The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1875-11-17

'oPOse ~ tssas party. lie all1ance ChlS
year of the Republican party with the
Canal Ring vindicates that popular
judgment of one year ago.
1t is more striking success which
the Democracy of New York have now
won, for it is moral success and an
unprecedented success--s0 striking aud
SO significant in that respect as to
make it matter of indifference wheth-
er our numerical majority shall turn
out to be 25,OO0-the Off year numeri-
cal equivalent Of a $1,000 gubernato-
rial majority, or shall turn out to be o
little more than but half that number.
1t is an unprecedented success. No
other political prrty in the United
States ever before staked its own exis-
tence upon reforms within it's own con.
stituency. That has now twice been
done by the Democracy of New York.
First, in the fight to expel the Demo-
cratic members Of the Tweed Ring
from the Democratic party, which cost
it the control of the State for a term.
Second, in the fight to expel the Dem
ocratic members Of the Canal Ring,
which has been carried through trium-
ptantly, saving every administrative
aud executive officer in the State and
costing US nothing but the loss Of one
branch of the State Legislature. 1t is
thus success unprecedented in the
history of the Democratic party.
The Republican members Of the
Tweed Ring, the Republican members
of the Canal Ring have never been ex-
PEELED from the Republican party
The attempt to expel them has never
been made. The proposal to expel
them was never broached by the pu-
rest or the boldest man in ssthe party
Of great moral IDEAS" Nor was the
attempt ever made, or proposal ever
broached, in the Republican party to
expel from its ranks or from it's leader
SHIP the corrupt ring exclusively Re-
pub. can in membership. The Credit
Mobilier Ring: the Custom House Ring,
the Indian Ring, the Carpct-bag Ring,
the Kitchen-Cabinet Ring, the Dis
trict of Columbia Ring, instead Of be-
ing elected from the Republican party
have risen to its control-cut purses Of
its empire and its rute. Promotion to
Cabinet appointments, to Judgesbips,
to foreign embassies, las been the re-
ward bestowed by the head of the Re-
publican party upon the men whom
its protection could not shield from
the wrath Of the people. Worse still,
the very men who had stolen the live
~ of Democracy to serve the devil IN,
and whom the Democracy had ejacu-
lated from their council chambers and
their fellowship, were received with
effusive joy into the Republican camp
and court. Yesterdays success is thus
utterly without precedent, either as a
proposal, an attempt, or a victory, in
the history Of the Republican party.
By such efforts, by such victories the
Democracy are subduing the prejndices
Of the war period and are winning the
sympathies Of the intelligent, the vir-
tuous, the patriotic citizens of the Uni
ted States. And the eminence which,
belongs to New York in the Democra-
cy of the Union, by virtue Of her un-
matched victories, she maintains by a
still higher title and with q more gene
rOns and enforced assent, in the moral
character of those victories.
To have expelled it's half Of the
Tweed Ring though at the cost Of los
ing Democratic supremacy in the
State; to have uprooted and elected
it's half Of the Canal Ring, running the
same risk again, but this time yictori-
onsly, this time despite an open avow-
ed alliance of the Republican party
with both halves of that shattered ring
these are moral victories whicl, far
outweigh in value to party the more
striking numerical results that alune
attract the eyes of shallow prophets
and hand-tO-m0uth journalists and pol
iticians. For moral victories breed
majorities, if besides the physical or
der of the universe, there is moral
order, as stable in its laws, and as sov-
ereign in events.-[N. Y. World.