The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1876-06-28
INDEPENDENT As YET.

campaign. All the Commandment
can papers, with the two or three ex-
ceptions that are governed by preju
dice, stand, as it were, with their
arms at rest and are surveying the
whole political field. Their judg-
ment, so far, is: One Of the two par
ties in the field has not done what
was expected of it and what we have
so strenuously worked for during the
past two years. That party has nei
Their adopted the principles which
alone can bring reform, NOR has it Sc
lected for standard bearer a man
whose integrity of purpose and gene
raj efficiency can be relied upon to
make up for the deficiencies in their
platform.
Let us now wait and see what the
other party will do, see whether it
will do any better or not. What the
Germans in this country want, and
what their press is united on, may
be expressed as follows:
l. The coming campaign, shall not
be fought on war ground, on ques-
lions arising out of the late civil war.
Those questions have been well and
constitutionally settled, and the peo-
pie have .now only to adapt them
selves to the new order Of things,
expecting, at the same time, q care.
full, humane and tolerant, and not a
high handed party administration of
affairs.
2. The administration of every de-
partment of government must now
pass again from the rough, unprinci-
pied and inefficient oflice-holders,
thrown into position by the war, to
the learned, intelligent and moral
classes of society; as is the case in
every other country in the civilized
world.
8. This is to be accomplished by
the selection of candidates, who have
already shown themselves to be men
who would execute the laws in the
interests of the people, and to the up
holding of public morality and the
honor of the Nation.
4. The return to specie payments,
to gold and silver, the only money
recognized by the nations of the
world, is absolutely necessary for an
honest administration of the govern
ment.
5. Tilden and Bristow are looked
upon as representatives of these re-
forms, and by nominating them for
the Presidency, the Democratic and
Republican parties would show that
they were as much interested in the
welfare Of the whole Nation as in
that of their own political parties,
and that they were really DESTROYS
Of securing all honest, scrupulous and
wide-awake administration Of public
affairs. V
These are, as near as cen be told
from the late editorials Of the Ger
man American papers,, the senti-
ments of the Germans in this coun-
try. The Republicans at Cincinnati
didn't seem to trouble themselves
about us at all. They did wha,
seemed to them most likely to retain
them in power. They let themselves
be led by Morton and ConkIing into
their unholy alliance, and into which
Mr.. Bristow was also drawn, to nom.
mate a man without a record, ano
who, therefore, cannot be depended
upon to carry out the wishes of the
COMMUNICATIONS.
1t remains yet TO be seen whether
the Democratic Convention will nom
mate such man or not. In case
they nominate Tilden, it may be
that a few of the German reform pa
pers will make some pretext or Other
for returning to the Republican par
ty, but if they do, it will be on very
untenable grounds St. Louis An
zeigcr.
PRODUCTION OF SILVER IN TIL
WHoLE Notwithstanding to recen
statistics the production of silver il
the whole world in 1900 was $35, 900
600, which rose in 1850 to $42 500, 900
in 1854 to S47, 500, 900, and in 1865 t.
about 1862, 100000. The production o
this precious metal during the yea
1873 is subdivided as follows: Englant
and it's colonies $l0,00O,O0O; Norway
Sweden and Denmark s25O,0o0; Rus
STA $5O0,0OO; Austria 81, 500, 600; Ger
many s3,ooo,OoO; France ss,ooo,0oo
Spain $4,000, 900; Sardinia 100000
Mexico 500, 600; Central and sout
America St, 100000; Canada 100000
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