New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-03-13
STILL HARp1Ne on TIE PRESIDENCY.

STILL HAKelNG ON The PRESIDENCY.
The radical Democratic. organ Of this
city, like all Democratic organs, has q
sharp penchant for harping on the Presi-
dency. In looking after Western inter-
ests and Western politics it has come to
the conclusion, sagely o. not, that 'the next
anti-Radical lit means anti-Republican,
though it fails to say SOY candidate fer
the Presidency ought to be Western
man." Now, it is suggested that this
seems very like an extreme measure, mas
much as "a Western man" comes from an
extreme point in the republic; and as the
Democrats have recently qualified their
Democracy by styling themselves the Con-
servative Democratic party, the conclu-
sion of the aforesaid radical Democratic
organ must be regarded as ''out of line;"
that truly conservative line by which a
party may hope to elevate to the Presi-
dency one that trains so as to pass muster
with the majority of the American people.
They have long since given their verdict
against sectional attempts to elect Presi-
dent; and as the South has suffered more
from these attempts in the past than any
other portion of the country, it is certainly
not the part of wisdom to raise such issues
in the coming presidential election. The
Democratic party in the North is much
stronger than in the West, and 'thereforei it
is not wise in Southern Democrats to make
sectional issue that may deprive them of
the aid Of Northern Democrats, while it is
not certain that by doing so they could
secure the vote of the West for Western
man for the Presidency nominated on Sec
tional grounds.
The radical Democratic organ of this
all due respect we say it-does
not help it's argument in favor OF a COM
bination of Western and Southern votes
to elect the next President by stating that |
"for three-fourths of the century which
the life of the republic its chief |
have been from the Atlantic |
slope" This statement, admitting it to |
be true, is no proof Of injustice; no proof |
that other sections of the country have
the Office of President for
of the time since the foun-
dation of the republic. For, be it remem-
bered, the republic had been in existence
nearly half century before many of the
Western States now sectionally appealed
10 had been formed and admitted into the |
Union; thus showing that if the Presi-
lents have been mainly chosen from the
States lying on the Atlantic slope, it was
1ot from any sectional consideration, but
or the reason that there were but few
States west Of that slope for nearly the
irst half century of the existence of the
:epublic. And furthermore, if there had
been any injustice done during the early
1ears of the Republic by dominant Sec
ional feeling, that injustice must have
been perpetrated by the Democratic party,
or that party was in power for three
ourths of the time from the period when
Washington was called to the presidential
hair until Lincoln was chosen President
Since that time at each presidential cleo
ion a Western man has been chosen to
he Presidency, which fact of itself, fresh
n the minds of the people, is sufficient to
efute the charg that a sectional feeling
lad conspired to deprive the West of its
Iue proportion of political influence in
he country.
The REPUBLICAN holds that the inter-
SITS of the States of the American Union
re identical in the main, and that any
tempt to ALLEVIATE one section from an
Their by teaching that the American Con-
ress is unable to legislate for the benefit
f all is wrong, and, furthermore, that it
J a grievous offense, after all that has
cen experienced as the result of section.
lism in this country, for the Democratic
arty to attempt to reinstate itself in
over by sectional appeals at this time.