The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-07-10
LOUISVILLE.
now LOUISIANA POLITICS ARE
VIEWED ABROAD.

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house divided against itself will fall, and
o party that becomes discomfort and disor"
ganized may become prey to the common
enemy. Want Of cohesion, selfshness po-
litical egoiBm end apathy seem to be the dis
tinguishing features Of the so-called
SENTATIVE DEMOCRATIC PARTY OF Lou
IsIANA.
And 1t is all the more remarkable that such
rs the case In the very face of the Old enemy,
the Radical party, which Is "not dead, but
sleepeth," and which, II not outwardly active,
Is nevertheless working insidiOusly under
various dsguises, sowing the seeds Of dis
content and REORGANIZATION. This same free
booting party sezes upon every means to
carry It's points. The incautiOus GROWERS Of
the Democratic party, whose name Is legion
in New Orleans, furnish rich field for their
covert operations. and when they find howl
Ing property holders convention 1t Is like
bonanza for the Radical beavers, whose noto-
rious procllvities for working In the dark must
be known to all men in New Orleans. And so
with
THE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
for what better eoadjutOrs could the EXTREMIST
Radical want than those men who advocate
the perpetuity of the old earpet-bag constitu-
ton. framed expressly for the subiugation OF
the people OF Louisiana and in antagonism to
the interests OF a once free people? 1t was
cardinal point In the canvass for 1876 that this
old relic OF the carpet-bag regime should be
wiped out at the very first opportunity. II |
mistake not, 1t was q cardinal feature In that
canvass, and the people voted freely under
the idea and faith that q convention would
speedily be called to wipe out every trace OF
that odious supremacy and to purge the State
Of hateful, vicious and oppressive monopOlies
and combinations To fall short Of that duty,
and failure to carry out the promises made
to the people, will add largely to the distrust
and DISCRIMINATION now manifest. 1t is all
the more astonishing that there Is op.
position to the convention 81 soon AZ
ter the experiences Of Relloggism
and Warmothism. Certainly no one
has forgotten those worthless; the profanity
and vulgarlsm of the one, and the sleek i'm
pudence of the other. They do not want q
convention to frame new constitution; mo-
body ever accused either Of them Of wishing
to rectify the wrongs they imposed upon the
State; and to place ones self In line with
them, Is simply repeating the history OF Poor
Dog Tray. It will be- expected q these two
men, as leaders of their party, to die hard and
they will cling TO the old status as long as
possible. because It Is their own handiwork,
and the trail OF the serpent throughout the
old constitution is the track OF the CORRUPTION
which they have made themselves. How,
then, can the people of Louisiana content
themselves to live under this relic OF the b rr
barism OF q corrupt age2 Will they halt be-
fore the shackles are removed? The
bolts and the. riyrsets are loosened1
be free altogether It is mat
ter of great surprise that any Democrat
or Conservative should oppose the convention
II there be many Of them, they will only, be-
come conspicuous HIS the allies and conductors
of the Radical party; and If the State should
slip back again In the same old Radical rut,
they will become the laughing stock OF the
world, and history will point at them as more
silly and shortsighted than the five foolish
virgins who would not fill their lamps with
oil when they had a chance.
If the papers called Democratic, in LOuisl-
ana like the New Orleans DEMOCRAT and
the NatehitOches VindiCdtOr would oil strike
boldly and fearlessly at RadiCalism, whether
as party Of freebOOtrs or as common enc
my to the State, 1t does seem to outsiders
that convention would speedily be called TO
wipe out the last trace of Radicaism in the
State which prostrate5 commerce. and pros.
perity and hangs ike a threatening cloud
over all your industries. There are great
done by few amendments. You need
sweeping reform; your case Is 50 bad that
heroic treatment is required, and not n ptdceb0
for this or that, but simple eGtTpntt0n OF the
offending matter. Talk Of
AMENDMENTS,
WHY. it does not cure, it only prolOngs the
suffering, and gives p longer lease to monOpO-
lies, the burden Of taxes, the multiplication Of
offices and offiCehOlders, aud all that sOlt OF
thing, which involve the consumption OF inc
peOple's money. For officials are nttgdyS paul.
though tie people starVe under the sheriHs
hammer.
The fight that the DEMOCRAT is making in
favor of a new constitution Is manly ana pa
triotic Having put your hand to the plOw
you do not look back with hesitation or falter-
ing, nor like as the children of Ephraim, who,
being harnessed, and carrying bows, turned
back In the day Of battle.
The goodly number Of newspapers faithful
to the pledges for reform made in 1876 Is very
encouraging to the weil-wishers Of your State
and people, Your Democratic allies In other
States call out TO you to organize and TO be
true to yourselves. II you get back into that
old Radical rut your people will have no one
to blame but themselves; they can only cry
out In their remorse that it wis mot an open
enemy that hath done them this dtshonor,
neither was it their common adversary, but
it was "ourseIUes" in the folly nf our local
dissensions and our thirst for office and our
distrust OF old friends
The call made by the Cotton Exchange and
Board of Trade for
A GRAND COMMERCIAL CONVENTION AT NEW
ORLEANS
in next November, is most enthusiastically
received and indOrsed here in Louisville by
the friends OF Southern and Western inter
State commerce. Its objects and It's results
are so broad that one can scarcely realize the
magnitude of its Importance. 1t Will be the
most largely attended convention ever held
in the South; and the good likely to accrue
to the river interest will be Immense. Dele.
cations to IT, from every Western State and
from every tributary of the Mississippi, will
pour into New Orleans and make your con-
yention an epoch in the commercial history
of the city. Thousands are already talking
about it, and every one says, "Pll be there
sure"
Although very tired OF the subject will
say few words about
THE BIG RACE,
now that the smoke has cleared from the
field and stern reality has stripped the affair
of the glamor of excitement. The Western
and Northern Newspapers are growing
ing their rage and malignity because
the Northern mare was beaten and
disgraced by the Southern horse;