The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1877-08-03
A NEW PARTY.
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| A NEW PARTY.
| We may as we'll begin to think and
talk OF II new party. There il in the
atmosphere of this State something
that breeds new party after every
election. 1t is periouical-irr.sstibl
Turn back the pages OF party history,
aud here we find Wells (iow Of the
Returning Board, } there Joshua Baker,
here the Unifiers and there the Refor
mers, here the Liberals and there the
Liberal Republicans-hereA Albert Leo
nard of tho White League and there
Pinchback of the State School Board.
The climate of Louisiana is, it seems,
particularly favorable for the growth
OF new parties. ....
We learn now from the New Orleans
Democrat and one or two other metro
politan organs that there has been
spriuging up AN "Anti-N icllolls Party"
and the industrious and very thirsty
reporter has been Interviewing several
distinguished and guileless men to
know ii there was such il party i'll OK
| istence.
We will submit to brief interview,
and report the facts without the inter
vention OF Il Bohemian.
We know OF no Nichols party, and
Of course of no anti-NichOll. party.
Gov. Nichols was elected Governor by
the people--not by himself, or the Re
turning Board. He may have h fol
lowing, but not a party. Long before
he was Governor, or dreamed OF being
Governor, the party that elevated him
to Office was in existence, and it is not
a hazardous risk to say that this same
oils or any other member of the party.
There is no need Of new party. The
old party is the best and safest, because
it is a party OF principle, and not a
party or men. He will act wisely who
takes counsel of experience and we'll
settled facts, and not OF new and I'M
tried parties, or aspiring party leaders.
1t we should see proper to criticse any
net of Gov. Nicholls-as we have-it
would not be blasphemy, any more
with this article.
A new party is not the need of the
hour, but Il new Constitution is. There
is no satety-nO reform-no security
until the Constitution as it EXISTS is
wholly remodelled. 1t is the Cart hage
OF Cato--Rome is not secure while
Carthage stands. Louisiana is not re-
deemed while the present Constitution
is the governing law.
Capt. Americas Sym'ne', the advo-
cate OF the theory that II navigable
cavity extends through the earth from
pole to pole, has contributed $500 to-
ward the Howgate eX petition. Symmes
says that all the results OF the previous
expeditions justify his belief, and he
is confident that Howgate will be able
to enter the cavity. In Il letter to the
Louisville Courier-J ournal he says
"Did not Capt. Waddell go upona south
exploring expedition a few years ago,
and found an open Polar sea, as in the
north, and when entering it. found his
compass had reversed it's position, and
was pointing north when he thought he
was going southwark, and became
alarmed aud turned back, when, if he
had followed on, us his compass direct
ed, he would have come ont at the
north poles, and would have proved
the theory true, WHICH says the earth
is hollw, aud, no doubt, hahitahle
within"
Hou. X. NJ. Bishop, the Democratic
candidate for the governorship OF Ohio,
is anative OF Kentucky and is 65 years