The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1875-09-11
Democratic Organization.

Democratic Organization.
We had thought that q~ietus had
bceu given the movement for the re-
organization Of the Democratic party
of this State at this present moment
bnt, We find our learned contempt.
rary, the Quachita Telegraph, still ur-
,gins the matter upon tho people of
North Louisiana and demanding &C.
ton on their part in the premises.
We admire the patriotic tone Of
friend, the Telegraph, and willing.
ly admit the force Of its arguments,
but beg leave to demur on the ques-
ton Of expeaieney, . question the
Telegraph has strangely overlooked.
We are impressed with tie opin
ion that the refusal Of tho committee
to call q convention for the re-organ-
ization !, Of the Domocrotic, party WAS
based upon grounds wel1taken , that
it was not expedient ut; this early
day to open a political campaign !;
that the agricultural interests of the
State imperativeIy required that
there should 10 no political organi-
cation, for the opposition would i'm
mcdiately follow suit and the negro
would repent his seven years "club
going" resulting in the loss of thous.
ands of dollars to the planters.
This is our Interpretation Of the
views taken by the committee, and We
think them wise and so expressed our
selves a few weeks since.
We have no objection to the re-
organization Of the party and will adj
vocate it at proper time, but at pres
ent we fail to see the benefit to be
derived from so early an agitation Of
the subject; besides, we have seen
references, which start1e us, to the nc.
ton of Mississippi in splitting up into
factions in the past as experiments,
and a glorious victory prophesied for
her by reason other late action in or
ganizing the Democratic party, IN
cluding, we suppose, the voted down
"coEor 1ine' policy. These express
sions come from the journals that so
strcnious1y advocate this party move
lnent, and we are constrained to ask
them if it is intended to make that
also part of the Democratic move
ment in Louisianai a......
We are willing and anxions to CO.
operate with the great National De
mocratic party, but our own success
must be looked to. first and the hest
means devised to secure it. The
party-the Peoples party. is already
organized; was organized at Baton
Rouge on the "a Of August, 1874, and
that party is still in existauce. 1t
meets the willing approval of all
those in this section who are not De.
mocrats but are opposed to the pre-
sent carpet bag rule in Louisiana and
we beg leave to differ with our friends
who say the committee appointed by
the Baton Rouge Convention had no
power to pass upon the call for con-
veutiop of the party, democratic,
Conservative, or what not. We con.
slider further that the organization Of
the people in 1874, was the most sol
id, compact and irresistible political
organization that has ever existed in
this state, and tie the only ono that
will ever lave show ofsuccess.
We speak possibly from self in.
terest in this matter, but our people
have been through the mill in this
parish, having suffered, We are pre-
pared to say, pecnniarily, more than
any parish in the State lin proper
tion) by the spoilation of the enemies
Of our people. There has been no
expression looking to an abandon
ment Of the line ofprinclples, adopted
last year, from our citizens; on the
contrary, 1t presents to them the only
means Of escape from the clutches of
the Radical vampires. Many Red
River parishes are in our condition
and We believe we reflect their opin-
ions when We say that no matter
what policy is adopted as regards the
National canvass, the State campaign
will be made against corruption and
ignorance.
This reasoning, speech making bus
iness, has been completely exhausted
and will not he entered into by the