New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-08-29
TIE SPONSORS AND The BAPTISM.

It is not common, as it would Ger
tainly be a very indecorous, thing for th'
godfathers and godmotLers to get into /
row around the baptismal font IL regard
to the appellation of the infant for whose
moral future they became underwriters
This discreditable disputation has, how
ever, arisen over the very cradle of tht
Baton Rouge bantling. Even the house
hold Of our exemplary old friend, the Pic
seems in a doubtful and divided state, and
while one column rejoices that the name
peoples party, as al along suggested
| by that column, means exactly what i
was always contended to mean, and i;
therefore very proper appellation, an.
other column cynically asks, us it the
| peoples party?" 1t then comments upon
| the extraordinary omission to fix the
| name on the basket wherein the founding
| was laid at the door of half dozen puta-
| tive papas, and candidly declares ''that
we are left with only constructive YER
diet on one absorbing issue Of the hour. .
We explain elsewhere that the term
Peoples party can not logically be predi-
Gated Of the gathering at Baton Rouge,
unless that meeting intended to deny the
legality of the act Of Congress establishing
the citizen ship of colored people. If the
convention takes that ground III open con-
travention of the law, then, Of course, the
appellation of Peoples party, chosen by
eve, the white people, will be correct,
since there being no other citizens than
white citizens there can be no other
people than white people. A peoples
party then, which excludes colored citi-
zens,s is Just what we have elsewhere
proven it to be, simple revival of the
White Brotherhood, which Congress took
very decisive and successful measures to
destroy, under that name The fact is
that the platform which has gathered upon
its capacious floor such a variety Of accord
ant sects violates the published principles
of every one of these sects except that of the
White League. The Democratic party,
the Liberal, Reform and Conservative
parties have all recognized the fourteenth
amendment and the laws enforcing the
political rights thereby given. The letter
Of the fifteenth amendment prohibits any
State from abridging or denying the right
Of citizen to vote Oh account of his race
or color. The spirit of obedience to this
amendment would be to refrain from
doing by private combination what could
no. be done by the legal enactment Of the
State
The itch for seeing themselves in print
has been patent to the fame OF men and
parties. If the assemblage at Baton
Rouge had published q ticket composed
of honest and popular names, the support
Of such a ticket might have come from
any person who deemed the nominees the
best before the people In attempting to
combine men who have recognized the
supremacy of federal law, upon plat
form built to bear battery directed
against the federal law, prudent men will
not choose to complicate themselves with
the White League or White Brother
Whether this rite of political baptism
will be performed after light sprinkle OF
subordinate offices, or upon "a total i'm
under the auspices Of the White
Brotherhood, is yet in doubt. When