New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-02-26

that the fusion upon candidates for Office
divided the Fusionists assunder. even to
the dividing of the bone and marrow of
Democracy itself Is it to be expected,
then. that the present municipal incum-
bents will enjoy the happy Immortality of
renewed official existence? Is it expected
that each Administrator will come into his
office with the staff and soldiery precisely
as they were mustered out: If 50, what
can be the use Of a change: If not. why
should an administration. known to have
the confidence of all. be changed or put in
jeopardy: Perhaps 70 bring into power
set of candidates for State Offices not so
fortunate as to have commanded the same
general confidence. We will exemplity by
an apologize: A and 3, thrown into the
water by steamboat. or other explosion.
succeed in securing each a bi. Of plank
4 is getting along well enough.
bit B. submerged almos. to the
tip of his nose, proposes that each
shall abandon his bi. of plank and strike
out for other bits Of plank. which he
| atirms to be amply adequate to the saliva
ton Of both. Naturally A will condole
| with i even 70 tears. but will hold the
| proposal to quit his place of vantage under
consideration, until the last small bUbblet
from the distended nostrils Of the diplo-
matte B shall have exhaled and evapora-
ted forever. Perhaps among the pruden-
tial reflections that may prompt this IN
chiyalrous adhesion of A to his bit of plank
may be that if he abandon it the despair
ing B mag gel upon il himself. and 50 effect
his own safety or drown both. The appli-
cation of this fable Will be obvious to the
most obtuSe employe in the City Hall
We apprehend that the very porter in the
corridor, to whom the REPUBLICAN may
be shown. will see the danger Of either
crowding the plank, or quitting it to &C
modate those who have no plank at all.
The allegory of the chivalrou5 A who quits
his plank to accommodate the drowning B.
and after finds that crafty individual seated
comfortably upon the plank just quilted
by the emotional A, may require. as other
allegories, an explanation. It is this:
Either OF the eminent candidates for State
Office on the late Fusion ticket is deemed
by his friends equally well qualified for
municipal office. Indeed, as the greater
is included in the less. the Fusion can
didates for State Office could fill the sub
ordinate city offices with superior distinc-
ton. Now, with an election prepared
and held under the honest and impartial
auspices Of the federal government. the
election of Mr.. McEnery, Mr.. Ogden and
their colleagues to State Office is by no
means a sure thing. Having done so
much to have the new election. these
gentlemen would naturally have the pick
of the nominations. Might they not pre-
fer, as rest from and reward Of their
labor. to accept some department Of the
city government? Nay. might not their
ardent followers. now many months with
out official rations. demand that others
should be ordered or the forlorn hope
and claim tina: they should be fJ:rloughed
or assigned to light duty around the City
Hall?
We need no: recapitulate tie reasons
urged why the city administration should
decline to participate in the avowed pur-
pose OF some to plunge tbs city and
State into anarchy, or flow the cutters
with blood, if their demands for install
ment in Office be not accorded. Begun in
"organized fraud" shall this contest be
Terminated in civil war? Shall that which
eliminates in the blood Of one class be re-
taiiated by fire? II one class can slay the
colored people in the streets, might not
these last burn the storehouses and goods
of the murlerers? What state of So
ciety would be here! We will not con-
template the improbable. There is too
much at stake to suppose that the desperate
counsels to which we allude should pre-
vail. In the government regarded as
legal by majority of the people Of this
State. and treated as De .tacto by the fede-
raj government, that Of the State is repub-
lean in its principles. That Of the city
is. if you will, the result Of Fusion.
Here seems fair apporttonment Of Office
and authority. Let this be taken, then
no: as compromise. but as fact It
will save the State and city much trouble.
and it will save the present respectable H.
cumbents Of the city government stable
credit and q prolonged official existence.
By no means assured to them under new
State and city election.