New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-07-24
40 ALLIANCE WITH TIE BOURBoEs.

10 ALLIANCE WITH rHE BOURBOEg.
The Last Ditchers having utterly re-
fused to cooperate in any manner with
the Liberal Republicans in making up
their State ticket, can not be expected to
be consulted in the formation Of a ticket
by the fifth of August convention, for the
Liberals and the Liberal Republicans, to
whom alone we can look for success against
the Grant, ustomhouse ticket, now refuse
to affiliate with themin any manner. The
Liberal party is composed Of the great
mass of sensible, honest men, who are
disguised with the old time-serving De-
mocracy, and the Liberal Republicans are
willing to cooperate with them in their
new departure. Any attempt at inter
ference by the Last Ditchers, therefore, in
the new ticket will be resented by the
Liberal Republicans, and the action Of
the convention will be 'repudiated by them.
For having refused to consult or compro-
mise with the Republicans when such ac-
ton was proposed by the latter, they are
now ruled out. There can be no compro-
mise. The elements are too radically an
tagonistic The Democracy does not de-
sire true reform. They are only working
to effect such changes as will give them
the control of the State, Once our task
masters, and they will throw their prom
ises to the winds and lead US a lively
dance, The whole of the Last Ditchers'
ticket must be defeated in toto, and no
one Of even doubtful political sentiments
honOred with place in the new one. As,
we have often said, between the ticket put
forward by the rump committees and the
Baton Rouge offering, the Republicans of
Louisiana prefer the latter. They do not
like either, but will not, under any cir
cumstances, accept of any portion of the
former.
The delegates to the Liberal convention
should bear in mind that there is a deep
gulf between them and the Bourbons, and
any attempt to cross it, or bridge it over,
or even to look in that direction, will re-
suit in the defeat of their ticket. For the
Last Ditchers do not represent one-tenth
of the strength of the late Democratic
party, The Reformers left them in dis
gust last winter, and but few have re-
turned. The hollow truce patched up by
a few old aSpirants for Office has already
been Indignantly repudiated by the honest
masses who have rallied around the Lib
eral standard.
1t should be borne in mind that there is
no strength in the multiplying Of names;
that the Democrats, the Reformers and
the Liberals merely represent the party
that was in minority in 1870. Without
an accession of strength from the Liberal
all the trouble and expense
already incurred iH- preparations to defeat
the KeHogg-CU5tomhouse ticket will have
been for no purpose, For the objections
o. the Liberal Republicans to the ''united
State ticket" are both political and per-
sonal. 1t has been orgl4ized or basis
Of bitter hostility to one man. a distin-
guished member Of the Liberal Republi-
cans, who still has their confidence. They
have already declared their preference for
him as their candidate for Governor, and
are little likely to fraternize with those
whose. sole capital stock in politics, and
whose chief bond of union is a senseless feel
ing of personal hatred towards their favor
lite. The ISLANDERS and abuse hcaped by Nc
Emery, bennett, Randolph and all the little /
politicians who daily make false pretenses
Of being great, are deeply resented by the
friends of the Governor, who will never
consent to see him sacrificed that one Of
his traducers may step into his shoes. If
reform means simply the defeat Of Gov
ernor Warmoth, who vetoed seventy bills
Of the Democratic lobby, and the election
Of McEnery, we do not care to have any.
As we said yesterday, it would be too high |
priced at that rate.