The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1878-06-01
A FEW POLITICS.
n. O. Times.

1t appears to be conceded that our
summer politics, in the city at least, will
be like the handle of a Jug, all on one side,
the Democratic side. The war of the
roses, it is thought will be inside Of that
organization. Whoever can get control
Of the machinery Of the party will be
master of the situation.
Whether the governor will use his i'm
mense patronage actively for this purpose
and whether if he does so use it, he can
as easily control his party with tia the
Radical governors used to control that
party through the same agency, are
questions about which there is a very
decided difference Of opinion.
IT is CONSIDERED
certain that more Democratic aspirants
for office will come to the front on this
home stretch than at any election for
eighteen years. All the old war horses
are stretching their stiff legs and shutting
the air Of the coming fray. This is the
first time Democrat has had a fair
chance, and a nomination will be regar-
dcd as al election. There will be no re-
turning board business for once, and if
there is any hocus pocus it will be all in
the family.
There is any amount Of discomfort in
the Democratic camp, numcous threats of
bolts and splits and plenty independence
so far as talk goes. But there is deep
seated conviction among the young and
active politicians that from necessity the
Democratic organization must remain in
power in this State SO long as there is
any dread Of a return of negro rule,
which dread may last for generation.
Looking at the future in this frame of
mind, it is most natural for them to reach
the conclusion that the only hope they
have for political career is through the
instrumentality ofthe Democratic party.
Consequently they will struggle tiercely
for the control of the machine, and if de-
feated, will return again and again to the
charge.
BUT THEY WILL HESITATE
long before boiling, for to bolt once will
be to burn their bridges behind them and
become permanent enemies of the parry,
and their only hope for preferment will
be on its permanent overthrow. But
whoever proposes to overthrow the Dem
ocratic party in this state will have to
offer something better in its stead aud
here is the. difficulty. The Republican
party Of the north is not likely to abdi-
cate, and any party here in opposition to
the Democracy must inevitably ally itself
with Republication ia 1880. How this
can be done without using the material
and mourning the odium of defunct LOU
isiana Radica; ism is not plain.
There are rumors that an earnest
attempt with northern money and speak,
ers will be made, not to carry the State
for the Republicans, but to carry the fifth
and third Congressional districts, which
contain large negro majorities, with
view to eking out republican majority
in the next Congress. The idea is said
to be this: The Republican orators will
come down here with brass bands, wbis-
key and flags, aud euthuse the colored
loops ia these districts as they never
were aroused before.
THEY WILL SAY THAT
they have come to put the Democratic
claim that there was no intimidation Of
negroes to a genuine test. They will
make violent Radical speeches and whoop
around in an offensive way on the as.
sumption that they are Tin free coun-
try" If this is tolerated they calculate to
bring out the colored vote and carry two
districts in this State and several other
districts in other States and thus the
house will be secured.
Ifit is not tolerated, they will wave the
bloody shirt all over the north in frantic
style, and gain more there than they will
lose here by the operation. Thus, they
say, they will win in either event, and
tho Democrats can take which ever horn
of the dilemma they choose. In connec-