The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1869-10-09
From the St. Louis I'll mes.
Pennsylvania.

DCrlOu intervening DeU"ecn CulS
and the election in Pennsylvania
will have to be employed with
next to superhuman diligence and
zeal, in order to assure a proba-
bility of General Geary's success.
1t is still further conceded, that
while the Democrats of that State
have been laboring persistently
and exhibiting on the part of
their leaders and those who as
pire to be such, a most remarka-
BILE degree of disinterestedness
and self-sacrifce, the Radical fac
tions have strangely neglected
the combination of their inharmo-
Nous interests. and until quite
recently put forth no special eff
fort for union, peace and concert
Of action.
It is now evidently too late to
heal the ssexisting dissensions'' Of
which John Covode has spoken
so feelingly if not with ortho-
graphical correctness, unless the
Federal administration possess
the magic power to administer
some speedy remedy; and doubt
less the peregrinations of the
President through the State have
a direct political bearing and are
instigated by grave apprehen-
sions of disaster.
The Nation newspaper, in COM
menting upon this matter, looks
11DOn the new Democratic nOmi-
nations in Philadelphia as "de-
i cidedlv dangerous to Republican
ascendancy in the city, and is Of
the decided opinion that as the
city goes, so will doubtless the
State. The laundering indiffer-
ence of the administration to the
divisions among the Pennsylva-
MIA Radicals has only served to
widen the breach between Mr..
Brewster and Mr.. Covode and aid
materially in producing the pres
ent demoralized condition of the
party, which it is feared has be-
come chronic and incurable
through the stubborn procrasti-
nation of it's mangling managers.
In the meantime, their candl-
date for Governor receives no
moral support from either faction,
and rallies no popular enthusiasm
to his standard. His past identi-
fication with State affairs has not
redounded to his credit, and his
official career is undergoing a
ruthless exposure by the opposi-
ton. Men have become more in
clined to consider ssfacts and
figures than they have before for
the past six or eight years. The
plentitude of greenbacks is con-
tracting, the rigorous necessities
of life are more pressing, the tur-
moil and confusion Of the late
wonderful era in our national an
nails is giving place to clearer
skies and the vision OF men is less
obscuIed.
The time is at hand, in word,
when every man who has in any
way taken advantage Of his coun-
try's need or the peoples uncon-
Germ, for purposes OF mere self
a"randizement, must forfeit the
public esteem and confidence
The record of Radicalism and it's
unworthy leaders is not written
in the sand, but will, sooner or
later, carved in the enduring re-
membrance of an injured people,
come up in Judgment against
them.
The prospect promises that the
appointed hour for Pennsylvania
has come. Apathy, inaction, mu-
tual examinations, disaffection to-
wards the administration, and
distrust of their candidate, pre-
vail among the Republicans Of
that State, while upon the other
hand the gallant Democracy were
never more disposed to harmony,
never more resolute or hopeful,
never more enthusiastic in behalf
of a staudard-bearer whose very
name isa synonym Of strength and
honesty and statesmanlike ability.
Hon. o II. Browning, Secreta-
ry of the Interior during Presi-