New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-02-21
NEW ORLEANS REPUBLICAN, WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY a. 1872

ocracy. This view was derived from the
fact that the reformers, especially the
leaders, are old Democratic politicians
who have been out of Office longer than is
Beasing to them. And as they have to.
day the same political opinions for theil
capital stock that they had years ago, We
could not give them credit for sincerity, OF
place any confidence in their boosted
ability to run the political machine any
better than they did when the people gave
them chance.
The Democracy proper, as represented
by the Bee, now puts in claim that they
are as good reformers as anybody, and
that in the principles, usages and tradi-
tons of that sublime party can be found a
panacea for all the ills which some old
gentlemen allege the State is afflicted with.
Both of these parties, however, agree cor
daily that it is necessary to Gust the Re-
publicans from the offices; but they are
singularly inharmonious for such disin-
terested patriots in the matter Of choosing
successors. On the part Of the reformers
it is claimed that the Democratic party is
dead; its principles, if it has any, are fifty
years old, and out of fashion, and all its
leaders are old party hacks, whom it would
be almost impossible to elect. To these
| charges, which We believe to be well
founded, the Democrats retort, with quite as
much truth, that the Re formers are nothing
but boilers from their party, deserters
from the camp, who have gone Off upon
campaign in their own interests, not caring
what becomes Of their late allies and
friends. Thus, while these ''outs," who
have adopted a reform banner, are clearly
Of opinion that the interests of the State
demand the election of honest men to the
offices, they are fatally divided about
whom toput in their places. Both parties
know each other, and neither is willing to
trust the other. The Republicans very
readily adopt the views of each, SO far as
the fitness Of their candidates is involved,
and will probably make their selections
from their own ranks.
But in this family quarrel the Demo
cratic party has this advantage: They
generally rally at the elections and do all
the voting they can, while but few Of the
reformers ever see a ballot-box. About
two thirds of them are not registered,
while those who are usually run off to the
North about that time to spend the profits
wrung from the people at Saratoga, New
port, White Sulphur Springs, or some
other Northern resort.
The workers in the Democratic party
know these facts thoroughly, and they do
not receive with good grace lectures and
taunts from the very men to whom the
party is chiefly indebted for its repeated
defeats. And SO the happy family is sorely
divided and the chances are favorable for
the people to be permitted to conduct
their own affairs in the future as
they have since 1868. It looks as though
the third party movement is failure
The Republicans can have nothing in
sympathy with any Intermediates: while
the Democrats, who were weak enough
before, are naturally incensed at division
in their own camp. When the Commit
tee Of Fifty-one went beyond its pre-
scnbed duty Of nosing about the City
Hall and interviewing the Mayor and Ad-
and began to make laws for
the State, it put an end to its own exist
ence. The claim set up for it that it Was
''the Legislature, and the Picayme was
its organ" turned the movement into bur |
esque ana made its sensible friends |
Of il.