New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-07-16
THE INEALLIBLE DEMOCRACY.

IN analogy between the doctrines OF tn
I papacy and those of the Democracy q
. will account for the cooperation of thos
two great elements. It will be argue
> that Democracy deems itself so infallibl
as that its political predicates can not b
questioned, while its powers of party il
= diligence and absolution render its con
solidated organization dangerous alik
' from its ambition and ats insinceri:y
We will give few examples Of thi
,, flexible and formidable institution:
81 the second election Of Mr.. Lincoll
the Northern Democracy voted for Gen
eral Mcclellan, States rights Democrat
who besieged the State rights city o
Richmond.
The biographical notices Of Genera
Frank Blair represent him to have been {
Democratic Free-Soilef, to have taker
sides with the .Abolitionists, and even to
have organized negro regiment during
the way of invasion.
In the election Of 1868 the Southern
States rights Democracy centered upon
General Blair as their candidate for the
vice presidency. having chosen New
York war Democrat. Seymour, as their
candidate for the chief executive Office.
In the election of 1872 the same South
ern States rights Democrats took up
Horace Greeley. who reiterated the asser-
ton that he was Uni6hist, an Adolf.
tionis: and protectionis.. and that no
nomination could make him 50 back on
! his record.
A. later day we have a candidate for
the executive Office Of Ohio, nominated
upon pledge of charging the issue of
paper currency according TO the wants
of trade. This candidate is an original
hard money Democrat. Ha has written
letters abroad to protest, as did Horace
Greeley. that such Il omination or platform
shall bind him against the principles Of
finances avowed consule Planco-.Andrew
Jackson being President. Yet there
seems No abatement of zeal in behalf of |
this candidate; and though the ticket has |
been handicapped with a liquor prohibi.
ZIONIST. there seems no repugnance to
swallow it just as it comes from the hands |
of the Ohio convention.
This brazen determination Of the De- |
mocracy to accept any alliance OF power
from any quarter. demonstrates desper.
ate policy to gain Office at any cost Of con.
sistency. It has been even charged that
if William Allen can carry Ohio on the
dilutions Of whisky and greenbacks. he
will be started and entered for shs stakes
Of 1876 on the national platform of re.
peal OF the whisky tax. sectarian
schools. and the return to specie cur.
'ency as soon as possible. Exposed
n the hypocrisy Of pretended
Democracy has thrown off
he mask. and says. with the effrontery of
'fficial famine: Eyes. / will triumph in |
he name Of Democracy. What have you
o say about it?'' 1t is no. denied that a
rusade for the national spoils, composed
# al! the discontinued and necessitous
'ill make . formidable array. It is a
oliticaf piracy in which any able seaman
rated on the ships books without inquiry i
1to his character. II
This departure from the earlier usages
the country may produce infinite evil.
he great boundaries of principle broken l
own. the campaign will be fought with l
uergilla system Of trick and deception. n
afnpaign money or party patronage will I
put tap es prize. and the most unscru. !
ulous adventures wil! become the mos. l
lhcient soldier. Iii
! tariff ticket il New England, a free II
ade tickle. in Mississippi, a pledge to Q
fuse public lands in Virginia, promise I
bestow public lands in Iowa, the multi "
cation OF paper money in Ohio, the direct "
turn to hard money in Maine. strict s.
ate rights tickle: in South Carolina, with q
e subjugation and conquest Of seced. "
s State in New York. Why. a party 81
hich votes antagonists upon the same n
'kes must be invincible If there can only n
found enough voters SO indifferent to II
inciple. SO needy Of Office; OF SO dissatis. /,
d with the dominan: party as 70 vote es
e Democratic ticket, or not vote at all. ca
is's perfect vote trap. It is Demo. "
attic utilization o. an apparent misfog. =.
ne. The misfortune is that before the ~
vention OF the electric telegraph the :, :.
leaders could, by holding the :.
OF reading and writing in close mo. =
poly. convince their followers in one -
ate tina: the policy stated 20 themselves =.
IS the uniform doctrine Of the Demo. r
ldc party everywhere. That policy ~
erthrown by the common modes OF in. 80
lgence. Democracy uses one set Of -
inlons cp to the line of Mason and a.
zon, and then exchanges it for another y.
OF opinions paiatable to the people of IN ~.
North. Believing that the infallible Wax
can do no wrong. and that all az
voted to the success Of the party will ~ -,
We absolution and official reward, what W.
Re the heads Of the party for consistency? An
IS the policy Of Munchausen, whose ~
'yhound having, in the ardor of ."
chase, split himself exactly
two from snou: to the tip Of I
tail, was hastily put together and 'ha,
ated by his '.fist invention" 1t was So,
nd that though he had been clapped we
ether with one set of legs up and an mr.,