The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1892-08-27
PARTY FEALTY.

I
close BY, we feel impellea to speak
out in school, however stale and
hackneyed our party talk may hap
pen to pan out in the estimation of
the milk and water members of the
Democracy.
The country editor has his duty
to perform towards his party, 10
matter how unpleasant and distaste-
full it may happen to be to him. He
often finds himself in the traces
tugging away to land passengers at
their desired haven, in whom he
takes but little or no stock, outside
of their party claims, often finding
some of them dead-heading along
the whole route, yet he has to tug
and pull away with might and main
fulfilling his destiny in the faithful
and impartial discharge of his duty.
We approach the appeal to party
fealty in the Fifth Congressional
district at this juncture in pretty
much the frame of mind we have
indicated. The outlook from a
strictly Democratic standpoint is
not by any means encouraging,
while we have an abiding confidence
in the complete success of the party
at the coming November election.
We cannot but mourn when we wit
ness
s'How THE MIGHTY HAVE FALLEN.
How several that we know
who were prominent in the Dem
ocratic counsels in past days have
gone following after Third party
gods, abandoning tried and true
Democracy in search of some new
venture to crafty their overweening
cravings for prominence, place and
power. Possessed by morbid po-
litical mania many of them have
assumed to become leaders, when
they should have been fully content
as humble followers in the ranks ;
so it is Immediately in the Fifth
Congressional district of Louisiana,
and we cannot but exclaim,
LORD WHAT FOOLS THESE MoRTALs BE.
Party fealty is thrown to the
fourwinds. A Gun-by goes off at
the bead of the column, spouting
and mixing up Democracy, Alliance,
Third party and Farmers Union
teachings in one and the same In
congruous mass of political pot
pouri,s explicable only to the in
mates of Bedlam or the cranky fol-
lowers after false gods for personal
agrandisment. That they are politl-
cally mad
"'Tis true; tits pity,
And pity tits It's true"
But we believe and know that
there are enough of the old guard
| left to save the district from the In
roads of these whimsical political
innovators, who are more than will
ing to trade and traffic with the bit
ter enemies of Democracy in order
to accomplish their nefarious pur.
pose, and it is to that same old
guard and their honest and sincere
following that we appeal in this
emergency. To their tried and
true party fealty we announce the
4 threatened danger that now arises
from traitors and false followers in
| the Democratic ranks.
Democracy has survived the cen
fury. Many political parties of va
rious complex and complicated huet
have sprung suddenly into existence
and passed away-but Democracy
still remains. Its great rival, the
Republican party, is now totterine
upon the ragged edge of its fnal
dissolution, the negro having passed
beyond its grasp, and 1T has now
nothing else to sustain its political
existence before the people. Dem
ocracy remains, and will continue tc
remain as long as freedom and equa
rights are the watch-words of the
people, because it is founded upon
/ truth--the truth that recognizes tht
universal brotherhood of mankind
II has often of late been trampled
under foot by the monied powers
4 concentrated in the crowded cities,
but we can confidently boast of il