Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-07-24
What Does 1t Mean?


Our Republican friends can find very
little consolation when they look around
and note the great number of influential
and well known journals, formerly de-
votedly Republican, which are now I'M
reserved in the support of Cleveland and
Thurman. Not to fatigue our readers
with the list, take the city of New York
alone. In that center of the industrial
and financial interests of the country, the
Times and Post prefer the Democratic to
the Republican candidates, and the
Nation, a very influential weekly,
is out and out for Democracy and tariff
revision. No man OF sense will seriously at
tempt to belittle the weight of these
really great organs of public opinion.
When the New York Times, under its
present manager, George Jones, was an
ardent supporter OF Grant, it was readily
hailed by all Republicans as one Of the
foremost journals of the country, and one
which fully divided the honors with the
Tribune. Under Henry J. Raymond, no
newspaper in the United States stood
higher. Its rating and influence are as
great now as they were then, and the
change of attitude of the Times is simply
indicative of the change which
has come over multitudes of Re-
publicans. The New York EUening Post
has always ranked exceptionally high,
both as literary and political journal
It has embraced amongst its editors such
men as William Cullen Bryant, Carl
Schurz and Parke Goodwin. There has
been nothing in the country better than
it in all the lines which give a journal
force, standing and responsibility. The
Nation, although only weekly journal,
has been, ever since its establishment,
the organ of the most rejecting and
thoughtful people of this country. While
it has been dilettanti and perhaps over
fnicky at times, it has always been able
and philosophical.
In our review of the newspaper defec-
tions from the Republican party we stop
at New York, but we might easily ex-
tend it over the entire length and breadth
of the United States. These defections
are particularly numerous amongst the
German papers.
How do Republican writer's and orators
pretend to explain this great and calam-
itous loss to their party, arising from the
deliberate and emphatic refusal of able
and sincere men to have anything fur
ther to do with it? Some of the more
fiippant members of the "God and
Morality" party will answer that it is all
due to British gold. But no man OF
weight or sense wants to be
heard talking that way. 1t is
owing in large measure to the
deliberate treachery of the Republican
leaders to their pledges to advocate, and
cooperate in, the work of tariff reduc-
ton. Instead Of making the faintest
effort to stand in with the Democratic
members in the the good work con-
scientiously supervised by Hon. Roger
@. Mills. the Republican members of the
House of Representatives chose to be-
come obstructionists. They were on the
alert for any petty partizan advantage
which might turn up, and they were alb
golutely Indifferent to the rights of the
people and the welfare of the nation.
They have been tried in the balance
and have been found wanting, and
the many able journals upon whose
course we have been descanting have
only anticipated the verdict Of the people
upon course characterized by bad faith
and regeneration.
We ask every honest Republican who
may chance to read this article if there
is not something very peculiar in The
situation when three of the leading Jour-
mails Of great city-to say nothing of it's
greatest pictorial paper-solemnly turn
their backs upon the Republican party
and give their warm support to Cleve-
land and Thurman?