New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-10-13
POLITICAL GLEANINGs.


There was considerable activity and n
little feeling, branching out in variou
directions, manifested among the Inde
| pendent Republicans yesterday. Our frien
BIr. Raynal and others took heart from til
temporary pique and i'll temper displaye
by defeated candidates to the. parish con
vention, and construed their idle an,
thoughtless assertions Of an intention t
bolt the party as the sober second though
which will not come upon them before noOl
to day. We doubt if the Greeley and Brow
| Independent Liberal Parish Committee wol
dozen recruits as the consequence Of Fri
days lively struggle.
| A distinguished member of the Liberia
| Republican State Committee has demanded
meeting for the purpose of laying before
them this proposition: The results of "fu
siGn" being the ostracism of the Republican
element, it becomes the duty of oonserva
tive reform citizens to unite upon State
ticket, composed of good men, for that pur
pose ignoring national issues, and such a
ticket is presented as follows:
For GOvernor-W. P. Kellogg.
For Lieutenant Governor-D. B. Penn.
For Auditor-James Graham.
For Secretary of State-Samuel Arm
stead.
For Attorney General-A. P. Field
For Congressman at large-George A.
Sheridan.
The'proposer feels sanguine of carrying
thRugh his programme, and in winning
strong conservative support. His plan also
cOntemplates the ratifoa ton of the Repub-
lican parish and city nominations. What
next
Here is candidate for suicide BY starva-
ton, judging by his card sent to us yester-
day:
Andy Parle, candidate before the Demo
cratic and Liberal Conventions for all that's
left Election November 4, 1872
Yesterday the air was thick with rumors
of impending duels and street fights. Even
ante-bellum political feuds were summoned
from the tomb of time to add bitterness to
the strife for Office going on between the
Democrats and Liberals; and one promi-
nent orator of the latter party could have
been seen for hours calmly awaiting the
coming of his Democratic enemy in order
to open q lively little ball on Common
street.
Democrats damned the Liberals, and the
latter returned the compliment, so that a
passer-by Parle's or Foley's might have
reasonably suspected those worthy caterers
had purchased stock of patent rival
damning machines. Republicans stood on
the outskirts Of the crowds like sly little
John Horners who had dead sure thing
or all the plums in the pie, They only are
happy.
Mr.. Hugh McCloskey thinks the Demo
cratic delegates who desire to send him to
the Legislature ''are VIGOROUSLY bad char
acters," "littIo better than freebooters,"
and goes into the biography of several
named in a way that should make For
roster and his friends tremble for their
laurels. He "loathes their aid
The Times says of both the Liberal and
Democratic "elans," that they are "divi-
sions or factions which fight for names and
spOils, without principles" etc.
Yet these are the men whom Mr.. Me-
Closkey and the Times have thrust into
prominence by their untruthful, unwar-
ranted and fanatical attacks upon honest
who needed but their unbiased
aid and counsel to have given satisfaction
to all honest, well meaning citizens. II this
Oe your reform, we'll none of it.
The announcement by the Times that our
distinguished, wealthy and conservative
Judge John A. Campbell,
who has been the recipient of high honors,
both from the national and Confederate
had written letter favoring |
he re election Of General Grant, produced
a profound sensation yesterday. No one
IAN doubt but this step is the result of
solemn conviction that such a step is for
he best interests Of the South, and it win
influence large numbers Of our citizens to
go and do likewisen Such accessions to |
will soot sweep away the |
,lind and unreasoning preiudices which
lave kept SO many worthy citizens from
participating in our local governments since
he war.
The hopeless discussion now prevailing
u the Democratic ranks renders fusion
With them by no means desirable by the |
liberals. So warlike has this hostility be-
ONE that in yesterdays Picayanc Soda |
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