The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-07-24
REPUBLIuANIsM IN DISGUISE.

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greater than the New Orleans Times horror
Of Democracy. Assuming at times an In
tensely Southern mask under which to con
ceal its Radical horns, It never misses an op.
portunity To assail the principles, record and
organization Of the Democratic party. When
tho negro exodus began, the 7lDses, ignoring
the real cause, attributed ii to the bull
DOING methods Of the Louisiana and Mis-
sisslppi Democrats. The Republican press
and politicians Of the North took advantage
Of the utteranceg Of this intensely South
ern" sheet, and quoted them In and out Of
Congress to prove up oil the false and villain
GUS charges they had made for years and we're
making then against our people. We venture
to say that, the bloody-shirt shriekers never,
In oil their time, received 90 much comfort
and support as they did frem the charge Of
| the New Orleans Tunes that the so-called
bulldozng, by which Louisiana, Mississippi
and other Southern States were charged with
being carried for the Democracy, frightened
| the negroes and prompted them to abandon
their Southern homes and seek peace and So
cutity In Kansas.
When similar charges were name against
our people by the defunct Republican they
had little force. The public everywhere,
North and South, understood that the Repab-
ltcan was d Radical paper whose mission was
to bolster up the carpet-bag plunderers OF
Louisiana and to defame and belle our
people. The public understood that
THE Republcnn was feed for this
purpose from the public treasury, and
that II waxed fat In the prosecution 81
Ito ugly work. But the case ID very different
where journal claiming to be independent
and occasionally uttering sentiments 80 ex-
trenely Southern as to excite the loyal envy
OF the hireling of the Republican party who
edits the Ohotona States takes TIP the role OF
misrepresentation and defamation. When
such paper revives the obnoxious and iniuri-
GUS policy Of the former open md pronounced
organ Of the carpet baggers and enemies Of
tho people OF Louisiana. the mask should be
torn from Its face
| BY attributing the negro exodus to the
bulldozlng OF the Southern Democrats the
Times plays into the hands Of the Northern
against the Northern Democrats. But 1t does
not stop here. While 1t gives encouragement
to the bloody shirt shriekers In the North, It
never looses an opportunity to give aid and
comfort to the disafTected or ''sore-headed"
elements III the Democratic party In the
South, or to encourage revolt In Democratic
ranks. Its chief business during the
sitting OF the Convention has been to pre-
vent unity OF action between the Democrats
who supported the minority and those who
sustained the majority report Of the commit
tee on the State debt; and Its violent and In
decent abuse Of the latter was evidently de-
signed to provoke an Issue which would d.
vide and distract the party, and afford the
old Radical leaders, OF whom 1t u the masked
representative, an opportunity to form re-
spectacle alliance.
Following up Its unholly mission to destroy
Oh impair the organization OF the Democratic
party In Louisiana, we find the Times blatant
~ encouraging III the parishes what arc mis-
called independent candidates. Such candi-
| dates are seldom independent In their opin-
ions. They. are generally men whose per.
sonal ends and aspirations control their
public spirit and party fealty. They are the
pets of every revolt against the Democracy,
and their praises are sung by every sheet
whose purpose and interest 1t Is to defeat the
Democratic party. In the opinion OF the New
Orleans Times these independents represent
all the political courage, virtue and intelli-
gence In the State, because their course is cal
culated to weaken the Democratic strength,
and again throw the State into the hands OF
the oorruptionists whose reign Of over eight
years Impoverished It's people.
Venturing upon broader ground, the Times
audaeiously presumes to arratgn the National
Democratic party, and attempts to inilame
the Southern people with the belief that that
party and it's leaders are enemies to our
material interests, and that 1t is the
duty Of this section to cut loose
from it. The Times does not dare to
openly commend the South to support
the Republican party with Grant end Conk-
ling, and Blaine, and Sherman, and Garfield,
and Zach. Chandler, and Simon Cameron in
the lead; but the logic of Its position Is that
that ID the party, and these are the men the
South should ally herself with. No other con-
struction can be placed upon the virulent and
persistent attacks of the Times upon the
Democratic party and Its silence upon the in
famous record Of the Radical robbers in the
South, and the relentless persecution Of the
South by the Republican party North.
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We hear nothing from the Times in rela-
ton to the policy which Its party pursued to-
ward the South for more than ten years
That journal finds nothing to censure in the
fact that during It's long and absolute domi-
nation OF the Federal government the Re
publican party appropriated millions upon
millions OF money for railroads, canals
and other improvements in the North,
while all that It appropriated for the South
was money to pay ruffian bodies of troops
and their ruffian officers to sustain carpet
baggers In plundering Southern people, in
insulting and outraging Southern Democrats,
In depriving us Of the right Of free elections.
and in protecting Ignorant and mis-.
guided negroes In their threats against
our homes and our lives. None Of these facts
known to every man, woman and child In
spires any indignation in the breasts OF those
har