New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-11-07
AGITATION THAT rs lLL-TIMEp,

| The Democrats are to hold State con-
vention in this city or the twenty-fourth
| The Senate Committee ON Transportation
| are expected to meet here on the twenty
fifth. One Of these meetings will be or
| ganized in the interests of the out-at-
elbows politicians; the sther to make
! inquiries and collect information respect
ing great work of improvement in which
the business community has deep inter-
est The Democratic convention will in
form the Senate committee that the State
is entirely ruined; but that resuscitation is
possible by overturning the legal State
government and setting up in its stead the
concern that was invented last fall, and
rejected by che voters. All the unquiet
political elements will be on hand when
Mr.. WINDOWS committee arrives, to tes-
tify to the unftness of louisiana to be
State, to Che unworthi1ess of this citf
to receive national aid The resolutions
will recite the cheap ISLANDERS against
Judge Durell, and seiterate the silly COM
plants against bayonet rule. Thus there
will be unseemly, undignifed wrangling
in the presence Of company, and unless
the decent members Of the family exert
themselves, our visitors will go away
under the conviction that we are a hard
lot. The Democratic convention will
meet for the purpose Of looking after the
million and a half of dollars paid for sala-
ries. The Senate committee to consider
the best means Of aiding the one hundred
millions employed in commerce. The
malcontents will make more noise over
she paltry sum they are endeayoring 10
secure than the sr1e and earnest men of
the city will over the immense interests
they seek % sustain, and which it will be
their duty to explain to che committee.
There are very few people who are in.
terested in the success Of the Fusionists.
Perhaps not one-tenth of the legal voters
of che State care anything about the OBJ
jects fos which the delegates are called
together On the other hand every per-
manent resident in Louisiana has deep
and vital interest III elevating New Orleans
to the rank Of a great seaport city. While
the Senate committee will be in consulta-
ton the leading merchants and business
men, the volunteer Statesmen" assembled
in the interests of the Democracy, will be
vigorously engaged in denouncing the
Governor Of Louisiana, the judge Of the
United States District Court, the President
of the United States, the dominant party,
and otherwise displaying a vicious dispo-
sition at the wrong time. Merchants in
consultation with Senators will be
waited upon by dapper little scions of
responsibility with their subscription
books, soliciting the sinews of war for the
campaign against law and order, which it
is the design Of the originators of the con-
vention to organize. 1t will not look very
well to the outside world to invite the
representatives of the government, from
whom we are seeking favors, and meet
them with hostile convention in session.
We can not eat our cake and have it too,
nor can we prove our fitness to receive aid |
for our works Of improvement so long as
the class that claims all the responsibility
is concocting schemes which aim at po-
itical revolution. 1t would be prudent |
to put off the Democratic pow-wow until |
after the more serious and important bust
ness is disposed of. Let Senator Window |
and his committee have the first chance,
and then the delegates" of the people |
can meet and agitate to their hearts con-
fant