New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-05-30
Election Contests.


Election Contests.
Lafourche is closely contested parish.
At first the Fusion board returned the
Democratic candidates elected 20 the local
offices, and the Republican candidates ac-
cordinsly flied contests within the legal ten
days Afterwsrd the Lynch board was de-
cide1 to be the legal one by the Superior
Court. II thereupon declared the Repub.
lican candidates elected. and the Demo.
crats in their turn fled their contests
within ten days. This latter suit is the
proper process to settle the matter, and is
on its way up through the courts. An at
tempt TO decide the controversy under the
intrusion in office act missed fire. and failed
to ge: at the merits OF the election. Under
tina. law the Supreme Govt refuses to go
any further than the declaration OF the
legal returning board. l, installs whomso-
ever that board has returned elected-that
is, returned as having the prima facie right
to She offices. Then the case is ready for a
regular contest. Then proof. Of fraud are
admitted. Then the justice or injustice of
the result declared BY the returning board
is inquired into. Then that result is either
reversed or confirmed, and whoever the
evidence shows to have been really elected
gets ths office, and goes home happy man.
The envious Roundabout" who can not
play upon word. worth a cent, puts up .
Job to give rival scribbler dig in the ribs
abou: rehashins old jokes fox a living. Now
lie. certain evening journal come back
with some stinging insinuations regarding
the writer who is always praisins him.
self. etc.
Some Of the silly old patriots who invested
their money in the McEnery bubble and
60. scc,ched. are trying to make up thei,
losse. by getting their delinquent assess
ments reduced Thus all the paths of Fu
sion glory lead ultimately to the captain
Office" Walk up. gentlemen. -
The in,:rse stupidity Of the Louisiana
Democracy is sharply illustrated by the
startling presumption. OF their newspaper
organs upon the ignorance OF current facts
| If a Western editor should tell his readers
tina, the New York San is a Republican
paper. they would call him an ass. Not Sc
|. with US. Here they take it al! in. An ar
.icie from ,ha. intensely Greeley sheet wal
paraded in contemporary yesterday a.
..Wha. Republican paper thinks OF th'
proclamation" The Democratic leaders o
the most yirulent Greeley organs in th'
country, like the New York Tribune, Gin
cinnati Commercial, Springfield Repub!ica',
New York Sun and Chicago Tribune ar
constantly quoted here as expressions o
Northern Republican opinion. They al
! bitterly opposed Grant at the election. AM
! oppose whatever he favors to-day. Repub
lcan Northern public opinion is only foun'
| in the Grant papers, and these, as unit
| support the President and Governor kel
logs.
McEnery has at last done the State som
| service. He saw his pretended friend
were only using him as cat's.paw to Sc
l cure new election, at which his nomina
! ton would not be dreamed of. and wisel..
retired to the jungles of Onachita. Ih
! serene obscurity whence he emerged to III
| the world with his fame. now welcomes hir
as her own. Peace to his fading glory
Let him twinkle out without word o
| scorn. lust as if he were little star actoI
There is carpenters strike in Ne'
| York that promises much benefit TO tn
mechanics. There was a carpenter $ strik
in New Orleans the other day that benz
| fitted all classes. The strike was by
single Carpenter. He used logical sledg'
1 hammer, and hit the ku-klux snak
s9uarely on the head. The reptile Is dead
If, as some wise man has said, those VIII
| initiate us are our sincerest fatterers. wha
| wonderful tribe of sincere Oemocratl
fiatterers the jackasses Of this city have go
There is a: this time one thing in thl
world lighter than feather. It is the hat
| Of those who envy the situation OF the Nj
Emery ofice-.eekers. Christian pat;enc
will enable them to bear il.
A thing Of beauty i. a Joy forever. Sena
tor Carpenters speech was thing Q
beauty, and there is no justification for th
feeble attempt in the Pieay""e to Narr II
loveliness by brief three-coIumn paragraph
concerning the origin "f the "constitutio
"A i, was" before the fifteenth amendmen
Mr.. Marr is bore. His own crowd laug
At hi. articles when his back is turned. Ill
attempts to reason to logical eonclusio
from Che premises he lays down remind on
l of the attemp. OF drunken man to walk
rope. He insists that Congress has no ri-s
to order a new election. which is eorrec
He insists that contested State election
| mus. be settled by State courts. which
also correct. Thence hc s;u'nnles to th
glarins conclusion that cong'ss' has got
right to settle the whole business. provide
! :. nil, ;r+o-fora only enou oh 10 make NJ