The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-03-25
NEW ORLEANS, SUNDAY, MARCH 25 1877

some others-long- headed enough to
see where they were going to land.
From that small beginning has grown
a.policy which has already brought the
only portion Of the Democratic party
sehich has any fight In 1t into complete,
II not cordial, acquiescence In the late
larceny OF the presidency. Don't
imagine that this Southern movement
10 mere furry. These men who have
been taking back seats and hiding their
faces and covering up their heads for
years at the
BECK or THE DEMOCRACY
Of New York and Ohio, whenever the
latter thought they saw q chance, for
the last IL years; these men who hare
furnished votes for Northern Demo-
Gratis to count on In all political calcu-
lationss, and been content to give up all
claim to the offices; In short, this solid
South which the Northern Democrats
have been wont toTegard very much as
tho Radicals counted on "the nigger
vote,' is not solid any more.
j Why, d-n 1t" says Charley. Foster,
"the South ought to be the strong.
hold OF modern progressive Re-
publicanism. What has the South
to expect from the Democratic
partyf Why, simply" says Charles,
pAo pINieSe VI giving lzo Sobe5, more
or less, in caucus or convention for
Northern nominees, and then having
all their own schemes voted down or
smothered In committees. Why" says
Charles, "the Southern Conservatives,
allied with the Northern Democrats,
are in about the same predicament that
full-blooded young man would be
married to the remains OF deceased
old woman'
And the worst of it is, there are great
numbers OF men of power. influence and
determination all over The cotton States
who adopt Fosters philosophy, and say
to him: Just give us one act as an
earnest OF your professions, and we are
with YOU.
CALL OFF YOUR DOGS
and we will shake hands with YOU"
Hayes intends to call off the dogs.
He would have done 30 before now, but
he did not want to give Blaine chance
| to rear up on his hind legs and bawl in
the ear ofNorth- Methodist and raw-head
Radicalism, "Behold, this man Is
fastening to .betray the Republicans OF
the South, who are weak, in order to
curry favor with the Conservatives, who
are strongi"
The fun will begin when the clans
gather for the extra session. Then you
will see where the Northern Democrats
will be left. You observe that the DEM
ocrats have only FIVE majority on O full
vote OF the next House. The Cotton
States men say they do not see what is
to be gained by pulling the old party
caucus through on that slender margin.
They say they have something else to
think about besides keeping up party
organization for the sake OF old times,
and TO enable Randall, Sayler or Bill
"a {S Nat
Adams and his Kentucky colony firmly
fixed in the salaries of the Clerks office,
and so on through the miserable plea
yune patronage Of the House. They
say they elung to the Northern Democ-
racy because the Northern Democracy
promised to help them out OF bondage,
and lol the
NORTHERN DEMOCRACY COULDN'T EVEN
HELP ITSELF.
Now they say Hayes has given us the
boon we have craved, and there is no
more principle to fght over except the
great principle OF self preservation. On
this basis the Dem ocTats of the cotton
States will, with perhaps half dozen
or dozen exceptions, withdraw from
the old party caucus and assume a bal.
ance OF power position between the two
party caucusses. or course such q
movement would shake the moss from
foundations Of political parties. once
heard Charles Sumner say that the Cot
ton States were the volcanic strata of
our political system. Perhaps we might
again, The whole situation is 80 we'll
summed up In the star Of to-day. that /
incorporate the article, or at least those
portions OF it that are pertinent:
THE STARS COMMENTARIES.
II there is an extra session OF Congress, which
now seems inevitable, it may be q month before
the House gets lis organization. The Dsmo-
cratic msjonty will not be over nine At best, and
If Clerk Adams leaves the doubtful districts ont
of the list it will not be more than three. II
the Democracy were united they would have no
tronble in securing the Organization; but they
are not and it is this very deatfbotion that prom
ises lively time. Ever since President Hayes
was inaugurated his conciliatory policy toward
the 5oath has won him hosts OF friends in that |
section. The real antagonism which the Prsbi- |
dent encounters is not from the South, but from |
disgruntled Northern Republicans, and not few |
Democrats, who are apprehsnsive that the outb, |
which now has the balance of power, will not |
again consent to use it at the me beak and cali |
Of their Democratic allies Of the North. The /
prominent Southern politicians have about come |
to the conclusien that they have followed to |
their own disadvantage too long the call Of
the Northern Democrats, and in turn their |
section has been visitsd d with the troubles
engendered by sectional hate and the
the war. just now, under the pacifcatory policy |
of President Hayes, the southern nea are dssir- |
ous that 1t shall not be handicapped by their
sntagonism. To this end, fearing that their |
Northern allies may antagonize the policy, they |
propose TO act for themselves, and the plan IL |
that the South shall name the selection OF the |
next Speaker, or they will refuse to abide bv the
caucus action OF the patty. Il is now being &C. |
riously considered whether 1t Is not best for the
Southern Representatives to refuse to go into |
CAUCUS at all, but to hold eau +us OF their own
with reference to the organization of the House,
and giv1 their votes to the candidate, be he Re-
publican or Democrat, who will best reflect the |
Presidents Southern policy. II may be that the |
border States will hold back, but 1t will be no
surprise II BY the time The ezra session is called
here united, compact organization TO carry out
this plan. Those who Z vor it reason with |
good deal Of logic, and say we have nothing
20 gain by stili elinpinp to the skrfta Of t,a