New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-03-15

lowing them to resist investigation ofthat."
Undoubtedly" says Porter. g..
"And see what a scandal has come Of it."
Every true"
Then, here is this arms job; what a row
they have raised throughout the country by
opposing Summers resolution, and making
ali this talk"
Porter signs sadly.
..If they had the brains to cope with the
men who really wanted to injure me, there
would be some comfort; but they had not.
They were like moths flying at a candle
every time they flew at Schurz and Sumner
they got singed."
That is unquestionably So"
"Then look at the mean ways they took.
To be sure, Porter. you and l know that
Sumner is d pOmpOus old humbug, and that
Schurz is Lucifer himself. But the people
don't see them in our light. The people
believe them to be able Senators and true
patriots. 1t must be confessed that Sumner
has a record that can't easily be got over
ld-n his sharp nose; how he smelt out that
San Domingo business); but here these
asses of ours, Morton and Conkling, took
the very course to excite popular sympathy
Tor both Sumner and SchurZ, and Trumbull,
too-he's a hard nut to crack! First, they
must inject into the disagreeable proceed
mgs such matter as an inquiry into Schurz,
Sumner and Trumbull, on the score of APP
pointments to office. l must confess, Porter,
that unless our eager senatorial friends
show more shrewdness than they usually
show, they will fail to make much out Of
that particular inquiry. The three Senators
named haven't bothered me much for APP
pointments at any rate. l remember that
two or three years ago | met Schurz at a
stag party given by Forney, on Capitol
Hill, and chided him there for not coming
to see me oftener at the White House."
Why, General says Porter, you're
actually making a speech"
Il feel like it. Think of C~onkling-the
vain lunatic setting up that mock charge
against Sumner and Schurz as men holding
reasonable intercourse with the agents of
a foreign power. Good God, Porter, it's too
ridiculous! y
Says Porter: "You speak like the sage
that. when your dander is VI, you really
are"
Porter. hand down that decanter and
my glass"
The military secretary complies.
Porter" says the President, knocking
the ashes from his cigar, chow do things
look to you"
blue
A dead silence, Illuminated by ciga1-
flashes through clouds of tobacco smoke.
"How's Forney?"
Unreliable"
"How's Greeley"
Dangerous"
Can we depend upon the Republican
press, anyway"
We'll" says Porter. " it's disagreeable to
mention it, but, after all. we've got mighty
few of the first class Republican newspapers
with us to-day. Here's the New York T,i.
bune, the Chicago Tribune, the Cincinnati
Commercial and the Springfield Republican
dead against us. 1t must be confessed that
in opposition to these the rest of the pap-fed
Republican journals make a poor appear
ance.'
"But we can fix the convention"
"Oh! yes. we can put i'll the delegates.
You will be renominated, General; no trou-
bic about that. But then the election is to
come after the convention, and there's the
peoples voice to be heard, as Tennyson
says. l suppose, though, you never heard
of TennysOn."
"Ah!' says the President, musing.
After a pause
Porter. what do you think of this Gin
cinnari project! Will it amount to any
thing p
The military secretary coughs a dubious
cough.
Won't you," he SAYS, "try a little more
OF the whisky, General! There's a storm
outside. It's q fearful night. | hops the
AlpiStc - Z ou IuC W HUE,
it's late and you're tired. Hadn't we better
go to bed
Coincident with these conversations at
the Capitol and in the White House, at the
same time Of night, a knot of villagers are
assembled at a corner grocery Here a
kerosene lamp is kept burning for the ac-
commodation of certain politicians and Cos
sips who love their kind, and have ceased
to love their wives Overmuch. They are
the very beings who keep pretty surely in
view the rural political situation The
weekly World and the weekly Tribune are
spread out on the laps of several of these
and the weekly Times and the
weekly Herold are concealed in the pockets
OF three or four unpopular members of the
company, one of whom-the last to enter
the place-has blown his nose like a trumpet
and asked the landlord for a hot whisky,
Gold night" he observes, flirting his
calico Handkerchief.
Then why amt we asked to take some
warm y inquiries a genius by the
fire.
"How's your man Grant by this time?'
asks another.
DO you FEEL" saws a third, Extremely
encouraged about the next Presidential
ciection!'
Now says the drinker at the bar, II
like to hear this. l like to see you Repub-
lambs and Democratic ion lying
together. 1 s'pose it's anything to
beat Grant"
You're partly right and you're partly
responds the third spokesman"
We're bound to beat Grant-on that YOU
may bet; but we're bound, too, to beat his
men in Congress and their little games"
What little games, nOw9' clustering.
How innocent! We're after changing
riders. Grants been on horseback too long.
after changing the staff. Conhlins
such men are too ornamental to be use
We're after putting down brag talk
putting in men who won't have to be
e~ternally defending the party in Congress,
out who will have some time to do public
business. Thu old machine has done it's
work, and is wearing out. The old broom
S worn down to the handle. There's too I
much dirt and corruption. We want a new
,room that will sweep all clean"
"Oh, you can't beat Grants nomination.
The things dead sure"
Maybe we can, maybe we can't. What
We chiefly intend to do is to beat his cleo
'Ah. you're one Of the Cincinnati conven- .
ion men, | s'rose?' .
"My friend" says the speaker impressive .
y, "let Inc tell you that Pm a Democrat" )
And what kin Demmycrats do about it, .
anyway I" asks the person at the bar with
corn p
Il don't feel called on to speak for the
larty," says the gentleman with the WeeAly
Elortd in his lap, but if you wait you'll see
what Democrats will do about it-even with
Iolr blear ewes. F,
Really it is after one O'clock Sunday I