New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-03-08
GOVERNOR WARMOTH's POSITION.

| frank one, at that. IL mas OUCH peeH Ae
marked that he was rather free i'll his
speech, coming to the point readily, ano
expressing his opinions and designs some
what directly, in fact, too directly for his
own political good. He miuces his words
but little, and conceals his opposition still
less Men find him easily, and they are
not long in determining what his senti
ments are after they have found him, fol
he knows how to say no as if he had cult
waited the talent. Spectators in jobs thai
promise themselves sure victory before
| they visit Governor Warmoth, feel an un
easy sensation the moment they address
| him, for he does not take to the smiling
advance as if he loved it; and his manner
is decidedly chilling to the Adventures
after unwholesome measures. In genera
conversation he is outspollen in his opln'
| ions to that extent that older politicians
| frequently feel astonished that he retains
the support of men against whom nc
points his sharpest rebukes; and, es-
| pecially is this the case in the
conversation concerning the colored
| people, of whom he talks with freedom
that sycophants can never comprehend,
for they never know any language but that
of praise for those whom they intend to
deceive, and of abuse for those they can
not The secret of the Governors sue
cess in this respect is this, that he speaks
plainly and truthfully, and these qualities
captivate mankind, for men accept of
criticism when they know that it is just,
and rely upon the critic when they feel
that he is honest and friendly in what he
explains. Flattery does not win the sup
port that earnest advice and sensible coun-
sci obtain, because the one is easily de-
tected as selfish, while the other is often a
penance and an injury.
Governor Warmoth explained great
many personal and political matters some
days since in his free and easy way to
reporter from the Times. We reproduce
the result of the interview ih this morn
ine's REPUBLICAN. The Governor asserts
that he was sincere in all his endeavors to
secure the reforms which he suggested to
the Legislature, but that it was impossi-
BILE for him to make the members vote as
he wanted them to do on all occasions,
because sometimes they differed with him
in opinion, and at other times there were
other interests at work to defeat specific
reforms that were more powerful than his
influence. He desired the passage OF an
election law that would have satisfied all
the people, because he has already served
almost five years as Governor, and to be
reinstated by fraud would not compensate
him for the odium which it would bring to
the good name which he has already ac-
quired. He is not a candidate for re-
election as Radical, since all the radical
issues that grew out of the war have been
settled and accepted beyond the possibility
of disturbance. AS politician he is
willing to accept the Office at the hands OF
the people upon the platform of reform
and economy in the government. On any
other suggestion he is not and will not be
a candidate.
Governor Warmoth defended the late
Legislature, not as a body without faults,
but as one that had fewer than any of its
predecessors, and worthy of respect for
the good that it did in the face of the i'm
mense temptations that were presented to
warp it's members from their principles
and their. integrity. 1t passed large
number of reformatory measures, and
some bad laws, the latter of which he In
tends to veto and defeat. The police bill
was defeated by certain reform members.
who objected that it would injure some Of
their friends; and the bribery bill was
stolen by the Clerk of the House after it
had passed the Senate.
The Governors attention being called
to the announcement that he was about to
leave the State, he expressed his conf
dence in Lieutenant Governor Pinchback's
abstaining from doing any act which
would prejudice the community, and as
serted that his absence would only last for
a couple of weeks. He does not expect or
design to meet General Grant, as such an
encounter would be productive of no good.
He does not think Grant will retreat from
his attitude of hostility to the Republicans
of Louisiana, and unless he does this act
of Justice, Governor Warmoth declares his
intention to vote against him.
As to the bill that provides for facilitat-
ing the construction of a railroad from
Monroe to Shreveport, the Governor seems
to think that measure is one which will
benefit the State, but as he has not seen it
and does not know what it is, he does not
propose to settle his own action in the mat
ter until after his return from New York
He makes the same explanation concern
ing the Waterworks bill-that being ignor-
ant of its provisions, he can not say
whether he will veto or approve it.
In regard to appointments to office, the
Governor admits that some of his ap-
pointees have disgraced their positions,
but where an officer has so many selections
to make he can not hope to avoid mistakes
in some instances. He has commissioned
a large number of Democrats, because he
desired to secure faithful agents, and this
fact had been used against him by Repub-
icans as an evidence that he was unfaith-