The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-11-07
aEvv ORLEANS, NOVEMBER y. Asgg
FALSE DEMOCRACY,

New converts to o sect or q party are q
ways the most jealous members Of It. Vine
Judgment Is lacking. or when intereste
motives have prompted the fresh proseyt'
his zeal Is certain to run into intemperat
ardor and engender the most violently Pre-
scriptve spirit Our esteemed contemporary
the Picnyfp,c, Is q shining illustration Of thi
fact. Our able neighbor Is now over fort,
years of ago; in fact is in it's dotage. Ye
during Its long and useless life It ha
never been. until recently, a Demo
cratic paper. Indeed it has, in all tn
years OF its long life, been everything Wing
Conservative, Conservative Republican, War
mothite, kolloggite. Lotteryite- everything
except Democratic. How sweet It was OF
Kellogg when Kellogg was in power and hat
money to lend, Is a matter of public notoriety
How earnestly and assiduously 1t has at al
times, prior to the final triumph Of the De
mocracy, advocated a third party movement
carrying that proposition even into the grea
and vital canvass Of 1876, is also historical
The people know and cannot forget thes,
facts.
But since the firm establishment of Tho
Nichols government the Pic. has been In
creasing in grace, and since the promulga.
ton of the Odd Fellows Hall ticket it has de.
veloped into q red hot, cantankerolls. last
ditch Bourbon Democratic organ. We are
pleased with this for we are always glad to
welcome repentent sinners into the true fold.
But as the organ Of the Democratic party aud.
as journal which has fought 50 long and
consistently in the Democratic cause that It
has become cool, temperate and wary. the
DEMOCRAT must rebuke and repress the in
temperate zeal of this now aud fiery recruit.
Gladly as we welcome the old PIC. into our
political church we cannot consent to stand by
and hear preach a false and proscriptive De-
mocracy without reproving and correcting it,
On the third instant our fiery coadiutator In
an article headed Making a Bad Record"
uttered sentiments which in the name of the
Democracy Of New Orleans we repudiate abso-
lutely. For many years and through all its
iloppngs the hcdy,nc has been consistent
In one thing-~toadying to the commercial
classes. But Its newborn zeal for short-hair
Democracy it suddenly deserted the cause of
the merchants and turned upon their move
ment, known as the Citizens Conservative
Association, with a ierocity we deprecate and
q spirit Of prescription we entirely reDudiate
In the article referred, TO the Pieayau,e de-
claros that every citizen, however conscien-
tious. Intelligent and honorable he may be,
who joined the Citizens movement will be
henceforth Il marked man. and debared from
all fellowship Savn the humbe5t in the
cratic-COnscrvative party. Says the
PIC:
Upon the dissolution Of the Citizens Asaocia-
ton, after the present disagreement, the names
Of their candldates will be remembered with
by many Democrats.
II they look for future advancement
In public ite ct the hands of the masses of the
people OF thls city And s,ate. the record they
ase 1 opr m me VIII s1n1 them
defeat on Tuesday, their agency In the attempt
70 dsraot e great party w.t. Of the people wiz 1T
motives which govern the masses OF the per
u tent Supporters of the Democratic, party
Iuatlt1es the prediction that they will be uu, |
tavorably remembered,
We deny that the spirit which pervades
these Incorporate expressions OF our es-
5eemed contemporary toward the public spir-
ted gentlemen and Old Jealous and well-tried
Democrats and Conservatives who organ
zed or joined the Citizens Conservative AS
animates the Democratic party |
There are MEN connected with that associa- |
ion, and there were candidates on it's ticket |
Who were in the forefront Of the fight for Lou
siana, denouncing by word, and fighting with |
1eart and hand, the Radical party when the
'acdyuee was preaching the organization of
bird party, condemning the violence of the
Democracy and borrowing money from War
moth and Kellogg We sincerely believe that
hese estimable men, many of whom are our
F,y.,
committed an error in the manner in which
hey conducted u movement proper, nay,
necessary in itself, and which accomplished
much good for the Democratic party: but
hat they have forfeited their title to the re-
pect and confidence Of the Democracy, or of
my portion Of their fellow-citizens, every
Democrat who is not a ring man or a Demo-
rat for hire will indignantly deny
The Citizens Association was organized by
borough Democrats for proper and patriotic
purposes; that it miscarried through mis-
axes obvious we believe now to many of its
eaders, as well as to us, is true; but that fact
annot make such men outlaws in the Demo-
ratio party. The movement was move
lent in the interest of reform in the Demo-
ratio party; it was carried, in the heat of a
REF and heated campaign, to an unfortunate
xtreme. But if such men as its leaders, &C
lated by such purposes, are to be ostracised,
) the Picuy,ne says they shall be, all efforts
correct party abuses will end, and all good {
zen will abandon a political organization {
hich hugs its crimes against the people and
lrsues with the temper of a bloodhound
lose who denounce its errors and corrup-
ons.
No paper in New Orleans so vigorously
ught the battle Of the Democratic party in l
is canvass as the DEMOCRAT. Yet we ap- Y
auded the motives and original design OF