The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1872-06-01
EARNEST, TEMPERATE COUNSEL FOR
THESTATE CONVENTION.

The services rendered ny TINS paper
in the past and it's recognized position
as an Independent, Democratic journal,
aud our relations to and with the peo-
pie, have enabled us to speak our senti-
ments, hitherto ssthe lamp that has
guided our feet" with candor, freedom
and manfiness. What we have said
may be summed up in a few words.
REFERENCET TO NATIONAL POLITICS,
We have taken the position, and en-
deavored to maintain it, that our sue
cess must be based upon confidence in
our leaders-that the men ut the great
political centers, when assembled in
common council to deliberate for the
good Of the party, might and should be,
trusted, untrammeled and unfettered,
to agree upon common grounds of at
tack aud defense for the good OF the
holy cause VEAL have so much at heart.
We have opposed any anticipation OF
the action of the Baltimore Convention
even to the selection of Democratic
candidates-and we have opposed the
policy, uniformly, Of any political
alliance with the Republican factions
now dividing that party In both this
State and the Union, until the Democ-
racy had itself received and accepted
terms of alliance. We have sought to
keep the Democratic party together,
standing exactly where it has stood
since 1868, fully persuaded that success
in any direction can be achieved o,.ly
by united action. ..... .....'
Hence, we have deprecated and still
deprecate any step tending to hamper
the free action Of the Baltimore Conven-
tiOn-tO ally our party with one wing
or the other Of the Republican party !;
or, in any way, to forfeit the least par
ticfe of strength of the Democracy, by
partial acceptance of IL bid for support
from either of these factions. The time
to make bargain, if coalesce we must,
has not, in our humble Judgment, yet
arrived. Mr.. Greeley, nor any one au-
given any assurance that the Liberal
Republican movement is not designed
to break down our party and not to
build up Il better Republican party than
that which he and his supporters have
abandoned. ......... ... I.
IN REFERENCE TO STATE Politics,
Our position has been, and still is, That
the Democratic party, having consist
emily opposed the measures and men
who have brought the State to the very
verge Of ruin, has the vantage ground
in the work Of Reform, if it will only
pnt its seal of condemnation upon it's
own recreant members who have pro.
ven false to their trusts 8
That the root of all our trobles lies in
the Constitution of 1868, and the govern
ment formed Hereunder, and that, in
condemning one Republican, we must
necessarily condemn all 3
That our Reform friends should he
met In a spirit of Cancellation, and that
upon any State ticket made, that organ
ization should have Il pro ,uta represen-
tation
That we should encourage the Re-
publicans to become honest but that
in becoming honest they do not there
fore become the ietttlts,S of men who
have been honest politicians from, the
beginning 3
That, whatever may transpire, the
first duty of every citizen, is the thor
ough redemption of the State from Re-
publican misrule .
And, finally, we have taken the posi-
ton in full view of all we have said
and done, that the Democratic party,
standing where it has always stood and
being the parent stalk from which all
the otf-shootS now aspiring to rule the
State-each seeking to intcrtwine with
some other otf-shoot, and the Democrat
cy maintaining its attitude erect and
independent of any political scheme to
aid this movement or that, except any
movement started to save the Statc-fS
the second choice of al the men striving
to redeem the state, and that in adhcr-
ing to honest principles and mon with
emfirtLy ctenn hu'ds, must OF necessity