Year: 1872

timore is to nominate a straight ticket


just as it insisted three weeks ago that the


true policy Of the same party in this


State was to put a regular ticket in the


field. Its reason for this folly in regard to


the national election is the same that it


paraded in the matter Of our local contest,


to-wit, that the Democracy is an organ


lied and powerful body, capable of elect
ing its nominees in the event the Re


publicans divide upon Greeley and Grant.


The strength Of its reliance is in the as


sumed capacity Of the Democrats to cast


three million Of votes under any and every


adverse circumstance. We denied this


proposition in regard to the union of the
party in the State of Louisiana, and we


now reafirm our denial of the assumption


in regard to the union of the Democracy in


the United States. The assertion Of this


strength is either made through ignorance


or from some reason that is wholly mex


plcable to US. The Democracy is not


united, its hosts are scattered, its leaders


have gone astray. And there is no better


evidence needed to prove this fact than


that which is presented in this State If


the party was as thoroughly united and


compactly organized as the Bee declares it


to be, would the ticket that the late Demo-


cratic State Convention put in the field be


treated as it has been? If the party was


not discordant and dissatisfied with itself


and its own action, why does it lack the


support Of the Bee itself in the present


emergency? Of all the organs that treated


Of unquestioned fidelity and pledged un-


hesitating loyalty to the party action in


the event the convention put direct


ticket in the field, the Bee was the fore


most, and yet it did not hesitate to de-


clare, after its advice had been taken, that


the nominations were doomed to defeat


And it made this declaration knowingly
and sensibly, for no man with the sense of
sympathy could have failed to observe the
chilling repugnance of the people to be
enlisted under strictly partisan banner.
As Mr. Fudua observed in Baton Rouge,
the Democracy refused to ''expend their
energy in a hopeless contest" This fact
at once destroys all the force Of the argu-
ment that has been so often made, that
the Democracy should nominate its own
candidates by virtue of its own assured |
strength, for it destroys the predicate.
The Democracy has no strength that it |
can count upon in the present emergency,
because the people viii not follow ban
ner that promises nothing but defeat
They have made up their minds to make
the best fight they can, under any standard
that promises to give them relief from the
evils that they have endured SO long.


The Baltimore convention can learn a
lesson from the results which have Just
in Louisiana The people de-
mand help and they do not care where it
comes from. They do not intend to let
any name, symbol or antecedent connec-
ton disappoint them in this regard. And
having failed SO often, and been SO ter
ribly punished for their failures, under a
purely Democratic leadership, they have
resolved to seek better fortune in new
alliance It is fact that the Democratic
party is not an organization at present Its
own conventions have SO announced, for
they have virtually conceded their own de-
feat, except upon the acceptance Of the
Liberal Republican candidates. The Bee
itself has distinctly declared the utter in
Of its own party to save the
State except it was reinforced from other
Democrats Of old stand
ing have left the party and are leaving it
every day, not because they dislike or con
tenn it, but because it can not accomplish
the work which they desire to have done.
In fact the party has broken ranks, and
the men will not respond to the bugle call
to form anew Thousands are lettering
and discussing the chances, while other
thousands are marching to the tune Of re-
form under Greeley and Brown.


And yet the Bee insists that its Iegions
are compact, and its followers devoted
ard loyal to the party flag, even while it
sets us the example Of detection. As it
pronounces to-day against the State nom
nees, so it will pronounce should the
Baltimore convention put ia national ticket
in the field. Why ? Because a newspa-
per is a sensitive thing, that takes its in
spiration from the feelings of the public
when it is not engaged in a specific work
A genuine editor absorbs so to speak, the
sentiment of the community, and his en-
.husiasm is regulated by the force of the
enthusiasm that surrounds him, or else.
his partiaities are dampened by the oppo-
sition that wells up from the people.


A nomination at Baltimore, like that at
New Orleans, would fall upon the country
like funeral note. The bent of the pop
ular mind is for fusion. The Demo-
cratic voice, slow to speak, has gradually
grown into a clamor for Greeley and
Brown, and before this demand the hosts
that the Bee counts upon are melting
away Ike snow fakes in the sun. When
the day comes to test the matter, if the
bugler IS found in the Democratic camp,
we shall be surprised.


STILL FIGURING ON TIE CHANCES.


The Washington RepuJlican having