The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1872-08-17

MONhOE, La, ACOCSo4-l -, AoS~'
The Convention Of Liberals and Liberal
Republicans.
Those citizens who were disappointed
and complained at the action OF the
June Democratic Conventions, on ac-
count of its failure to effect a combina-
ton of all the elements opposed to Radi-
calism, and were anxious to see the ex-
pertinent of another Convention tried,
to accomplish such a combination, have
still sadder disappointment to under
go in the results Of the labors of the
Convention of Liberals and Liberal
Republicans which met in New Orleans
last week. That body Of exalted patri-
OTIS, meeting together to satisfy the de-
nand for a successful policy and
strong ticket, and gaining public conf
dence and arousing public expectation
in many parts of the State on account
of its pledges to crystalline the opposi-
ton to Grant, has shown itself wholly
incompetent for the task it chose to I'M
dertake. Indeed, without the powerful
succor of the Democracy, in some way
obtained, the Liberal movement is
doomed already to early dissolution.
The principal mistakes made by the
Liberals may all be summed up in the
one made in the attempt to run q ticket
neither headed by Warinoth, nor
strengthened by an alliance with the
Democrats. Gov. Warmoth is unques-
tionably the strongest man in the move
ment, and the safest diplomacy would
have been to put him in the swing. His
strength, to be sure, lies with the un-
canonical clement Of the Liberal party,
but why nominate an honest man for
Governor, when the Democrats had
already such man and one much ADLER
already before the people? The plain
duty of the Liberals, if they meant in
earnest to save the State by coalition
of all conservative elements, was to &C.
cept the liberal propositions rendered
them by the Democratic State Commit
tee, and thus settle the alliance def
nitively and successfully. Failing in
this, their purpose, we conceive, was the
desperate alternative of partisan sue
cess, or the defeat of their opponents at
the polls. The nomination of Col Penn,
II gallant and worthy citizen, was pure
ly initiative of the nomination of Col.
that the Democrats had set them good
example which they wouid follow. But
did this meet the expectations of the
Republican element in the Convention?
Did they not want some well-known
Republican, and not recent Demo-
rrat to lead them? Undoubtedly they
did; and in SO far as they We're disap-
pointed, just that far they will lag be-
hind i'll the fight,-if, in fact, numbers
of them do not finally abandon the
movement altogether.
AS the Liberal movement was origi-
mated mainly to organize n strong par
ty, another grave mistake was made
by its leaders, considered rs n political
move, in not making terms with the
Pinchback Convention, after their re-
fttsal to accedc to the magnlnimorts
terms proposed by the Democrats. a
"LiberaP'movement,w without Warmoth
tied, and unsupported by the great vot
ing masses of the Democracy, and with
Pinchback Mt large, is certainly an alb
surd conception of political probabili-
ties at the ensuing. general election.
The duty of the good citizen, itseems
to us, has at last been made plain. Com
pairing the Union and the Liberal tick
cts, there is nothing calculated to arouse
enthusiasm, or to beget confidence, OK
hibited by the latter, that is not pos
sessed in n far greater measure by the
former. Our ticket has none but good
men upon 1t. 1t is free of all bargains,
and has ITO man upon it whose antecc-
dents are Il part and parcel of the abuses
md corruptions the people are SO anN-
icus to put down. Its adhcrcnts far
outnumber, in city and country, those
of the Liberal ticket, and it's plans and
PURPOSES are free from I'LL COnceolluent