New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-05-23
FFRRY VS.. HAwLEY.
| Connecticut Journal Explains the Action
of the Democrats.


from the New Haven (Connecticutl Register
Now that General Hawley has sickness
which is not confined to CHS legs" he may
want to know what caused it. Of course he
is convinced that there has been a bargain
between the Democratic members of the
Legislature and Senator Ferry. Perhaps it
will appear in the CoWunt that Senator
Ferry has promised to attend the Baltimore
convention, and stump Connecticut for it's
candidates. 1t would not surprise us if
General Hawley should conelusively prove
that Senator Ferry is in favor of paying the
confederate debt and re-establishing slavery
To man in General Hawley's position these
things seem possible. But they do not ex-
plain the vote of Tuesday.
That decisive vote showed that no man.
not even General Hawley. can afford to be-
come persistent slanderer of political op-
ponents. 1t does not pay TO be bitter and
extreme. Those who knew General Hawley
years ago would not suppose it possible for
him to become the man he now is. There is
not Democrat of any prominence in the
State who has not been grossly abused by
him. In the spring campaign of 1871 he
insulted every man n the State, when he
asserted that Governor English had tele-
graphed to New York for repeaters, know
ing as he did that the charge was false.
There was no excuse for it. If anybody still
thinks that honesty is not the best policy,
we would point him to this senatorial cleo
lion. The defeat of General Hawley in Il 67
seems to have embittered him. and nothing
could be more disastrous" As politician,
we regard General Hawley as magnificent
failure. After training two or three years,
he has now broken down in the very first
heat.
But this contest has not been wholly
personal. General Hawley has been the
advocate of the extreme measures of the
Republican party. We can not recall one
the enforcement act, the election law, and
scores of other measures of doubtful cOnsti-
nationality, have found in him an ardent
advocate. On the other hand Senator
Ferry has proved to be very little of par
tisan He has opposed nearly all of the
political measures which extreme Repub-
ieans have advocated, and he has done
much to allay the passions of the late war.
Only last week he took occasion to make
an able speech in defense Of the rights of
the States. and in opposition to Summers
civil rights bill, which proposes to regulate
schools, churches, juries and even graveyard
associations. When the vote was reached,
Senator Ferry stood with Trumbull Schurz
and Upton, while opposed to him were
Cameron, and Morton, and Chandler, and
that class Of Republicans. We do not know
WnaU pO5luOn senator FerfY VIII take IN
the approaching Presidential canvass. We
do know that he indorses the Cincinnati
platform. In his speech at Music Hall, last
March, he insisted that the Missouri plat
form was sound, and the only material diff
ference between that and the Cincinnati
platform is in regard to the tariff. Because
he is liberal and honest, able and efficient,
a manly opponent and gentleman in
politics" he has been successful.
IT the result shall have the effect to re-
move some of the prejudices of the past. to
make men of different parties more gene
rous toward each other; if it shall make our
political contests less personal. and our
leaders more generous, we shall be satisfied