Los Angeles herald., 1890-10-03
A WINNING CAMPAIGN.

dence in the ranks and perfection OF
organization everywhere that augurs
success. AS the spirits of the partisans
of Markham droop, the enthusiasm OF
the friends of Pond rises. This is not
only an off year with the Republicans,
but it is year which will mark
the turning point in the political
faith of vast numbers of people
who have heretofore been steadfast par
tisans of the Republican organiza-
ton. Ex-President Hayes has well des-
ignated the Mckinley tariff as an act of
stupendous political folly. He might
also have denounced it as most wanton
and objectionable crime against the
spirit of our free institutions. 1t has
fastened upon the country most
unjust, Ubiquitous and discrimin-
ating tax = one in which the
equal rights of all classes OF people
under free government are brutally
ignored and criminally violated. 1t has,
with astonishing inconsistency, recog-
nized in its reciprocity provisions prin-
ciples which must practically lead to
the principle contended for by the De-
mocracy-a fair exchange of trade with
foreign countries-whilst at the. same
time it reaches this act OF qualification
by violating one of the plainest principles
of the constitution. 1t delegates the
legislative power OF the nation
to the executive branch of the
government. The president is
thus given power greater than
he can exercise constitutionally, and
a door has thus beenSopened to the most
dangerous usurpations. But the whole
motif of the Mckinley tariff is to rob
one class of people so as to enrich
another class. The people everywhere
will resent this daring departure from
the traditions and the established usages
of the country.
1t is noted with indignation by Demo-
Gratis and surprise and consterna-
ton by many honest Republicans,
that the tyrannical rulings of
Reed in the house of representatives
have been approved and endorsed
by Republican conventions throughout
the country. The one-man rule is justi
fed by the machine politicians of the
party who control the expressions of its
conventions. By this glaring violation
of the established rules of the popular
branch of the national legislature, the
speaker is absolutely converted into the
autocrat OF that body. Carefully d.
gested rules that have become we'll
founded principles parliamentary law,
and that have never been challenged
before, have been set aside and
the whole power of legislation given
over to the speaker. The minority has
by one stroke been wiped out. All the
safeguards of parliamentary usage to
preserve the rights of the minority and
to place check upon immature, hasty
and dangerous legislation have been
brutally set aside. A mere majority,
under Mr.. Reeds methods, can infict
upon the country any hagitious legisla-
ton it pleases, and can do it in double
quick, for there is no way left by which
the minority can interpose any practi-
cal check.
The people realize the great danger
to the country of permitting party
which resorts to such audacious and
criminal methods to force upon the ma
ton questionable legislation to continue
in power, and will, at the earliest OPP
portunity, enter their protest against it
in way that will hurl it from power.
That large element in the Republican
party which is patriotic first and parti-
san afterwards will signalize its detection
in this state by voting against the Re-
publican ticket from top to bottom.
This element will be largely reinforced
by those Republicans who believe that
the well-being of the state is of far more
Importance than the election of man
to the executive Office simply because he
is Republican. These will compare
the qualifications of Pond and Markham
to administer the affairs of this great
state. They will see on the one hand a
man who has been tried and found to
possess all the qualities of a good execu
tive in superlative degree, and on the
other, a man who is not conversant with
the affairs Of the state and who has never
yet demonstrated the possession of a
single qualification for the duties of the
high Office to which he aspires, who is
intellectually feeble, and in whose grasp
the scepter of state would be welded
with weak and nerveless lack of force.
AS between these two candidates those
Republicans will choose the man of
strength, the man of nerve and back
bone, the man who has the ability and
the experience to initiate reforms and to
project and carry out economies such as
this state never was SO greatly in need
of as at the present time.