New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-11-26
DRAMATIC POLITICS.

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The Democratic Conservative Whit
League leaders are possibly preparing al
agreeable surprise for the cherished part
ner Of their bosom, the Pieayune. aftel
the manner of Macbeth Of old. 1t viii
be remembered that about the time hi
murderers were out after Banquo. e
waylay and kill both him and his son
the guilty principal in the bloody bust
ness intimates to his wife. Lady Macbeth
that within very short time she viii
hear of ''deed of dreadful note" ''Wha'
is 10 be done?" inquiries the lady. IL
this Macbeth replies: '.Be innocent OF the
knowledge till thou applaud the deed
That is. wait till the thing is done. that
your admiration for the strategy may &c
! hand in hand with joy for its success.
The Democrats Of this city have con-
| triyed some such plan against Kellogg and
Antoine which Macbeth did against Ban
quo and his son Fleance. They depend
upon the White League Clubs to furnish
a detail of 'the best Of cut-throats" to
carry out the plan. The Picayune is the
Lady Macbeth in the matter. She stands
ready to applaud any act Of her unscru-
pulous lord which promises to lead to
that promotion her ambitious heart is set
upon and to jog his zeal occasionally
when conscience threatens to get the better
of him. But Macbeth thought to create a
little scene of pleasant surprise for his lady.
and so invented something quite in the
line of both. He could not entirely keep
it to himself, however, and came near spoil
ing part of his plan by disclosing it too
soon. But the plan Of the Democracy, as
related in the REPUBLICAN Of the seventh
of the present month and repeated in
the New York Herald of last Sunday has
much wider notoriety than its prototype
of the Scotch king. The one was kept so
secret that none but the three appointed
murderers knew of it. The other has
been known for weeks to everybody ex-
cept the modern Lady Macbeth and her
drudge, the Times. We are not surprised
that the latter should be kept in the dark.
vapid garrulity is not q safe depository Of
state secrets. The surprise of the Times
is, therefore, quite natural, but we griev-
ously suspect Lady Macbeth knows more
of this "deed of dreadful note" than she
owns up to. She may be pretending to
close her eyes to it, in order that the final
outcome may be the more pleasing, or
there may be other and better reasons for
ignorance.
The New York Ueralds correspondent
mixes things very much, of course, in his
account of this matter. But that is his
fault, not that Of the story which he mars
SO sadly in the telling. Instead of saying
that all these revolutionary schemes have
been agreed to he should have said they
have all been discussed, but not fully
settled. There is, as we informed the
public, universal desire in the opposi-
ton camp to get rid Of Governor Kellogg,
and probably the majority of them are
equally anxious to see McEnery retire.
This gentleman is not liked by his political
associates, while on the other hand MIR.
Penn is very popular with his own party,
and well liked, personally, by Republicans.
But he is not acceptable to the Last
Ditchers, and between him and his os-
tensible chief there is something more
than GOODNESS. Herein is the hitch. The
revolutionists believe they will have no
difficulty in deposing Kellogg, but neither
faction is willing to proceed further in this
matter until full and definite under
standing be had about the benefits. The
opposition is on the eve of that interest
ing predicament usually seen upon the
capture of a city or a camp. They are about
to quarrel over the spoils and turn against
each other those arms which lately they
used in a comm on cause. tits not a mat
ter in which we feel much interest, nor in
which our advice is likely to be asked,
but the mysterious ignorance Of the
Picayuae is only to be accounted for on
the theory that dramatic effect is in
tended. Perhaps the Bulletin can en-
tighten its fellow laborer. 1t has kept
very silent in the midst Of the futter
created by the Herald. This is not only
very unusual, but very suggestive. 1t is
not probably owing to any considerations
Of delicacy that the youthful organ Of the
White League has remained in the back
ground while the dearest secrets of the
Democracy are thus banded about be-
.ween positive assertion and equivocal de-
aial. 1t is certainly not from ignorance,
for little or nothing escapes the gossip
of Gravier street We can not
better account for it than by supposing it
o be great State secret which the faith
ul are sworn to keep to themselves. Pos
IDLY the Picayune is really innocent Of |
he knowledge" though we can not sup
,ose the Bulletin to be in the dark