In the whole State there are but six
journals supporting the Democratic
or united State ticket, and of the fifty
six parishes not half a doze am rep
resentedI in the Democratic State Com:
mittee. In spite of these conspicuous
facts, the Democratic organization,
thus redticed to a minimum of voting
power, persists in keeping up a show
of separate and independent organi
zittion, and the Democratic Committee,
thus emasculated of representative
character, has nominated and present
e4 a State and ejeetoral ticket. No
rational man believes that they ex
pest to elect either one or the other,
and hence the public can come to no
other conclusion than that they are
running their State ticket in the in
terest of the Baton Rouge candidates,
and their electoral ticket for the pur
pose of defeating Greeley and Brown,
the nominees of their own National
Convention. We distinctly charge
this upon them, because we have no
right to assume that they are so blind
as not to see the facts of the situation,
or so silly as not to foresee the netes
sary effects of their own nets.
It is proper that the whole country,
As well as for the people of this State,
to know that the Democratic rump
organization, while pretending to ac
cept the decision of the Baltimore con
vention, is in reality hostile to the
national Liberal candidates, and that
while It presents an electoral ticket in
the name of Greeley and Brown, it is
trying to give the vote of the State to
Grant.
