New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-08-07
SENTIMENTAL POLITICIANS.
~ was Born Z Democrat


horizon, and sheds a misty light in volume
measured by couple Of columns Of agate
in that sterling, DISTINGUISHED and enter
prising journal, the Picayu01c.' The name OF
this luminary is Percy Roberts, who says
I'VE must 90 for Greeley and Brown, re.
| cOgnizing in their election the entering
wedge which will eventually split open the
butt cut of Radicalism in which we are now
entombed." That's good. But let's read
! on. Now, I, who am Democrat born and
bred, do not find it necessary to go outside
| Of the Democratic party And he further
! says: Here are twenty thousand Lib
erals, and l, for one, say let US treat
mark has a Democratic infant when
| the little thing Opens.i its eyes ! Some OF this
stamp never do open them i'll this world
Are its ears longer or shorter than infants
who are not born Democrats? Is there a
slit in the nose, a mole on the neck or a rail
road track down the back Do Democratic
infants squall like other babies, and do they
cause the Democratic father to cuss when
he gets up O. nights Born a Democrat {!
VIII anybody tell US what this conceit
means Parties change every election.
Follow the Democratic party back to the
time when Percy Roberts was born and it
will probably be found at its source a
mighty small thing, just as the Herald cor
respondent ascertained he could step over
the silvery thread of water which was the
beginning of the Mississippi. Now there
are one thousand young men in this S tate
who are kicking up muss and attempt
ing to break things on the princip
that they were born Democrats g. A
marriage Of principles begets principles
not men. A wedding between a male idea
and female ditto, and the offspring is not
babes, but ideas. A party consists of
body who are all of the same way of think
ing on public questions, or who have all the
same class of ideas. Who doubts it? A
man may be born in church as to creed,
or under the actual roof, and he may be
born in a street car, or in most any place,
but to put stop to this nonsense of daily
repetition by these gOslings who are called
on TO vote for anything under the word
Democrat, on the impression they were
born within the party, it may be necessary
to say it is impossible to be born Democrats.
Nature won't allow it. Now, Mr. Percy
Roberts says, let us Democrats treat with
these Liberals, acknowledging they are
10000 in number. Treat with them
Certainly. A handful of men on the
political waters, in an open boat,
provisions gone, subsistence impossible.
nerves all dry and stOmachs empty, and
therefore windy, the boat itself going to
pieces by degrees, say to one another, let
us hail that big ship yOnder, witHits crew
and stores and rOOmy deck, and tell them
to board US. 1t would never do to ask |
them-they must come to Us. Dignity is |
all we've got left. And a great thing is |
that dignity. 1t is something that a man is |
possessed Of when the seat of his pants no |
longer holds together, when his coat is open |
under the arms and he has to button this |
garment'al the way up to the chin to hide |
no shirt. Then is the time for dignity to |
assert itself, and 1--WE seen better days" |
A few Democrats get together and will do |
ten columns of blowing in order to keep up |
the dignity. Then the born Democrat, like |
Percy Roberts, come in. 40 yes, let's hear
what these fellows have got to say" with,
all the dignity in the world, but without a
pair of breeches or a clean shirt, and to
whose old hat backing brush has evi-
IDENTIFY been applied.
''But," winds up MI Roberts, I'm going
to vote that ticket, though I'm conscious it
will be defeated; for prefer to go down
under the old colOrs." He prefers. like
many others, defeat to success. When a
party dies, is anybody hurt Have not
parties died before Mr.. Roberts was born
Democrat! Don't they. die every few years ?
What are the principles Of the Democrats
that they sickle so for them The creed of
a religion is interchangeable. There is no
iicker in the light of true faith, but in pol
tics the stream is constantly moving, some
times clear, again muddy, another time
swollen, and once more dry and shallow,
but it always moves. He who stops still
politics will move by him and leave him
ust as the tide sometimes eddies out and
caves a whale houndering, Topping strug-
Cling in the mud; and in this we behold
he Last Ditch party. They will stay
here in the mud-stop still, letting pro
yress and enterprise go marching on; per
hitting all power to be wrested from their
grasp, and when the dog is dead, the day
If compromise and union passed, the door
closed, the charm wound up, the thing all
liked, the last whistle blown, and the train
,ff, then come the Last Ditch men with
heir regrets and. sorrow. Too late, too
ate If you want to be left out in the cold
our years more, as you were four years
jince, try it on again. But the majority of
he white people of Louisiana ''want none
} that in their'n."