The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1872-08-31

people of this State might just as well
vote for Granta and Kellogga at nee. We
hope otherwise but if such should turn
out to be the case, we will hang up our
fiddle and bow, for there is no use in
pitching straws against the wind.
In South Carolina there has been a
splitin the Republican State nominating
convention. A part Of the body with
drew, on account of being opposed to
the noIniReefOr Governor. Theregular
convention nominated T. J. Moses, white,
for Governor; F. L. Cardozo, native mu-
latto, for Treasurer; Solomon L. Hoge,
white, from Ohio, for Controller; Gen.
II. w. Purvis, mulatto, from Pennsyl-
vania, for Adjutant-G General; and J. V.
ellison, white, from Massachusetts, for
Superintendent of Education. AlonzO
j. Ransier, native mulatto, was nomina-
ted for Congress, from the Second Dis
trict. The boilers nominated Reuben
Tomlinson, white, from Pennsylvania,
for Governor; and John T. Green, native
white, for Attorney General.
The Custom House Republicans and
the Pinchback Republicans have now
hitched horses and are pulling together
on one ticket, while the opposition is
divided into two factions who are quar-
reling with each other as to who shall
have the offices, which, in all probability,
none OF them will get. If the leaders Of
the opposition were not SO violently OPP
posed to each other, and had half the
practical sense that the Republicans
have, and would reduce their prejudice
q little, and cultivate a little more re-
gard for those they assttmeto represent,
q fusion Oh q really liberal basis, that
would be strengthened by accessi0ns
from the colored citizens, would have
taken place a month or two ago. There
is no use expecting the Liberal party, or
the Decentralization party, separate
~ or united, to succeedin this State, -un-
less supported by a large number OF Re-
publieans. And the few Republican
votes that would turn the scale and bring
success, would be worth more than all
the Liberal, Democratic, Reform votes,
that wouldfail without them. Our old
citizen" politicians do not seem to be
able to estimate the value of units, es-
pecially the last few units that make up
the required number for success
A large number of personsin this par
ish, especially those who were members
of the 18th La. Reg't., are wellacquaint-
ed with Maj. S. T. Grisamore, now Eng
lish editor of the Thibodeaux Sentinel,
and they know him to be not only very
sensible man but an honest one There
are two Republicanpapers in his parish,
and one or the other OF them has always
had the public printing under the law
now in force-the Sentinel has never had
it. But as the policy of the Bourbons is
to damn every paperand everybody who
differ with tl1emin regard to politics, and
as they do not scruple as to the means
employed, they say that the Sentinel has
been bought up by Warmoth,p simply
because it 10 not a Bourbon organ. The
Sentinel returns its compliments to our
neighbor thus:
Our contemporary, the "Opelousas
courier republishes theinfamous SLAM
der of the mo. Beeo in which this pa
ner Is put down among a list of papers
thought up by Warmoth.7
We confess that we did not think the
editors of thatsheet would descend quite
80 low, but there is no telling how low
down an unterritied and unwashed viii
descend when he once getsstarted down
hill.
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