The Opelousas courier. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1852-1910, 1872-05-25

cratic meeting held at the National The
atre, in New Orleans, on the 18th inst
We commend it to the attentive perusa
of our readers:
Mr.. Eustis ridiculed apprehensions
which it seemed he had heard expressed
that the design of the Young Democracy
in holding this meeting, was to disor.
ganize. Greedy, he said, had the baby
Democracy in his arms trying to rock it
to sleep, and people were cautioned that
IT they woke up the baby, Sthe devil
would be to pay, from the Gulf to the
st. Lawrence, [applause and laughterl
into smithereens. BeneWed" ] II faughteere: sI9hhtfee9
For all that Mr.. Eustis would not con-
slider it mortal sin if he sat upon a
white hat and crushed it, nor did he think
he had lost his constitutional right to go
to his halter and buy black hat. Laugh
ter and applause again.
Mr.. Eustis briefly referred to the de-
! plorable condition of our State affairs
and of the necessity of taking the admin
istration of them out of the hands of those
who had brought the commonwealth to
the pass in which it is. He adverted to
his course in the late Democratic State
Convention and urged now what he had
urged then, that the doors should be her
metically closed against all and every
combination with Republicans. True,
when he advocated this policy in the Con-
vention he was defeated, and country
members came to him and told him :
YOU'RE beat, Eustis." To them he
answered: II gave you an awful scare
and you'll have to acknowledge, here
after, that was right" He still adhered
to that opinion. Referring to the reso-
luton adopted at the meeting at Baton
Rouge, pntatively Democratic, which en-
dorsed the action of the Cincinnati Con-
vention and recommended the election
of delegates to the National Democratic
Convention, who would vote for Greeley
and Brown being the Democratic nomi-
nees, Mr.. Eustis expressed the opinion
that the course recommended was impol-
itic for the Democracy of Louisiana. The
great pivotal States, in Presidential cleo
tions, were, he said, New York, Penn
sylvania, Ohio and Illinois, and it was
impolitic to instruct the delegation rep
resenting this State how they were to
vote, regardless of the opinions and
| wishes of the Democrats of the great
States.
| The Democratic party of Louisiana
had had some difficult navigation during
the last three months. There was the
Reform party, which at one time seemed
to threaten serious division, but, which
! the Young Democracy, rash and impru-
! dent as some people would have it they
were, had said nothing disparagingly of
except politically. There never was any
serious difference between the Demo-
cratic party and the Reform party ard
now he could announce to his hearers
that there was every likelyhood of long
period of conjugal bliss between them.
[Great applause Now another trouble
comes. The Liberal Republican party is
trying to swallow the Democratic party !!
Instead of the whale swallowing Jonah,
Jonah is trying to swallow the whale!
Laughter. Once, when strolliug in the
country, Mr.. Eustis had seen, he contin-
ued. a little bit of a snake greatly dis
tended and in agony. The reptile was
trying to swallow a frog. Mr.. Eustis
would say to the Liberal Republican par
ty as he had said to that snake: my
little friend, if you knew the shape and
size of that frog as we'll as do, you'd
give up that job. Great laughter.
What reasons were there for the Demo
cratic party surrendering it's leadership
and its banner to the Liberal Republican
party? Who are the Liberal Republican
party in Louisiana? Outside Warmoth
and officers who hold commissions from
him-not speaking of Wings or Demo-
Gratis who are for Greeley-a city rail.
road car would hold every Liberal Re-
publican in the State. They hold the
same relation to the Democratic party
that pair of dueces hold to pair of
jacks in game of poker. Laughter and
cheers Democrats were told that War
moth was power and ought to be con-
ciliated. Mr.. Eustis had been fighting
all along, against the one man power ex-
ercised by Warmoth and he was still
fighting on the line. One breath of pop
ular indignation would sweep from the
hand of this mushroom despot the gaudy
sceptre he held, and Mr.. Eustis objected
to the Democratic party of Louisiana
bowling to hand that was too weak to
smite them, even if it was not too cow
ardly to do it. prolonged applause)
What Mr.. Eustis intended to maintain
was that every elective vote should be
counted, and, if the people did not 60
into the contest upon that platform, they
might as we'll not 60 into it at all. The
remedy suggested for the evils that the
State was suffering, reminded him of what
he had read was the practice of Chinese
physicians. The patient was put in ne
bed, and the disease was imagined to be
in an adjacent bed. Every time blow
was given to the disease, another blow
was given to the patient. Sometimes
the disease was killed and sometimes the
patient was killed. This was the practice
suggested for us. Every time corruption
got a lick the Democracy was also to get
a lick and corruption was as likely to
survive the treatment as Democracy was.
What was wanted was men in author
ity who would tear up, trunk and roots,
upas of corruption which had been plan
ted here and which had poisoned the very
air we breath. He would have no COM
bination with the Liberal Republicans
He would "repudiate, repel and denounce
and such proposition" prolonged ap-
plause.]
Mr.. Eustis closed by stating that he
was about to leave the city and would be
absent several weeks, necessarily. He
would give his proxy, in the State Con-
yention, he added, to Mr.. Jonas who
was entirely in accord with him politi-
caliy.