New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-06-07

true. are marshaled in the field
under two leaderships, and each
of these organizations feels itself strong
enough to wrestle with the other for the
mastery, if the occasion should arise for
them to engage in deadly grapple; but
as yet they have made no irreconcilable
breach that they can not overcome. The
Liberal wing is on speaking terms with
the Customhouse organization as yet, and
| friendly offers pass between the two camps
almost daily. They are watching each
other, and in the meantime they are both
seeking that strength from an outside al
lance which will turn the scale of power.
If the Liberal Republicans can obtain as
sistance from the conservative strength of
the country, they will be prepared to strike
infavor Of the greatest interests Of the new
confederation; if the Customhouse Repub-
icans can prevent this conjunction, or if
they can attract Democratic support, they
will achieve their own success at the ex-
pense Of both the Liberal Republicans and
the Democratic party If they can win VIC
tory by strategy, the game will be theirs en-
tirely. If they can not win it otherwise,
they viii submit to such an alliance as the
Liberal Republicans may offer. In any
event, and at every turn, the Democrats
are doomed to defeat in their ambition to
put their own Governor over the people Of
Louisiana. It against the order of things
that they should succeed, because they are
in the minority, as they themselves con
fess which makes their pretensions in
that direction ridiculous
Secondly, Governor Warmoth is not IN
done without Democratic support any
more than he was in 1870. He is not de-
pendent for his advancement upon the
Democracy at all, but, on the contrary,
he is now and has all the time been in
peril Of defeat and destruction from the
hberality with which he has treated indi-
vidual Democrats. Because he consented
to appoint decent gentlemen to public
position at the instance of respectable
Democrats, he has created enemies in his
own party; and because he would not
allow the State to be numerically plum
dered by his own party friends, and by
selfish cormorants in the Democratic par
ty, he is denounced as a robber himself in
the conventions of both parties Burch
and Garter scandahze him in the Repub-
lcan camp because he arrested their at
tempts upon the treasury; and Hunt and
Gauthreaux vent their wrath upon his head
in the Democratic wigwam because they
have not had their way in hunting Office
and doing violence. The Citizens
Guard miligns him because he |
swamped an effort to steal the !
Waterworks Of the city, and the Bee and
Picaylme bay at him for his defense Of the
private purse Of the people and the treas
ury of the State against their rapacity. All
his efforts to do his duty have made bitter
and malignant enemies, who mouth these /
that because their rascsLties
were not permitted, the officer who stood
in the way must be overwhelmed out of
the path. And gentlemen Of irreproacha-
BILE character are assailed with vicious and
libelous innuendoes by DULLES who do not
know the merits of rudimentary princi-
pie and have no more integrity in their
than they have poIiteness in
their manners, merely because they So
icited from the Governor of the State
reputable officers for the people Of the
State. And men who pretend to be cour-
ageous and patriotic, apologize and equivo-
cate about matter that they should be
proud Of, that they were far enough above
petty prejudice to appeal to their
own officer in their own behalf and
n behalf Of their neighbors. We say,
then, that Governor Warmo tn has created
MS own peril by his attempts to do justice
to his political opponents. His own party
abuses and the benefciaries Of his mnnli-
ness are afraid to indorse the acts that
helped them. By doing such favors to
The Democrats as he was in duty and con-
science bound to do, the Governor has
been taxed with perfdy to the Republican
party, and yet it is said that he is undone
without the help of the very men who
would have been and will be undone unless
le did and does help them. Was there
,ver such perversity?
Thirdly, the claim which the Democrats,
,r the honest portion of them, set up to
/ monopoly Of political honesty is the
oaldest pretense imaginable. Their very
speeches demonstrate this fact beyond con
Invention, because they are purposely
vague and indefinite Concentrate all the
Of Hunt and Hyams, and what
10 they amount to? Render them into a
iecoction, and there is not an ounce Of
that a reasonable man would be
Wiling to exhibit in a school Of analytics.
Hunt says the man he solicited favor
rom is infamous, but he gives no proof to
sustain his assertion. Hyams says the I
IS degraded, and yet he offers !
10 substantive fact to prove that he knows
what he asserts. The fact of the matter
$, these men are afraid to make direct :
harUec They dare not ,,77+ +boir ,1,o,.l | :