New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-07-18
rHE nRFAnpuL pENocRACY.

THE DREADFUL DEMOCRACY.
The Democracy, like the Archbishop Of
Grenada, requires some one to remind II
when the decrepitude Of seniity is upon
it. This is being rudely enforced by for.
mer adherents who can no longer applaud
or indeed improve its octogenarian pre-
tensions to conduct policy which it has
SO long outlived and so little compre-
bends. The growing intelligence OF the
age and that terrible telegraph has exposed
the duplicate doctrines by which the OPP
posite interests of Alabama and Pennsyl-
vania were conferred in support of the same
ticket.
With these expressions the Democratic
prestige is gone, and strong symptoms OF
INSTRUMENTATION appear among followers
who once yelled their faces in its presence,
and complied implicitly with its most abb
solute commands.
The first cause of disaffection may be
found in that clause of the committees
address which says: The Democratic par
ty has no intention to obstruct in what
ever it may do, the colored people in the
enjoyment of their rights guaranteed them
by the constitution and the laws. To this
the White Leaguers object violently.
They have no idea of permitting the exer-
else of these rights. They even pledge
themselves to the substitution of other
labor for that of the colored people.
Whenever the colored laborers shall have
placed them in funds from the matured
crop, the White Leaguers will be able to
make more pronounced demonstration
Of their determination to drive their own
plows and carriages and grow their own
cotton and sugar.
This endeavor on the part of the De-
mocracy to acknowledge obedience to the |
law and constitution, even on paper, sets |
the White Leaguers bowling. 1t has, we
learn, even caused that steady drawer in
the traces of Democracy, the Shreveport
Times, to renounce its allegiance. 1t has
produced even more fatal effect upon
the traditional allegiance Of the parishes.
In ancient times the Democratic grandees
Of New Orleans might, at the Saratoga or
White Sulphur; in the salons of Paris or
The Chalets, or Auberge of Chamouni,
make up the slate Of Democratic cam
oaign. They would assign the State
departments, federal representative and
oreign missions among the Democratic
,randees and their adherents. A conven-
ion of the parishes, called to meet in
New Orleans, some vigorous and violent
rticles in the press, ana the political
erfs would confirm the arrangements
by their chiefs.
Even this bond seems to have been
roken. The enfranchisement Of the in
ustrial seems to have extended to the
olitical serf. The ex-Democrats of the
arishes seem no longer willing to permit {
his manipulation. They demand that
ne convention which is to unite all the 6
ements that want Office shall meet some 8
here else than in New Orleans. i
Shreveport, Baton Rouge, or Franklin
Re esteemed suitable points at which to t
ent the wrath or the blarney of Dem {
,racy. In truth, if this change of loca- S
on be adopted, Democracy will stand as q
dream and delusion. Many of the I
ost ancient worshipers of that worm i
ten creed are bad travellers, whether O
ON the cost of railway fares and e
,tel bills, or from the physical O
nbarrassments Of a chronic govt con- J
acted in the flush and famous times when y
idell was king of the ring. The system Il
alternates or proxy representation u
lich was SO conveniently carried out by Il
ltting good and true Democrats of the F
nd club in the line Of official selections, IL
Is an huge percentage in favor of the m
dignitaries. The White CT
'ague are determined to throw the "
arer burden Of travelling expenses, and to
rhaps, Of an August convention, upon ol
g octogenarians. This will punish To
EN-. A correspondent of the Picayune 81
iting from Rapides parish ventures thus "
signify his dissent from the attempt to th
ntinue business under the Jay Cooke 50
nkruptcy of the Democrats: ",
Should we have to fight under that ban m
our chains will be riveted more firmly :,
IN they are now. We have gone to bat CT
under that banner since 1868, and we IA
| HfiI nhotn Nn Of <hA n
J BOurbOns. Unfortunately for ~
We have too many great men in our an
'ty. And unless something is
le we will be defeated. Numbers of our
It men will not 60 to the polls; men who
lrd bullets pass as we'll as felt them. In
name of my native State let US throw Sill
ay all old issues and old names and fight 81,
the white mans party.
Whether the last suggestion be wiser u
n defeat under the Democratic ban 'e
may be subsequently seen. In the pi
antime, it appears that there is revolt ",
inst the Democratic Bourbons who ", =,
inner at Biarritz, Baden Baden and . -
atoga, and that the men of the Bayou ~
Brule have the dead wood on them. :,
; Democratic leaders will, perhaps, 80
band, and, in the event of some future ~
osition victory, claim Office On the W. ~,
und of their patriotic sacrifices in SO w
ng. "Watchman, what Of the San A'o
rim of Seventy? 'o'
THE JACKSON RAILROAD DEPOT. est
here is, we believe, no legal dispute as OF