The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1872-01-27

were afforded an additional reason for
prolonging their absence. Their pres
ence in the Senate then, would have
sanctioned at least two revolutionary
OF the Executive and enabled
him to have frightened his grasp upon
the State.
Thus the Republican factions stood
on the 9Th of january. What We're
the Democrats to do?
It was clearly the policy OF the
Democracy that the Republicans should
remain divided.
It was clear that Warmoth would
overwheInl the Carter faction, and be-
came absolute master of the State, If
the Democrats overlooking his revolu-
tionary acts, should Join him in main
tanning the Brewter organization of the
House. This would have put q quie-
.tus on reform, for tho Governor never
meant to aid In stripping himself of
power. AS an evidence OF this, the
laws he hurriedly had repealed, he has
now had restored, by having the Sem
had quorum when the repeal bills
were passed. The presence Of the
Democrats in the Brewster House
would have compelled the attendance
of the Carter Republicans also, and
thus Warmoth's usurpation would
have been ratified, and, at the same
time, the Republican split, by means
of which alone we hoped to secure
wholesome reform in the State admin
istration, would have been healed up
and the work Of corruption, fraud and
imposition upon the people perpetua-
ted.
Such was the polite view of the
Democratic situation. But we hold
that the Democrats could not, without
violating their oaths, sanction the Gov
ernorss usurping course. He was not
only Governor according to his views,
but he was also the legislature. He not
only meddled with business not per-
tanning to his department, but resort
ed to force and intimidation to control
the General Assembly, a branch of the
government wholly independent OF
the Executive, and responsible to the
people alone. We have only to con-
slider the apostate condition the Demo-
cratic members are in who hare gone
with Warmoth, to appreciate the case
as 1t stood on the 9th instant. They
are no longer Independent Legislators
A1xxa, n&af - -
constituency--but the automatic tools
of an inscriptions adventurer and
pestiferous enemy to popular liberty.
But asks an individual here and
there, why did not the Democrats re-
main neutral, holding aloof from all
participation in the struggle? This is
the brilliant programme OF that sol
emn humbug, the New Orleans Plea
yune.
The Democrats had TO take aposi-
tfon. If they acted at all, they were
compelled to go with one or tho other
wing, and il they did not act--refrained
entirely from association with either
wing-still they were taking position.
II they had all gone home, they would
have been acting against Warmoth in
preventing quorum in his House; and
why not go with the legal speaker Of
the House ut once? If they had re-
manned in the Capital and declined to
act at all, the result as to Warmoth and
Carter would have been the same. If
they had "gone up in balloon" we
don'tsee how the situation would have
been changed so far as the Democracy
was concerned, except that the Repub-
lican war might have come to an end
before this.
One ofonr contemporaries out west APP
pears to think that the antecedents and
political future of Speaker Carter have
something to do with choice of positions
in the Republican war offactions. Mr..
Carriers individuality and politics have
nothing whatever to do with the mat
ter. He is just the same as any other
apostate Southron, only that his firm
stand against Warmoth and corruption