The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-10-21
TWO TICKETS.

For some weeks past the Citizens COnserv.
sative Association has threatened the Dem.
ocratic- Conservative party with al opposition
ticket In the event that the convention Of the
latter organization failed to present city
and parish ticket acceptable to the people
, and In Its personnel furnishing a guarantee
that tho new administration would be
one of retrenchment and reform. We were
told by tho estimable and highly respectable
and influential gentlemen at the head of the
Citizens Association that they were Demo
Gratis; that their only purpose was to secure
the nomination Of honest and competent
men for the city offices; that they
would not. under any consideration. imperlI
tho State and Congressional tickets They
held, in short, that the only object Of their Or
ganization was the publication OF the city
| Democracy and the compliment Of first class
nominations for city officers by the Demo-
cratic Convention. Has the Citizens Associa-
ton 60 far done anything to sustain it's high
and patriotic professions ? Has it given us q
ticket which Is more q guarantee Of reform
and hostility to monopoies than that of the
Odd Fellows Hall Convention Has 1t given
| us q ticket which promises O. new and happy
advent In city affairs The unseen hand
has lifted the curtain which yelled the inner
temple; but hawo we had a new and luminous
revelation ? We think not.
! For weeks, and lately during every hour.
| the eyes of the people have been liked upon
the Executive Committee of the Citizens
Association. The feeling was abroad that tho
Democratic Convention was under Che con-
troll Of a combination which would run 1t In
no nj iDt Tt.,
| crystaliBed AS 1t were that apprehension. and
taught an oxpectant people to anticipate from
Its coungels o city ticket which would arouse
| enthusiasm and represent reform views Of the
most radical tendency; o ticket, in fact, which,
II elected, would insure the speedy emancipa-
ton OF tho city from debt, and the organiza
tion of thorough police, school and sanitary
systems.
The Odd Fellows Hall Convention nomi-
mated representative ticket Some of the
best citizens of New Orleans are on it. Ifit
did not give universal satisfaction, 1t did not
excite unpleasant disappointment or arouse
general antagonism. It was generally con-
coded that there were q number OF excellent
nominees on 1t; that the ticket was above
tho average. Promptly, however. the Cti-
zens' Association announced that they
would not accept 1t as a whole. Then more
curiously than ever. tho Dyes Of the COM
munfty were bent on the association. What
are we to have, said every one. from this
body of most estimable and disinterested
citizens, Democrats and patriots? The whole
town anxiously and expectantly awaited the
now birth in our politics. And what has |
boon the result? We do not hesitate to say
that 1t has amounted to nothing, and that
it has excited q smile Of amusement amongst |
every class Of the people.
The association, after indorsng several |
Of the nominees of the Odd Fellows Hall
Convention, proceeded to fill up q ticket with
other nominations Of its own, which are no
upon those they are designed to
Indeed, while several of the
Of the Citizens Association are
genial and pleasant gentlemen, tho ticket, as
q whole, which that body has given us, does
not possess the strength Of the Democratic
ticket In not a single instance have they
substituted for the Democratic nominee O
better man, while for several important posi-
lions they have nominated Republicans and
eolorcd men in place of Democratic nominees
who have long and faithfully served the Dem
ocratic party and the State in the darkest
days of our trials. The ticket has fallen flat
It has excited no enthusiasm; it possesses no
clement of strength that it has not derived
from the Endorsement Of the Democratic
1ominoes, and. except to the extent that it
las adopted the nominees, 1t will be over
defeated.
The Citizens Association has not nominated
or public place single man who would not
nave gladly accepted a nomination from the
Conservative Convention on the
address presented by that body. They have
added nothing to the Odd Fellows Hall ticket
which is an additional guarantee against
rings, monopolies and the bondholding des-
ootism. If they have, let their nominees
come out In plain terms and by their utter
anccs prove it. The question then arises: If
,he object Of the Citizens Association is not
to defeat the Democratic party and bring, at
/ most critical time, chaos into our politics,
Why have they not nominated a better ticket
han that on which they have wrought their
patchwork?
But there is yet field for the Citizens
Association. They have failed to accomplish
in the line of city nominations. Let
hem proceed with their Legislative ticket and
present us candidates for the Legislature who
ire free from the odium of rings and monopo-
les. II they fail In this, as they have done III
he city nominations, let them dsband and
10 longer vex us with promises which are
empty and meaningless. Let them cease to
'lay the part of the witches in "Macbeth,"
Who kept the promise to the ear only to
reak it to our hope'
The greatest effort Of Senator Conklings
ife is being made at the rate of four times
week, in New York. 1t is intimated that the
senator would like to succeed himself, and