New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-10-12
POLITICAL GLEANINGs.

Scene in a popular saloon close to Lib
eral parish headquarters. Dramatis per
soma, three members of the Democratic
convention, taking their customary tipple,
and well known citizen, ANXIOUS to serve
friend.
Old citizen-"You gentlemen all know
| Dr.. -. He is one Of our people, an ex-
ceIlent physician, has a good Confederate
record, and commands the confidence of
all our citizens. Well, heaisout for coroner,
and will give strength and responsibility to
the ticket, think you are JUST the boys to
work the tldng for him up town, and am
authorized to say he has $4,000 to spend il
you will secure him the nomination"
Democratic delegate tindignant) nt)-0Oh,
what are you giving u.s. Old o (men-
ti0ning name not unknown in Hibernian
circles. thas offered $4,000 for it already"
1t is needless to say that fitness for Office
among the class of delegates then and there
represented is measured wholly by the
depth of the applicants pocketo
The impression has gone forth, has rec
ceiyed general credence, and is apparently
well sustained by facts, that never was
bargain and sale in the matter of nomna-
tions for city and parish Offices more un-
serupulously resorted to or so openly car,
ried on. We heard at Hawkins saloon.
yesterday, the question OF cost for a certain
nomination discussed in frank and bu5io
ness like manner between rival aspirants
The utter want of political honesty and
moraH responsibility which the possibility
of such conversation demonstrates seems
to exist equally in the two conventions,
and the assertion is freely made Shat the
delays which have been created are intend
ed solely to excite competition among bid
ders for place.
Members of the conference committees
are erroneously regarded as the possessors
Of very ~soft thing" and those whose fin
gers are now excluded from this fat pie,
console themselves with the reflection that
they will reject whatever programme may
be agreed upon, or k,2ow the reGSon trhyS9
Candidates before both the Democratic
and Liberal conventions are kept in CON
tinual hot water by rumors that their espe.
cial bjllets have been traded away to the
enemy, and whenever these rumors come
in anything like an authoritative form, they
generally produce great Indignation and
threats of refusal to abide by any such
ounfair decisiono" There is hardly cano
didate who TEilt not resigneddy submit to
seeing any place swapped off except the
one he seeks; and as candidates are TO
offices as are battaions to single spies, ex-
treme dissatisfaction with the results, an
immense falling off in interest in the elcc-
tion, and not a small addition to the voting
strength of the Republicans will follow any
conclusions the committees or the conyen-
tions may arrive at.
And all this time decent citizens are cult
waiting the conviction that the Republican
is the true party of reform, and quietly de-
termining to give its nominees their sup
port, provided they are men such as ought |
to be entrusted with the public welfare.
And from this class, We feel well assured, |
the selections will be made. !
We hear from st. James parish that hut |
small fraction of the coIored vote has been |
while. every white man has been |
that every obstacle is thrown in
the way of Republicans and every facility
granted the opposition to get their papers. |
BY the plea Of want of blanks, failure to
attend at the place set for registry at tic
designated time and other pretezts, it is
asserted that the registration will be so
Kept down that the Democratic minority
will, in November, be enabled to overcome
he immense Republican majority of ST.
James parish. Is it reasonable to suppose
hat the great national Republican party
will be cheated out of its rights by any such
,ald and barefaced fraud