The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-10-26
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them down with its stuffed club. Our slip
perry old neighbor Ia always ready 70 exhibits
vast ferocity when II can be done from am
bush 0r where the abuse con be gefetnliznd
md made vague. She will abandon her most
faithful servant to any misfortune or dis'
grace at the bidding OF III offended adver-
fiser, and crawl and cringe through oil the
phases III seryilitv and prostrhtion ~ oldot
10 appeasa the wrnthful magnate But give
her chance TO strike at the helpless. Or the
fmpereonal, u indulge her native malice
without prospect Of punishment, and who go
fierce and truculent ~ the NC
The presen. Ii case Ii poiut. The nc
aees chance to play into the hands OF
her old friends and creditors by stirring
Mn Ill feeling Ia the Democratic ranks by
attacking and abusing an imaginary ring
and by leading the public to believe that
every form Ut corruption and unfairness Ia
beinv practioed by the Democratic party or
Ranisation. Any one who reads the Ifcayane,
and II innocent enough to credit her with
even decent show Of honesty. would infer
that the entire party 10 controlled by y few
selfish and unprincipled "bnmmers," who
allow respectable people no voice LII the mat
Ger, and who. by disreputable combinations
and rascally methods maintain themselves
n power against the peoples will and In con
tempt of the peoples interest. The idea ot
this Ii. " course to persuade those who take
no part In practical politics, and therefore
know nothing to the contrary that the pri-
4narlee and executive committees ARE hot
beds Of lnfamy. and that II is the duty Of
good citizens tn oppose them OH every oooa-
eion. In this way, by disafreeting ono here
and another there. by rendering ono man neg
alive and another positive Ill his hostility, by
producing dIAtrlst and luminosity and dis
cord, the Pic hopes 10 pay an installment Of
questionable Indebtedness md at the same
time til crafty her love for notwithstanding
In the dark.
Challenged to make an explicit charge and
10 state Id plain terms what and whom Il
meant BY tho "ring," the nenpune makes
fresh exhibition Of Ito characteristic disin-
uenuousness by declining to enter into par
ticulars DC to persons. affecting to take II for
granted that everybody knows and any hon
sst citizen can tell ,ls. Az TO specific charges
In the matter Of tho alleged acts Of the ring,
We have been more Fortunate and the Pic has
been less wary than usual we have at last
succeeded In getting the nc to formulate
some OF ius complaints.
Let us examine them:
The seeming leader or the Parrish Committee
heRRn tho campaign hy announcing hia inten-
tIoa 10 carry the war into Africa, For I'LL that
anybody knows he may DO pursuing the phan
tom lend of his ambition In the heart OF that
dark continent now, hut thia r. what h. pro-
posed, and this Ia what tho committee did The
rj "A n vtln A n n
State party contest was pending. contrary TO
every rule and president and ~ opnHrtunity
whether iii .lot they are pleased with thelpm-son
aael OF the present committee.
Every Inference sought 10 DO established
here IL unjust: every statement ~ utterly
and unqualltiedly Incorrect. When the seem
ing leader" said, at the beginning OF tho cam
paign. that he would carry the war into
what the Pic implies, to wit: that he favored
nm entire reorganization of the party ma
chinery, Of the ward clubs and the Parish
Committee Complaints were being made
and eagerly echoed by the ficau,ne and
Times. II was charged that 4 ring had pos
,easion Of ,,,c machinery. and proposed TO
use ii for Their selfish purpvsvr, cue Then
the seeming lender came out With q propo- |
alton to hold these elections III tho wards, to
slect new club presidents, new members q
The Parish Com mittee, from top to bottom
/ Glenn deal. This was what he meant by
carrying the war into Africa and this Is
what was done. Presidents for the ward clubs
and delegates to the Parish Committee were
.hosen directly by the people, and by the heav-
lest vote ever polled ut a primary election In
New Orleans. More than thirteen Thousand |
,allots were cast on the occasion, and II ever |
men were elected BY the people the success
I'LL candidates ut this time were thus elected.
Yet the ncayefne says that mo opportunity |
aas been allowed to the great masses TO do,
tide whether or not they are pleased with the
personnel or the present committed
Chnnuas have been permitted New rules
bave haen admitted, But the changes and the
rules al laftto the construetion hnu the eSeeu-
1inn MI n controlling vote holding oyer, or rs /
Aon . o. ~ ae,f annn,ntad Vice president \. NJ
ssortiad 10 what the DEMOCRAT calls tso opposi- /
Hon But the president Is on ..ae other side.
asi the vice president liz powe,ress. A certain
number of votes In the committee are given to |
'sthe opposition" butthey aggregate minority
vote.
Incorrect again. There IRE no "holdng
oyer members "as good as self-appoint-
adj" This Is another effort TO mtsrepre-
sent, The new rules were drafted at con-
ference between the Rivet faction and the
party of the old committee and
were adopted IN toto without qualification.
The result Is abundantly shown In the fact
that all opposition was conctliated, and
that, to-day, there Is not faction OF any
kind outside the party lines. Only the Psc,
with her illmitabe venom to draw upon
Tor material. stands aloof and wages her un-
clean war. She pretends that the vice pres
tiency la an unimportant post, flung to the
opposition with a sheer. whereas 1t is the nlost
important place upon the committee, Its hold
er being chairman Of the executive committee
which does all the work, and practically d.
reefs the party machinery. She says that
sscertain number Of votes are given to the
disposition, but they aggregate minority
whereas every member Of that committee
MAS elected fresh from the people not four