New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-07-24
WHICH Is TRUE7

1t has been repeatedly alleged that the
"united State ticket now claiming the
support Bipartisan Democrats, is spu-
rious; that those who put it out, have little
right, with few exceptions, to claim to be
opponents Of Democratic principles; that
as refugees from the old Wing and Know
Nothing parties, they can not ignore the
views Of lifelong Democrats, and set them
selves up as the embodiment of the well
understood principles of the original ad-
herents of that party. Nor are these
charges susceptible Of denial The fac
ton, which with singular assurance has
assumed the right to put ticket in the
field, claiming to represent Democratic
principles, but really in hope Of fUrthering
the views and wishes of the Radical party,
have no claim to speak for the great body
of that party, which is now acting in con-
cert with the spirit of Liberalism over
spreading the country. They are simply
ambitious politicians seeking personal adj
vancement under the cloak of Democratic
virtue. Like those dark angels that steal
the ''ivery Of heaven to serve the devil
in, they are trying, under the prestige Of
an honorable name, to serve bad men and
bad purposes. The example they have set
has been initiated nowhere else. In other
States the Democrats and Liberals are in
perfect accord. The same principles are
sustained by them, and they oppose a
united front to the dark spirit of radical
ism which has marked the administration
Of President Grant as the most disastrous
that has been encountered since the
foundation Of the government.
The yisest and best men in the nation.
admit that the national Liberal ticket can
not BE given effective support while it's ad-
herentsa are divided upon abstract issues in
the States. The Liberal movement must be
both State ana national to prove success
full. Separate and adverse policy means
defeat. All the elements of conservatism,
reform and radical opposition must be
rallied upon issues identical in their hos
tiIity to federal supremacy. So intimate
are the issues of federal and State politics
that they can not be divided without in
jury to the latter. The united State ticket
means, as Ex-Governor Hebart plainly ex-
presses it, ''the giving Of the State to
Grant, in exchange for votes to elect their
partisans to Office.
Such a spectacle is furnished by no 9TH
er State in the Union. None other would
incur the risk Of defeat by such a policy
Are we therefore to infer that Louisiana
alone has Democrats who will barter the
salvation of the State for their personal
advancement? 1t must be SO; for all the
resi- scorn the REASONABLE coalition of the
Radicals, and are heart and head in favor
Of the principles proclaimed at Cincin-
natl and reiterated at Baltimore. This State
ticket, pushed forward by the Democratic
and Reform committees, can serve but
one purpose. If effective at all, it can
only prove efficient in dividing the sup
porters Of the Liberal Republican move
ment in Louisiana and electing Kellogg
and the Grant electoral ticket. Such, no
doubt, is its mission. Stripped Of the
dignity Of an independent party, it can
only become the tool Of Radical ingenuity.
This certainly is a strange position f1r
men claiming to be Southern Democrats
to assume.
But if the Louisiana Democratic
policy is correct, that of the rest of
the Union IS mistake. It is possible
that those Democratic and Reform com
mittees contain All tue wisdom Of their