New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-08-04

There IS but one construction of the Gin
cinnati pIatform-Greeley.
On reading Pleasonton's letter side by
side with Grants narration of the San Do
mingo business, one is struck forcibly with
the well known remark, there's a lie out
somewhere"
The Clay Hall people are now nicknamed
"The Croton Oil Guards" We don't won
der.
I'VE hear nothing of wOrkingmen nor la
Dor associations from one year to another
until election time comes around. Then the
country fills with them Labor is emo
bling one man says. we are all workin
men, another fellow says-'the bone and
sinew of the country"
The above sentiments were those of a man
who day by day earned his bread
political orators lay it on too thick, :" was
the statement Of another "A man whose
entire earnings don't amount to SIS week,
and there are a thousand such in this town,
don't like this constant allusion to the bone
and sinew business. 1t is small comfort
telling him the country can't get along
without him, and then turn back upon him,
and, should he apply for work, kick him
down stairs. The evil is among ourselves.
No one speaks but one of the regular politi-
clans II we would let one Of our own num-
beR get up and tell the story of his wrongs
it would make your hair stand on end"
The game is left TO the politicians.
Grant has the railroad interest in his
favor and they will exert an immense in
fuence for his election. 1t is a growing
power, expanding every sunrise, so that
each day finds it greater than yesterday.
1t looks as if this Of itself would elect
Grant" This was the opinion of one of that
class who. might be called outsiders and
who don't care cent whether school
keeps or not
But Greeley has the peoples interest on
his side, and though the railroads might
support Grant yet the people support the
railways. No man can 60 in with the senti-
ment and feeling of the people against him.
Look at his convention and meetings here
and everywhere-they are all packed, boxed
up and shipped. There is something deadly
in this, but for Greeley there is enthusiasm
and furore prevailing everywhere, and
drawing into It's current the people on all
sides This was the reply of traveller,
who having visited the North, East and
West was capable of judging.
Wonder if the Grant man was answered.
A neither remarked: Il can not imagine
how any mother can take the life of her
child when she is in her senses, l didn't
know she could overcome the motherly In
stinct."
Lord bless you, ma'am," said an official
whose duty had compelled him to attend to
all such cases, they do it as natural as if
they were raised to it. Most on 'em make
way with their child cause they're too poor
to bring it up. Some on 'em because they're
mothers before they're wives. You don't
know what's goin on in this world, indeed
you don't
1t is all the better that zone half the
world knOweth not how the other half
lives" or dies.
The chief thing going on now is the
making Of States" was the expressed opin-
ion of politician whose sands of life had
nearly run, to judge by red face redden-
ing and moist eye moistening day by day.
" It's good. business for those who've
nothing else to do. If a man can't get his
own name up before convention he sits
down and makes a slate, and the newspa-
pers publish it. Ny opinion is that, as in a
battle, it is the quarter OF an hour that de-
eides things. Things cooked up before
hand don't 90 down. Did youever hear of
a man advertised as a candidate by MANY
Voters, subject to the nomination of a con-
VentiOn, that ever got that nomination It
gives time for his enemies to rally. that's
the reason, and they'll find out ten reasons
why ho won't do to one that be will. The
man who keeps his intentions tucked awav
in corner Of his head, and who never
makes slate is the one who is likely to
win"
Is this opinion borne out by facts
Its strange We hear no more about the
substitution Of some other power for the
mule in street cars" remarked a broker