The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-08-27
WHY THE PEOPLE OF LOUISIANA
SHOULD ALLY THEMSELVES
WITH THE DEMOCRATIC
PARTY.

j, There are some enlightened and patrio
- citizens who counsel the people
\, Louisiana to hold in allegiance their ALLAN
~ with the Democratic party. until it shall ha
held its Matt onal Convention and laid down
platform Of principles and declared its poll
of government in case of success. Til,
: seem to think that there may be some possib
r. future contingency which would make
alliance with the Radical or Republican par
u preferable
These enlighted-or Independent" ge,
|. tlemen, as they prefer to be calied-woul
= have us thus pause for several reasons, whic
. seem to them Of paramount importanc,
First, because the Democratic party of th
: several States, as they assert, is not unit i
sentiment upon some of the leading ques
tons OF the day, as. for instance, that rela
ing to finance, that of tariff and free trade
, that of internal improvements by the Fedora
> Government, such as giving aid to interna
tional railroads, like the Southern Pacific, o
building and keeping up the levees Of tn,
Mississippi River, and the like, and othel
minor questions. Second, because it il
possible that on all these q1estions the
Radical party may make declarations o.
policy more consonant with our ideas
than those of the Democratic party, and that
In that event we should ally ourselves with
the Radical rather than with the Democratic
party. And that, in the mean time, we should
hold ourselves in an independent" attitude,
SO that if neither of the two great parties
should chance to square its platform with our
ideas we might form third party, or take no
part in the Presidential election
Such is the position of these "independ-
emit" gentlemen, briefly expressed. SO far as
we are able to understand it from the utter
ances of their Independent organs.
We would readily admit-all things else
being equal in reference to the two parties
and the questions above referred to being
considered paramount to all others-that the
counsel of these gentlemen would be entitled
to serious consideration. For with such
qualifications of the proposition, We might
safely look to the declarations Of principles to
be made by the respective parties in their
national conventions, for the guidance of our
course.
But judging these parties by their past
history, by their deeds rather than BY their
aoords, by which alone they can be safely
judged. what intelligent and patriotic man in |
Louisiana can hesitate as to choice between |
them? Unless we have the credulity to be-
lieve tnat some miracle may be wrought in
transforming the character of the Radical
party, it must be forever hateful and repul-
'ive to every Lousianian.
We can have no confidence in its death-bed
repentance. 1t is easy for the vilest sinner to
make professions of orthodox faith which
belle the whole tenor of his profigate life
when he considers himself in artic.lo norris
god might forgive him; but man, guided by
experience, would not trust him, should he
urvive the impending diss olution that had
xtorted the profession. The Divine teacher (
as instructed us to "judge tree by its {
ruit." II
Applying this rule of judgment to the Rad 6
'al party. is it not beyond the pale of re-
emption? What but evil fruits has it borne a
nee it sprung into life in an evil day The i
istory of its misdeeds is written in the desc. g
'ation OF every constitutional safeguard of b
le rights of the States, and Of the rights Of v
srsonal liberty, in the overthrow of self. 81
'vernment in the South and the impover- &
hment of our people, in official corruption a
ON the President down to the lowest Fed Ii
al ofice-holder, and in all the Il
ates where it has borne sway, p
the creation and fostering of gigantic fo
onopolies to swindle and Cypress the PEG. N
., in creating a public debt under which 10
nerations yet unborn must groan, in giving II
an irredeemable currency, in the debase- In
mt and generalization of the American Of
ople to degree that, if judged by their pa
lcial representatives, they might well be
q nation of knaves. isl
Such has been the Radical party hitherto, eq
it has been heroically opposed at every int
&c of its wicked career by the Democratic hu
'ty, whose constant warfare upon it and at
'osure of its crimes have brought it to that tw
IS in public odium that nothing but the ne
lighty power Of money and official patron an
can save it from humiliation. It is the tin
dra that has devastated the country, and
Democracy is the Hercules that is labor ma
TO destroy it. do,
hall we be asked to pause and chatter and pr
ne and chop logic over the financial ques- pre-
i ere this all-devouring monster has been ]
Eroyed? Shall we attempt to stay the club the
Hercules aimed at its hundred heads, until and
can learn what Hercules thinks about ..in- Of
ion ?" No, let us not pause; let us not hest I
/; let US join Hercules in destroying the dor
lister, and after that take counsel with all are
and wise men how we may remedy the clul
s which it has produced. zen
ct us not forget that the Radical party has join
a the cause of all our woes, not the least may
'hich is the flooding Of the country with spec
rag money" in lieu of the constitutional plac
ency of gold and silver, which now of