Los Angeles herald., 1891-01-31
The GHoULs AND THE sRNAroRsHIP.


The HERALD has considered it a duty
to point ont the extreme indecency of
surrounding what many persons have
supposed to be the deathibed of Senator
Hearst with sordid speculations as to
who should be his successor. While
this journal is obliged to admit that
death and taxes ere the two things
which all men have to face, great
many Californians, and they do not all
belong to the Democratic party, by any
means, take great deal OF pleasure in
hoping that the robust constitution OF
Mr.. Hearst may render entirely super
erogatory representations as to his sue
cessor. The old adage runs that
.sthreatened men live long" Even
though the threat Of dissolution may
emanate from the King of Terrors him
self, it may not be carried into effect.
Azrael, the Angel OF Death, has been
known to miss his mark. The later
notes from Mr.. Hearst's bedside are
quite encouraging to his friends; and
the California Legislature. which is sup
posed to be contemplating an extension
of its constitutional term, in order to sit
upon Mr.. Hearst's political effects, may
possibly be obliged to submit to seeing
this fine old Democrat survive its own
official life.
We are glad to see that our esteemed
contemporary. the San Francisco Even
ing Bulletin of the 2Sth inst, looks
upon the question in substantially the
same light in which we have regarded it.
In the course of some ascetic remarks
concerning the possible candidacy OF
Hon. G. N. FELTON, and Mr.. M. II. de
Young for seat not yet vacant, the
Bulletin says:
The scramble that is going on for
Senator Hearst's seat in the senate can
not be said to be very edifying. The
senator is not dead. On the contrary,
he may live long enough to bury some OF
those who are striving for his old shoes.
The doctors appear to have invented a
cancer for the purpose of disposing of
him. Failing in that they subsequently
fell back in force on Bright's disease.
But the senator smokes his cigar be-
times, and the telegraph reports that
his family are getting to be hopeful OF
his recovery. Whether the senator live
for long or short time, common de-
cency ought to suggest that the breath
at least should be out of his body before
a contest was commenced for his sem
atorial toga.
Death is an exceedingly uncertain
subject OF speculation in any event. In
this connection it is worthy Of remark
that, the other day, Senator Stanford
was thrown out of his carriage in New
York and sustained injuries which only
failed of fatal result through the GUS
tomary good luck of that most fortunate
of public men.
Surely both decency and common
sense call for q halt In the brutal in
trigues having for their object the sue
cessor of gentleman who may live for
decades yet. Senator Hearst has every
thing calculated to make man shake
himself loose from the grasp of death
itself, such as honor, public estimation
and troops of friends, to say nothing OF
those rascal counters which have
heaped themselves up in his Golfers to
a degree which would have made the
of 1ago himself turn green
with envN We're within easy reach OF
the sick senator's couch we would feel like
him in the language of Or
lando to old Adam, in the forest OF Ar
dennes, ''Live little; cheer thyself a
little" But at all events, at the dis
tance Of his California home, we breathe
the hearty prayer that genial and good
old George Hearst may live for many
day vet.