New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-07-10
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form committees. If these gentlemen are
determined to put ticket in the field
without consulting with the Liberal Re
publicans, the latter win feel just interest
enough in it to strive by all means in their
power to defeat it. And that they have
the power to do so no intelligent man win
deny. The administration, or Liberal Re-
publicans, number at least forty thousand
voters, and include some Of the shrewdest
political managers in the State. They
have control Of the State patronage, and
are well distributed throughout all the
parishes. They know their strength, and
are wise enough to profit by it. They
hold the balance Of power between the
Democratic-Reform and the Customhouse
party, and there is no doubt as to the side
they win take in the election should the
ill-adyised action Of the Democracy force
them into open opposition to the McEnery
ticket. In discussing this subject at the time
the Democratic and Reform conventions
were in session in this city, we stated the
proposition thus: That as between the
Customhouse party and Bourbon Demo
Gratis, with which latter class we count the
Reformers, the Liberal Republicans hold
the balance of power. They desire reform
in the government Of the State, and they
expect to cast their votes with the party that
proposes to work for this end with the
greatest honesty Of intention and assur-
ance Of success. Dir. Kellogg promises
to give us reform, and 50 do Messrs.
Lasere and Randolph, which reduces US to
the necessity of considering which is the
most reliable Of these two CONTESTANTS for
our support. We have no hesitation in
making a decision. If the Iasere and
Randolph programme is to be carried out,
Kellogg is our first choice, bad as he is.
His ticket is not VIA We would wish it
was, but it is certainly better than the one
which has been put forward by the new
combination of Reformers and their old
associates, the Bourbon Democrats.
The nominations made by Lasere and
are fraud upon the people, in
the first place, for two of them were in
ficted upon the State without any con-
with the constituencies thatare to
them, and the balance had been
quietly ignored by their own friends, even
after they were nominated by the Demo-
cratic convention. They are fraud in
another sense, for the men who put them
forward intimate that they can only be
elected as minority candidates by running
in between the Liberal Republicans and
the GRANTEES. The Democracy of this
State may consider that they can prosper
by this sort Of a stolen victory but they
will find that the men whom they propose
to cheat are not as blind as they are sup
posed to be. The Liberal Republicans
have not been caught yet. They look
with greater favor upon Kellogg than they
do upon Lasere and Randolph, and if they
are driven to make a choice between the
Democrats and the Customhouse,
they will not hesitate to assist the latter
as the least of the two evils.
The great mistake which Lasere and
have committed is in suppos-
ing that the Liberal Lepublieans will sup
port Governor Warmoth against the field,
and that the Bourbon Democracy can
march to victory between these two oppos-
ing wings of the Republican party. No
sush thing. Mr.. Warmoth is not the
Liberal Republican organization by any
means. He merely counts one. If he is
accepted as the leader of the Reform Re
he will have some strengths If
be is accepted by himself while his friends
are cast out, the Bourbons will count his
7ote, and Kellogg will count the thirty
nine. thousand nine hundred and ninety
line votes that belong to his friends. The
existing revolution was not originated for
he exclusive benefit of the Democracy,
put for the benefit Of all who favor it
And when Messrs. Lasere and Randolph
attempt to pervert q general effort to their
,wn selfish purposes, it is time to call
hem to halt, for their attemptis likely to
prove the means Of bringing a great disaster
lpon' both themselves and upon us
samson buried his friends and his enc
MES when. he disrupted the pillars Of the
emple. Lasere and Randolph are pulling
Town the house over their own heads in
wicked and stupid endeavor to destroy
hose who stand between themselves and
he Offices of the State.
The situation is very plain. The danger
S very imminent. The Kellogg ticketrep-
,esents the inferior elements of the Repub-
Jean party, and its success would be very
Managing to the State The Bourbon De-
nocracy represents worse organization
md weaker one. 1t is confessedly bad,
or its sole appeal for support is based
1pon the assumption that it is better than
he Customhouse party is. 1t admits its
weakness by proposing to elect its nomi-
lees by a minority vote while the Republi-
,ans are divided. The people have con-
lemned it; have refused to accept it's
ticket; have united for something better.
The voters of the State demanded combi-
nation that offered some hope of success.
And what do Mr.. Lasere and Mr.. Randolph
offer in this emergency? A mere combina-
ton Of the same elements that have been
defeated over and over again, and the con