Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1872-09-14

"A Rose BY any other name would smell .
sweet"
1t is rather amusing, to see and rcat
from the different journals of The Stat,
interested in the question, the contro
uersy that y now going on, regarding
the nsmeto be given to the new par
ty or rather the old party which Will
the help of promises and cajolementi
easy Of evasion and still easier az j,
has turned out of effect, has swallowed
up one which, short time since seem
ed in fair way Of attaining respectable
prppprtions, just as easily as . big fish
tswallows r little one before he has bad
time to grow. According to the sen
timent of the particular locality in
which it is published, each paper op
posed to Republicanism, claims to be
DemOcratically Liberal, (ths Detnocra
tic element largely in the aseendancyl
or merely Liberal, the "Ouachita Tele
graph" shreveport Southwestern
and others being types of the first
class, whilst the "Times" published in
Shreveport also, and the "Natchitoches
Times" aud few more represent the
latter, to say nothing of the city press;
the party, in truth being sosnewha,
like the boy in the Pastry Cooke
shop, ue ef.
"Twixt pie and jelly he WAS loath.
Either to chose % took them both"
And the end may possibly be, that
like the boy, they will be heartily sick
of the bargain.
However divided public sentiment
outside of Repu blicanism may be i'm
this State, and other Southern ones Oh
this issue ut present it cannot be de-.
MED, that politics are working back in
the purely democratic grove, proving
uuoontrovertibly the tact, that there is
new as before the war, only two par.
ties, and that in the event of the cleo
ton of Mr.. Greeley, the democrats ex.
pect and intend to control his admin.
istration. @
Georgia is straight out democra-
tic State, bigoted, aud uncompromis-
ing to the hitter end, refusing even
the assistance of the Liberal party,
and only granting them permission to
act with them, instead of they the
Democrats acting with the Liberals
AS the Georgia democrats act, so will
the democrats of every State act,
whenever they think they have the
power, and here is the opinion of one
the leading papers of the State, as to
the course in behooves them to take,
and which they intend to take should
they have sn opportunity of doing SO.
"Mr. Sumner mxkes very broad
when he insinuates that al
though Greeley may he elected, and
owe his election to the Democratic
party, still the members u that party
will in no manner control his Admin
istrati0n. Sumner admits Greeley may
take Democrats into his Administra-
;ion, but they will be taken as Repub-
licans at heart. 1t is idle to suppose
that Greeley can or will reject the
counsels Of those by whose votes he
was elected, or that Democrats will
cease to be Democrats in any sense Of
the word because they have voted for
Greeley. Far from it. The Democratic
party will after the election reassem.
bic its cohorts, claim a voice in shap-
ing the character of Greeleyis Admin
istratiOn, and by virtue of their former
support and strength of numbers com
pei a recognition of this important
right. Greeley, in the event of his
will be forced to rely upon
the Democratic party TO support the
measures Of his Administration, and
such support will not be extended un-
less these measures are In accord with
Democratic principles.n :.