New Orleans Republican., 1873-08-24

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that Il made little or no difference to the
lmsiority whether they prefsrred one thine
| or another. That their of repeated dc.
clarations that imperialism would be bet.
ter than republicanism; thst military law
in Louisiana would be better. than the
Kellogg usurpation, are addressed to deal
ears For they appeal to those who are
neither Imperialists nor Democrats, and
who do not care . straw what the disap-
pointed Office seekers Of the minority pre-
fer, in the event of their not being elected
to Office themselves: We notice now that
Senator Cameron, of Pennsylvania. enter
tains ideas very similar to our own. A
New York Herald reporter recently inter-
viewed the veteran statesman at q water
ing place, and elected from him the fol-
lowing brilliant spark: sl.s.rs-- - p
Az long - the country is az prosperous -
| it is now, the people don't care Q picayune
/ what the Democratic party accepts or re-
| iects. The mere ides Of their acceptance
| of acknowledged facts 10 no inducement Tor
| the people to rush them into power; they
have got to do some noble act or propose
\ come great idea for the beneht OF the coon-
try before the people viii blot out their In
famous past and give them another trial.
Now let us make local application of
these remarks: The people of Louisiana,
like those of the whole country, inwhose
name Senator Cameron speaks, don't care
q picayune what the Fusionists accept OF
| reject. One wing threatens to call for
martial law as something preferable to
the rule of the present Republican admin
istration. Well, let them prefer it. They
have q right to express their preferences,
hut to get what they want is another
thing. That is question Of numbers, of
force. If cur aimiable Fusionists, of whom
John McEnery is chief, Ex-Governor War
moth the acknowledged leader, and the
Picaylne the official organ, may demand
and receive martial law because they are
unwilling to accept Republicanism, why
may they not go step further and de-
mand McEnery for Governor, Warmoth Or
AIcMillen for United States Senator, and
all the other high and low places on the
same basis? If they may make terms at
all, why not have them more favorable to
their party than setting up military gov
eminent would be? If they have the
power or the influence to make the Repub-
icans give way for anybody. Why not
arrange itoso that their own set shall
come in for the succession? It may
happen that the Republicans of this State,
who certainly have some right to voice
in the management Of its affairs, dislike
martial law, and distrust those who ask
for it. They do not care picayune what
theD Democracy accepts o. rejects, fos they
have seen the folly Of committing import
ant interests to their keeping, and in their
choosing martial law and imperialism in
preference to republicanism, they show
the dangers the country would incur by
surrendering to them the conduct Of pub
lie affairs. .r.
Now. while those who have been rem.
dered desperate by oft repeated defeats,
threaten us with martial law, Cssarism
and other dire hobgoblins. another wing
of the same party attempts to ride in and
take possession OF the Republican camp
by capturing our own guns. These are
the unifers. Their condescension in EN-.
bracing Republican principles. accepting
acknowledged facts, is urged as a suffi.
cient reason for rushing them into power
No sooner had one thousand men signed
their names to political manifesto which
gracefully conceded what they could by
no means prevent. than they began to
talk at once Of new party. new slate
for State officers, even at time when
Governor Kellogg's term had more than
three years to run. This did not look so
much like demand for being rushed
into power because Of the acceptance Of
acknowledged facts as il did imposing
condition in advance that change of po.
litical front should be followed by SUBJ
stantia1 eewarda As the mass Of the Re.
publican party easily saw through the
thin disguise, and refused to take any no.
tice Of the slate, there has been almost
o wholesale relapse throughout the whole
army Of noble unifers and perceptible
GOODNESS on the part Of those who were
lately the most forward
If seventy thousand voters of Louisiana
preferred Kellogg to McEnery for Gov.
ernor last November. they prefer him TO-
day. And the strong leaning Of the oppo.
sition candidate in favor Of placing our
State under Federal martial law yather
Strengthens than weakens the attachment
Of the Republicans to the Governor Of
their choice. Hence. we see that the ap.
peal Of MI. McEnery to bis political
friends to ''raise money in every parish in
the State" for the purpose of buying
Governor Kelloggs situation for him. falls
upon unwilling ears, even though accom-
panied with threat of Federal martial
law as an alternative. He and his
partisans are antagonistic in interest to
our municipal unifers, who demand an
immediate, substantial reward for
change of faith. The one wing of the
party wants to raise money to be used in
Washington for the purpose Of seating
McEnery in the chair Of State, in defiance
of the will Of the people Of Louisiana,
while the other hopes by mere empty
professions Of attachment to principles
that have been tested for ten years to pre-
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