New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-09-10
THE REpuBIICANe AND THE CAMPAIGN.

The REPUBLICANS AND TdE
We understand that the wisest members
ofthe Republican party recommend that
the present campaign be conducted with
as little fuss and noise as possible. Pa
rading through the streets in torch light
professions and making night hideous
with coarse yells and shrieks are not very
convincing O. calculated to impress an
intellectual man with the justice Of a cause.
The e~ffectual discipline promoted by the
club organizations is in itself m element
of strength superiort to any bonfire tactics
for which the Democracy are SO famous.
Besides the clubs afford protection to
their members, shield them to a great
extent from personal violence, and are a
great safeguard against imposition at the
polls.
The Republican party of the parish
of Orleans is 10 in a thorough state OF
organization. This will be kept up till
the election. We are receiving accessions
to our ranks every day from the most sub
stantial and active element of the Demo-
cratic party. Even the leading organ OF
that party laments their loss, and acknowl-
edges, in substance, that their desertion
forbodes overwhelming defeat for the So
called Conservatives. Able and active
men have taken hold in earnest, and they
will make no mistakes. With the we'll
known principles of our party, as set
forth in the Republican platform, for
a guide, and an iniexible deter
mination to conquer, the hosts OF the peo-
pie will rally at the polls on the seventh
of November, and secure a certain victory.
All this is to be done with the dignity be-
fitting a free people in the discharge of
their highest prerogatives.' Mr.. Hatch
may coquette with Brown, and unprinci-
pied. knaves may seek to blacken the
character of Republicans whose shoes
they are not worthy to blacken. and the
Hancock Club may set its free lunch for
the hungry retainers that hang around the
premises, but no deep impression will be
made. These are mere eXpedients, neces-
sarily temporary in their character and
altogether unsatisfactory. A reference to
the principles of Democracy is so nearly
akin to burlesque, that it is made as infre-
as possible, and never fails to
raise a laugh all round. And as there are
not fat offices enough to give all a place,
they will fall short Of votes enough to
elect any of their candidates.
The people Of the State and city are ac-
tually too poor to afford a term of Demo-
misrule and pillage. 1t will require
some years of the s~trictest economy to
place US in the prosperous condition we
before the war. 1t will require a |
time to efface the memory Of that
measure from the memory of
the people. And as the mind contemplates
he history of the State since, and scans
he scenes of 1865 and 1867, when the
was Overwhelmingly Demo-
and the City Council almost unani-
nously so, and the public Indebtedness
accumulated to the tune Of three or four
Millions a year, the case is concluded
the heartless, selfish plunderers, |
whose only religion is to fleece the public.
Unless we are mistaken and read the
signs Of the times amiss, more
han half Of the whites voters and
lineteen-twentieths of the colored men |
will support the Republican ticket.
the more undecided of the De-
nocracy are beginning to make pro-
Of attachment to Republican
principles, and are looking about them
or an opportunity to come in. The more
out-spoken and honest have given
II their adhesion, and are willing to work
n any rank where they can be most
Useful.
We have thus the double advantage Of
icing right, and atthe same time popular.
Ne have the numbers, the discipline, the
.bility and the determination to succeed
nothing short Of a miracle (Which is
lot a modern occurrence) can prevent it.