The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1874-07-29
TIE MASS MEETING AGAIN.

Saturday, the Sth day of August, in
this Town at the Town Hall, contin-
ues to gather Importance and intense
interest az the hour and day approach,
and we'll may the PROSTATE people of
once fair and happy Rapides, take
the most lively stock in the call,
made at the request of many of her
best and puresJ fellow-citizens.
Right here we may as well rise and
explain our position once more before
the bugle blast is sounded and our
Parish die is cast for veal or woe.
A few peculiar rumors having been
waited to our ears, coming from few
tightly sources, and "we-learns"
Of the Caucasian about names from
two baptismal fonts, must be our ex-
cuse for this explanation. The first
indicates attention to the different
verbiage Of the call in the Caucasian
from that of the Democrat, which we
noticed at the time and thought rath-
er strange, but attached no impor-
lance to it, but must now make q
clean breast of and tell all about it.
Personally and editorially from the
start we were firmly convinced that
the contest should be under the aus
Nces, guidance, nay protection of the
Democratic Party, whose principles
and tenets are Of and with us, and it
was only in behalf Of many Of our
people from various sections of the
Parish, and at the urgent and press
ing solicitation, thrice made, of one
of the Editors of the Caucasian, that
we wrote the call and placed it in the
most conspicuous column Of the
Democrat, and there have kept it
ever since. And surely we expected
it would have been copied in the
Caucasian ver5atim ct se19atum, and
without alteration, so as not to have
the few tightly ones, we have alluded
to, room or argument to suppose that
| the two Journals should be at vari-
ance on so vital step, Or to expect a
divergence from the call on the part
of the Mass Meeting. We have been
mistaken, however, and when we have
disposed Of the second point, we will
toe the mark once more and talk for
the Democrat. A few drops Of bad
ink which we are now using, for want
of better, will suffice Oh the name
question. Our ticket, nor our small
bills, don't call for anything of the
kind, nor did we so understand it,
nor do we intend to blindly bind our
self in any such manner.
Louisiana, and specially Rapides,
are in q sad and forlorn condition
and may be burnt powder can't save
them, but still the effort must b e
made, and we must die, fighting gal
lantly and game to the last. This
means unity, good feeling, proper I'M
derstanding, fair start! And this is
what troubles us, this the present
agitation and confused muddle, which
clouds us more and more every day,
and bids us use all our keen fore
sight and manly energy to further a
holy cause. With these views and
purely for the good of our native Pa
IRISH, our home and all our sacred re-
lations, did we consent and consent
de bon cP,r, to make the call we have
so oftened mentioned, in direct oppo-
sition to our political convictions
and in the very face of the great par
ty to whom We owe allegiance and of
whose principles and teachings we
feel proud Of; but we have done it
and taken the step and as far as our
Parish fight and home affairs are
concerned, we must and will abide
the issue of the voice and Will of the
people as it will be promulgated at
the Mass Meeting on the 9Th Of Au-
gust. We will not permit ourself to
carve or frame doubt, but that the
meeting and it's expressions and acts
will be pure, patriotic, manly, moth
ing tricky, nothing unfair, no loaded
dice, but what every man in Rapides
has right to think and expect and
solely for the good of all and for the
radiance of all our curses, and the
liberated infamies which still cling
to us. Thus, and then only, you
can't count us to make our usual
good fight.
ga few more remarks men Of Ra-
pides, and we turn it all over to you
with its responsibility, its good, its
bad and its intrinsic value. The
Democrat, what little reputation and
influence it may possess is, as ever,
on a firm base, solid on the Peter
rock of Democracy, and guided by
the same hand and brains, to which
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