Year: 1879

Gratis, made the adoption of the


new Constitution possible.


1t is in the face of such rugged


facts as these that Judge Terry
steps to the front and announces
that his "Bilk" candidates are the
only opponents of the Republican


party who have any earthly chance
of election. The claim Is prepos-
ferrous one. Whether Glenn or
Perkins or White emerges from the
ballot box as the next Gov
ernor, the II. 3. ticket proper
will be, by long odds, the
lowest in the race, as it ought to be.
Judge Terry is daft, or be would
know that he Is talking mere
leather and prunella. A man risks
absolutely nothing in making the
assertion that there is not q man
on tho Fl. B. ticket who is not also
on the Democratic tieket--and
there is only one such person-who
will poll as high vote as q single
man ON any Of the other three
tickets.


But Democrats can afford to put
to one side the vulgar idea of mere
success. Great parties, deserving
of enduring influence, are not or
ganized with view to success in a
single election. Historical parties
can ford to despise the madness of
the passing hour. Had the Demo-
cratic party lent itself to its own
debasement then, indeed, would
that party, in California, be in
pitiable plight. No self-respecting
man would desire to be connected
with it, now or hereafter. A Cali
fornian could only excuse himself
for belonging to the organization
because, east of the Sierras, a man
ly and invincible party, the lineal
descendants of those who had
fought a hundred political battles,
welcomed afiiliation with those
who, on the shores of the Pacific,
had recognized the charm of the
party shIbboleth and dared the is
sue of the fight.


Every day our surprise grows at
the impudence of those who assume
that the Democratic party has not
always been the friend of the peo-
ple-has not always been the an.
tagonist of monopoly. Let any
man pick up the Democratic ma
tional platform promulgated at
Cincinnati, by the Convention
which nominated James Buchan.
an, and see how clearly opposition
to the aggressions of corporations
and monopolies is outlined therein.
Judge Terry taunts the Democratic
party with inability to elect its
candidates in California this year.
And why, pray, assuming his idea
to be true, can't it so elect them ?
Simply because men who ought to
be good Democrats have taken a
morbid delight in betraying the
party. In the infatuation of their
self-conceit they have thought it
goodly thing to try to slaughter the
Democratic party in the house of
its friends. Half-hearted Demo
Gratis may this year deliver the
party shorn of its strength to its
enemies. They may rejoice in a
Delilah-like perfidy. But we
notify them one and all
that, Samson-like, the party
hair is growing, and that the
organization will rise again in its
might, with the political Philis.
tines discounted, and that, too,
without pulling down the pillars
of the party temple. Rather, that
temple will arise stronger and more
symmetrical with the bones Of rem
egades as its base.


Terry and Gorham and the
Chronicle may help us to elect
Glenn, but they shall not, with our
aid, degrade the Democratic patty.
That organization intends to pre-
serve its honor and take its chances.
Should it meet defeat, with its old
hopeful spirit, it stands ready to
say, with Durandearte in the cave
of Montecinos, "patience and shut
fle the cards.n