New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-03-04
TIE LAST HOPE CONF.

With the adjournment of Congress van
isbes ayay forever the last hope OF success
| for the Louisiana Fusion movement ~
was avowed1y organized las. summer as
| the means-she only means-to beat
Grant, and now they have no one to look
to but Grant to help them out of the
| slough in which they have been sVamped.
It would require @ greater amount OF lnapu-
| dence, commonly denominatod cheek, .
than we give or Fusion friends credit for
to prompt an application to the President
insuch q cause under the circumstances
Possibly, were they in position to die
tate terms TO the national executive, they
would boldly demand that he enlist as
their ally, and lend hand to his own IN
doing, by putting the finishing touches,
the crowning success TO the great work OF
beating Grant.
The most extraordinary thing ABOUT
this whole Fusion movement. is It's won-
derful vital tenacity. Originated in selfish
ness and sought to be achieved by fraud,
without one single definite principle to
commend it to the favor Of good men,
and dependent for its uncertain existence
from day to day upon the charitable for
bearance OF those whom it was intended
to strike down, it has been permitted TO
finger on the publc stage, agitatinG and
disgusting the entire people of this State,
and attracting q large share Of the atten-
ton of the people and press of the whole
country for nearly four months Since
the great rebellion we have never known
an obvious, palpable wrong to extend so
far or give the RICH: so hard contest for
victory. But, like its great forerunner
and prototype, it had to succumb at
last, and the time has already come
when its surviving actors are charging
each other with the principal blame OF the
defeat OF course, there WAS TO great adj
herence to good faith on the part of the
several factions that composed the Fusion
party. It was d game in which each little
ring confidently hoped first to cheat the
people and then defraud their copartners.
Perhaps this incongruity Of elements. this
ias;ncerity of the leading actors. materially
assisted the Republicans in gaining the
victory, for when the alliance was first
formed between the Liberals, with War
moth at their head, and the old Last Ditch
Democrats, it was done with q four h of
trumpat5 and the ott-proclaiuhed boast
that the Republicans had lost and the al
lance gained twenty thousand votes,
which we're estimated to be the extent Of
the executive influence. Either the Gov
ernor's abilities were oyeErated or the Re
publican majority was too great to be
overcome, even by the tremendous odds
against them.
However this may be. the movement
has signally failed. A carpet-bagger Of
the very latest importation has been
chosen as the Fusion United States Sona-
tor, and Warmoth is rushing hitherward
as fast as steam can carry him, yet full Of
fight. Possibly there will be faint show
Of organization kept up among the Fusion
lists for q short time longer; but as there
is 10 possible hope for success. nothing
further to achieve, and not even q popular
election for two years yet to come. the
clements viii gradually subside. am! quiet
follow as q natural consequence.