New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-06-04
T.pr TAoUEs RETIRE.

1t would be amusing, if 1t was not dan
gerous, to hear the youngsters who have
mounted the political rostrum during the
last three years air their notions of 'the
policy to be pursued to save the State. ."
Slimkins pops up and rants about the
GLORIOUS record" and the ancient tradi-
tons, as if he knew all about the making
of the record and the fixing up of the ira
ditions. Virgins replies that the de-
crepid past, with its miserable failures, is
out of place, and that the future alone de-
mands attention. Slimkins flies off the
handle, and accuses Virgins of being an
emissary of the devil and hireling of the
enemy. Then the hubbub commences.
Slimking sweats, Virgins busters, and
what was intended to be
public meeting becomes a private
scandal We have had series of these
episodes within the last six months. OF
all the speeches we have read during that
time, as it was our unpleasant business to
do, we have not met with a real, earnest,
practical effort since Messrs. Fenner,
Marks and Ogden quit the field. The
balance consisted in mere froth and bad
language. The speakers had read the
Picdyne, Bee and Citizens Guard, and
caught their inspiration from such scan
dial mongering organs. We have been
told thousand times that Warmoth Gre
ated the State debt, which is a falsehood
We have been told that he piled the city
debt upon us, which is another. We have
been told that he passed all the obnoxious
legislation, which is another. The State
debt and the city debt were in existence
before Warmoth was elected. The Legis-
lature passed the bad laws over the
Governors veto. And what is worse
than all, the very enemies that he has
created in his own party were created by
his refusal to sign bad laws, and his success
in defeating vile measures. Who defeated
Casey's bribery bill but Warmoth? Who
vetoed the warehouse bill but Warmoth?
Who cut off the country papers from the
public printing but Warmoth? Who de-
feated the job of the Bee but Warm6th?
Who refused to wink at the printing of
the journals in the Picayu,s but War
moth? Where are all these parties now? |
Where is Casey the Bee, the Picayune,
and the friends of the warehouse bill? |
All in the army of honest men who are |
loud-mouthed against jobbery after their |
jobs have been crammed down their |
threats by the man they are prosecuting.
They have something ahead which they |
have no hope of accomplishing unless
they can get Warmoth out of the way. /
They have something behiHd them which
they can not forget.
These youngsters, who see a knave in /
every man who has got more sense and
honesty than they have, are the bane of
politics in Louisiana. They repeat stale
scandals because they do not know enough
about principles to discuss them. They
lbuse men because they can not enter the
ield and discuss measures. Slimkins is
IN interloper who occupies the stage while
he actors are dressing for the play, and
Who, being laughed at, declines to go out
# sight when the stars are ready to ap-
bear He is like the Mock Duke in the
Honeymoon, that lords it with swag-
ger until the genuine gentleman appears,
md then dwindles away into greater 81
ence and obscurity than that from which
le emerged. it is time that the State re-
ired these boys in favor of her men.