The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-03-17
WHO TO MAKE PRESIDENT.

| OanalOr COnkI0P ana speaker Blame seen
} to The albany Express to be the men VIII,
: stand the best chance at present for the Re
publican nomination for the Presidency
Either one of the gentlemen, it says
would make good candi late, and, il
elected, good President OF the two i
seems to Us that ex-Speaker Blaine is the
most available. 50 far as the Democratic
nomination is concerned, Tie Express thinks
lit begins to look as though tx Gov. Sey
mours name would be about as available as
any. '-,N-,r York Tribune.
r. the Democrats Of the South and West a
Western anti-Rldical candidate seems very
desirable. The South has no candidate to put
forward and will have none, but it is fit that
the great Mississippi Valley should have a
Western President as the head and exponent
Of party that shall protect the rights of the
great producing classes.
Southern and Western Democrats will 90
cheerfully into the work of the canvass of
1s1G. under the lead of any worthy candidate
without regard to tie section from which he
may be chosen An abiding sense of the
many injuries endured at the hands of the
party now ruling, is q bond of union among
Democrats and Conservatives Of the whole
country. NJ other declaration of policy and
principles is needed than opposition to the
gross wrongs which the Radical Republican
party has committed during its long tenure
Of capital authority.
But, inasmuch IS the chief wrong has been
suffered by the agricultural classes of the
country; as the South and West are peopled
almost exclusively by such; as the blunde1s
and shortcomings Of the Radicals have fallen
with special and peculiar severity upon the
producers of grain, fruit, cattle sugar, cotton.
tobacco aud other articles of food or of mate
rails for manufacturers as the returns for
ported have been shorn of one-third or one
half their value by the exorbitant tariff put |
upon foreign goods received in exchange: as
he farmers of the West have been swindled |
n freight charges on their grain for the ben
fit of subsidized corporations; as the whole
agricultural region Of the Mississippi valley
las been forced to pay tribute to Eastern mill
'wners aud spectators under the shelter and
of Radical enactments: and mas
nuch as the distress, business derangemen.,
iscontent and discouragement now preva
ant IN that region are owing chiefly to Radi
al corruption, quackery, jobbing and chcan-
ry, we of the South and West ask that
Western man be made the color-bearer and
Sponent of the great crusade in which all
lese sutferings of the Southern and Western
eople shall be remembered
The bankers, capitalists, monopolists, job
ers traders, spectators and politicians have
adj their day. In organizing to oppose them t
id drive them from the stations which they =
ave abused and polluted, let us choose one of v
lie noble Democrats Of the West, pure and
corruptib'e, good thinker, a hard worker. r
It'll clean record and honorable purposes,
Use enough to know the bad motives of bad
en-, and patriotic enough to prefer the we'll
ing of his countrymen to the promotion of
" class, sect, clique or party. Let us have
statesman who viii SO Lead the councils of
e republic that the labor of the husband
IN may bring to him its full value. and that
e toll OF the mechanic may orce suffice to !,
ing a comfortable subsistence to his wife
d children. Let lis have for our chief
preventative man Of the people of the West,
lose very namo may be an index and sum
r. of the whole creed of reform.