The Bossier banner., 1880-08-12
The Democratic Party.

| LIZ udHICS vi lGS STcdG ledueES
are synonyms of honor.
Their records are resplendent with
the light of lofty patriotism and
the glory of an unsullied statesman
ship shines all along their illustrious
career.
Look at Seymour; look at Tilden;
look at Bayard; look at Hendricks;
look at Thurman; at Hancock; at
Parker, English, Gordon, Hampton,
and a hundred others not less illus.
trious. They are leaders of whom
any party might be proal, and to
whom any country might point with
pride. No party that follows their
lead could fall into corruption, and
no government can prove q failure
whose councils are ruled by their
craftsmanship, and whose interests
are guarded by their integrity.
In all this long list Of noble lead.
ers there is bat one against whom a
shadow of foul accusation has
ever been cast. And that one has
been pursued with q meaHness never
before witnessed in the political an.
nails of the Republic. The maligni-
ty of his prosecutions can be meas.
ured alone by the magnitude OF the
monstrous wrong perpetrated upon
the people by the Republican leaders
when they succeeded at last in seat
ing their candidate in the place to
which. Mr.. Tilden had been elected.
But whatever his foes may find or
whatever his his friends may fear,
it cannot be denied that Mr.. Tilden
stands far above the reach of all the
Republican leaders in statesman.
ship, in patriotism and purity of
purpose. In all his official career he
never betrayed trust nor faltered
an inch from the straight and mar
row path of duty and devotion to
principle. In all the coming years
his record, as Governor of New York,
must remain one of the most spIen
did in the history of the States.
But the Democratic party does
not commend itself by its leaders
alone. Its long and honorable record
proves it the party that labors for
the liberties of the people, the rights
Of the States and the interests of
the country. Through all the mourn.
full years of the past it has been
faithful to principle. Amid the
storms of fanaticism and lawlessness
it has stood by the Constitution and
the laws, unfailing as the tides in
their flow and steady as the stars in
their orbits.
1t is a party of the people-not of
the politicians. 1t proves its pre-.
cepts by its practice. a party of
strict construction, it has favored all
along and still favors tariff of rev.
enues commensurate with the needs
Of the Government-standing firm
against unjust rates whose purpose
and effect were to build up one sec.
tion and one community at the ex.
pense OF others. "a fair field and
free fight" is the motto that has dis
tinguished its course in the past and
points its path in the present.
A party thoroughly sound on Fl.
nances, it sought at its first opportu.
nifty to undo the stealthy work of the |
Radical party in demonetizing silver
and to restore the precious metal to |
It's proper place in the currency of !
The country. A party of mercy and |
wisdom, it laid its hand upon John |
Sherman and held him back in his |
ruinOus efforts to retire without law |
,r reason and reckless of conse.
Iuences, all the greenbacks he could |
gather into the treasury-his high |
banded purpose evidently being to |
iestroy them utterly. By a resolu