New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-06-26
TIE CANDIDATES.

one class Of the people of the State, and
that the lower-the negroes-participated
in the primary elections. Consequently
either negroes were chosen delegates or
white men whose sole regret is that they
we're not born negroes. The lobby well
represented both classes.
The result is before our readers, as our
faithful but disguised reporter has done
the best he could to translate the jargon
Of pow-wow into something like orderly
English.
In the first place, we are called upon to
vote for William Pitt Kellogg for Gov
ernor. He is a man who well answers his
own description Of an adventurer and q
carpet-bagger, who comes down South to
make money and spend it at home or any
where but here. He is a native of Illinois,
or at least that great State is responsible
for his early years. During the war, when
President Lincoln had but little time to
bestow upon small matters, Kellogg
wormed himself in as Nebraska judge.
But the United States government soon
found out that mistake had been made,
and at last succeeded in swapping him of,
and sending him to shine as Collector of
the port of New Orleans. There has always
been dispute between us and the Ne
braskians about the last act of the great
and good Lincoln, the latter insisting that
it was splendid piece Of craftsmanship,
while our people doggedly persist in de-
claring it to be an egregious blunder.
But Nebraska gained by it, and we did
not which accounts for the difference Of
sentiment.
The Customhouse afforded Kellogg
field for the exercise of his peculiar genius.
While his master, Andy johnson, was
swinging around the circle and footing
Democratic music on the constitution,
rolled up after the fashion of penny
trumpet, Pitt swore royal oath that the
only employment he would give the ne
groes was job to whitewash official water
closets, and we believe he at one time
seriously contemplated offering such
situation to the Baton Rouge nominee for
Congressman at large.
But time passed on, and Andy faded
away. AS the last expiring notes of his
tooting-horn died out on the air, our en-
terprising adventurer opened his eyes and
looked around him. Grant was President,
which he interpreted to mean, 'My dear
Pitt, you must git He was probably
correct this time, but happening to cast
his eye upon our newly-elected Legisla-
ture in 1858, he suddenly conceived a
brilliant idea. He invented the Post roll
inthe Gu stomhouse, coralled majority Of
the members in the granite building for
thirty or sixty days. and was elected to
the United States Senate for four years by !
the grateful "extra inspectors" There
was no talk Of whitewashing then. The |
time for that passed away with Andy Johrc-
son and his tooting-horn. His next move
was to swap off his influence in the Sen
ate to get the imperial influence to make
him Governor, with the last year Of his |
term of service thrown in. If he succeeds |
in this he will undoubtedly begin to lay
his wires to swap off his four years as Gov
ernor for six years in the Senate, and COM
NIT his executive duties into the uncer-
tain and incompetent hands of Caesar Cato
Antoine Since he was elected Senator,
this denouncer Of carpet-baggers and adj
venturers has spent his time in this State
IS follows In 1869, he was here four
weeks; in 1870, the year of the general
election he came and fitted away in ten
days; in 1871, he showed himself around
Tor seven days, and then hied away to
California. And he arrived again in New
Orleans just four days before he was nomi-
mated for Governor 1t can hardly be
hat his well-known mortal fear of yellow
ever should have kept him away so much
If the time as during all those years we
nave had little or none, and people equal
Y or nearly as timid have braved it out.
Antoine, the pretentious candidate for
he second place on the ticket, is of an ex-
small pattern. Reared slave,
md frequently bought and sold, he came
It last to consider himself human mer-
,handise, with the ownership vested in
himself by the fifteenth amendment As
senator he sold his votes right and left, in
liter disregard of the wants Of his constit-
tents. He did not even know where his
constituents lived, or whether he was APP
pointed to look after the interests of Caddo
II Orleans. We have no objection to him
1r any other man on account of his color;
put his skin is not half black enough or
arge enough to hide his shortcomings and
political deformities.
Mr. Charles Clinton, the candidate for
Auditor, is the United States assistant
at New Orleans.
Colonel A. P. Field, the choice Of the
convention for Attorney General over
John Ray, Simeon Belden, and others,
has not figured much in politics since he
elected himself to Congress in 1864, and
committed deadly assault on Judge
Kelley at hotel table. He has generally
been considered a conservative. He has
been long known at our bar as a criminal
lawyer, and at one time he was reasonably
but latterly smarter men have
upon his own tactics, and taken
much Of his practice away from him. He