New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-01-17
LOUISIANA POLITICAL TROUBLES


What the Press Says.
The st. Joseph (Missouri) Gazette should
impute the troubles here to Democrats who
became insurrectionary. 1t says:
The imbrogliO in Louisiana may serve to
farther enlighten the people of the country
as to what Southern radicalism is. 1t it
serves this useful purpose there will be
little reason to regret the present anarchy
in that State. Indeed, anarchy itself,
Justly dreaded as it is, can not be greatly
worse than the organized robbery prevalent
in the South.
The Cleveland Leader would be all right
in the following statement if it was not all
wrong. Wheyland was shot by Carter
Democratic sergeant and not by a
policeman. The Leader says:
The first blood in the political row in
New Orleans was shed on Tuesday after
noon. though fortunately in a manner not
involving general melee or exciting re-
taliation and more killing. The man killed,
Wheyland by name, was Warmothite,
claiming a seat in the House, from which
he had been expelled by the Carterite fac
ton. And the fatal shot was fired by a
policeman acting in the interest of War
moth, but who did not know Wheyland
nor his relations to the WarmOth party,
but supposed him to be Carterite. The
atfray occurred in connection with the
attempt Of the sergeant-at-arms OF the Car
ter House of Representative to arrest one
Matthews, member, in which the sergeant
alarms was resisted by Wheyland. During
the scuffie which ensued, Wheyland was
shot by one of the police. No apprehension
of further violence and blOOdshed is enter
tanned.
The Leader is sensible in the following
paragraph:
Secretary Boutwell, did a good thing the
other day in sending sharp reprimand to
Collector Casey at New Orleans. for per-
mitting the revenue cutter Wilderness to
carry off several anti WarmOtb Senators, 80
keeping them out of the reach of the Ser
geant-at-Arms, and preventing the organi-
ZatiOn of the Senate. But the Secretary of
the Treasury would have done a better
thing had he removed Casey instead of
reprimanding him.
The Chicago Eceniny Post might as well
understand that the recent contest has been
between Republicans and disguised as well
open Democrats, and that the Republicans
have won:
The intense feeling between the rival fac
tiOns in New Orleans still continues. With
are without jurisdiction and the military
without authority. If either side has been
guilty of an honest act, the fact has escaped
attention. The linen ia strikingly dirty,
and the washing altogether too conspicuous
for public comfort. This class of govern
ments have survived their usefulness. They
represent nothing but the meanest traits Of
human nature-the rapacity of unscrupu-
lous knaves. 1t is time the country was
rid Of them.
The Austin tTexas) Journal says:
At the late struggle for the election of
Speaker in the Louisiana Legislature, there
was clear majority against Colonel Carter
and the coalition, he having but forty three
followers-abOut one third of whom were
red-hOt Democrats-against fifty three for
his opponent. The will of the majority
should rule.
Mr. p. w. Hall. editor Of the Calvert
Tribune needs education sufficient to state
the case correctly. and this editorial from
his paper proves the fact of that need
The condition of the Republican party of
Louisiana is nothing more than could be ex-
pected. Look at the two men who head
the two contending factions there. The one
a carpet bagger from the North, only resi-
dent OF the State six months previous to his
election; the other was a confederate gen.
eral, and d new convert to the Republican
faith, both working for selfish aims and pur-
poses, and neither caring anything for the
interests of the State they represent or the
real prosperity of the party that elevated
them to place and power.
We think Governor Warmoth began to
reside here about 1864, and that he came
here to stay.
The Boston Herald. in discussing the
Louisiana muddle," says:
The worst forms of federal usurpation
have been exhibited there. The federal Of
fees swarm with "carpet-baggers, one of
whom, Collector Casey, is the Presidents
brother-in-law, and these federal officers
have exerted perniciOus influence on the
local government. Sometimes Warmoth has
been acting in unison with these federal Of
fcials against the interests of the State. At
other times they have been divided by mu-
tual jealousy and distrust. We haze seen
such scandalOus proceedings as State Re-
publican convention held in the Custom
house within the last year. a bitter cOntrO-
versy between the Governor and the Lieu
tenant Governor. and a continual muddle
in the Legislature.
The New York Star gets its erroneous
ideas from tho Associated Press reports,
and the wretched misrepresentation of the
New Orleans special correspondent of the
New York Times, but the Star can state
some truths, though Whey land was not
Democrat:
Intelligence has just arrived that what
we supposed to have been merely a triting
brawl in New Orleans turns out to be
cold -blooded murder-Wheyland, a Dem
ocratic legislator, on attempting to take
his seat, having been shot down by one
Carter and other satellites of the President.
Instead Of arresting them, as Justice de-
manded, the administration authorities haze
permitted the assassins to escape, and they
now, in consequence OF their own crimi-
nality, have the effrontery to call upon
Grant to extend the provisions of the ku
Klux bill to New Orleans, and put the
whole State of Louisiana under martial law.
Carter and the Democrats here are
equally guilty, and are just alike in this
respect. The Carter Legislature held its
sessions in the rooms OF the Democratic
parish committee, over the Gem gin palace
The Star entirely misrepresents the facts in
reference to General Lonsstreet and the
national militia.
The New York Commercial idcertiser
says:
Blood has been shed in New Orleans, and
the battle of factions there threatens
wholesale phlebotomy. Eighteen hundred
and seventy two has had a most nguinary
beginning. The air is foul with murder: it
has incarnadned the fair page of the new
born year. Where will it stop 1t is for
those who make our laws and those who
should execute them to answer. Stop it
must. and that, too, quickly, or there will
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