New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-01-19
Tho Fight Of the FactiOns-Why the
democratic Policy'' Failed.

Will candid, honorable, reasonable Dem
ocrats read the following from the Natchi-
toches Times, Democratic paper? 1t
says:
The result OF the disgraceful suuabble at
the Mechanics Institute is the organization
of two independent bodies, each claiming
to be the General Assembly of Louisiana
Governor WarmOths friends being installed
in the Institute building, with quorum in
the House, but lacking one or two in the
Senate, while the Carter faction and the
Democrats Except two or three) hold forth
on Royal street, over the Gem saloon,
without quorum in either branch. The
Governor seems to be master OF the sltua-
ton, and, with the prestige OF the regular
government on his side, will hardly fail to
hold his own against the revolutionary com
binatiOn.
We are not disposed to moralize on these
anarchical tendencies, nor to DeWall the
degeneracy Of the times. We accept the
result and the actual condition of affairs as
they exist The Southern people have
reached that point in their history when
theories must be dispensed with. and some
thing tangible grasped-when only COM
prehensive and practical view of the situa-
ton will teach them the lesson OF their
political salvation.
at hand to obtain triumph, no one doubts.
Money and military power were probably
used by both as far as available-with this
we have nothing to do, as beyond control
But there is one power granted to and
used by the Carter faction which the people
Of the State may control, in the future at
least and that is the Democratic minority
in the Senate and House, which has thrown
the weight of its influence on the wrong
side, outraged the sentiment Of their con-
stituency, and destroyed the good feeling
which was springing up between the two
only conservative elements in the State
the Democrats and the WarmOth Repub
leans.
The result of their "most foul and m-
natural union with the faction with which
a cordial union was simply an impossibility.
is that they are driven to the wall, and
within the first week of the session utterly
powerless for good, when at the outset they
held the balance of power, which, if ju-
diciously used, might have averted many
evils to the State. BY their folly-made
almost criminal by failure-we witness the
sad spectacle of thirty Democratic mem
bers of the Legislature in actual revolu-
ton against their natural allies, upholdlng
the Congressional Kuk lux invasions Of
our liberties, the refusal Of amnesty to our
people, and, in short. the ultra Radical
party of the Union. Trusting to illusory
promises, and under the glamour of the
Democratic State Central Executive Com
mittee, these thirty Democratic members
have been false to the sentiment of their
people, and have let their last opportunity
pass to achieve any good result to the
State. At bay themselves. and identified
with despicable faction, the fortunes OF
their constituencies are for the present
identified with their own; they have ar
rayed the Democratic masses IN opposition
to conservatism against their will, and
have left them almost helpless to struggle
for deliv erance as best they can under this
anomalous condition of affairs.
Had these thirty Democratic Senators
and Representatives trusted. as they ought,
to the conservative tendencies of Governor
WarmOth's administrat ton: had they learned
political sagacity from their brethren OF
Missouri, Tennessee and Virginia instead of
from the corrupt source of the Democratic
State Central Executive Committee, how
different would now have been the result !!
Sustaining Governor WarmOth, they would
have been sustaIned-prOtfering him the
hand of friendship, the hand of friend
ship would have been extended to them
relying upon him. he would in turn have
relied upon them-and thus. holding con-
troll Of the State, they might have worked
together in unison, gradually lifting the
burden off the people, until, like the three
States named, we should have had gov
eminent Just alike to all, and administered
by the best men of the State