The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-10-12
THE BUSINESS OF TODAY.

the parish convention to-day Will uGIeEmlHe
whether or not the Democratic party Ia to
maintain Its supremacy In this city. The
affairs Of the city are In the most deplor-
able condition. The police remain unpaid;
the teachers in the public schools and other
worthy and useful employees ere in great
need of their salaries, while the collected
revenues are consumed In sustaining a cum
bersome and expensive municipal govern
ment and In paying an overwhelming
debt. The situation, indeed calls for the
exercise of wisdom and patriotism, and
the men most deeply interested In the pros
perity of the city should step promptly and
braveiy to the front; the mere professional
politicians should for the present retire to the
rear.
If the parish convention to be elected to-
day, and which Ia to assemble on Monday,
shall act with ordinary discretion and COM
mon sense, 1t will nominate al unobjectiona-
BILE ticket for the city and parish offices and for
he Legislature. We will then have an unex-
citing canvass, q quiet election and, on the
| fifth of November, an overwhelming Demo-
| cratic victory In New Orleans and throughout
the State The result will be the assembling
of the best Legislature which has sat In Louis
| lena In many years, and general and
| thorough system of retrenchment In both
| city and State government.
| On the other hand, If the schemes and
plans Of men who are using their influence in
the wards to promote their own selfish ends
under the sacred name and cloak Of DEM
ocracy, and whose rapacity overrides all
principle, discretion and patriotism; If men
| ~, fsb nJ r,y1f cf fhn dim nfr
cruited out of the ranks of Radicalism, and,
before the stencil OF their old associations is
washed off their garments, nominated as DEM
ocrats in the interest Of rings and monopo-
| lies and forced upon honest Democratic voters,
who have been Democrats through all these
years Of adversely and defeat; If, we say, the
convention shall be wild and senseess enough
to carry out this shameful programme, the
ticket it dominates will be overwhelmingly
defeated, and very probablya great disaster
brought upon the State.
We have but Just rescued the State from
o gang Of plunderers who held it by force
for eight years; q great work OF retrench-
ment and reform has been begun and far
advanced. If the Democratic administra-
ton Is continued two years longer a. cheap
i
lished, the condition Of the city will be
improved and taxation reduced to O. rate which
will not burthen and Cypress all the interests
of the State. This is great end to be OBJ
tanned. 1t Is the consummation for which
every true and conscientious Democrat and
Conservative has Iabored from 1868 to the pres
emit time It can only be accomplished
through the Democratic party. Hence every
good citizen should look with alarm upon
any policy adopted in the party, or any
movement organized outside Of it, designed
or calculated to disrupt, weaken or defeat It,
It is, therefore, the solemn and imperative
duty of all classes of the people to endeavor
to force good nominations. So far as this is
the purpose of the Citizens Conservative AS
sociation, we have earnestly and cordially
supported that movement; SO far BIS the
schemes of politicians have tended to prosti-
tute the party to the selfish purposes Of indi-
viduals, or use it's name and authority to ad.
vance the election of the representatives and
tools of rings and monopolies, we have
earnestly and cordially denounced them.
We feel assured now of two things:
l. That If ticket is nominated by the par
ish convention which Is not in its character
full guarantee that the work Of retrench
ment in city and parish offices will be carried
vigorously forward, and that no rings will be
supported by the nominees for the Legisla
ture. the ticket of the convention will be de
feated.
2. That if city and parish ticket which
In Its nature furnishes these guarantees, il
nominated, that ticket will be elected by al
, overwhelming majority.
We base our conviction upon the fact that
large, wealthy and formidable organization
composed of many Of our best citizens ant
Dem ocrats, have determined to revolt agains
> the action Of the convention If it does no
nominate a satisfactory ticket. This organj
cation, If it assumes hostile attitude toWar
f the Dem ocratic ticket, will gather to it th
+ strength of all the several factions and pal
p ties Ia the city whose object and purpose
the defeat of the Democracy. Should tn
, Citizens Conservative Association take sue
position, the Radicals, the negroes, tn
Nationals and Native Americans will marc
r straight into their ranks. Various and COZ
: nicting as are the principles by which thee
h factions pretend to be guided, they are actt
O ated by one common purpose, the defeat {
the Democratic party in New Orleans. Fac
faction understands that, alone, 1t cannt
% make an impression upon our ranks; each
q animated by an eager appetite for the spoil
p OF our rich city and parish offices, and hent
r all are ready to join the Citizens Conservati7
= Association, for the purpose of breaking tt
!. solid ranks which confront them. That don
:: the scramble will begin: where it will end
- is difficult to say.
= We warn the convention, therefore, not
- force the good and true men In the Citizen
- movement into opposition. Their power
= formidable; they are men OF sense, know
= edge and experience, and they believe,
:, forced into revolt, they can carry the cit,
= and they are willing to spend work, time an
\ money in the effort Upon the other hand,
n a truly representative ticket is nominate
- the leaders Of that association declare the
s purpose to support it with all their energie
= and means. Men like them are neither to
despised nor bullied; we may depreeate the