New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-10-20
THE COURIER AND. MR.. GENofs.
A oRuMB FOR THE INDEPENDENTS

CRUMB FOR THE INDEPENDENTS.
The Courier of yesterday, in the course of al
article touching our remarks on the politica
antecedents Of Mr.. Joseph Genois, very oppor
tuely furnishes us with an argument, which
| otherwise we would have been compelled tt
reason out, in justification of the course of thu
independent candidate for Congress in the FRS
District. The following paragraph from thu
Courier will serve to introduce the subject OF
which we design to COMMENT
| SIN 1916, Mr. Ramos, the present excellen
Recorder of the Second District was nominated
| as the democratic candidate for Recorder of tn,
| First Municipality. Mr.. Genois ran against
him, and was elected But it must be remem-
bered that there was then no wing nominee anG
| the wing party was not benefited, OF the demo.
cratic party injured, by the candidacy of MIR
Genois Ia 1850 Mr.. Genois resigned, and
Mr. Ramos was elected to fill the vacancy Al
the ensuing regular election these gentlemen
again became opposing candidates for the Re-
eordership, and Mr. Gennis was again elected.
These, we presume, are the occasions to WHICH
| the Crescent refers But we imagine no demo-
crat is willing to ostracise Mr. Genois because
| he became candidate when there was no whig
in the field Had there been wing nominee,
Mr.. Genois would in each instance, have de-
clined the contest"
This is most unfortunate logic for our neighbor
of the Courier just at this particular time
More especially is it so, seeing that Mr. Charles
Gayarre is an Independent candidate for Con-
gress in the First Congressional District, against
Mr.. VIM. Dunbar, the regular party candidate
there being ''no whig nominee" and the arhig
party not bang benefited, or the democratic
party injured, by the candidacy Of NJ.
Gayarre
The Courier has placed itself in q most unfor-
tunate predicament by advancing this doctrine
at this particular time. 1t has utterly fore
stalled itself in anything it might hereafter have
had to say against the course of Mr. Gayarre
in running against the regular nominee, for in
this paragraph it has admitted beyond cavil
that Mr.. Gayarre is right The whig party can
not be benefited, nor the democratic party IN
jwed, by the candidacy of Mr.. Gayarre, be-
cause there is "no wing nominee!
The arguments of the Courier could not have
suited us better if they had been designedly
| framed for our purposes 1t reasons are iden-
tical with those we should have used in advo.
eating the claims of Mr. Gayarre. The Courier
lHdkiuts tueT6 Is uU utmOCIHt Wiling u
ostracise Mr.. Genois because he became can
didate when there was no whig in the field "
Consistently then, the Courier cannot i'm
agine" any democrat "who is willing to ostra
else" Mr.. Gayarre for canvassing the District
"when there is no wing in the field" For, tn,
,ohig party cannot be benefited, or the demo
cratic party injured by the candidacy of Mr.
Gayarre, the whig candidate, Mr.. Mackcy hay
ing retired.
II is unfortunate for the Courier that, il
blindly defending the course of Mr. JOSEPH
Genois, it has inadvertently slipped into the ad
vocacy of principle so imminently at war witt
the ideas that animate the controlling clique o
tho democratic party. None have been louder il
their denuncation of the course of Mr., Gayarr,
than this yeritable clique, and none, we dar,
assert, have been more ardent in their opposition
to him than Mr.. Joseph Genois, who, by til,
Courier's admission, was one of the first to Sc
an example of disafection to the democratic
party.
But, if the Courier is right in its reasonings
then will the democracy be right in supporting
Mr. Gayarre, the independent candidate. agains
Mr.. Dunbar, the regular nominee, for there il
g nowhig in the field" and the wings cannot be
benefited nor the democrats injured by Mr.
Gayarre's candidacy!
Mr.. Genois was right, according to the eou.
lar nominee for Recorder of the First Munich
PATTY, and why may not Mr. Gayarre do what
MI 1enois has done-Mr Joseph Genois-that