The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1874-10-28
New NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
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! The Herald says, speaking of the late

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i The Herald says, speaking of the late
elections: So & y
The Radicals ought to learn some
wisdom from the visible decline OF
their party strength. 1t is not too late
tor them to retrieve their losses if they
will reform certain leading features of
their policy. They cannot afford to
repeat nor to persist in their blunders
in the Southern States. There must
be no more of the warranted inter-
meddling by which Kellogg was made
Governor Of Louisiana. &c o 9 ress
must give that State fair election as
soon as it assemblies, and the President
and his superserviceable Attorney Cen
eral must leave the local affairs of the
South to local management. The Ad>
ministration must relieve itself, SO far
as 1t legally can, from all responsibility
for what is done in the South. 1t
must shift t 9 responsibility to the
shoulders of the Southern people,
Il ad McEnery been inaugurated> as
Governor of Louisiana. in January,
1873, as he would have been ifIthe
President had not inte,ferred, there
| would either have been no trouble in
that State or they would have been
| chargeable to a Democratic State Gov
| ernmeDt.
The New York Times (Republican)
| after ascribing Me position taken by
the Republican in favor of the temper
ance movement, the misdeeds of pub
lie officials, the Credit Mobi.ier scan
dial, the back pay bill and the Sanborn
contract, as among the causes of the
recent over whelming defeat OF til 6
party in Ohio and Indiana goes on
to say:
Then, the condition of the South is
not winning Republican votes. No one
doubts that the President did his duty
in putting down the White Leayuers
in New Orleans last month; bnt the
fact that, nine years after the surren-
der at Appomatox, such duty de-
volved on the President il. not calcu.
lated to excite enthusiasm for the par
ty that has been in power during that
period. The party leaders have felt it
necessary to circulate reports concern
ing "utrages in the South, some OF
which were obviously not to be relied
on. They undoubtedly expected to
bring into prominence the depravity of
the Democrats; but the public seems
to have thought that, however de-
PRAYED the Democra 8 may have been,
the existence Of this alleged "reign of
terror" in the South was something for
which the Republicans were not who'll
~ Irresponsible. Aud it is not impos-
sible that a portiaasofrtl'supesPle of
Ohio are foolish enough to believe Cen
eral Grants personal partisaus in their
assertions regarding d third term, and
80 far as they do believe these, they
are not enthusiastic over them.
The New York Tribune of the 18th,
says:
Then party ties have been growing
looser for a year or two. Men have
learned to bolt easily, and to accept
unsatisfactory caucus nominations
with very i'll grace.
The panic has been followed by hard
times. Furnaces have blown out.
Manufactures have stopped. Wages
have fallen. Thousands of laborers
can find no work at any wages. 1t al
ways happens that such a condition
makes heavily against the party in
power. Some think the Government
directly responsible for their misfor-
tunes; all think that something is
wrong and they. want change.
Local causes have swelled the AID.
mihistration disasters The temper
ance crusade aroused an unusual feel
ing, and the adoption of a prohibitory
plank in the Republican platform in
Ohio cost them far more in the cities
than they gained in the country.
But how clearly the retult in each
case may be traced to some local
cause, the important fact remains, that
the effect is national. Tilden ia 10 900
votes stronger to-day in New York by
reason of Tuesdays work at the West,
and the politicians nav as we'll take