The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-07-27
loualosonbille Chief.
No Alliance With the Bourbons,
IFrom the n. o. Republican,


The Last Ditchers having utterly
refused to cooperate in any manner
with the Liberal Republicans in max
ing up their State ticket, can not be
expected to he consulted in the for
NATION of "a ticket by the fifth OF Au-
o,1st convention, for the Liberals and
Liberal Republicans, to whom alone
we can Hook for success against the
Grant Custom House ticket, now re-
fuse to affiliate with them in any man
ner. The Liberal party is composed
Of the great mass OF sensible, honest
men, who are disguised with the old
time-serving Democracy, and the Lib
eral Republicans are willing to CO.
operate with them in their new de-
parture. ANY attempt at interference
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 con-
suit or compromise with the Republl-
cans when such action was proposed
by the latter, they are now ruled ont.
There can be no compromise. The
elements are too radically antagonls-
tic. The Democracy does not desire
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 promises 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 a
place in the new one. AS we have
often said, between the ticket put for
ward by the rump committees and the
Baton Rouge offering, the Republic
cans of Louisiana prefer the latter.
They do not like either, but will not,
under any circumstances, accept OF
any portion of the former.
The delegates to the Liberal con-
,yention should bear in mind that
there is deep gulf between them and
the Bourbons, and any attempt to
cross it, or bridge it over, or even to
look i'm that direction, will result IN
the defeat of their ticket. For the
Last Ditchers do not represent one
tenth of the strength of the late DEM
ocratic party. The ReformeIs left
them in disgust last winter, and but
few of them have returned. The hol-
low truce patched up by few old as
pirants for Office has already been in
tlignantly repudiated by the honest
masses who have rallied around the
Liberal standard.
1t should be borne in mind that
there is no strength in the multiply
ing of names; that the Democrats,
the Reformers and the Liberals mere
~ represent the party that was in a
minority in 1870. Without an Access
sion of strength from the Liberal Re-
publicans, all the trouble and expense
already incurred in preparations to
defeat the Kellogg Custom House tick
ct will have been for no purpose. For
sthe objections of the Liberal Republic
cans to the " united State ticket" are
both political and personal. 1t has
been organized on basis of bitter
hostility to one man, distinguished
member of the Liberal Republicans,
who still has their confidence. They
have already declared their preference
for him as their candidate for Cover
nor, and are little likely to fraternize
with those whose sole capital stock in
politics, and whose chief bond of union
is n senseless feeling of personal ha-
tired towards their favOrite. The SIAN
,Iers and abuse heaped by McEnery,
bennett, Randolph and all the little
tences of being great, are deeply re-
scented 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 Governor
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
he too high priced ut that rate.