New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-07-24
BALLOON ACCIDENT!

EXPLAINS THAT INITIATION DOES NO
INITIATE!
The Cincinnati Commercial offers
theory that there has been long division
in the Democratic party between thos
who look upon politics as an expedienc
to secure patronage and those who regar
. popular election as rule to determin
the principles upon which the govern
ment should be administered. The expe
diency men have taken control Of tn
party, making each campaign bear its owl
expenses. and looking to the control o
government for compensation Of the cos
and labor of success. 1t is a natural con
sequence OF this theory that tn
Tammany and Tweed ring SHOULD
have nominated Greeley. 1t is al
obvious consequence that no sucl
men as Tilden and William Allen, before
he had fallen. should have been excluded
from any chance Of nomination, because
such men were understood to have been
opposed to com binatior with political an.
tagonists, and ayerse to using the results
Of success for the reward of the strikers
who had gained it. It is further said that
Governor Allen, seeing the object Of am
| bition further away. and admonished OF
the shortness Of life and the approach OF
eternity, yielded his convictions of princi-
pie and accepted the terms OF Tammany
and Tweed. He was Immediately lifted in
the strong arms of the spoil hunters and
placed on platform which, in its very
inconsistency with his principles, binds
him to do the bidding Of those who placed
him there. The remarks of Governor
Allen ''aside" to q correspondent in
Louisiana can not relieve him of response
bility, except at the expense Of his political
integrity. 4 p latfo,m means the chart
by which party navigates. The officers
are bound to follow its guidance. If not,
why adopt a platform: Mr.. Allen, in
acc epting the platform with the resolu-
tons annexed, and whispering to an asso-
ciate that he does not mean to comply
with the promise made in SO doing, gives
a new term of coincidence with the prin.
cipal ecclesias teal power with which the
Democracy Of Ohio openly afiliates. He
pledges himself to Go an act with men-
tai reservation that he will not. He de-
ceives others to give their votes for him
as balloons. initiating the national cur.
rency. He induces them to give their
support under the expectation that he is
to ascend in the vast gas bag now under
imitation Then comes political pal Of
Governor Allen and attempts to explain
that the Ohio platform means "a currency
equa! to the wants Of trade" that it
means return to specie payments whep
convenient. Mr.. Pendleton startIes con-
sistency by saying: ''He. confessed that
there were defects and dangers in this
coin basis SYSTEM
Shades Of Al: the sh;npiasters: Who |
could have expected such a heresy from !
the lips o! Jacksonian Bertonian hard |
money Democra t. Unless the spirits OF |
just Democ rats made periec. shall pull |
the spiritualists By the ear. and demand
to denounce these apostates, we shall! lose
all faith in psyc biology. We demand to !
know what Jackson swears, how Benton
RACES about the defects and dangers in
bullion. "A supers.ructure Of paper
arger than the foundation Of coin, and
las the superstructure grows wider and
larger" the basis is unable to sustain it:
therefore the basis is defective and dan
yerous, while the superstructure should
BY no means be abated. Why. what a
picture Of the balloon! The "coin basis"
S the stake to which the shrunken folds
If the currency were tethered by Repub.
lean policy. The hard money Democracy
ire hard at work filing it with the highly !
,ydrogenated aspirations Of popula, in
This vast accumulation of
luid far lighter than the atmosphere of
Talue which surrounds i: sways
surges from side to side,
maps the cords which hold it to the
'oin basis. and in spite OF Republican
fort to regulate and restrain its de.
,arture. sweeps carreering over the lakes
nd seas Of capital and industry in all
he caprice OF unbailasted extravaganza.
Did William Allen ascend? Was Pen
!leton seated with him in the basket,
milling graciously upon the applauding
rowd. and distr :butins the tracts and
Of the hard money progeni.
ors: Not so. The rise Of the balloon
vas rs imprudent as that of Professor
,hevalie-. whose associates were not or
land At the supreme moment - who
capped into the car. swung on to the
'asket. and after q shor. and inglorious
oyage was tumbled bodily out in a
emetery. and now on clutches calls upon
he newspapers. Professor Pendleton's
pology for the imitation failure is not
satisfactory. Professor Allen has tum.
led out in a crippled condition in the
iolgotha of Democracy. The balloon is
ow about Hudson's bay on its reckless
curse. and the public can not be con.
inced tina. the whole platform was not
rom the beginning q political swindle to
axe in votes.
The explanation Of the balloon accident.
S made by Professor Fendleton, is by no