The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1876-10-25

we reJOlce WITH you as IellOW-cltlZenS,
and when the decision of this week of
1000, 600 voters along the valley of the
Ohio shall be
RATIFIED NEXT MONTH
by the fat of 100000 throughout the
whole Republic, we shall still rejoice,
chiefly for the reason that not one gifts
citizens can miss an equal share with
US, who are Democrats, in the political
peace and good will which will then
and there be established among all Sec
tions, races, classes and conditions Of
men, and in the prosperity of which
political peace, based on equal rights
and traternaI good will, is the first
condition. Upon the three States of
West Virginia, Ohio and Indiana were
concentrated all the infnneces Of the
Administration, all their forts,
and all $50
~ ~AoA'%
forced from 100, 900 oficeholders of the
party in power. These were fearful
odds, not again to be contended against
SO concentrated, for in the November
election the contest will be in every
one of the thirty eight States upon the
same day. Nevertheless, against these
odds the Democrats and reformers of
West Virginia and Indiana have been
victorious, and in Ohio they have all
but rescued a State hitherto deemed
hopeless, and have created an assur.
ance of victory in November. If it
falls to our lot, as the National Demo-
cratic Committee, to congratulate the
people of the Union upon this victory
in the first battle of the reform cam
paign, it is only because the Democrats
have been honored to be the leaders of
the people in the work of
NATIONAL REGENERATION. y,
The victory won and the victory still
to be won will be deliverance as much
to the Republicans as to the Democrats.
The patriotic masses of the Republican
party may be thankful that the mis-
deeds of their unworthy leaders have
been rebuked and arrested. The suf-.
fering whites of the South may lift
their heads to greet the dawn of a bet
ter day for them as we'll as the nation
at large. The colorcd. citizen may
share the general JOY that he will soon
cease to be
THE STOCK IN TRADE
of corrupt politicians, but shall enjoy
his rightful liberties and his equality
before the law amid universal good
will. AS for the reform Democracy to
whose standards victory has been tied
with all her garlands OH, it only re-
mains for them to welcome every ally,
every friend, close up the ranks and
press on shoulder to shoulder under
the banner and with the one watch
word-reform. Fellow-eitizens, peace
between all sections, prosperity in our
homes-of these you have been de-
prived by the mistaken solicitude of
patriotic Republicans, played up
on by
( sELFIsK AND CORRUPT LEADERS,
who have kept warm the dying embers
of civil strife in order to escape the in
spection of the trusts which they have
betrayed. For eleven years you have
had the name of peace, but at no time
have you had the substance of peace
In lieu thereof you have had the grind.
ing taxation and the wasteful expendi.
ture of war. Just before every cleo
ton every year you have had the
preaching of new crusade against g
section utterly defeated in war and
anxious only to be completely recon.
ciled in peace. For eleven years the
power of the men who have seized
away the control of their party from
the hands of its statesmen and foun'
ders has been supreme in almost every
department Of the Federal Govern.
ment. Discarding the hopes of pro
longing their domination by benifeent
public measures they have created ane
trafficked upon public calamities.-
The policy they adopted has beer
worked out. Its failure has been alb
solute. In place of past performances
these same corrupt and selfish leaders
now proffer promises already broken al
their titles to further trust. Having
Frustrated out manifold industries BY
vast aggregates and worse methods o
Federal taxation, they now again 20
licit your confidence as instruments o
retrenchment and reform. Having
DEBAUcHED THE PUBLIC SERVICE
| and having just now in the face o
open day assessed their army of 100,
600 charlottesville peoples ser
wants, paid by the peoples taxes--il
order to create immense corruption
funds to Illustrate the peoples will
they now profess to be champions o
civil service reform. Having imposed
upon the Southern States the rapacity
fraud and plumber of carpet-bag gov
eminent; having almost ruined tn