The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1870-03-05
From the Montgomery Mail.
Our True Policy.

we call 6CCen(lOn TO the artlClG
recently quoted in the Mail from
| the Eutaw Whig and Observer.
That paper has struck the key
note Of the Democracy of Ala
banla, when it says that a State
ticket, composed exclusively Of
! white men, and platform Dem
ocratic and Conservative in every
plank, are the sole but indispens-
able requisites for uniting and
bringing out the white vote in
our next State elections.
But we do not limit our own
view of the present condition of
Alabama to the ticket which shall
be presented for the suffrage of
our citizens at the coming cleo
ton. We hold, indeed, W ith the
Wing, that the ticket and plat
form must be such as to meet
with the unqualified approval Of
the white men OF the State. But
all this will avail but little, unless
preliminary measures be adopted
for brin ging out the white vote;
and the most appropriate way to
reach the object is organization,
for, without organization, a polit-
ical party is just as inefficient as
a mob in a town, Or a body of
militia on a battle field. This is
the first point to be gained, and
we confess that we believe it to
be the most difficult, in conse-
quence ofthe teaching Of the ''new
movement party" which has re-
Gently sprung into existence, and
which inculcates the doctrine Of
non resistance and implicit sub
! mission to Federal rule, and Rad
ical scalawag supremacy. It is
this new party-the political ST.
mon Pure-which will do more to
injure the future prospects of the
South, or more particularly OF.
Alabama, than even the Radicals
themselves, from the fact that,
they are false friends, whose
desi ON is to lull the Dem ocracy
to sleep, and whose object, what
ever they may say to the contrary,
is to surrender the State to the
carpet-baggers and scalawags.-
Now we know of no plan by which
| this new party can be paralized
except by county organization
organizations which will compel
| every man to come forth on the
day of election, and cast his vote
! like a patriot, instead of turning
his back On his friends, and at
tending to his private business
when the public affairs of the
country imperiously demand his
presence at the polls.
We have been recently placed
in a position to know something
on this subject. We have lately
seen, in one Of the counties of this
State, a Democratic majority of
two thousand, reduced by negli-
| gence, Indifference and lack Of
true patriotism, to eight hundred,
and the result claimed as a Radi-
cal victory by the enemy. In
consequence Of this delinquency,
few adroit managers and politi-
cal tricksters seized the occasion
for suppressing all resistance to
the Radical rule in the State, and
organized Il third party-or some
thing of that sort-with the avOw-
ed intent and purpose of break
ing up the Democratic party,
One of the weapons used for this
| PURPOSE, Is Cll0 W Ol(i
party names; the old Wings are
asked how they can ever harmo-
nize with the Democracy and
march under Democratic ban
! ner, in the same ranks with the
old Democratic party? But the
object is not to reform or to re-
unite the old Whig party-it is
to destroy the Democratic party.
to crush it out. And what then
Have the authors Of the new
movement reflected on the conse-
quences of their conduct2 Do
they know that every vote with
drawn from the Democratic par
ty is vote polled for the RADICALS?
If they do know this, and still
continue to act in the interest OF
the Black Republicans, then they
deserve the serious reprehensions
Of every honorable man in the
State. There are some of the
prime movers of this "third par
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