The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1872-06-29
FUSION WITH THE WARMOTH REPUB-
LICANS.

failed in the Democratic State Convcn-
wanted further efforts made for u fusion
with him, we did not include-or did
not intend to--as ssfriends of Cow War
moth' all who favored further efforts
toward conciliating his faction or party.
The editor of the Union Record, who
has objected to our statement of the
case as implying as much, is cheerful
ly ranked with The excepted class. But
we undertake to say that our respected
contemporary will not deny that there
is no probability whatever of securing
the cooperation of the Liberal Rcpub-
icans, so-callcd, in this State, without
treating with alfd :,cccclling in II mca-
sure, greater or less, to the demands of
their acknowledged head and leader,
Gov. Warmoth. 1t is not to be OK
pected that that professional partisan
leader will enter into any combination
in which both himself and the men
enlisted under him arc not Unidentified
against possible overthrow and ruin.
And what, we would ask, is the Liber-
al Republican faction Of Louisiana, if
Gov. Warmoth go not with it: lie is
their patron, their treasurer, their nat
urai tutor and their master. They can
do nothing, unless he consents. Hence,
we contend that negotiating with the
Liberal Republicans is, in fact, ncgo-
tiating with Gov. Warnoth. Qui ,ttcH
per uli,un, fucH PEI" Sc.
Our cotemporary says that men
might have been found Of the Liberal
Republican faction who "stand as fair
socially and otherwise as anybody"
who could have been accepted on a CO.
operative ticket. We must be permit
ted to dissent from this broad PROPOSE
ton, SO far as it includes the political
soundncss of the men referred to; but
their standing, is it to be believed that
the leaders Of the Warmoth faction
were to be conciliatcd by selecting only
the good mon Of their number
AS to the propricty OF further cndeav-
ors for coalition With the Liberal
Republicans, our cotempcrary Will
| rccollcct that Col. Mccall distinctly
stated in the Convention that the Re
| publican committee submitted their
proposition as an ultimatum, and the
verbiage conclusiveiy showed as much.
| Thus, their propositions were rendered
| Gas the ONLY solutioIl'' of an ssllon-
| orlblc" combination, and as having
the saction of their ''dclibcratc" ,jt,da-
| ment. Not Il single one of the three
leading propositions were acceptable,
analyzc the grounds Of difference, will
discover that Il combination between
! the Liberal Republicans and the Re
| formers was, and is, Impossible. And
hence il was that the joint committees
OF Democrats and Hefotn,crs returned
this reply:
awe note with regret that it is sthc
deliberate opinion of your committee
that your proposition is the only solu-
ton of the difficulty in the way of an
honorable conlition,' as the door is thus
closed by your own action to further
consideration of the suhjcct.'
But hearing next niornin" that the
Republicans would make another pro-
position, the Committee seat their Sec
| rrtary 10 thr,n. ''Their answer was
I that they had none TO m,l>c.''
Now, whrrr was the use in longer
delay when the comfy soiution.' detib-
crately offered in writing by the Re
ruh(ictnS, was unanimously rejected
| by both the hrmocr:.tic and Reform
| Conventions " The people would have
| crird Shame! from Quo end OF thr State
to til" other. if th"ir delegates had re-
turned hom", telling Them that the
! Convention had adjourned because they
coutd not racitv the Wnrmoth Rcpub-
! licanS and the st. Charles Theatre Gree
| ley men, and that thc Democratic r.lrty
| was now Virtually rr"riNinw orders,
not from the pNoplc, bat from the
| leaders OF the outside political rings
just manned! And thcn the Democratic
party wuuld have boon hoprtrSSIy dis
organized, 10 hr formally hislandcd ut
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