New Orleans Republican., 1875-11-09
REPUBLICAN,. CONSERVATIVES.

trlDeS-the entire remuneration OF all tnose
principles which gave birth to the South
ern Democratic party leaves large num-
Der of people at the South without polit-
ical alliance. ---..--.,- .........----.
The sole issue upon which an appeal
has been made by the Democracy was
upon the superior political integrity of
the Democratic party. The fact that the
party has been recently expelled from
trust in every State in which they have
been admitted to power would seem to
prove them at least NO better than their
antagonists.
The zebra ticket headed by Tammany
Hall has been ignominiously defeated in
New York, and the only State officer
elected by the Democracy in that State is
a respectable Republican, who was bor-
rowed, or who lent himself to the support
of Democracy.
The Wing and Conservative citizens of
Louisiana can not, therefore, hope to par
ticipate in the federal government through
the dispersed Democracy. They may
certainly expect as much political integrity
from Republicans as from the political
allies Of the Democratic plug-ugl.es Of
Baltimore or the Democratic knaves of
Tammany.
Those who may give the aid of violence
or fraud to this or that party from expec-
tation of reward, will see in this result of
the Northern elections the patronage of
the customhouse and the postotfice safe
and sacred from their clutches. Such mer-
cenaries will not then have any motive to
keep business men, property holders and
taxpayers from the polls. Some few
amendments to our State laws, to which
we shall subsequently refer, will diminish
still further the interest of these miscre-
ants in the State and municipal elections.
These Conservatives have stood by the
Democracy until the Democracy first ex-
cluded them from party association, ex-
cept as subordinates, then abandoned all
pretensions to Democratic principles,
and has finally shown its incapacity to
effect any federal or local reform
by defeat SO signal as to compare with
any final battle and dispersion recorded
in history. The Republican party still in
control of the executive and Senate, with
an assurance of ascende ncy in the House
of Representatives, can and will do more
for the conservative classes in the various
measures of improvement and commercial
expansion than can be expected from the
''peeled and scattered" Democracy. De-
mocracy dispersed, the alliance and
allegiance which the Southern Conserya-
tives have rendered the Democracy since
the war is void.
If the Conservatives are an independent
body of voters seeking any reform, they
can have no party prejudices. A "Demo-
cratic-Conseryative" party read very well
until the head of the firm went into
liquidation. How would the title The
Republican Conservative party" read?
There can be no objection to such re-
newal and reorganization of the concern,
provided the new new partner can
exhibit satisfactory evidence of his abil-
ity to carry out the interests of the junior
partner.
The national principles of the Repub-
lican party are superior and permanent.
Does any one doubt it F? Even the Demo-
Gratis "believe and tremble." There can
be no more political inconsistency in
voting the Republican ticket than there
has been when Southern Democrats voted
for Horace Greeley or Bigelow.
The sole objection, then, to the Repub-
lican party-in Louisiana is the supposi-
tion that they advocate certain laws which
are supposed to protect officials in the
corrupt acquisition of wealth, and bestow
upon party administration q degree of
patronage Incompatible with good govern
ment. 49,.
The REPUBLICAN has exposed the fact
that while Republican legislators have
been reproached for granting undue fran
chises, all the great monopolies and the
richest offices in the State are in the
hands Of the Democracy. Yes, levee and
lottery, butchers meat and wharf dues,
sheriff's fees and clerks tickets, all are
in Democratic hands. The Republicans
are tired of this ferocious and hypocritical
assault upon them by opponents who
derive their chief campaign fund from
the wages Of monopoly and official exac-
tons. They now say to the independent
conservatives, call the Democracy, let us
know to what reforms they will assent, if
they obtain control of the. State govern,
ment Make similar appeal to the Re-
publican party, and compare the bid-if
they will-for the support of men who
wish business and love peace.
To this it must come. To this has
come the question of politics all over the
West and North. Republican principles
are SO established that not even foreign
intervention could overthrow them. Who
then shall be called to administer them
honestly and ob{r2 TIKI, - IA