The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1895-11-23
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not vote for Gov. roster even n nc pe
the nominee Of The party, which - al
foregone conclusion, but will remain
away from the polls, or II ihey 60 10 !
The polls they viii scrsiil the head OF
The ticket. These men are not Demo !
Gratis: they are marplois aud should
not be accorded recognition in ANY
Democrat council.
That true and tired Democratic
paper, The New Orleans Daily
States, commenting on the above,
says:
That is sound doctrine based on
the broadest and wlsest principle.
Men combine in political parties for
1.-The purpose Of carrying out certain
measures which they believe TO be
essential to the welfare of the coun-
try; and, if they are sincere, they
will subordinate all minor issues to
the great, paramount ones that they
have organized to advance. Hence,
when some dissatisfied spirit, some
weakllng who assumes that all his
little views and aims and prejudices
and likes and dislikes must be con-
sidered rather than the great ends OF
the majority, and threatens owreck
the party and convulse the world, If
he be not conclliated, he is untrue
Ito his party, and should be prompt
Ily invited to acquiesce in the CON-
mon Judgment or to walk out OF the
camp.
Every free government is essen
TALLY party government, and
history will show that no great
political end has ever been achieved
| in any such government that was
not achieved through strict party
organization. A time occasionally
comes. indeed, when the party
Headers build up party machine to
| advance their own ambitious or sell
| fish interests and when 1t be-
comes the highest virtue OF the
masses of the party to rise mp and
smash the machine; but such times
rarely come; and men should know
well what they are doing before they
90 into the smashing business; they
shonld have well-dehned views OF
> what they are going to substitute
t for the machine; they must consider
. whether it will best advance the IN
terests of the country to smash Tho
/. party, destroy its power and thu
thwart the accomplishment of 1T
: great ends before they strike thu
: parricidal blow.
In Louisiana, for instance, wha
has party organization done tor us
It has rescued us from carpet-bag
ger and negro supremacy; relieye'
+ us from load of debt, State pare
e chial and municipal; it has rehabiI
d itated our waste places, and set u
o far on the road to public prosperity
Had it not been for strict party o.
canization; had it not been that thu
organization was so strict that n
T. man could kick out of the trace
Z. without incurring public odium an
If contempt, Louisiana would be t
day. little more than an wretcbe
: NEGRO province. No man who know
anything about the history of tn
r. State during the past twenty-h'
e years will have the effrontery
he deny the statement.
to And again, in 1892 the Nation
Democratic party won sweeplr
victory, and the hope and bell
we're INDUCED that that party wou
o of control the destinies of the count
~ for at least twenty-five years, al
les that in time the American COVER
ment would be, re-established
= Democratic foundations; that t
taxation of the people to the amou
&c Of billions of dollars for the bene
m of the plutocracy would be abolishe
es. and that we would be restored to
government of the people, for t
do people. But no sooner had t
ate victory been won than every bobt'
:. Congressman and Senator set up
~ own views, spread his own banr
and insisted that only his views II
= resented the Democratic part
LOG What has been the result? Den
his cratic defeat in every directie
eg- Kentucky and Maryland lost, a
lille the party so demoralized that
probabilities are that it will be
feated in 1896, and the oppressi
of the South, and the robbng of
the masses for the benefit of the RI
ans will be renewed, and all this beca'
the certain ambitious and self-concei'
ice Democrats revolted against party
ner cipline.
And now, when we have a c.
'pe siderable negro majority, with ma
thousands of white people in
ranks of the Populists and otl
hat white deserters in Southwest Lo,
OPP lana bowling the Democratic pa
all down and shouting for protect
ON and bounty, all hreatening to &C
/. bine against us, are we, we say. S
" rounded by such conditions, in
the situation to raise the banner of rev
t as against the Democratic party ev