The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-06-10
ORGANIZATION OF PARTIES.

there are TWO 5cCllOuS VI tHls COuuiS
that have grievances-the West and the
South. The East is supremacy content with
things just as they are, and its only aim will
be to maintain them so. The West is clam
orng for free trade and cheap transporta-
ton, and the almost stified voice OF the
South still feebly petitions for the right 81
self-government. To imagine that Partles
can remain as they are, with this line OF
discomfort drawn through the country
to imagine that the powerful western
States will continue to adhere TO party
which has made them the provincial APP
pendages to the East-tbat they will submit
TO have the national revenues used to carry
elections in North Carolina, and to endow
Credit Mobliers in Boston and New York,
while being withheld from the great rivers
Of this VALLEYS too great an absurdlty TO
be entertained. The West and South are
sick of Republicanism, and Senators Nor
ton, Pratt and Logan are entitled to the
credit Of having at last discovered the fact.
Thus writes the st. Louis Republican, and
very truthfully, too. That the great masses
Of the people are waking up to the impera-
tive necessity Of changing the character Of
the government that has held sway over the
country since the war, is perfectly obvious.
Since the reelection of President Grant, and
the fact was very soon after demonstrated
that there was no change Of policy promised,
a reaction began IN the minds of the people,
and at almost every State election an I'M
equivocal rebuke was administered to the
Republican party and the Administration.
The political revolution began in the
West, and Ohio spoke in tones of thunder
nh ;o1, in Ind
Illinois, Wisconsin, and then, in COnnec-
ticut and New Hempshires and lastly in
Oregon. Republiccanism has seen its day,
and as that party embraces all the bad with
none of the good features Of every political
party that ever existed, so we believe it
will be supplanted by one that will re-
present system nearer perfection than the
country has ever seen.
Practical experience has demonstrated the
error committed by the Democratic party in
advocating, as a political principle, unre-
strained suffrage. To that fallaciOus doc
trine can be attributed its downfall, and
with it the disruption of the Union and the
illiad of woes that subsequently befel the
country. 1t was democracy rampant, de-
mocracy run mad, that brought destruction
to the party and ruin to the people.
1t is this same bad element Of the Democ-
racy that will, and, in fact, has already
disorganizcd and demOralized the Republic
can party. Its founders and leaders had not
the craftsmanship to foresee the evil and
avoid the rock that shivered their antago-
nists to atoms, ard, as consequence, they
are now on the very brink Of ruin.
If the Democratic party sunk under the
weight Of unqualified suffrage, injudiciously
bestowed upon white people, what must be
the present embarrassment attending the
Republican party and its additional en-
reimbursement of thousands Of. ignorant and
debased negroes, fresh from the bonds Of
slavery! Government entrusted to such
hands, cannot long exist, and the party tole-
rating such an infamous outrage will have
but an ephemeral life.
Added to this destructive doctrine with
which the Republican party is saddled, is
that bad feature of the old Wing party
it's rotten financial policy. Paper currency
and National banks are not calculated to
give a country credit or make its people
prosperous.
But this discovery has been made too late
by its followers to save the party that in
augurated this pernicious system, and its
downward movement has thereby been &C
tolerated, and will not be arrested until it
is buried in oblivion. With this laundering
financial scheme the Democratic party can
not be charged, and, i'll the future, it will
on this score profit by the experience of it's
adversaries.
We believe, therefore, that in the next
of the party, the theories,
that have in the past proved its ruin, will
be eliminated, and under the old and wise
principles of free trade, State rights, specie
with qualified suffrage, the
Democracy can 60 before the country con
ddent of success, and FULLY able to remedy
the wrongs of the people, and to recover
the lost glories of the country.