The semi-weekly Republican. (St. Francisville, La.) 1872-1872, 1872-07-19
st. RANCSYIAE LOUISIANA, FRIDAY, JULY 49, 1872 NEW

has nominated and presented State
and electoral ticket. No rational
man believes that they expect to
elect either one or the other, and
hence the public can come to no
other conclusion than that they are
running their State ticket in the in
terest ofthe Baton Rouge candidates,
and their electoral ticket for the
purpose of defeating Greeley and
Brown, the nominees of their own
National Convention. We distinct
ly charges this upon them, because
we have no right to assume that
they arc so blind as not to sec the
facts of the situation, or SO silly as
not to foresee the necessary effects
Of their own acts.
It is proper for the whole country
as we'll as for the people Of this State,
to know that the Democratic rump
organization, while pretending to
accept the decision Of the Baltimore
convention, is in reality hostile to
the national Liberal candidates, and
that while it presents an electoral
ticket in the name of Greeley and
Brown, it is trying to give the vote
OF the State to Grant.
Whether this course is the fulfill
ment of the contract entered into
last winter between the Custom
house party and the Democratic
committees, whether it is the result
Of more recent and moro secret bar
gains, having for their object the
control Of local Offices and patronage,
or whether it is dictated by an un-
reasoning obstinacy which prefers
total ruin to success obtained by
concession and Cancellation, the pub
lie will decide according to the prob
abilities of the case.
Whatever may be the decision,
the Liberal party feels that, if un-
fortunately the State should be lost
they at least will not be held respon-
sible at tho bar of public opinion
But they are convinced that the
good sense Of the people will avert
the calamitous consequences which
might otherwise result from the bad
faith Or the irrational prejudices OF
the Democratic leaders. They dc
not believe that the people will per-
NIT the State to be sacrificed at the
dictation Of men who have shown
themselves utterly incompetent tc
understand the necessities of the
times, and incapable of achieving
anything but defeat.
The Liberal party appeals to all
citizens who are opposed to Grants
administration to all who are
sincerely in favor of Greeley and
Brown to all who wish to defeat
the Vaccinations of the corrupt and
wicked faction represented by the
Baton Rouge ticket. Their conven.
ton, to be held on the fifth ol
August, will represent a vast major
ity of the Liberal and Democratic
voters of the State, and their will be
supported by an array Of numerical
force, backed by an amount of moral
influence, which will reduce the
Democratic bolt to insignificant and
perhaps, inappreciable proportions
The people understand that in this
election the State must so either fol
the Liberal OF for the Customhouse
party. The success of the one in
sures our vote for Greeley and Brown
and will give us that practical reform
in State affairs which we so much
need. The success of the other
with MI. Kellogg as Governor, and {
reversion of the executive office te
the notorious G. G. Antoine, will en-
tail on us a perpetuation of corrupt
and venal legislation and all the hor'
rors of a government remitted to the
hands of the ignorant, the vicious
and the degraded. For any usefu
purpose the present Democratic Or
ganization is powerless. 1t repels
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