New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-09-06

o'clock when they applied for admittance.
In the second place, the deputy marshals
did not say the doors would be opened at
half-past eleven, but said they would not
be opened until twelve o'clock; and in the
third place, the friends of the Customhouse
ring were in the adjoining room to the hall.
in which the convention was to meet, with
open doors connecting the rooms. The friends
of Governor Warmoth withdrew because
they saw no chance to get admittance to the
hall until the moment indicated for calling
the convention to order, and also saw that
the friends of the Dunn-Casey faction would
all be in the hall; that the moment the
clock struck twelve the doors would have
been opened, and at the same instant
a temporary chairman put in the
chair; committee on credentials,
previously selected, wonld then be ap-
pointed before Governor Warmoths friends
could have gotten into the room, and the
whole of them ruled out Of tie convention
by this little trick. This was the game
these-gentlemen intended to play, and, as
centemptible and disgraceful as it appears,
was in entire keeping with every act of the
committee, from the day it called the con-
vention to the moment its a5ortive creation
was called to order.
THE POLICE AND MILITIA FLIGHTS OF FANCY
All of the material facts herein reeited,
and more, are not only confirmed by the
| conduct of his Excellency Ii Withdrawing
| from their beats and massing in the neigh
| borhood of the Customhouse hundreds of
| Metropolitan Police, and Ii an unayailing
| effort to call out the militia for the same
nefarious purpose.
Here are two gross falsehoods. The Gov
.ernor did not, nor did he authorize, nor
were there massed any such number of
police in the neighborhood of the Custom
| house. There were some police about, as
there should have been, but not one hun
dred, all told, and they were all in the dis
charge of their duty as guardians Of the
peace, and acting in accordance with the
law in every particular, and exercising no
doubtful or unusual authority.
And as for the Governors ''unavailing
| effort to call out the militia for the same
nefarious purpose" Governor Dunn and
| Mr. Carter make statement that requires
no evidence to show it is false. The Governor
has the power to call out the militia. Did
he do it Did he attempt to do it : Ii so,
where did he issue the CALL and if he did
so, why was it not responded to Mr. Dunn
must bring his evidence, or admit that he
has deliberately told what he knows to be
| untrue.
DUNN ENUMERATEs TIE GOVERNORS MIS-
DEMEASoRs.
The Lieutenant Governor affords fair
opportunity, in making specific charges
against Governor Warmoth, for setting
right Def (he public one or two matters
not now fully understood:
lem No. 1.-Governor Warmoth de-
manded as the price Of his official signature
to legislative act, known as the Nicolson
pavement bill, seventy-tve thousand dol
| lars, and two and a half per cent of the
profits accruing from the contract contem-
plated on said bill. This demand for money
was made by his ExceIency on Mr.. John
A. Walsh, representing the bill, and was
declined. Mr.. Walsh is a respectable'and
wealthy citizen of this city, and has pub
lished, without denial from his Excellency,
the facts herein alleged in the city press.
! This charge is another base fabrication.
Governor Warmoth in his Turner Hall
speech charged Mr. Walsh with having
offered him a bribe OF fifty thousand dol
(zlars to sign this bill. Mr. Walsh acknowl-
edges the charge, but says the Governor
wanted seventy-tive thousand dollars Is
man who admits having offered bribe-an
offense under the common Law punishable
with impris onment in the penitentiary-to
| - Io1; oil -uI, I01or
OATH when he says the only reason the
Governor did not take fifty thousand dol
lars was that he wanted seventy-five thou
sand dollars for signing his name to an act
of the Legislature! Besides it is known,
and although it is hard to prove mega
tive-this can nevertheless be proven
that Mr.. Walsh deliberately told that
which was not true, and that which he
knew to be not true. 1t can be proven by
a number of witnesses that Mr.. Walsh said
he had tried the Governor with fifty thou
sand dollars, and that no pecuniary con-
sideration whatever could induce him to
approve the bill. The witnesses are +. Z.
Remick, Jonathan Taylor, John Sinnott, A.
W. Smyth, E. Rigney and others.
Item No. Ex-Governor Warmoth, acting
as Commissioner of Public Printing, gave
contract to the New Orleans Republican
Printing Company, he owning, at this time,
oAe-third interest in said company, amount
ing to at least $3.50 900 annually; he at the
same time, while giving contract to HIM.
self, involving so large an expenditure OF
public money, and seeing that the same was
promptly paid, has persistently refused TO
approve the bills of numerous country
papers doing public printing under equally
valid contracts, and thus prevented pay
ment for work honestly performed, because
said papers refused to become his partlsans
in his fight with the Republican party, In
this instance the contract given to his com G
pany, exceeding many times in cost all the
others combined. He claims honesty IN pay
ing himself and watchful integrity TO the
State for defrauding others, whose only Cd
jectlonable feature is nOn-partlsanshlp.
This is absolutely false as to the impression
intended to be produced. Governor war
moth, with Speaker Carr, continued thu
contract made by him, Governor Dunn ant
Speaker Lowell with the REPUBLICAN. INT
REPUBLICAN was the only Republican news
paper at the seat of government that eoul'
do the work; it had the largest circulation
of any Republican paper in the South, wa
the only daily Republican paper puohshe'
in the State, and was therefore the oni.
paper that could be contracted with. Ina
Governor Warmoth owns stock in the CON
f pany speaks more in eulogy OF bis Wiling
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