The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-07-27

nizing the necessity of uniting all the
elements of opposition TO Grant, NOM
| mated as their standard bearers Hor-
ace Greeley for President and B. Gratz
| Brown for Vice-President, and pre-
sented for the consideration of the
people a declaration of principles.
/ The Baltimore convention, concur
ring in the causes and reasons which
gave birth to that great popular
movement, indorsed their nomina-
tions and accepted the platform 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.
! If the Democratic party has MAIN
| tanned its national organization, it is
only that the alliance with Liberalism
may be rendered stronger or more eff
fective. The delegates who met at
baltimore for the purpose of cement
| ing that alliance could not have an
| ticipated that fractions of their party
In the several States would set them
selves in opposition To the Liberal
Reform movement, by using their or
CARNATIONS for the purpose of perpet-
uating divisions through the nomina-
tion and support of separate State and
electoral tickets. They knew that
without union ON these points the ac-
eeptanee of Greeley and Brown would
be only u 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 close union
with the Liberals has been effected.
In one a joint State ticket has been
nominated. and in the other the for
nation of the electoral ticket has been
remitted to the whole body of Liber-
ais. In every State except Louisiana
friendly relations have been estab-
lished between the Liberals and the
Democracy, and efforts have been
made in good faith to unite the Lib
eral and Democratic vote for State as
well as national purposes. In LOuisi-
ana alone the Liberal party-that
party which first rallied TO the sup
port of the Cincinnati movement.
which anticipated the decision of the
national Democracy, and which gave
an irresistible impulse to the Greeley
and Brown ticket-has been treated
by the Democratic organization with
cOntumely and sc0rn, and made the
object of litter invective and denim
ciati0n. And yet. in Louisiana, per-
haps more than IN any other State,
thorough union OF the Liberal and
Democratic vote is necessary to sue
cess. So evident is this fact that on
the adjournment of the Opera House
Democratic Convention, thousands of
Democrats both in New Orleans and
throughout the State, abandoned the
Democratic organization and joined
the Liberal party. These accessions
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 DEM
ocratic organization is without Il fol-
lower, and in the greater portion of
the rest the Liberal party commands
a large majority of what was once the
Democratic vote.
In the whole State there are but six
journals supporting the Democratic
or united State ticket, and of the fifty
six parishes not half dozen are rep
resented in the Democratic State Com
mittee. In spite of these conspicuous
facts, the Democratic organization,
thus reduced TO minimum of voting
power, persists in keeping up show
of separate and independent organi-
cation, and the Democratic Committee,
thus emaseulated of representative
character, has nominated and present
ed a State and electoral ticket. No
rational man believes that they ex-
pect 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 in
terest of the Baton Rouge candidates,
and their electoral ticket for the pur-
pose of defeating Greeley and Brown,
the nominees of their own National
Convention. We distinctly charge
this upon them, because we have no
IlSilb w dSouLIit bltstI lIlE,S stEC so b1lHtl
rs not to see the facts of the situation,
or so silly rs not to foresee the neees-
sary effects of their own acts.
1t is proper that the whole country,
as well as for the people of this State,
to know that the Democratic rump
organization, while pretending to ac-
cept the decision of the Baltimore con-
vention, is in reality hostile to the
national Liberal candidates, and that
while it presents an electoral ticket in
the name of Greeley and Brown, it is
trying to give the vote of the State to
Grant.
Whether this course is the fulfill
ment of the contract entered into last
winter between the Custom-House
party and the Democratic committees,
whether it is the result of more recent
and more secret bargains, having for
their object the control of local offices
and patronage, or whether it is dicta-
ted by an lnreasoning obstinacy which