The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1878-11-13
OUR GLORIOUS VICTORY!

Our triumph at the polls has been
so complete and our majority 80
overwhelming that there is not peg
left upon which our opponents can
hang complaint. It is proud day
for our grand old Parish, and vic
tory we'll worthy of our great
historic party, when the Parish and
party are to be represented by Wise
and Jeffries in the Legislature,
Thornton as Judge and Paul as Sher-
if. A result, such as that might well
be glory enough for one day, but
other results have been achieved,
scarcely less gratifying. The first
and chief Of these is the assurance
that our own people, the good and
true people. who have battled so7iong
and so we'll against radicalism, are
not to be seduced into any sort Of a
support of that party under. new
names, and that they are as proud
to-day, as they have ever been of
their allegiance to the Democratic
party, which has led them now to
victory as it has often done before
In the past, and as, thank God! it is
now certain it will always do in the
future. .a ...
Another noticeable feature Of the
election is that the radical leaders
have lost their grip upon the colored
voters, as evidenced by the crowds of
them who voluntarily voted our
ticket in preference to that one to
whose support they had sold as sheep
and cattle are sold in the market.
They had sagacity enough to see that
they had been sold out, bargained
and traded off like so many dumb
brutes, and they had the manhood to
resent the insult to their intelligence
and the courage to assert their polit-
ical freedom. That the result would
have been different as far as they
were concerned, if there had been a
regular republican ticket IN the field,
we have every reason to believe; but
that we would have won even then by
smaller majority, we have no man
ner of doubt. The rebuke they have
given their quoadam leaders, was
we'll merited, and we very much
doubt if there will ever again be any
attempt made to revive that corpse
of radicalism, which was buried SO
| deep under ground on the 9Th day OF
| November, that it will require mir
acle to revive and recusitate it.
| After such a glorious victory, we
can afford and ought to be generous
and forgiving toward those who diff
| fered with US, and by our magnanim-
ity seek to draw them back to the
fold from which many of them wan
dered honestly. We ought to show
by our manly forbearance, that we
know as we'll how to wear the honors
of victory after the battle, as we do
to stand firmly to our colors while
| the battle RACES. We ought to re
member also that the officers we have
elected, now represent the whole peo
pie, irrespective of party, and the
victor and vanquished can both find
in this reflection, the ground upon
which they can stand, in seeking to
promote the peace, prosperity and
4 happiness of the whole people of our
Parish. .' ~
| Fellow citizens, the DEMOCRAT re-
Ijoices in your victory with its whole
heart, and offers the SENTIMENT
Three times three cheers! for re.
deemed and regenerated old Rapides,
and three times three cheers! with a
tiger, for the old Democratic party!
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