The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1876-06-28
The Cincinnati Platform.

cinnati Convention is all that the Dem
ocrats can desire. 1t is vague where
it should be explicit, and explicit
where it should be vague. The one
great opportunity which the Republi-
can party had of splitting the opposi-
ton vote has been lost by the indeti
bitterness of the Conventions profession
of faith Oh the money question. Not a
word of intimation is given as to the
intention OF the party in regard to the
specie resumption bill. The financial
plank adopted merely sets forth that
the public honor and credit demand
*. continuous and steady progress to
specie payments" The widest iDfla-
ZIONIST in the country w0nld say the
same thing. The Convention has dis
played its weakness and it's timidity
by evading direct and specific state
ment of the method by which, and the
time at which resumption might, in its
opinion, be effected. The Democrats
will have no difficulty in securing the
adoption of a similar resolution, and
thus escaping the only source of diff
ference and dissension in the party
The eighth plank in the platform is
framed in the interest of protection
lists, and will go far to ALLEVIATE the
great free trade element of the West.
But the most conspicuous feature in
this latest utterance of Radical thought
and feelings is its intense sectionalism
1t is the utterance not of party mere
~, but Of the party of section. Il
means war upon the white people OF
the South. The following two articles
were framed specially with a view to
"fire the Northern hearts"
Is. We sincerely deprecate all sec
tional feeling and tendencies. We
therefore note with deep solicitude that
the Democratic party counts as It's
chief hope of success upon the Electoral
vote of a united South, secured through
the effort Of those who were recently
arrayed against the nation, and we in.
woke the earnest attention of the conn
trXto this grave responsibility; that a
success thus achieved would reopen
sectional strife and imperil national
honor and human rights.
l6. Charges the Democratic party
with being in character and spirit as
when it sympathized with treason
and abiding to the course of the lower
House, warns the country against a
party alike unworthy, recreant aud ill.,
capable
The st. Lonis Convention may re-
tort effectively to the fifteenth article
by paraphasing it slightly thus: ave
sincerely deprecate all sectional feel
ing and tendencies. We, therefore,
note with deep solicltude that the
Republican party depends entirely
for its support in the South upon the
negro vote, under the manipulation
of inscriptions Adventures, who
lose no opportunity of sowing the
seeds of dissension and strife between
the white and black races, and that
the most earnest appeal which that
party makes to the Northern voter is
based upon the revival of issues
which are dead, and the malignant
SANDER of brave, aud generous
people" .r a. . f-.
Tie Radical party forces by perse-
cution the un;ication of the Southern
white vote, and then with great in
consistency urges that fact us a proc!
of Democratic sectionaiism. The
somewhat unconlplimentary allusion
to the majority in the lower House
of Congress might have been ex-
pected. 1t is only natural that the
detected planlcrels Should revile the
detective.
The alusion to Gen. Grant was in
tended, as the Frenchman said when
he proffertd his tictive ca,riage, "just
for politeness.' The Republican par
ty counts itself happily rid of him with
just a gentle pat on his back New
Orleans Picayune.