New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-07-10
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return thanks to the authors and actors Of
the laughable little farce of a political nat
ure, entitled United State Ticket, re-
Gently produced in this city. The authors
of this laughable farce are gentlemen. of
high-sounding titles; men who have the
ability and nerve to set aside the grave
action Of political conventions, and intro
duce something Of a lighter nature; some
thing that can arluse our people if it is not
calculated to afford them political relief
As we have already intimated, the farce
is founded on State politics, and Mr.. Emile
Lasere president Of the Democratic State
! Central Committee, and Mr.. w. NJ. Ran
dolph, president of the Reform State Cen
trail Committee, are made to appear as its
authors, while we have reason to believe
they have been. largely assisted by the
coterie of gentlemen who are at present
the self-constituted Democratic State Cen
trail and Reform State Central Committees
Of Louisiana; men who are jealous Of
Governor Warmbth, and have combined
to defeat him regardless Of consequences
The farce is commenced with a long
prologue in the shape of an address to the
people Of the State Of Louisiana, setting
forth the origin Of this pretended reform
movement, which IS nothing more nor less
than an effort Of few men,to supplant
Governor Warmoth, the leader Of the real
Reform party in this State
The farce has some merit as a.burlesque
on morality, political honesty, capacity,
and wisdom in directing how to save the
people, +" if possible. from the dire neees-
sity Of choosing dtetr destruction in the ap-
preaching State election between Scylla
and Charybdis," and this is where the
laugh comes in torrents, for it must be re-
collected that Mr. William NJ Randolph
and Mr. Emile Lasere are but the repre-
sentatives Of few men, who form the very
remnants Of that deeply prejudiced De-
mocracy that has, since 1861 until lately,
steadily opposed the action Of the federal
government, and endeayored to defeat the
work Of reconstruction as laid down by
Congress.
The idea that these men should now
come forward in order to beat Governor
Warmoth, who first gained their hatred
because he accepted the reconstruction
laws and went in for a speedy reconstruc-
ton Of the South with negro suffrage, and
proclaim at this late day their love for the
negro, is well calculated to excite the
derisive laughter Of all who are oonversant
with the political career Of this handful
of self-styled Reformers, whose only am
bition is to reform the Safe by convincing
the people that they are better men to rule
it than Governor Warmoth and his friends
And in order to do this these very honest
and consistent Reformers are anxious. to
make friends with the negroes, a portion
of whom have become opposed to the
Governor because he has appointed too
many white men to office.
These very honest and consistent Re
formers set forth, in the prologue to their
farce, that they desire ''that complete
and permanent reconciliation should be
effected between the two races inhabiting
our soil (meaning the State), and that
for the accomplishment of this object we
(the aforesaid honest and consistent Re
formers) should deal frankly with our
colored fellow-citizenS, fully recognize
their political and civil status, and en-
deavor to gain their good viii by accord
ing to them, as practical proof of our
(the aforesaid honest and consistent Re
formers) sincerity, fair participation in
the honors and emoluments Of the gov
eminent"
1t strikes US that such talk as this,
coming from men who hate Governor
Warmoth because he was elected, as they
Say, by negro votes, is ridiculous enough,
if it is viewed only in the light of fun,
to cause among those who relish the lu-
dicrous a great itching to laugh. We con-
fess that we were affected this way when
we first read this part of the prologue to
the farce in question.
And this is the great political farce to
which Colonel George. Williamson, the
original candidate of Mr.. Randolph's Re-
form party for Governor, is invited to take
part. We can assure Colonel Williamson
that if he really desires the election Of
Mr.. kellogg, the best way he can secure
it is to go in for the straight Democratic
ticket presented by Mr.. Lasere and Mr..
Randolph, and make the issue clearly one
between the Democrats and the Repub-
licans of this State In fight Of that
kind no Republican would long hesitate
how to vote. But we can not believe that
the farce entitled "a United State Ticket"
will amount to anything more than fizzle
with the people. They are anxions for re-
form in the administration Of national and
State governments, and they are certainly
not going to follow few men who will
insist on being Democrats, when there is
no Democratic party, and reform is the
issue.
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