Year: 1872

only Hope.


| From the Baton Rouge Gazette and Comet.


On Saturday last we raised the ban:


ner of Greeley and Brown to the head


of our columns as the choice of East
| Baton Rouge for President and Vice
/ President Of the United States. We


did this to show that the people ot


East Baton Rouge are ready and will
ing to meet the issue, fairly and square
| ly, and to show those conservatives
| North, South, East and West who
have staled as much in our behalf as
we possibly can in theirs that as they
have advanced to neutral ground we
| have yet the independence and pat
riotism about us to meet them there
and settle forever the vexed ques-
tions that have SO long divided ard
agitated the sections. That we have
taken long stride by thus doing, we
have nc doubt is the opinion of the
Rip Van Wrinkles in the Democ-
racy, but in the opinion of those who
are reeegnizant of the fact that the
smoke of battle has cleared away and
left them in barren and fruitless
field with the enemy strongly and
safely entrenched about them, and the
time has come when every journalist
and Democrat should take such step
and save ourselves from annihila-
tion in the approaching canvass.


1t is a well settled conviction with
the country that the Democratic party
as a separate and distinct organiza-
ton cannot win in the approaching
canvass, and the only salvation for
our safety is a cordial cooperation
with the Liberal Republicans State
and National. That this conviction
is based upon facts positive no un-
biased mind will deny. Nearly all of
the best and soundest leaders of the
Democracy in the Western States
have given in their adhesion to the
Liberal Republican movement. Pen
dleton of Ohio says he will support
Greeley and Brown. Than George
H. PendletOn there is no purer man
Democrat i'll the State of Ohio. He
was our individual choice for the
Presidency in 1868, and we were the
only Democratic editor (then of the
Feliciana Ledger II the South who
boldly espoused his cause: we be-
ieved in him then as the most avail
able man for the Presidency, and we
believe in him now as one among
the staunchest leaders of the Western
Democracy for Greeley and Brown.
Hendricks of Indiana came pointedly
e the issqs Hs, whsaH da be Ri Rsaid u If is


State in favor of it.H Frank Blair of
Missouri represented fully the feelings
and sentiments of his constituents
when he telegraphed the Louisiana
delegation to- give old White Hat
solid vote" 1t may be curious to
some why General Blair took such
familiarity with the Liberal Republi
can delegation from this State. Many
of our best and most prominent men
are his intimate friends and through
them he, as member of Congress,
has come into possession of much in
formation concerning the true causes
of all our trouble, and felt it his duty
as good citizen, a patriot and a
Democrat to urge the Louisiana Lib
eral Republicans to vote for the nomi-
nation of candidate who would be
most likely to draw out the Southern
vote and to facilitate any arrange.
ment that the Liberal Republicans
and the Democrats might choose to
make in this State. For this we should
rather be thankful to Mr.. Blair than
to censure him for his patriotic devo
ton to our best interests. We might
go on from State to State and even
down to the Territories II there, in
each and every one of them, find just
such men speaking out plainly, bold
ly, and without the least reservation
whatever, in favor of cooperating
with the Liberal Republican party in
the canvass now begun. In our own
State we might point with pride TO
Andrew S. Heron, j. O. Fuqua, Fer
gus Gardere and a host of others, all
the most prominent aud patriotic
Democrats of our State, end say,
those men are for Greeley and
Brown" When such men, some of
whom have grown grey in the service
of the Democratic party, tell us our
only hope is with that ticket, what
can we say. When they repudiate
the rhetoric of the young Democracy
mere chatf-and seek for mere sub
stantial and sensible modes of getting
the conservative elements of the coun-
try together for the common veal we
think it ought to be the province of
every good and true manto wish them
God speed.


The New Editor of the Tribune.