New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-05-15
FOUND A WAY OFT.

| OOHlS Weeks ago the IGnleS pinned the
Bee down to the proof Of an assertion made
by it, to the effect that number of disaf.
fected Democrats were conspiring with
Governor Warmoth to unite with the Lib
eral Republican party, and thus defeat
the success of the reform movement in the
State, Notwithstanding that the act
charged and the object designed appeared
wholly incompatible, the Times gave the
Bee the benefit of its broad assertion, and
asked for the proof. But none was forth
coming. The Bee had nothing to support
its charges but suspicious and differences.
As may readily be imagined, these were
vague and indefinite. They were simply
laughable. The public came to regard the
Bee very much in the light of sore-headed
bear, which growled and snapped at every
thing. But the Bee was restless under its
sharp encounter with the Times. Satisfied
that it had got the worst of the argument,
and was not little bit ridiculous from its
absurd charges, it waited eagerly for
chance to get out of its ificulty.
The meeting at Baton Rouge furnishes
it the alternative. It perceives in this
demonstration a secret combination
formed between Governor Warmoth land
certain influential citizens, hitherto re-
garded as Democrats, looking to the per-
petuation Of his power in this State " The
most prominent of these Influential citi-
zens, according to the Bee, is Mr.. Fergus
Gardere This eminent citizen and honest
man, the Bee has no doubt, has entered
into a secret and corrupt combination in
hostility to the best interests of the State.
The proof of it consists in the fact that
the political policy of Mr.. Gardere does not
coincide with that of our Chartres street
contemporary. Of late it has, in its self
opinion, become the peculiar exponent of
Democratic politics. But particularly it
imagines that no Creole gentleman in
Louisiana has a right to think but as it
dictates. This is too great an assumption
for the Bee. 1t lisa wise journal certainly,
but when it proposes to hold in its hand
the intelligence and virtue of the State |
(double-barreled as it is), it is not big |
enough. The Democracy of Louisiana do |
not hold their freedom of thought and |
opinion at the dictation of any journal. |
They claim to think for themselves, as
does Mr.. Gardere when he advises a coali- |
hon with Liberal Republicans to carry the
State against the present federal admins
ration Many others think as he does.
But the prevalence Of this impression only
argues the triumph of right, reason, pat
-otism and common sense, and is no IN
lication of conspiracy. The Bee must
not look to have its personal luminosity to
Governor Warmoth shared in by the De
Of the country. They have not
he same reason to dislike him that the
Bee has. He never refused for them to
end his influence to a favorite scheme of
egislation. Perhaps had the Bees been
ess Objectionable he might have obliged
hat sensitive journal. At any rate,
Though the Bee has found way out of
is difficulty with the Times, it has failed
o give good reason for the belief that
here is any conspiracy against the in
erests of the State On the contrary.
here is a patriotic combination between
he political parties of the country to
ecure the success Of Liberal Republican
sntiments and pure government all over
he land.