New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-09-17
A STOP TO THE FUSION BUSINESS.

a STOP TO The FUSION BUSINESS.
We are not disappointed to learn that
the Democratic Parish Committee de-
clines to fuse with the Liberals on NUM-
cipal aud parochial nominations. 1t has
been our belief from the start that the
Democracy was working with a view to
obtain the city and parish of Orleans Of
fees, without much hope Of carrying the
State. Here they claim to be in such
majority as to insure them an easy VIC
tory, while they are admittedly weak in
the country parishes But their firm ad-
herence to their resolution to keep their
State ticket in the field, thus dividing the
conservative vote and offering to the Re
publican8 the prospect Of an easy victory,
led to what we considered a premature
surrender of the Liberals and the one
sided fusion bargain, which has not salts
fed anybody. For as the Liberals, Demo
csats and Republicans secured no substan-
tial benefits on the State ticket, they had
nothing left but a vague hope that some
compensation would be allowed when the
parish and municipal selections were to be
made. But it seems the Democrats are
determined to carry out their original de-
sign so far as these Offices are concerned,
while they will seek to hold the Liberals
to the bargain which led to the displace-
ment Of Penn for McEnery, Herman for
Ogden, and Mcdonald for Lusher. We
are to be served with Democratic courses
throughout, and the Liberals are ex-
pected to swallow what is set before them
and ask no questions and make no wry
faces
AS might be expected, however, there
are sounds of murmuring throughout the
Liberal camp. The men who have en-
barked in the new movement to set aside
Democracy and avoid defeat, are concern
ed and alarmed at the evident tendency to
settle into the old grooves that led to the
inevitable disaster which has been the
goal Of the Democracy for several sucesso
i've elections. AS fast as the fusion moveO
ment assumes a Democratic consistency,
the Liberals grow dissatisfied, and it has
already assumed such shape that the
Liberal Democrat may join with the Lib
eral Republican in demanding to know
what part or lot he has in it. It Is
obvious that neither has any thing further
to do with it than to 60 to the polls in
November, and vote for the Democatie
State, parochial and municipal candidates
that will be then and There presented for
all the important Offices to be flied
This, then, is the great plan Of saliva
ton by means Of which our modern re-
deemers are to ''save louisiana It
looks to US like Calvinistic political doc
trim (which looks only to the salvation of
the elect, and that the Democracy only are
to be saved by being supported at the
public expense. And this is what the
Liberals have gained by sacrificing two
popular and able candidates for Governor,
under the mistaken idea that they were
thereby promoting the harmony Of all the
clements opposed to their success They
gave up Penn for harmony, and had Nice
Emery thrown in to boot 1t now looks as
though the boot Of the trade is all they
are to get. They yielded the important
State offices to the Bourbons, with the
reasonable expectation that their claims
would be admitted in the parish convene
ton.
We're we the referee i'll . the contest Bee
tween the Liberals and the Democrats,
we should, without hesitation, declare the
whole fusion bargain off, for the reason
that one Of the parties alone can gain any
thing by it. The Democracy clings to the
turkey and offers the buzzard to the Lib
erals in all the negotiations No faith is
kept by these Last Ditchers. No pledges
made before the election will be regarded
as binding upon them should they be sue
cessful, and it becomes a necessity Of self
preservation that the Liberals lose no time
in making other arrangements In the
present temper of the party they will vote
against the fusion State ticket, because it
is the result Of bargain which has al
ready been broken by one Of the parties
to it. For the Liberals will be forced to
nominate municipal and parochial tickets
or be unrepresented. In this movement
they will be bitterly opposed by the De-
mocracy, while the latter will, of course,
insist upon their carrying out the contract
to support the State ticket. And thus the
so-called fusion business shows itself to
be the one-sided, unfair, and altogether
impracHcable thing which we suspected
it was from the first.