The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1880-04-01
Simply Disgraceful.

Simply Disgracetul.
The Democratic party Of the
United States lacks discipline, organ
ization, and practical common sense.
No vicious old woman ever scolded
more, ever dealt in moro scandal,
ever said more evil things of q neigh.
boz, ever wasted her energies on
smaller events, or made herself more
hateful generally to every body con
nected with her. That devotion
which falters not, that discipline
which yields not, and that high and
lofty courage which may see over.
thrown but never surrender, many
of the party leaders know nothing
about. Look for example how it
conducts campaign. Certain prom
ineDt men are mentioned in connec-
ton with the Office Of President Of
the United States, and public expec-
tation and public criticism are busy
with their names. Of course they
have rivals within their ranks, but
the friends of these rivals do not dis.
cuss the merits of this or that can
didate as brother Democrats should.
They begin by calling ever aspirant
they do not like either copperhead,
. hangnan, tAief, riagster or q
fraud, and many end, as John Kelly
has done, and as Ben Hill, Aleck
Stephens, DR.. FELTON, and others of
their ilk ought to do at once, by
boiling and going over body and soul
to the opposition. Caucusses do not
control such Democrats any more,
and conventions, as final and abso-
Lutte in their obligations, appear to
have beeeme obsolete. Leaders are
cratic, querrilous, quarrelsome. and
stubborn as buffalo bulls. Every
thing is ring that is not repudia-
ton, and everything is robbery and
ertortion which is not unmistakable
rebellion against party rules and
party edicts. Whatever 10 new is
best. Camp followers rule, and de-
sercers BY droves 60 into anything
which promises strife, and which
will leave behind it feuds, wounds
!. and running sores. Party leaders
20 longer teach the masses Democ-
facy. Ofdce-seekers are selfish, dis
putations, ignorant, barren Of con.
victions, and as arrogant in their
assertions of principles as they are
pervious to every hostile or Gripping
influence. Those who could be, and
and have the ability to be, and
ought to be leaders are torn to
pieces. Every partisan lie told of
Democrat is believed, and every
Black Republican SANDER is re-told
with infinite sest and largely added
to because Of its msanness and ies
qualification Magnanimity is I'm.
known alike to all. Democratic
public sentiment is flabsyy and Dem
ocratic esprit ds corps has dwindled
into perpetual winnings, silly de-
nuneiatieBs, an irresistible desire for
complications and disorders. Re.
publicanism stands as a wall; De.
mocracy wastes itself on fifty mutt.
nous experiments. Republication
dies in its ranks as the Old Guard;
Democracy is beating up every hen
roost in the Nation.
What is the remedyf We know
of none, since Acknowledgement is
no longer possible, except savage,
pitiless, overbearing disaster. They
will have to have an end to sham
Democracy and the leadership Of
camp-followers or be routed and
sabred politically as the Prussians
sabred the French at Waterloo
For cowardice there is but one cure,
for that plebeian spirit which crawls
on its belly bat one, and for that
want of devotion and conviction but
one Any party which starves and