The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-09-19
THE RETURNING BOARD REVIVED.

The correspondence between the secretary
Of the State Central Committee of the Ma
tional party and the chairman of the Citizens
Conservative Association, printed in the DEM
OORAT Tuesday morning, was not calculated to
give much comfort to tho former organiza-
tion The disguise under which the Nationals
| are sailing is entirely too thin to deceive any
body of citizens who have the welfare of this
State at heart. Disappointed politicians and
ambitious ofIlce-seekers may fall into it's ranks
and descant upon 1t as great reform move
ment.
But the Returning Board sticks out so
sharply that the cloak Of Nationalism can
not conceal it. Nationalism and Radicalism
In Louisiana, are one and the same thing.
Nationalism pretends to be a greenbac1
movement and Radicalism pretends to adj
vocate hard money; but there is not the
shadow Of q doubt that the object Of both is
to vindicate the Returning Board, to counter
act the effect of the exposures made by the
Potter committee, to sustain Hayes title and
rescue his administration and the conspiracy
by which it was established from absolute in
fanny. The combination was organized in,
and dictated from, Washington.
Hayes and Sherman, and the leaders Of the
Republican party at the capital, may be loud
in their denunciatiOns Of the Greenbackcrs,
Communists and Nationals, and they may
pirate necessarily of the necessity Of preserv-
ing the honor and credit Of the government;
but they are before, not only this generation
but posteritv, for trial, and all questions to
them are subordinate to the complete and
most pronounced Endorsement of the Return
ing Board by majority Of the voters of
Louisiana.
1t matters little to MI. Hayes and John
Sherman if three or four inflationists OF COM
munists are sent to Congress from this State
provided those inflatonists are identified
with the Returning Board and elected by the
opposition to the Democratic party Hence
the National party in this State has been Or
ganized and, outside Of a few sore headed DEM
ocrats and Communists it is composed entirely
Of the body of the Radical party.
The Radical State Convention assembled
here few days ago, and adjourned for the
want of quorum 1t will not assemble again
this year. The National State Convention Is
in session. in this city now. 1t represents all
the elements OF opposition to the Democratic
COIl7SI NhIlFo party. Ii III uOlulLau6S Canul-
date for Treasurer, Nationals, Radicals and
Communists will support him. IF it indorses
any candidates for Congress 1t will indorse
the Independent and Radical candidates and
| the nominees OF the Nationals If it
makes no Endorsements, silence will be
an invitation to the motley crew to support
the candidates in the field opposing the DEM
ocratic nominations. Some of the National
nominees may disclaim any utilization with
the infamous Radical party or any indorse-
ment of the Returning Board. But their dis
Chalmers cannot destroy the fact that they
cannot get five hundred votes outside of the
| old Radical party which plundered and dis
graced this State for ten years, or that other
and more startling fact that their own cleo
| ton will be vindicatlon of the frauds, for
geries and periuries perpetrated by the Re
turning Board by which Kellogg was made
Governor in 1872 and Hayes President in 1876,
whether they design it to be such or not.
A mere mention OF the names of the anti
Democratic candidates for Congress in this
State will leave not q doubt in the mind Of
any intelligent man that the whole anti
Democratic programme is the Endorsement of
the Returning Board, and the vindication Of
the Republican conspirators in stealing the
electoral vote Of Louisiana In the first and
second districts the Nationals have nominal
ed Mr.. H, G. Castellanos and MI. E, North