The semi-weekly Republican. (St. Francisville, La.) 1872-1872, 1872-07-19
Address to the People of Louis.
lana.

HEADQUARTERS Liberal PARTY OF
LOUISIANA, N. 0. July 13, 1872.
The Cincinnati convention, recog-
nizing the necessity of uniting all
the elements of opposition to Grant,
nominated as their standard-bearers
Horace Greeley for President and
B. Gratz Brown for Vice President,
and presented for the consideration
of the people a declaration Of princi-
pies. The Baltimore convention,
concuring in the causes and reasons
which gave birth to that great popu-
lar movement, indorsed their nomi-
nations and accepted the platform
on which their candidates stood. It
has thus set an example to the coun-
try which every consideration Of
political safety and expediency re-
quires should be initiated within the
States.
| II the Democratic party has MAIN
tanned its national organization, it is
only that the alliance with Liberal
ism may be rendered stronger Or
more effective. The delegates who
met at Baltimore for the purpose Of
cementing that alliance could not
have anticipated that fractions Of
their party, in the several States,
would set themselves in opposition
to the Liberal Reform movement,
by using their organizations for the
purpose of perpetuating divisions
through the nomination and support
desperate electoral and State tickets.
They knew that without union on
these points the acceptance of Gree
LEY and Brown would be only q
mockery, a delusion and snare.
In other States, as in Illinois and
Indiana, the plain course dictated by
common sense and common honesty
has been followed, and a close union
with the Liberals has been effected.
In one a joint State ticket has been
nominated, and in the other the for
nation of tho electoral ticket has
been remitted to tho whole body OF
Liberals. In every State except
Louisiana friendly relations have
been established between tho Liber-
ais and the Democracy, and efforts
have been made in good faith to
unite the Liberal and Democratic
vote for State as we'll as for national
purposes. In Louisiana alone a
different course has been pursued.
In Louisiana alone the Liberal party
that party which first rallied to
the support OF the Cincinnati move
ment, which anticipated the decision
of the national Democracy, and
which gave q resistless impulse to
the Greeley and Brown ticket, has
been treated by the Democratic Or
ganization with contumely and scorn
and made the object of bitter invec-
tive and denunciation. And yet, in
Louisiana, perhaps more than in
any other State, thorough union
of the Liberal and Democratic vote
is necessary to success. So evident
is this fact that on the adjournment
Of the Opera House Democratic Con
vention, thousands Of Democrats in
New Orleans and throughout the
State abandoned the Democratic
organization and joined the Liberal
party. These accessions are counted
by tens of thousands. They are so
numerous that we can assert as an
indisputable fact that. in at least
half of the parishes the Democratic
organization is without a follower,
and in the greater portion of the
rest the Liberal party commands a
large majority of what was once the
Democratic vote.
In the whole State there are but
six journals supporting the Demo-
cratic or united State ticket, and OF
the fifty-six parishes not half a dozen
are represented in the Democratic
State Committee. In spite of these
conspicuous facts, the Democratic
organization, thus reduced to MIN
imum of voting power, persists in