New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-06-01

ne is OF Jne nate OF Sir John Franklin.
How do we prove this? BY his own
propositions. First, he declares that a
good man, such a one for instance as he
could select, ought to be nominated for
Governor, and then he deliberately puts
forward list of names that represent the
most intensely opposite principles. Let
us give the men as they can be classified
by their recent utterances.
Radical DemOcrats-Daniel bennett,
William M. Randolph, Charles B. Single
ton.
Liberal Democrats. N. Marks, H. n.
| Ogden.
Liberal Republicans-James Graham. j.
S. Walton, j. AID. Rozier, Fergus Gardere.
There are. other names in ''Pro Patria's'
list but they belong to gentlemen whose
position and principles are so uncertain
that we can not classify them, which is
not paying them any very great compli-
ment, we are sorry to confess. Now, how
are Messrs. Singleton and Randolph to
support Messrs. Marks and Graham when
there is a radical difference in their prin-
ciples Messrs. Singleton and Randolph,
to use vulgarism Of the clubs they fire.
quent, ''are down on the niggers, while
Messrs. Marks, Graham and Ogden Gre
willing and anxious to secure to the colored
people all the rights they are now invested
with under the law. Nh. Daniel bennett
would fret his stalwart form into fever
if he found himself in such company, with
gentlemen of such liberal convictions as
Messrs. Walton, Graham and Gardere,
who admit that Governor Warmoth has.
done the State some service.
Then, again, how are these truly good
men to be elected without runners and
bummers in the coffeehouses and around
the market-houses? We must always look
at this interest in discussing politics just as
a man consults a miserable sore when
he goes to take his seat A ticket of
preachers would be defeated by a
larger majority than a ticket Of ad-
mitted corruptionists, for the latter
would apply the persuasions that the
former would scorn to use, and the mass
Of the voting population is easily convinced
that good man will be as bad as as
wicked one in public Office Politics is
like the world, made up of good and evil,
and the man who can not reconcile him
self to this fact had better die out of the
way of those who admit it, and who have
hard labor in keeping the bad from pre-
vailing over the good.
The fact of the matter is, there are en-
pyrics in politics as there are in every other
business. The scientific politician, like
the scientific chemist, uses dirty material
for good purpose. The quack insists on
it that nice clean wood will heat his cruel
BILE as readily as stone coal ''Pro Patria"
is quack. He wants the Hd-gloved gen
tleman to control politics, when it is about
all they can do to take care of their gloves.
The good men are very slow and uncer-
tain. The multitude is quick and positive.
The Democracy sent Morrissey 70 Con-
gress, and cast rotten eggs at all who said
word against Tweed And yet ''Pro
Patria" tells US that this is the class Of eo-
pie that will help him put man in Office
whose whole life and all association re-
Dukes them.
Until the world grows better we must
ever take it as it is. 'Pro Patria" is very
weak in all things, His principles are IN
certain, and his candidates are irrecon-
cilable. We had rather trust him to read
just the scattered machinery of five hun
dred dollar watch than to put the disor-
dered system of great State into his Gus
tody for arrangement.