The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-10-19

81 Tuesday, we did our best to help you, be.
cause we saw that the cause of administrative
reform and honest government had become,
for the time being at least, identified with the
success of the Democratic party. And ever
when your orators and newspapers insisted
on putting your irredeemable greenback
theory before this great cause, while we con.
demned and deplored what we thought your
error. we still refused to turn against you, be.
cause we were unwilling to do anything that
might seem to imperil the reform without
which there is no hope of better things.
This gives us right to be heard by you
| now.
Why is it that you have been defeated
Why has the success which during 1874 at
tended the Democratic party everywhere,
been thus decsively turned back in Ohio
Is it not because you have mistakenly di-
verted that great movement by introducing
| into it the greenback issue? Is it not certain
that if you had fought the battle on the old
line you would have now had victory instead
of disaster?
Think on these things, fellow citizens, and
you may yet regain for the mighty contest of
1876 that honored position which you have SO
recently abandoned, and renew the triumph
which you have now thrown away.
The New York World rejoices in the death
Of the "rag-baby," and asks the Democrats
to put it under ground quickly. "Nothing is
clearer to the unbiased political observer
than that the election of Hayes is not a Re-
publican victory nor a Democratic defeat"
says the World, but it imputes the result to
IAN attempt to rally Democrats under Re-
publican standard" 1t denounces the pre-
tended leaders who made the irredeemable
paper issue as incompetent corrupt and su-
premely foolish: 1.-The result is what might
have been expected. 1t was all but impos
sible even in Republican Ohio to stay the
sweep of Democratic victories. But their
madness, if it was not treason; their treason,
if it was not madness, rose to the occasion,
and this morning we have to regret the loss
of great State which might have held be-
tween New York and Illinois the center of the
Democratic column"
The Tribune denounces the rag money men
of Ohio in hard words, and asks:
Now, gentlemen, that battle has been
fought You have lost it on the field of your
own choosing and with your best generals.
What will you do next? Heal the breach or
split? Imitation, rag money, all the non
sense of your Aliens and Carys, and all the
disho nest purposes you had in mind have
been rejected by the people. You never can
do as we'll anywhere else as you have done in
Ohio. You have killed some people who
meant to be alive in 1876. You have laid
down Multitude OF aspiring persons who
were sitting on the fence. Are you satisfied ?
Us but the feeblest sort of f. ht you can
make hereafter; is it worth your while
Would it not be better on the whole to say,
"Weil be honest and pay, and take new
departure?
The Herald denounces the initiation policy
as detestable, the canvass as disreputable, and
declares that this disastrous election has
blighted the fairest hopes of the Democratic
party" and says in conclusion:
The Democratic defeat in Ohio carries, as
its inevitable consequence, Democratic de-
feat in Pennsylvania, and a diminution of
the Democratic majority in New York
by the new hopes and courage that
will be infused into the Republicans.
There is bat one way to retrieve these
misfortunes. There is no salvation for the
Democratic party but by making adminisra-
tive reform the paramount issue, and re-
uniting the party in strenuous opposition
to the abuses which have prevailed in Presi-
dent Grants Administration. 1t was absurd
to raise any other banner than one inscribed
with reform but we trust it is not too late
for the Democracy to be consolidated on that
basis
Pittsburg Post:
Here in Pennsylvania we do not feel dis.
couraged. We feel assured that Pershing will
sweep the State in spite of q reverse in Ohio,
gained as it was by the expenditure of 81, 000,-
00n ha hose Twin Inop rta tion nf
alien voters. We still carry aloft the banner
of Authorization and anti-monopoly, and
with these notices inscribed upon our ban
ners we will surely win.
The St. Louis Republican politely asks the |
rag men Of Ohio to take 90 back seat"
They failed in 1861 and they have failed
now; they have brought a shadow over the |
Democratic Presidential prospect, and, what
is worse still, they have created distfust of
Western capacity to lead in national politics |
that may not be dissipated for years. The
Western Democrats may as well begin to look
elsewhere than in Ohio for their future repre-
and champions; the assumed cham
pions of that State are little else than disturb
ers of the peace and breeders of mischief.
Boston Post:
The pernicious doctrines which portion of |
the Democratic leaders in Ohio were induced |
to adopt and promulgate have done their
work, and the hard money men, who consti-
tute the large majority of the Democratic
party Of the country, while they lament the
folly Of the party in Ohio, cannot mourn at
their defeat. The incubus of initiation is re-
moved.
Springfield (Mass.) Republican Qndepen-
DENT:
The Democrats have only themselves to
blame for what has befallen them. If they
had only shown ordinary sense and discre-
ion, nothing could have prevented Aliens re-
election. The whole drift Of events and votes
was in their direction. That the current has
been checked, if not turned back for good and
Ill, is wholly due to their own amazing folly.
New York EUening Post:
The defeat Of Allen and Cary is popular
victory that is bounded by no party lines. Il
s one in which good people everywhere, no
natter what their political proclivities may
De, ought to rejoice. Il is idle to deny that
he Republicans have gained important ad-
7antages from the election in Ohio. To them
belongs the credit of defeating imitation in its