron
hand Of bounty -favored-capital was still
upon the throat OF labor, that hand de-
irving its main strength from the 1egisla-
tion Of the Republican party, and held