Los Angeles herald., 1891-02-22

it was so twenty years ago. 1t is in
weighing these things, and adjusting
ones political action to the exigencies
of the times, that patriotism triumphs
over rartizanship, and it is by patriot
ism the country must live, rather than
by mere partizanship.
And here is where the truest welfare
of the country is the truest welfare of
party; and where patriotism appears to
be not only the highest duty to country
but also to party. For political parties
are as the fountain-head, from which
all currents in the political life of the
nation flow; and unless the source
is pure, how can the stream be SO?
The highest duty man can render his
party is by keeping its methods pure
and its policy in the line tending to the
highest welfare of the whole nation.
Here is where craftsmanship guided by
patriotism parts company from mere pol
itics guided by love of temporary party
advantage.
Let us make an object lesson. The
Republican party in the campaign of last
autumn carried the state by sweeping
majority, reducing the Democratic ma
jority in San Francisco to next to moth
ing, and carrying even the wards OF that
city strongest in Buckley corruption.
Politicians may speak OF this as re-
buke to Buckleyism. 1t is all rubbish.
The rebuke did not come from the right
source. Corruption does not rebuke
itself. A corrupt use of coin did the
work. Then and since, the Republican
party has been guided in it's
contest for the control of the
state, and in its administration
of the government, by the advice of a
thief, and by that OF two notorious
thugs. Buckley has used money cor
ruptly in politics, and he has had too
much to do with the affairs of his
party; but the party never put him in
Office; he never actually stole $3l 900
from the state. No, nor did the Demo-
cratic party ever allow itself to be
guided by any thief. The Republican
party has been, and is SO guided. Yes,
and journals OF that party, openly and
unblushingly, laud and eulogize this
thief. The Express, editorially, last
night eulogized Dan Burns.
Take another object lesson. The
chief executive of this nation is a man
who enjoys the reputation of very
high grade of moral character.
He certainly makes the pretense
of having such a character. His
postmaster-general is another pretender
to high morality. Yet Wanamaker is
known to have raised an enormous fund
of money, which was turned over to
men like Quay, Dudley and Johnny
Davenport, known rsand notorious polit-
ical corruptionists, to be used for the
benefit of his party. 1t is
but day or two since our esteemed
Republican neighbor, the Express,
called the HERALD to task for not falling
down to worship Matt Quay. Matt
Quay is a self-confessed thief He
acknowledged tina, by the aid of
his business partner he took large
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Pennsylvania, and used it for purposes of
speculation. He, to be sure borrowed
the money to repay the state, but that
does not exalt him to the status OF hon
esty again. 1t may partly palliate the
crime, but it does not make the criminal
innocent. So with all specious apologies
for attempts on the part OF a horde of
we'll paid officials to increase the pay
attaching to their places, and that IN a
clandestine and sneaking manner. The
condoning OF such offenses, the eulogiz-
ing OF such party tools, is the rankest
and most reprehensible kind of partizan-
ship, the furthest removed from patri-
otism, the most likely to do injury to
the country, and to bring party in such
contempt as to insure its speedy over
throw at the hands OF an intelligent and
patriotic people.