New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-05-24
GENUINE REPUBLICANS.

from an orthodox religion to the lates
false label on Bass pale ale.
We gave yesterday history OF DE
m ocracy. We showed its decline and dc
graduation from the day when Ihoma
Jefferson proclaimed I'VE are all Repub
lica ms, we are all Federalists. He pro
claimed this in the inaugural triumph
true Republican Democracy over tn
imputed tendency toward monarchy
aristocracy and government by property
From that date Democracy became popu
lar. We have traced its history until it ha
become an open and avowed combina
ton, without regard to principle
Of all who will oppose Re
publican incumbent for share Of thu
spoils to result from his eviction from
office. Hence the term Sham-ocracy, OF
government by deception. If such
decline and perversion be the law OF al
established systems, why should Repub'
licanism expect to be exempt from Its
operation? The Republican party has
carried into effect every theory of Thomas
Jefferson. All opposition to its doctrines
as incorporated in the fundamental law
has been abandoned. Opposition is mace
to its men. Lawless organizations are
formed to throw the Republican train
from the track, and to plumber the
wreck in the general smash-up.
1t is then in this hour of supreme
triumph that the Republican party
should remember the advice of its i'm
mortal founder, and provide at once for
that frequent recurrence to first prin-
ciples which can alone maintain the party
in the national administration, by the
will of the American people.
TO aid in determining the qualifications
for Republicanism, it is necessary to
define what Republican should be. He
is one who looks upon all citizens as
equal political integers, whose rights can
only be neutralized by the commission of
and conviction for crime. He regards all
laws enacted, and all DEGREES given under
the will of majority, subject to the
constitutional restrictions which they
have imposed on themselves to be bind
ing on every one who is party to the
government.
AS a corrollary to this guaranteed
equality the Republican demands the
education of all and the employment of
all. He demands that in all the detailed
application of these principles the equal
right of each citizen to the expression Of
his opinion through the organisms of law
or Of party usage shall be insured to all.
He is convinced of the despotism of the
kings, the hypocrisy of the hierarchs, the
visionary weakness of the aristocracy,
the rapacious robbery of monopolies, the
insane injustice of the ungoverned mob.
The Republican is proud of his country,
of it's growth and progress, of its rapid |
ascent to the highest seat among nations.
He is proud of its flag, either because he |
carried it in its enforcement Of a majority |
of the common constitution,
Or because as an emblem of amnesty and |
reunion it affords equal protection to the |
American citizen who supported its PROV
ass, or to him who was impatient to resist
it's power Such is our definition Of an
Republican. !
Shall We, then, sustain this doctrine,
md maintain its perpetuity in the nation
ii administration?
The Genuine Republicans say we will
10 SO.
This organization differs in nothing
rom the mass Of the Republican party.
It is but a volunteer vigilance organiza-
ion, devoted to the enforcement of Repub-
lean principles. This it proposes to do,
Is we understand it, by the following
means:
l. To insure that all candidates of the
party shall be bona fde chosen by a
majority of the members of the party.
This will be effected by the rule adopted
" the Republican Central Committee.
There viii be a register and an election
o select the Republican candidates
or all elective offices. 1t will be
moot election. 1t will be the re-
learsal on the Republican side of that
which it will have to perform on the day
# election. The effect Of SO fair choice
viii insure the selection of the best men,
While none will dare withhold support
rom the ticket on the plea of fraudulent
hoice of nominees.
2. To see that the party does not go
nto general action incumbered by the
often records of men who may have de-
rauded the country in the name Of the
republican party. Since Sham-ocraey has
withdrawn every objection to Republican
principles its attacks are confined to the
PERSONAL derelictions of protested Repub-
leans. To meet this the Republican order
las gone forth, as that of Napoleon after
It. Jean d'Acre or Moscow, to disembar-
ass the army of all who require to be
themselves defended. The resolute sacri-
ice of Cakes Ames and such of his asso-
,iates as took refuge under the Repub-
lean uniform began it. The expulsion
rom the Senate of Pomeroy and Cald-
WE'LL with strict inquiry into the moral
'ecord of representative incumbents; the
Investigation into alleged malfeasance
II Office by distinguished Repub-
lean. soldiers; the impeachment of
Republican judges; the strict in
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