New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-07-24
ADDRESS TO THE PEOPLE OF LOUIS.
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HEADQUARTERS LIBERAL PARrY OF LoUIsIAyAs}
New Orleans JULY - 1872

opposition to Grant, nominated as their
standard-beareTs Horace Greeley for Presi-
dent and B. Graft Brown for Vice Presi-
dent, and presented for the consideration
OF the paDple a declaration of principles
The Baltimore convention, concurring in the
causes and reasons which gave birth to
that great popular movement, indOrsed
their nominations and accepted the plat
form on which their candidates stood. 1t
has thus set an example to the country
which every consideration of political
safety and expediency requires should be
initiated within the States
! Ii the Democratic party has maintained
! It's national organization. il is only that the
| alliance with Liberalism NAV be rendered
| stronger or more effective The delegates
wl0 met at Baltimore for the purpose of
! cementing that alliance could not have an
tlcipated that fractions of their party, in
| the several States, would set themselves in
| opposition to the Liberal Reform move
ment, by using their organizations for the
| purpose of perpetuating divisions through
the nomination and support of separate
! electoral and State tickets. They knew
that without union on these points the &C
! ceptanGe of Greeley and Brown would be
only mockery, a delusiOn and a snare
In other States, as IN Illinois and Indiana.
the plain course dictated by common 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 in the other the
| formation OF the electoral ticket has been
RENTED to the whole BODY of Liberals In
every State, EXCEPT Louisiana, friendly rela-
! tons have been established between the
| Liberals and the Democracy, and efforts
| have been made in good faith to unite the
! Liberal and the Democratic vote for State
as well as for national purposes In LOuisi-
| ana alone a different course has been pur-
] In, Il, I
party-that party which first rallied to
! the support of the Cincinnati movement,
! which anticiDated the decision of the
| national Democracy, and which cave a
! re yistIess imluIse to the Greeley and Brown
| ticket-has been treated bv the Democratic
| organization with cOntumelv and scorn.
! and made the object of bitter invectiye and
| denunciatiOn And vet, in Louisiana. per
! haps more than in any other State. a thor
| OUCH union OF the Liberal and Democratic
| vote is necessary TO success. So evident ia
| this fact that on the adjourpmfnt of the
! Opera House Democratic Convention. tbou-
| sands Of Democrats in New Orleans and
| throughout the State abandoned the Demo-
| cratic organization and Joined the Liberal
party. These acoessions 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
Democratic organization is without a fol.
lower, and in the greater portion of the rest
the Liberal party commands a large ma
jOrity of what was once the Democratic
vote.
In the whole State there are but six Jour
nails supporting the Democratic or united
State ticket, and of the fiftv-six parishes
not half a dozen are represented in the
Democratic State Committee. In spite of
these conspicuous facts the Democratic or
ganizatiOn, thus reduced to a minimum Of
VntIOT Da1,=icFa IN, L-aaV,Yu shO
Of separate and Independent organization,
and the Democratic committee, thus emas-
Culated Of representative character, has
nominated and presented State and cleo
tOral 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 interest Of the Baton
Rouge candidates, and their electoral ticket
for the purpose 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 50 silly as not TO foresee
the necessary effects of their own acts.
It is proper for the whole country, as
well as for the people Of this State. to know
that the Democratic Tump organization,
while pretending to accept the decision of
the Baltimore convention. is in reality hes
tile to the national Liberal candidates, and
that while it presents an electoral ticket in
tie name of Greeley and Brown, it is try
ing to give the vote of the State to Grant.
Whether this course is the fIlIfillment of
the contract entered into last winter he
tween the Cussomhouse party and the
Democratic committees whether il is the /
result Of more recent and more secret bar |
gains, having for their object the control of
local offices and patronage. or whether it is |
dictated nv an nm raasnDir,,r O,s+inac ,,,I,iI