The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-07-20
Address to the People of Lou
iSiana.

nizing the necessity of uniting all the
ielements of opposition to Grant, NOM
mated as their standard bearers Hor-
ace Greeley for President and B. Gratz
Brown for Vice. President, and pre-
sented for the consideration of the
people a declaration of principles.
1Fhe Baltimore convention, concur
FIRING in the causes and reasons which
fgave birth TO that great popular
indorsed their nomina-
Eions and accepted the platform ON
(which their candidates stood. 1t has
3thtls set an example to the country
which every consideration of political
'afety and expediency requires should
De initiated within the States.
If the Democratic party has main
nained its national organization, it is
Npnly that the alliance with Liberalism
Sin8y be rendered stronger or more eff
Elective. The, delegates who met at
Baltimore fol-. the purpose of cement
ing that alliance could not have an
, ticipated that fractions of their party
In the several States would set them
selves in opposition to the Liberal
Reform movement, by using their or
ganizations for the purpose of perpet-
mating divisions through the nomina-
tion and support of separate State and
electoral tickets. They knew that
without union on these points the ac-
eeeptance of Greeley and Brown would
be only Il mockery, a delusion and a
, snare. @
In other States, as in Illinois and
Indiana, the plain course dictated by
scommon sense and common honesty
has been followed, and a close union
with the Liberals has been effected.
In one joint State ticket has been
nominated, and i'm the other the for
nation of the electoral ticket has been
remitted to che whole body of Liber-5
als. In every State except Louisiana
friendly relations have been estab-
lished between the Liberals and the
Democracy, and efforts have been
made in good faith to unite. the Lib
eral and Democratic vote for State as
well as national purposes. In Louisi-
ana alone the Liberal party-that
party which first rallied to the sup
port of the Cincinnati movement,
which anticipated the decision of the
national Democracy, and which gave
| am irresistible impulse to the Greeley
and Brown ticket-has been treated
by the Democratic organization with
contumely and scorn, and made the
object of bitter invective and denun-
citation. And yet, IN Louisiana, per-
haps more than in any other State, d
thorough nnion of the Liberal and
Democratic vote is necessary to sue
cess. So evident is this fact that on
the adjournment of the Opera House
Democratic Convention, thousands of
| Democrats both in New Orleans and
throughout the State, abandoned the
Demociatic organization and joined
the Liberal party. These accessions
are counted by tens of thousands.
| They are so numerous that we can
assert as an indisputable fact that, in
at least half of the parishes the DEM
Oeratic organization is without fol-
lower, and in the greater portion of
the rest the Liberal party commands
| a large majority of what was once the
democratic vote.
In the whole State there are but six
Journals supporting the Democratic
or united State ticket, and of the fifty
six parishes not halfsa dozen are rep
resented in the Democratic State Com
| mittee. In spite of these conspicuous
facts, the Democratic organization,
thus reduced TO minimum of voting
| power, persists in keeping up q show
| OFT separate and independent organi-
zation, and the Democratic Committee,
thus emasculated of representative
character, has nominated and present.
ed q State and electoral ticket. No
rational man believes that they ex-
pect to elect either one or the other,
aud hence the public can come to no
other conclusion than that they are
running their State ticket in the in
| terest of the Baton Rouge candidates,
and their electoral ticket for the pur
pose of defeating Greeley and Brown,
| the nominees of their own National
Convention. We distinctly charge
this upon them, because we have no
right to assume that they are SO Blind
as not to see the facts of the situation,
or so silly as not to foresee the neces-
sary effects of their own acts.
I 1t is proper that the whole country,
as well as for the people of this State,
to know that the Democratic rump
organization, while pretending to ac-
eept the decision of the Baltimore con-
vention, 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
nIent 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 more secret bargains, having for
I.their object the control Of local offices
I1and patronage, or whether it is dicta-
ted by an unreasoning obstinacy which
i fnrafnrs total ruin t0 sllccp&S obtained