The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1872-05-04
A PLEA FOR HARMONY AMONG RE-
FORMERS.

PLEA FOR HARMONY AMONG RE-
FORMERS.
There seems to be Il reasonable pre-
sumption that an election for State and
parochiai officers in November will
not be necessary. The New Orleans
Picayune and the Customhouse Repub.
lican have taken our g alabama Claims''
in hand and have progressed in the
adjustment of the troubles before them
to much more satisfactory extent than
and their progress partially warrants
the belief, as we have stated, that a
popular election in the fall will be a
work of supererogation. And thus it
has come about: In last Sundays Pic
ayune there appeared a ttoub1e-1eaded
editorial, under the comprehensive
heading, "Coalition for Reform IS Sake"
Believing our contemporary to be the
advocate or organ Of a respectable State
organization, and that it was, as it had
a few days before stated, +" for getting
aid for reform, from any quarter, which
settled o,lrself down to peruse and
study q general outline OF the political
situation in the State, with an analysis
Of the best means to secure success for
reform. A Louisiana Lottery special"
never inveigled us worse.
After reading carefully thrcc-fourths
Of the Picayune's article, which, was
mainly directed against II coalition will,
Warmoth, we came to the conclusion
Of the whole matter in these final sup
positions of our cotcnll,orary:
Let us suppose that, speaking more
precisely, they (thc Grant Republicans)
should say, "cOmmend to us for Mayor
such a citizen as 1. N. Marks; COM
mend to us for any other position III the
city administration such IL citizen as
John Fleming commend to us for any
of the District Judgships such q citizen
as William NJ. Randolph, and we will
be glad, if they shall allow that we can
consistently do so, to accept, intlorse,
and support them, in common with all
citizens who think it their first political
duty to clean out u frightful and sitting
mass of local corruptions and abuses,
and to obtain actual guarantees of good
SoFcTuue0t AT nODlC.
Who will say that speeches like these,
If accompanied by sufficient proofs of
good faith, would not indicate a salts
factory basis for coalition in the real
interest of reform and the redemption
of State and city? Let us hear.
Sets the wind in that quarter: Com
mend to us man for mayor, another
man for administrator and another for
Judge, and awe will he glad ~ OF
course they will be glad-who would
not?-if the support ofthese men carries
with 1t the support of their friends for
Grant and his State ticket? Is that the
coalition the Picayune commemorative
up the State, Governor, legislature and
all the country offices, in order to elect
Mr.. Marks mayor and Il few other gen.
tlemen to city Offices: There may be
something in the arrangement. for Ne,c-
sham, but we are too stupid to see where
the States and peoples share come in.
Two days subsequent to the Plea
yune's feefer, the Customhouse Repub-
lican gobbled up several extracts of rath-
er an incongruous nature, that appear
''~
concluding with the one we have
quoted, and then with the choicest bit
of irony, or soft-soltier, said to the Pic
ayune: "Our neighbor lays down
"ide' range for negotiation than we are
disposed to recognize!'' If the Repub-
lican had said, this is reform for coali-
TONS sake, it would have properly
reflected it's deductions. But that paper
saw proper to conceal its happiness, and
went on to say, Notwithstanding the
"wide range that it recognized the
eNigencies of the OCCASION, and the ne
eessity for "conccssions' and unity; that
it "appreciated the worth of Mcssrs. |
Marks, Fleming and Randolph" and
that it accepted Gas healthy, legitimate
and needful, under the circumstances,
the idea of adjustment suggested Ivy orr
neighbor."