New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-12-13
DEMOCRACY EXPOSED,

| The President is said to have Deen DEMO
Graf in 1856. and General Butler was {
"strict con structionist" in 1861. Mr.. vii
liams, the nominee for Chief Justice, wa!
q Dem ocratic appointee of Mr.. Pierce
Senator Carpenter was Democrat also
and Senator Morton is placed in the same
category. If this be SO, how is it to bt
accounted for? Are these men dishones
and INSCRIPTIONS above those on whom
the tower of Sloan fell? Their elevation
and the consistent confidence Of the peo'
pie forbid such belief. For it IS to be
observed that not these men alone have
Quilted the Democratic party. The
masses of the people have done 50, and
the immense majorities which once gov
erned the country have now melted into
minority having no fixed principles. but
willing to fight in any campaign for a
share of the spoils which they can neither
now conquer nor control
| 1t is reasonable to suppose that these
eminent men and the thousands who ac-
company them found the frauds Of the
false Democracy, and were determined no
longer to be responsible for them. The
REPUBLICAN has explained how the tele-
graph ruined the Democratic party. Be-
fore the adoption Of this inysntion it was
very easy to unite a party upon the sup
port of an infallible head, leaving to Sec
tartan zealots in every locality to make
their politics as popular as possible. With
the limited intercourse of sections this
dispensation worked admirably The pro-
tectionist of Pennsylvania bid high
wages, and the free trader of Mississippi
pledged himself for cheap goods The
free soiler of New York acclaimed on the
sacred freedom Of the land from the foot
of bond labor. The fre-eater Of Carolina
appealed for men to march into Kansas
and assert the right Of property in man.
When the telegraph and double daily
mails made instantaneous and simulta-
neous display Of these ''co-operatives'' in
IIouti, tAC CAlCSb WAC AIUSA tLS ooAAAS eio
that produced by the sudden flash Of the
calcium light upon the mysterious per-
formers in the "dark seance." Dupes in
dignantly denounced the cheat and
quilted in disgust the scene in which
the Demo cratic collision had been made
so manifest. The imposture has never
been revived except in small way, and
in very ignorant communities. There has
been no instance in party history in which
such combination of antagonists was
kept up so long and SO successfully, but
when in the famine and thirst Of Office
and the rabid clutch for spoils the Demo-
cratic party took up as candidate the open
enemy of all their Southern principles, and
when in Louisiana they bargained with
the man to whom they attributed all the
local evils Of which they complained,
varnish became SO thick that it fell Of.
The human countenance could not sup
press the contortions OF a frantic frown
on one side, with an approving grimace
On the other. Of course all ordinary per-
formers threw up such part. Neither
Garrick nor Joe Jefferson could have
played it. It is, therefore, that states
men having regard for consistency'haye
been compelled to abandon party which
combines such contradictions. The latest
phase Of this Democracy is 70 go in under
an alias and attach Republican majority.
1t is the peoples party" the Reform
party" the "Fusion party, and it may be
but fragment Of combined opposition,
yet so soon as an election upon
any issue results in the defeat Of
q Republican. instantly it is claimed as
a Democratic victory. We have had this
sort of thing Fl ON Ohio to Oregon. How
long is this hopeless disturbance to go on:
A party assuming the doctrines of Thomas
Jefferson has violated every principle he
ever taught. 1t has been exposed and
stripped Of the venerable garb which that |
grand old Republican once wore, but |
which has been so much dishonored in |
the Democratic masquerade. Tweed,
honored by Tammany Tweed, Estates
man." who but carried into money prac- |
tee the political combinations he had |
been taught to believe perfectly proper,
IS but the victim of party tactics. He
lung to the title of Statesman because
1e lad succeeded in combining the vote
IF men Of opposite opinions in favor of his
dill for auditing bogus accounts. He can
not see the difference between that and |
he nomination of a political antagonist |
or a share Of the offices he will have at
lis disposal. Nor can We. 1t is for such
practices the Democratic party has been
exposed and expelled from popular conf
ience. 1t has not been yet clad in a zebra
suit in place Of the red breeches Of Demo-
ratio Jefferson. It has been allowed to
escape into obscurity under the n0'le prose-
lui Of popular contempt. 1t is now
political loafer, willing to join the most
combinations for a free drink
'r dinner. OF course the President Of
he United States, the leading members
If the United States Senate, the nominee
or the succession of John Marshall, had
he sense to see and the integrity to aban-
lon such fraud. The American people
would have abandoned them if they had
lot.
MACMAHON AND BHZAINE,
With our usual avowal that we do not
the French people or their