The Daily telegraph. (Monroe, La.) 1870-1886, 1883-10-26
EVOLUTION.

intended to be, and should be. organ
'Zed In the Interest of the whole party,
and that the issues between Democratic
aspirants should be prohibited in its
councils,
Accepting this theory as correct, it is
not strange that many Of the members
thought that there should be a re.or-
ganlzatlon, and that Mr.. Fitzpatrick,
the president, who is an active, vigor-
Gus and determined partisan of Gen.
Ogden, should be replaced by more
moderate, temperate and judicial pre-
siding officer. Whatever doubts we
may have entertained, prior to the
meeting OF the committee, as to the
policy or wisdom of such course, they
We're fully removed by the violent and
revolutionary methods to which Mr..
Fitzpatrick resorted to prevent such re-
organization, and suppress the will of
the majority. We have seen such rul-
ings resorted to in Radical conventions,
where the duty and purpose of the
chairman were to Overfuie the ma
Jority, but we challenge any of our
Democratic friends to cite any such
rulings in any Democratic body out
side OF New Orleans ward clubs. The
scheme of revoiutionizing the commit
tee appears to have been inaugurated a
few nights ago in the twelfth ward,
where the effort was made. in spite of
reason or justice, to "hre out" mem
Der adverse TO the minority, and it was
continued by the rulings of the late
chairman yesterday.
We are perfectly amazed that inteli-
gent Democrats should have sustained
the rulings of Mr.. Fitzpatrick and at
the same time charged The majority,
who were exercising plain and we'll
established right, as revOutionists.
Every organization, or public or pri
vate body, that elects its own officers,
has perfect right, whenever major
Ity OF Its members think proper, to re-
organize. Even the House of Repre-
sentativeS has this right, and major
lty OF It's members can at any time
depose the Speaker and elect a new
one. The exercise Of this or any other
right may be at certain times or under
certain circumstances, unWise or inn
polite; but it is contradiction in terms
"a palpable absurdity--to say that
the exercise of right is revolutionary.
Revolutionary movements are some,
times made to assert right denied,
and they are sometimes made to pre-
vent the exercise Of'a right, as was the
case yesterday on the part of Mr..
Fitzpatrick and his followers to pre-
vent the majority OF the committee
from carrying out their will; but we
trust our Democratic friends, who left
the committee, will not commit them
selves, longer than reason can re-assert
its sway, to the absurd proposition,
that the exercise of right, by ligiti-
mate means, is revolutionary under
any circumstances.
Only two remarks more at this
time. The proposition of the Plea
yune that minority may at any time
bolt the committees and conventions
OF the party, is subver,ive OF all disci-
pine, and if adopted would inevitably
lead to defeat.
Finally all temperate men must re-
greet the speech of Mr.. Fitzpatrick, in
which he intimated that the Republi-
can ranks were open TO the reorgani-
Zers, and that it was into those ranks
they desired to go. This was the
language of excitement and passion,
and we will not comment on it now,
We desire harmony in the committee.
and while that event is possibility, no
word shall be uttered by us calculated
to embitter the controversy. Our adj
vice is to let by-gOnes bebygones. The
committee has been re-Organized,o ne of
the most eminent citizens OF the State
is at its head, and if the Democratic
proposition is recognized, that the COM
mittee has nothing to do with either
Ogden or McEnery, and that its only
duty is the organization of the party