The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-11-16

| elsewhere are iubiant over this quarrel Id
which are engaged, on either side, Democrats,
| Conservatives and Citizens Of the highest re"
| pute, men who cO-Operated together and freed
Louisiana from carpet-baggery. The Citi-
zens and Nationals, and in the ranks of the
| latter stand hundreds OF white and negro Re-
| publiGans whose names are Identified with
the humiliation and plumber Of our city and
State, will cooperate in cOntesting this city
election. They will beidentitied In this contest
The Nationals or Republicans will, Of their
own accord, follow up the contest in other
sections of the State. A. FL. Leonard, United
States District Attorney. as will be seen by
| reference to another column OF the DEMO
GRAFT is furiously waving the bloody shirt in
Washington, and will be here in few days
to begin O. series Of prosecutions III the
interest Of the Nationals and Radicals against
Democrats in the parishes We know the
leaders Of tho Citizens' Association too well
to suppose for q moment that they will take
part in or in any manner countenance these
prosecutions. But, what Of that? The Re-
publican press and tho Republican leaders in
the North will, ignorautly or willfully-one
way or the other-identify their contest
against the Democrats IN New Orleans with
the contest Of Leonard, Wells Anderson d Go.
In the parishes TO the bIood-curdlng ISLANDERS
OF these dishonOred men will be given the
authority and weight Of the influential and
honored Democrats who head the Citizens
movement, and these bloody shirt lies
against Louisiana, and in fact the whole
South, will thus obtain an authority and
weight they never had before and which all
the carpet-baggers, Republican politicians
and army officers during ten years were
unable to give them,
And will the evil stop hero? elimination
and recrimination will render irreconcilable
the two factions into which the city Dom
ocracy is split. The division will reach into
the country and on the eve Of the great cam
paign Of 1880, which is TO determine whether
the supremacy Of the constitution is to be
restored in this Union or the money power
upheld over the subjugatiOn and ruin Of
the South, will find the people Of Louisiana
divided into factions engaged in disgraceful
wrangles over local issues and spos, while
their own and the liberties Of their fellow
countrymen are being undermined and de-
stroyed.
LHlS IL the isSue lhto "hlch ILLS cohbtSt II
precipitating us. The Republicans arc juhi-
liant over it. The Nationals are delighted.
Only the true friends of Louisiana and Of con-
stitutional liberty have reason to weep over
it. Are the Citizens prepared to shoulder the
responsibility Of this contest for the spoils
of a few city Offices which it will be the duty
of the Legislature, or Of q constitutional con-
vention, to abolish?
We have not opposed this contest from any
selfish motive or through any fear Of the re-
suit, nor because we are willing to cover up
frauds upon the ballot-box. Our reasons are
given above and in q previous article. But
since the issue cannot be- avoided, We desire
it to be thorough, and that those who have
forced it may see the consequences to which
it will inevitably lead.