Los Angeles herald., 1892-10-17
THR CHRONICLE AND The "QuIRrNESS"
OF IFS PARTY.

We must concede to the Chronicle
considerable degree OF ingenuity. In
recent issue it says that the lack of en-
thusiasm in the present campaign is to
be ascribed to the fact that it is gener-
ally conceded that Harrison's election is
assured in any event, and that it is
therefore not necessary to make any
great display. This is a rather adroit
way of meeting the facts, which RON
that the Republicans are demoralized
and that the Democracy was never go
we'll organized or 80 confident since the
war as they are today. Cleveland has
proved to be perfect we'll spring of en-
thusiasm to his party in every section of
the union, contrary to the opinion OF
those Democrats who thought, at first,
that his nomination was injudicious,
while Harrison has paralyzed his party.
His apparent lack of touch with the
masses has compelled the Republicans
to call early into the field the Dave Mar
tins and other corrupt manipulators OF
their party. The public may be assured
that, if the situation were not exigent,
these birds of prey would have been kept
in the back ground to the very last mo-
ment. Much use has attempted to be
be made of the somewhat precipitate ex-
pressions of Hon. W. Bourke Cock
ran, made in the Democratic ma
tional convention, indicating a
disbelief in Mr.. Cleveland's ability to
carry the state of New York. The same
gentlemen who quote Mr.. Cockran's
Chicago utterances are very careful to
ignore his emphatic declarations that
Cleveland is cure to carry the Empire
state by at least $4,000. The only con-
ISOLATION our friend the enemy has in the
Empire state is the detection of Gen.
Daniel Sickles and George Ticknor Cur
tbs from the Democracy. Admitting the
gallantry of General Sickles, and his
great services during the war, the name
of his family and himself are by-words
for eccentricity all over the state OF New
York, his own departures in that line
beginning with the killing OF Philip
Barton Key, before the war, for debauch-
ing his wife and then resuming his mar
ital relations with a woman whom he
had publicly and scandalously branded.
The whole family are always engaged in
some escapade, and could furnish a
number of companion pictures to the
duke OF Vallombrosa and his eternally
sensational son, the Marquis de Mores.
The action of such man in declaring
against Mr.. Cleveland furnishes no
gauge by which we could estimate
the course of rational and conserva-
tive men, whether soldier or civilian.
In an emphatic manner, he is law unto
himselfS AS to George Ticknor Curtis,
he never saw moment of his life in
which he had the slightest political sig
nifcance. He ia simply lawyer OF
note; and he never made political
speech-probsbly he never attended q
political meeting-in his whole career.
To quote Mr.. Curtis, great publicist az
he undoub btedly is, as factor in politics
would make New Yorker laugh. Not
one OF them in hundred has ever heard
of him, and it is highly doubtful wheth-
er he could control half a dozen votes.
On the other hand, the Republicans re-
alize to their sorrow that whole platoons
of their party everywhere, including
professors in colleges, leaders OF thought
in journalism and in other intellectual
pursuits, are going over to Cleveland en-
masse. Such men as Carl Schurz and
Wayne McVesgh-both former cabinet
officers of the Republican party-are
but specimen bricks of their kind.
Judge Gresham represents another class
from which the Cleveland forces will be
heavily recruited. No wonder the cam
paign is quiet on the Republican side.
Even 3elshazzar quieted down when he
saw the handwriting on the wall.