The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-04-24
THE COUNTRY PRESS.
views On the subject Of the Monroe Mass
Meeting.
Lafayette Advertiser.]

Meeting.
Lafayette Advertiser
We have been informed that the campaign
has been opened and "the first gun" fired
In Ouachta on the occasion OF nominating
candidate for Mayor of Monroe. A few
individuals announced In formal terms that
the Democratic party has faithfully kept
its pledges" thus indorsing the last Legisla--
ture. This action was published with grand
, flourish and with the evident intention of
giving that keynote to the party. To that
extent this little local affair seems to have
been big storm in small teapot. =.
We are willing to admit that majority Of
the Democrats In the Legislature endeavored
to redeem the solemn pledges made during
the last campaign. But it Is q notorious and
shameful fact that the most important and
essential reforms needed and demanded by
eoe Psoes IF spe s snd the
Republicans. While the Democratic party
may not be responsible for this failure, 1t
cannot be truthfully asserted that 1t has re-
deemed Its pledges. Refinement h ID e1-
but monopolies and other great evils still
exist and they can be remedied only by q
constitutional convention. A large majority
Of the Democrats and people Of the State in,,
. sist upon having thorough reforms and will
not indorse Legislature which refused to
call constitutional convention, and even in
solently and tyrannically deprivedithe people
Of the poor privilege Of voting upon the
So as the Ouachita gun is 1.-THE first gum"
let il be the last Of that calibre There is no
echo to such pop-guns. The paramount and
all-absorbing question will be the calling of
cratic party does not authoritatively recog-.
nize the fact it will certainly be demoralized
. and defeated next fall.
assumption Pioneerl
A large mass meeting was recently held in
Monroe to nominate candidate for mayor at
the ensuing city election in May.
The preamble and resolutions after being
fully discussed as we'll as the general policy
of the State government sustained, by s. D..
McEnery, WV. Farmer and F. P. Stubbs,
were adopted by an almost unanimous vote,
there being only five dissenting voices in the
crowded house.
Thus have the people at the first political
meeting of the canvass fully Endorsed the
Nichols government.
The campaign may be considered as regu-
, larly opened, and we shall soon have an op-
portunity Of learning from the people In their
primary meetings what opinions they enter
tain on the subjects discussed by the last
Legislature The New Orleans DEMOCRAT
It's peculiar views were thwarted and thrust
aside by ring composed OF monopolists, Rad
icals and fishy Democrats, during the last
session Of the Legislature
Fine words butter no parsntpS,' Is an old
saying; and mere assertions, however strong.
do not constitute argument We, who are Op-
posed to the views Of the DEMOCRAT, are un-
willing to sustain our position by any support
so inefficient, but forward the fact that the
Legislature represented the views and politi-
cal sentiments of large majority of the
Democratic voters OF the State, and that po-
sition Is unassailable until reversed by vote
of the people.
It seems unreasonable that Democrats
should differ on a mere question of expe-
diency as the proper time for doing certain
things. This feeling must be ascribed to that
1Aa- - -
brought by the unsettled condition of our
affairs during the long rule of the Radicals.
Harmony and united action are essential to
continued success. We must bear in mind
that we have watchful political enemies, who
our would-be rulers, will thankfully receive a
half loaf If they cannot secure whole one.
One would suppose that our political strug-
giles have been sufficiently warm OF late years
to satisfy any reasonable man, and that a
term of quiet under any circumstances should
last long enough to enable people to look
about them and think calmly and sensibly
about the real wants Of our State:
If there ever was time in our history when
self and its small ambitions should yield to
the real welfare of the State, we think 1t Is at
hand; and although, in the excitement OF
passing events, the agitators may pc over
looked yet they may rest assured that the
time Is not far distant when they VIII De called
to account, and their regulations will be fixed
strictly in accordance with their merits.
[Marksville Bulletin.l
It is not often that the resolutions Of viii
lage convention, convened for the purpose OF
nominating candidates for municipal officers,
have any significance outside OF the corpo-
rate limits within which they originated nor
would any Importance be attached to the late
Monroe resolutions were it not for the dis
cussions which arose, and the political prom
inence of the gentlemen engaged in the de-
bate.
We believe with the Monroe resolutions that
sin order to carry to successful completion
the redemption of the State government from
the misruie inaugurated there is necessity
for the Democratic party to be united" we
too ''deprecate any independent movement
or third party formations" but we do not be-