New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-10-29
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and unless the ticket is improved in sew
eral respects it will stand in great danger
Of defeat on Monday. To specify little:
1t is known that some of the candidates
act uaIly bought their nominations out
right. Such men can not even hope to
poll the party vote, for they are not the
| choice of 4 majority Of the Republican
voters. If they were, they would have
| been nominated freely, because the deIeo
gates were sent to the convention 60 maine
the favorites of the people for Office So
far then as they have complied with this
duty, their act should be ratified; but
where they gave way to mercenary offers
fro1 b persons entirely unfit to discharge
the duties Of the offices To- which they
ASPIRE positive reputation should be in
terp0sed. If delegate will not vote for the
nomination of candidate without pay,
| it follows that he will not vote for him at
! the polls without furtheT equivalent in
cash, for the first contract only extended
to the launching of the aspirant upon the
troubled sea of politics with the privilege
! Of being elected if he can secure gotes
enough. He does not represent the dele
| gate who voted for him, for it was money!
| not merit, that influenced the yoSe; he
does not represent the constituents Of the
dele gate, for their agent acted in his own
! I L, InnoHt in olyIncg
the bargain and sale. AS none Of these
purchased nominations are likely to hold
good, the principals had better be as once
set aside 60 make room foS more popular
men,
IT must be qemembere8 that there mas
beer ans unusually heavy registration.
Some of our politicians claim there will
be forty-six thousand votes polled at the
! nexS election. And it does not impair the
force of the logical inference greatly 20
say the estimate is too high foB iS is not
sufficiently SO to bring the aggregate
voting strength down to figures represent
jne double the colored vote, Of which
there are not, at the outside more than
eleven thousand in the parish. Assuming
thaS there will be forty thousand votes
cast there will be twenty-nine thousand
white votes, and eleven thousand colored.
The c0lored vote will probably be cast
solid for the Republican side, while the
white vote will be somewhat divided, but
not enough white men can be induced to
vote the present Republican ticket to in
sure success. 1t will require nine thog-
sand white votes added to the eolored, to
make an even thing Of it, This is more
than weye usually cast at municipal eleco
tions preceding the war more than were
polJed in the very exciting contest of 1853
and vastly more than can be counted upon
with any reasonable certainty next Nom
day. 10 save the Republican ticket at
all, therefore, it must be strengthened.
For she figures are decidedly against US.
The Conservatives are only divided upon
one or TWO offices, mainly the Adminisv
traitor of Improvements. in Others there
isan ominous unanimity that portends dis
aster to our ticket. To avert this danger
by providing to meet it now becomes the
duty Of the State and parish committees
The convention signally failed in the duty
it was assembled TO perform, and it is
neither safe nor advisable to- call another
Our delegates did not behave one whis
better than the Democrats did, and we
are forced to adopt their tactics in FIXING
up things by committees
We are glad to- know That q beginning
has already been made. One change has
been proposed and generally approved by
all whom we have heard speak of it.. The
committee should proceed in the work.
and bring to its assistance not only the
best information of its own members,
but should also consult the opinions Of
prominent Republicans who do not belong
to it. The interests Of the party are above
those of candidates who are too weak 70
help it, And it is the special duty Of our
parish committee to take care that our
ticket shall not be loaded down with men
who are injurious TO us before the election
and would not prove creditable to it even
in case of success. Such men have here.
tofore brought much trouble upon us. and
we ought to protect ourselves against
them at time like this, when they en-.
danger the very life Of Republicanismo
In demanding a reconstruction of QUE
ticket we are not endeavoring to promote
the interests Of any particular person.
Occupying, as we do, q central position.
we are not prepared to make nominations
at short notice. as we are not sufficiently
acquainted with the special capabilities
Of individuals in all the wards. The duty
of selection more properly belongs TO the
members Of the executive committee, who
have been chosen, or should nave been.
with direct reference to their being able
to furnish all needful informationo It is !
our duty 70 point out the danger shat
menaces us in consequence of = weak !
ticket, and cali upon She committee &og
instant action
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A FINANCIAL MIDDLE.
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