The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1871-06-24

u. q. HILL, Associate Editor.
ALLIANCE WITH RADICALS I'M.
POSSIBLE.
The New Orleons Patriot publishes
Dur recent article relative to an at
tempted alliance between Warmoth
and the Democratic members of the
and editorially dissipates
whatever doubts may have existed as
to Warmoth's actual attendance upon
a Democratic caucus. That paper says:
The statement of the Patriot is be-
fore the country and has never been de-
MED, for the best Of reasons, it is sub
stantfally correct.
Governor Warmoth and Gen. J-R.
West, as his umpire, did attend eau.
Gus of the Democratic members of the
House last session, in the st. Charles
Hotel and did propose COALITION
with the Democrats.
A formal treaty offensive and defen-
sive, between the Governor and the
Democrats there present acHs agreed
upon, and written out by General West,
acting for the Governor, and Gabriel
DeFefriet acting for the Democrats.
The next day the Democrats did re-
deem one of their pledges, by seating
Carr, whose seat was contested, and
who was the Governors right bower.
After Carr was seated by the votes of
the Democrats, the Governor did vio-
late his own agreement and refused to
sign the written contract Of the pre-
vious evening.
Hon. III. j. Hyams, editor of the
Sugar Planter, Representative from
the parish of West Baton Rouge. who
was present at the caucus, and of course
knows all about the matter, copies our
article and substantially endorses it.
The obituary of the Democratic party
may as we'll be prepared now,if no bet
ter tactics than those indicated above
are to control it's fortunes. We say it
emphatically, the people, Disguised
with such frivolity and puerile manage
ment, will abandon the organization in
disgust, if its purity and integrity are
not protected from such dispiriting and
demoralizing departures as that chron-
icled by the Patriot. To be led thus, is
to be shakled, to be insulted, and to be
ruined, however good the motives that
case noticed. The path the Democrats
have Travelled for the past three years
is lined with monuments over abortive
plans to effect something for the party
and the State by conciliating OR trading
with Republicans. 1t has been the
ambition Of nearly every prominent
Democrat holding office in the State
since 1868, to distinguish himself by
reconciling Democrats and Republicans
Southern men, wanting an honest adj.
ministration, and carpet-baggers re
solved to have none but a dishonest adj
ministration-tot the support of a policy
mutually acceptable. Such PROPOSE
tion is and has always been absurd
upon its very face. In the very nature
of human kind, such an association j.
ssaf;;sesible, when it is considerc.l Wiz:
what incomP'sreaaals trjcsSstersit is pro
posed the Democrats shall unite. They
are men whom no guarantee would re
strain or bind, except the guarantee
that they should remain leaders and the
benefciaries of popular confidence anG
support, and this guarantee the goot
people of Louisiana would never give
A combination with Louisiana Radi
cal leaders would be, if effected, a Grim
inal waste of time and of hopes. Con
ceived in sin, it would die in iniquity
IF the Democratic party of Louisi
ana is party at all, it is "a party o
principles. Spells, place and plunde
do not belong to it's creed. Its vitalit,
consists in well-meaning, earnest eff
forts to reclaim the State from corrup
rule and to reform the abuses that hav,
become so common in every depart
ment of the State Government. Al
alliance with the authors and patron
OF these abuses would make the Demo
cratic party an accessory after the fac
in truth, we would not only receiv,
and conceal the offenders, but we would
be required to make them our cham
pions!
We warn the people, into whose ear
certain politicians, caught in Radica
snares, are already whispering seduc
tive temptations for an alliance win
leading Radicals, that Aey had better
stand fast and holdto the true faith.
The intrigues ofpoliticians are seldom
ever exposed; but we should know
them by-tieir fruits. 1t is time, in our
-hunsle judgment, that the Democratic
party of Louisiana, having vainly
sought relief in piteouS appeals to our