Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1872-05-18
The Liberal Republican Nom
nations.

We have been taken to task fire.
ouently since our last Issue or asked
our reasons for not defining more par
ticularly our ideas regarding the ticket
nominated by the Liberal Republican
Convention at Cincinnati for President
and Vice President to succeed the
present incumbents of those two high
offices. There are several as we think,
very good reasons for this reticence Oh
our part, the chief Of which as is well
known here is that we are not exactly
free agent as regards the matter, but
have TO consult the wishes of the pro
prietor of the Gazette who is not on
nand at present to confer with, and
though we may surmise his preference
we cannot undertake to define it any
more particularly than is done by still
leaving at the head of its columns the
choice he has heretofore expressed.
Another thing is there is no partlc-
ular hurry about the matter, there is
another Convention to meet yet, and
though we have frequently intimated
it not expressed very high opinion OF
Messrs Greedy and Brown, it is by no
means impossible, or indeed according
TO late accounts some of which we ~
produce elsewhere, that the Philadel-
phia Convention may nominate tick
ct which We should infinitely prefer,
and ut any rate we would stick to
Grant and C0lfax in preference to any
two Democrats in the land be they ev
er so pure and unexceptiOnable in their
own characters, for it is the principle
aud not the man We contend against
and contemn. We give in another
place the official notice of Democrat
ic Convention to be held in Baltimore
on the 9th of July next more than a
month later than the time fixed for the
Philadelphia Convention. Now this
gives our willy opponents plenty OF
time to fix the triggers to suit them
selves according to the best prospect
of success which events in the mean
time may suggest, that is to nominate
regular Democratic ticket or endorse
the Cincinnati one, and if the latter
course is adopted no one of Any politi'
cal knowledge could doubt that it was
the result of an agreement and ar
rangement entered into between the
Liberals and Democrats. Now though
we have every confidence in Mr.. Gree
ly as an honest man, We have no con
fdence at all in the party with whom
. he and his supporters would coalesct
in such an event, and rs our able CO
temporary OF the La State Register ex
: presses it we would prefer Grants
brothers.in-law to such set OF cOu
sins as the Democracy would brin,
along with it.
|. We have had peace too long ant
!, got too we'll used to the situation bat
e as it is in many respects, to go bacl
e to the dark ages when differences o
opinion were settled by sticks ant
pistols. In conclusion we would Xix
to-day to he able to say that we shal
support Messrs. Greeley and Brown
but there are the objections we hav
a named, and others to prevent US fror
b doing so at present. We reproduc
r several extracts relative to the forinel
which though somewhat highly colore
are no doubt true in the main, and on
enumerating the objections to him, 9,
agerated also perhaps. Our creates
desire is for the success of Consery;
|. tive Republication, and what cours
:, we shall take in the coming cnntes
9 must be guided by circumstances,
t which can now form scarcely conje'
# ture.