Los Angeles herald., 1890-10-04
POLITICAL HISTORY.
The Real Genesis of the Republican
Party.

The Real Genesis OF the Republican
Party.
EDITORS HERALD: There appeared in
the Los Angeles Times of September "a,
letter said to have been written by an
Irish-American, but which bears on it's
face the marks of being one of those
nonsensical vaporings which usually ap-
pear in the Republican papers on the
eve of an election, for the purpose of in
| fuencing the uninformed and unwary
voters. But as the illogical statements
of the writer in regard to himself and
the Democratic party fall so very short
OF forming common sense basis for
his assertions, there can be but little
doubt that the letter was cut from whole
cloth, manufactured by the new ma
chine for producing macs in the city OF
Los Angeles. Now l don't propose to
notice all the points that the learned
correspondent of the Times has touched,
as that would require more space than
could reasonably be asked; but passing
over his long Introductory story of how
his modesty had oft times been shocked
by reflections on his honesty or sanity
by his Democratic friends when first
| learning that he trained with the Re-
publican party, and that he was born
and reared in ''ould Ireland" and the
boast that his daddy and mamma were
we'll to do, and gave him ga some
what liberal education" and by good
fortune he had read the constitution,
and had pretty fair view of 'the his
tory of the United States from an Amer
lean standpoint" Mount Washington,
perhaps,) and how the London Times
and other English journals had fred big
wads at our little seven to eight govern
ment during the late unpleasantness,
together with other preliminary
sketches, all of which, had they been
told to his chummies on the street cor
ners, would have sounded much better
than they read in type. But, wonder
what the ships name was that fetched
him over. However, little further on
this Irish.American writer states that he
had trained with party known A Fee
mans, and was several times v. listed,
but owing to certain other con}A lions
the bloody Hinglish didn't string him
up by the heels or the neck either, and
becoming greatly disgusted with home
affairs, he concluded to turn over his
share of the spuds to some other fellow,
and come over to the land OF milk and
honey and free drinks, to live and die I'M
der the glorious star spangled banner.
And in making his bow to the editor
of the Times, he tells him that "the
causes which FIRST led him into the Re-
publican camp may not be without in
terest at this time" Now, if this
adopted son had known the history of
the United States he would not need be
told that the present Republican party
is the granddaughter of party
once, known as Che Wing, party,
which died many years ago for
| the want of breath. The only thing
which ever gave it any prominence as
party was the advocacy by its leaders
of extreme measures in the administra-
ton of the government; such, for in
stance, as the tariff measure which
caused the former unpleasantness in the
measure which has been less under
eral, and out of which more political
capital has been made by designing
politicians, than any measure ever dis
many have been the courses" hurled
at one of the purest, ablest and most
patriotic statesmen America has ever
produced, namely the Hon. John c..
Calhoun, simply because his telling
arguments defeated Messrs. Clay and
Webster in debating the Carolina i'm
broglio. 1t is true that the Wings did
sometimes get in president; they did
in 1910 by the aid of coonskins, log
cabins and hard cider, elect old Granny
Harrison, but when fanaticism rides the
storm it is fearful power to combat.
They did pass national bank bill, too,
but the bank suspended before the
vault was finished, and their national
bankrupt law died in it's diapers.
But shortly after the demise of the old
Wing lady which, by the by, was itself
mongrel, having been formed by the
old John Adams Federal party, and the
| followers of the unfortunate Alexander
Hamilton, a new nucleus was formed,
and around it was gathered the rank
and file, soreheads and played-out pol
itical bummers of the defunct Wing
party. and after laborious work in
midnight conclaves they evolved a
hybrid and called it Known Nothing, and
in laying down their platform the Know
Nothing leaders didn't say that because
a man didn't choose to wear shoes that
he could not 60 barefoot, but they did
say that an Irishman or any other Tor
eigner must serve novitiate of twenty
one years before being eligible to cast a
vote. That and some other impolitic
ventures and the burning of the Catholic
churches in the cities of Boston, Phila-
delphia and Cincinnati, are the only
notable things in its history; though
in it's ephemeral existence it made "a pro-
vision that after it's death the name
should be changed to Republican. And
by giving away millions of acres of the
public domain to corporations, fostering
trusts and combines, and making mil
lionaires of those who never had had a
dollar before out OF the hard earned cash
of the toiling millions, they have man.
aged for the past twenty-five years to be
known as the saviors of the union,
when in fact leaving out the auxiliaries
enlisted in foreign lands there were more
Democrats in the union army than Re-
publicans, and certainly all the ablest
generals were Democrats. And now, Mr.
Irishman, or whoever you may be, when
you dig into history again go down to
the bed rock, and you will find that the
Republican party is an upheaval and is
composed of badly decayed and decaying
material. So hurrah for Pond, Del Vale
and the whole Democratic ticket.
NATIVE AMERICAN DEMOCRAT.
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Indignant Republicans.