The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1872-03-30
THE" MAsTERLY INACTIVITY.
Loading Radicals Beginning to be Atax M
ed at the Silence Of the Democrats.


Courier-Journal.
WAsHINGToN, ID. c., March 9, 10.
| a distinguished Republican said to
me to-day: ssFor the first time in
twelve years, your party is acting Will,
good sense. There is mischief in its
silence" And this is one of the most
sagaciOus Of the Radicals. Let not our
friends, then, grow impatient at the
delay of the Democratic Committee
calling the National Convention. There
is wisdom, success in this mastery
inactivity.' The debates in the Senate,
the disscnsions in the Radical party
otherwise, tend to it's disintegration
and to strengthen our cause. The DEM
ocratic Convention will be held in good
time, they will make their nomina-
tions, and no observing man with the
light OF passing events will doubt its
success.
THE COMING MAN.
There are but two parties in this con-
test, the Grant men and the anti-Grant
men. Unfortunately or not, as the case
may be, this political fight has assumed
even more personal character than
did that of 1865. Grant ran in then on
his military exploits. They can no
longer serve him or his party. He is
affairs, and the country proposes to ar
raign him therefor. The corruption of
his administration, his ft-taking pro-
pensities, his f;avoriteism and his usur-
pations Of power, and the semi-military
character Of his rule, will be denounced
on the one hand and defense on
the other. He will be supported by
the office-hOlders and those whose thirst
Tor Office is their absorbing passion.
Like their chief, ,money-getting is their
sole object, and this is what they want
offices for. These men, backed by the
patronage of the Government, will Sc
cure Grants nomination at Philatlel-
phla. Those who oppose the re-elec-
tion of the present Chief Magistrate are
animated by far different motives, and
aim at nobler results: whether they be
Democrats, Liberal Republicans, or
Reformers, their sole object is to redeem
the Government from misrule, and to
put men in Office who will conduct its
affairs honestly and economically
There is general revolt all over this
country against the Tyranny, the frauds
and robbery for which this Admins
tration has acquired an unenviable
distinction. This is the meaning Or
the detection Of certain Senators and
other eminent Republicans, and of the
convention at Cincinnati. This, too,
was at the bottom Of the wise nomina-
tors of the Labor Convention ut Column
bus, Ohio. From the tone of the press,
from the sentiment Of the country de-
rived therefrom, and also through pri-
Vate letters to public men from all Sec
tionS of the country, it would not be
unsafe to predict that Judge Davis'
nomination for President will be in
dorsed by the Cincinnati Convention,
and that he will likewise be the nomi-
nee Of the National Democratic Conven-
tion. Should these conventions take
this action, there is not Il doubt Of his
election. All that is needed to harmon
ize the elements of opposition to Grant,
and it is the opinion of many public
mcn-Dcfnocrats as we'll rs Liberal
Republicans-that Judge Davis, in Il
greater degree than any one else, unites
i'll himself the elements essential both
to success and IL wise administration of
the affairs Of the Government. If it be
true, then, that the defeat of Grant is
of paramount consideration with all
that appreciate and would maintain a
republican form of government, patri-
otism, rs well as policy, points to the
propriety of selecting Judge Davis as
our candidate for President. There are
few, indeed, here, who doubt that he
will be. a pure and upright Judge an
earnest, brave, thoughtful and wise
man is Judge Davis, and the country
| will honor itself by elevating him to its
| highest office.
n f'rcnchman, writing to the Gaulois,
| gives an account of his sensations while
| hanging himself which NAV he ,,T ben