New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-05-29
RECKONING Up THE BR0THRRs-IN
LAW.


What are you Customhouse people doing7
Are you for Grantl If SO it is time you
were up and doing. Where's your banner?
Not on the outer wall. Is Grant candi-
date3 Thousands can be got to say he
isn't, but only wants nomination ''for a
vindication." Tell that to the marines.
Pinchback says what's true; "The nomina-
ton for President of the United States
never went begging yet" No, and it never
will.
Such talk as the above travels round and
round, and is repeated hundreds of times
Some conversation follows:
From Customhouse officer on the river
side watching ship: Owe no objections to
Greeley. Norman can say word agin him.
l know he's honest and all that; but Pm
goin' for Grant, cause believe he will be
elected"
~ don't see it by those lamps"
"His patronage will bring him i'm
patronage has already made for him
what enemies he has. What started this
Liberal party but the way he used his
patronage! What is the Liberals greatest
card! The unworthy men Grant has ap-
pointed to Office in every city, and who be
keeps in their places simply because they
are friends, not because their returns are
correct, or their sheet balanced"
"Well, there's the fact put before the
country that the national debt has been
decreased $751; ,OOO, OOO."
considering the reduction of expenses,
it ought to have been $6OO,OOO,OOO"
ellis able cabinet I"
Cabinet! He has already got rid of
every man in it who had soul he could
call his own. His cabinet and all the sixty
thousand ofice-holders are nothing but a
multiplication of Grant"
"Spose we change the subject; Isee some
body coming this way" said the Custom
house officer, taking out his memorandum
book and burying his head in its columns Of
figures, 'meandering through meadow of
margin"
How do you think the State will go >
was the perplexed question of an old gen
tleman who had been one of the outs so
long it would nearly take the top of his
head off to draw on a pair of official boots
once again.
II can't tell, answered played out old
Pol, " its rather mixed"
How about the colored vote ~
"Pinchback says, and he ought to know,
his people are now just like all other poll
ticians, subject to the same divisions of
opinion and the control of varying elements.
Grants party promises them, but does not
perform; it was only within the past few
weeks that Grant gave way and appoint
ments were made Of cOlored men. The
election, you see, is too close. The colored
vote will not be cast as unit. know the
Customhouse calculated on it, and have got
the thing down to dot. But in this country
sixty days may knock everything into pi."
Here is another homely comment by zone
of the boys"
"Tve gone to six ward meetings in as
many days." was the statement of this
revenue employee Che wanted to make an
affidavit), "and got tired. The same peo-
pie are in them all. They eolonize. Lewis
is the big Injun ; all the soft solder comes
from him-all the promises, all the fight
One blast upon his bugle horn is worth thousand
men.
"The force in his Office are out every night.
Bad whisky has played havoc with coun-
tenances once fair and fine. Few and
short are the words he says when a reso-
luton is to be passed at one of them ward
meetings. or when one isn't to be passed.
One handy man in his service lives in every
ward of the town. l see his face every
where. He's as common as a local reporter.
/ pity that Customhouse band. They must
be near footed out. Wouldn't use as much
wind as one of them people has to get up
for the whole concern, or for all the rewards
in store for the faithful.
"The service of getting up political ward
meetings is fatiguing in this hot weather.
1t is rather monotonous, since, no matter
what the CustomhOuse wants to do, the
same faces effulge from the rostrum, or are
| invited to seats upon the platform. 1t is
like the man who Travelled up Red
! river to run the gauntlet of
all those assemblages the crowd
gets up. He got into a bend on his
way up and went round and about the
same same house under the impression he
was getting ahead. He remarked this was
a very fine country, but the houses all looked
alike. The same deal are there always.
The ace in the chair, and you hav'nt got to
| look far before you will find the duce, the
| tray and so on. Sometimes the right bow
| er gets the chair for change-same old
| deck. Do these Customhouse men think
they can impose on the American people in
that fashion That they can parcel out
! the future destinies of this State and city
with its wealth of millions, its industries,
| it's cotton crop, its fortune as if it were an
| apple Yet they are trying it on. 1t is a
| bad fit. The people must have chance
to tell their views, to express their feelings,
| to tell their miseries which this gang OF
| political desperadoes have not hesitated to
infict Are we Of New Orleans going to
stand this thing four years more
| this making Of political party
| into a close corporation No sir. No
indeed. Fot by a long shot. Packard
can write out as many blank form creden-
tials as he chooses, but sometime there viii
be nobody to fill them up. The last dodge
has not yet been played. This consists in
putting a force on the Customhouse build
ing to eat up the remainder OF the appro-
priation for its renovation just about thirty
days before electiOn-Sidellian tactics; any