The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1876-10-19

understood the Southern situation
those of them who are conscientious
and patriotic men would shake off
these Southern barnacles, and those
who are not conscientious would
still, for expediency's sake, drop
these Adventures, whose alliance
has been and must continue to be
an embarrassment to the national
party.
Suppose an honest republican
speaker sent into any Southern
State, except North Carolina, and
what would he find? Unless he
kept his ears stuffed with cotton
and avoided all intercourse with
men he could not help learning that
every speech he made there was
made in support of men no better
than Tweed and his Ring; he would
| hear from the decent and honest
republicans whom he would meet
that they deplored nothing so much
as the success of the persons for
whom he was appealing; he would
find in Alabama that the real re-
publicans of the State have been
either driven out of the party or
silenced within it by Spencer and
his gang of federal office holders.
| He would find in Louisiana that
honest republicans, though they
vote for Hayes, rufuse utterly to
vote for Packard and his gang. He
would find in Mississippi that hon.
est republicans are abused and viii
fed by the thieves who have the
machine there. He would find in
South Carolina, in Florida, every
where, except in North Carolina
and Virginia, that duty to his coun-
try and his party made it impossi-
BILE for him to take part in the can
vass, and that if he spoke conscien-
ti0usiy he must advise honest South
ern republicans while voting for the
national ticket TO support and help
elect the democratic local ticket.
The policy we suggest will be
secuted by republican partisans;
but it is, nevertheless, the true pol
icy for the party. 1t is the polio,
of prudence as well as wisdom. In
/ the Southern tier of States-in
South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama.
Mississippi, Louisiana. Arkansas
there is to day no republican party
worthy of the alliance OF the nation
al party or in whose fortunes it can
take part without injuring itself.
II Mr.. Hayes is chosen President
he can, it he is wise and intelligent,
as we believe him to be, easily form
a respectable party there; but he
will have to begin by cutting adntt
the SO called republican leaders in
those States III a body and letting
the infected wreck float away. Why
is it not better policy in the repub-
lican leaders to do this now, and
thus relieve their chief of an embar
rassnent! We can appreciate the
feelings of those who urge that it
would be better for the country, aud
better even for the Southern States.
that the republicans should rule in
the federal administration for
another four years, especially with
a President who seems to DC earn
est about reforms, and who is said
to understand tue Southern sitna
ton. But if the condition of repnb
lican success in November Is the
continued maintenance of such re-
publican State governments as oh
tain in Louisiana and South Caro-
lima, and of such SO called repubti
can politicians as aim to rule in
other Southern States, then. We
should unhesitatingly welcome a
democratic victory; for there is no
danger in a democratic federal ad
ministration SO serious as the con
tinued misrnle of the South by
demagogues calling themselves re-
publicans and having the counten-
ance of the federal administration.
We advise the Northern Republican
leaders, therefore, to send no speak
ers to the South. unless it be to
Virginia and North Carolina, and
to let it be at once aud frankly un-
derstood that they mean to cut loose
from the Packards, Spencers aud
Chamberlains.