New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-11-02
TIE DExocRAr1c CONVENTION.

| THE OE00CHAT1C OVNt6N11UN'
The effor is to raise money to pay The
hands Who will be engaged on Monday to
hold popular convention on the twenty
fourth instant, have yielded satisfactory re-
turns, and the Fusion papers, especially the
Herald, goes strongly into the invocation
business. The importance of the gath
ering is e1tolled and exaggerated, the
REPUBM CAN denounced as pestilential
| mischief maker, and the changes rung on
the despotic government, bayonet rule,
the usurper Kellogg, Judge Durell and
everybody else that stands between the
hungry pol itical hacks and the purses Of
the people. Now, the REPUBLICAN does
not care a tobacco stopper how many
conventions are held, nor how much
those who organize it pay the delegates to
attend. If they will come out openly and
call things by their right names, admit
that it is solely and purely the last ex-
piring effort of the tribe known as the
peoples Candidates to gee into the
envied Offices now held by Republicans,
and then put their hands in their pockets
and pay all the expenses, we will haul off
and Omit that it is no quarrel Of ours. But
to do this would be fatal 20 any further
progress in the movement The SUBJ
scription money is actually the stake tina.
is to be played for. With that. especially
if the amount is reasonable. il may be
possible to secure something, or if tina.
does not promise anything brilliant. then
the funds can be divided among those
who '' work for the party.
Many Of those citizens agains: whose
bank acco cunts predatory designs are en-
tertained are our friends. and they de.
pend upon US to protect them from i'm
position. Beca use we have sounded the
note Of warning and cautioned them
against repeating the follies Of last win
ter, the Herald accuses us of diabolical
and audacious malignity. We are neither
diabolical nor malignant though. per-
haps, we might admit modified audacity.
For we know we are right and feel the
boldness which attends on righteousness.
We ha We larger consti ency than any
Democratic paper in ia State, and we
speak in the name and on behalf Of the
ruling party. We address the minority
in tones Of friendly admonition when we
tell them that their efforts to realize
the expected fruits OF thei. last
falls cheat are futile and that
any money extorted from the oppressed
mercha nts for the alleged purpose OF in.
fuencing Congress to change political
affairs in this State will be obtained under
grossly false pretensos. For proclaiming
these indisputable facts we are assailed as
insulters and revilers by the great body Of
the white population of this State. 1t is
as though a man whom we had pointed
out as on the eve of contemplated rob.
berry should exclaim. with an air of viz.
tuous indignation, ''Sir. this gentleman
whom you have warned against me is my
friend, and l am his. Any insult to me
is an insult to him, and he ought to feel
indignant towards YOU" In this manner.
perhaps. we have ''insuited and reviled"
the great body of the white population
of this State" We discovered precious
lot Of suspicious characters prowling
about the premises and gave the alarm,
when out rush the accused and coolly
tell us we have insulted the gentleman
they intended to rob. Well. We are not
at all annoyed at the turn affairs have
taken, and already feel high degree of
from the knowledge that the |
are remarkably light. and |
the chances for this famous convention to !
do much harm SO small as to make it |
hardly worth while TO say anything about
it.