Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1874-10-25
wEIGHTY WORDS.

WEleuIh NohDs- NJ
The Republicans ought to learn some el
wisdom from the visible decline of their il
party strength. 1t iG not too late for
hem to retrieve their losses if they will c
reform certain leading features OF their S
policy. They cannot afford to repeat nor a
10 persist in their blunders in the South
ern States. There must be no more of /
the unwarranted intermeddling by which /
kellogg was made Governor Of Louisiana. G
Congress must give that State fair cleo t
ton as soon as it assemblies, and the $
President and his superssrviceabie Attor- {
new General must leave the local affairs {
of the South to local management. The
administration must relieve itself, so far
as i. legally can, from all responsibility
for what is done in the South. 1t must
shift the responsibility to the shoulders
of the Southern people. Had McEnery
been inaugurated as Governor of Louis
| lana in January, 1878, as he would have
been if the President had not interfered,
there would either have been no
troubles iu that State, or they would
have been chargeable to Democratic |
State Government. 1t is impossible to
govern a State we'll against the wishes OF |
the best classes of its citizens. 1t was |
sheer rashness for the Republican party |
to undertake such an experiment. 1t
would have been better, in party view,
to have left Louisiana in Democratic
hands than to have incurred responsible
ity for such state of things as has ex-
listed under Kellogg. The same principle
ia applicable to the other Southern
States. They can be better governed at
: home than they can be from Washington,
!, and il they are to be ill-governed the Re-
publican party had better acqnit itself OF
all responsibility. If Congress, when 1t
II meets. will do prompt justice to Louisl'
y ana; if the President will select his
l, Southern appointees from the best
classes Of the people; il he will take re-
J. spectable Southern man who understands
IN and sympathizes with his section into
to the Cabinet; If he will hereafter have Just
as little to do as is legally possible in
'N' local Southern affairs, the Republican
y, party can recover lost ground and eiec
ut, the next President, il it dominates ney
,e. and good candidate.
H. The above extract is taken from thu
es New York Herald. and probably contains
l. the soundest advice that could possibly
e be given to the Republican party, ant
# which its members will do well to heed
s. Powerful and well fortified as that part.
lie is, with magnificent record, with tn
s, prestige of repeated victories, with tn
or power which always accompanies tn
OF possession of office, with all these advan
ed tages, the Republicans must learn one
be and for all, that il they attempt to fur
ty ther carry the load of iniquity entaile'
Id by the Southern carpet-baggers, that de
en- feat will be their doom. This is not tt
re mighty could stand up long, under tn
i'd burden of the aggregation of villanie
ew that have been committed and are sti
CHI being enacted by the carpet-baggers ii
a the Southern States. Such perjured
Die thieving scouudrels as Moses of Carroll
,te ma. Kellogg of Louisiana, and Clayton O
he Arkansas, must be RENTED IN thei
i'm places which, if they had their deserts
k would be found in the penitentiaries, in
#? stead of the executive mansions Of thei
a several States. While the rights of a
ly citizens, whether white or black, shout
il be guarded, it is not necessary to foste
er and protect the worst scoundrels tina
as ever afflicted any community. Relieve
Sc their robberies and general misdeed
m and who only call themselves Republ
y, cans simply because that is the party i
y, power, the Republican party may calcl
sse late on entering on fresh era; wherei
lie its lease of power will be again renewed
on for it will show that it is still worthy
MS the support and confidence of the pc
slf- pie, because it firmly denounces al
es- Furnishes official criminality wheth
les that occur within or without its par
is. lines. The President has already take
lis a step in the right direction by CONNER
On cling to weed out the incompetent an
BY Enthusiastically Federal officials, of whol
is there are so many in the Southern State
ng The Republican party as a political OIL
lie and not allow mere partizanship
an weigh for moment in making clea
h sweep of all officials and candidat,
RS whose record will not bear the stricte
lat and closest Investigation. 1t is enterir
ac- a severe contest in which it will need a
lat its resources, and it cannot afford I
cir weigh itself down with the sins of IL
as carpt-baggers whose crimes are 30 fla
lrd rant and so continually repeated tn
lia they cannot longer be ignored.