The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-12-28
LET Us HAVE HARMONY.

We grieve at any exhibition of discord IN
the councils of our Democratic friends IN this
CITY in the reorganization of their ward clubs.
The campaign before US is too important to
admit of the slightest dissensions in our
ranks. If we look for certain success to our
cause next year, it can only be upon the con-
dition of harmony and enthusiastic union IN
our ranks
In the organization of our clubs no place
should be given to personal ambition, still
less to factious combinations The Demo
cracy of each ward should regard themselves
as branch of the Democratic family Of the
State, INDUCING only generous rivalry ID
their efforts to redeem the State from Radical
misrule.
ANY display of personal ambition on the
part of any protested Democrat, young or old,
calculated to disturb harmony or to produce
cliques or factions at this crisis will be re-
garded by the great body of the party as little
less than crime against the State.
1t will be frowned upon by the people as an
unworthy effort to advance personal interests
| 0oo'
We trust the coming convention will be
com posed Of patriotic men who will give no
couptenance to any such self-seeklng as
pirants to place or notoriety wherever they
may be found.
Our primary organizations OF clubs are
only valuable as the most effective means OF
combining the Democratic masses into
united and harmonious body for the attain
ment OF a common end, and, honestly d.
rected by this purpose, they are OF the f1rst
importance in effecting that union in which
all political strength lies.
When these organizations are perverted to
factious purposes or prostituted to the ad
vAncement of personal ends, they are curse
to any party producing division and general
decentralization.
We utter these admonitions to our Demo
cratic friends at this time more in sorrow thar
we can we'll express, on account OF the iumult
uous proceedings that have lately character
lied the meetings of some Of our ward clubs
We do not propose to sit in Judgment upor
any of the controversies that have unhappll.
found place in any of these clubs, butwe are
certain that we but utter the voice OF all well
wishers of the Democratic party and OF thu
State, when we emphatically condemn al
these unseemly controversies, as threatening
danger to our SUCCESS in the approaching
campaign, so pregnant with the fate of Loui
siana.
There can be no good reason why tie pro
ceedings of political club meeting should no
be marked by as much dignity and decorun
as those of any other deliberative body
, There is every reason why they should be
, Differences of opinion as to any proposed
measure of policy or action may well arise,
but it should be settled by calm discussion
and by the voice of the majority fairly taken
} not by clamor or any display OF passion, an'
: once fairly settled by the expression OF tn
) will of the majority the minority SHOULD
! yield a cheerful acquiescence. In no othel
, way can there be harmony-in no other wa
can we achieve success.
f These suggestions will appear obvious t
to every sensible man, and if they are heede'
by those who have assumed to organize ant
manage our ward clubs we shall hear no NOR
, of discord or tumult in the proceedings Q
any of them, and in that case we shall fee
, confident that the Democracy of New Orlean
, will make an honorable record in the can
naipn of 1876