New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-03-15

virtually Destroyed, and believed that
II John 0cBaery yes elected Il would
b nothing moro nor less than Q
| triumph TO Governor Warmoth, and
other four years lease of power in this
State. Hence, all things considered, it is
perfectly preposterous, and known by all
we'll posted gentlemen in this State to be
untrue, to assert or pretend that Governor
Warmoth carried any strength to the Nc
Emery ticket. Had WarmOth headed q
Liberal Republican ticket, as was first in
tended, and had that ticket been supported
by the DemOcracy-as had been the case IN
Virginia and Tennessee-he would doubt
less have been elected; for as a Liberal Re-
publican he would, to some extent, have
disorganized the Republican party proper,
and carried off q number of Republican
votes; but as the cats paw Of the Democ-
rscy, in a very thin and weak disguise,
with another and much weaker man at the
head, Governor Warmoth had no gaining
influence. He was simply dead weight in
such fx.up, and he now knows it.
The truth is, the final surrender of the
Democracy to the MOlOch of spoils and
plumber in the campaign of 1872, in this
State, was SO complete and palpable as to
disgust the whole people. After starting
out with straight Democratic ticket, pub
licly Boosting Of the ability to carry the
State without the aid of single cOlOred
vote, and scorning the influence and pub
licly splitting upon the alliance and CO.
operation Of all such men as II. C. War
moth, Hugh j. Campbell and George A.
Sheridan. compromise was made which
placed Campbell and Sheridan upon the
same ticket with John McEnery, with the
avowed purpose and distinct bargain OF
sending Warmoth to the United States Sen
ate. And to make this bargain the more
shameful and shameless, the contract with
WarmOth was never carried out IN their
pretended Legislature.
Yes, it is positive and well known fact
that after John McEnery, speaking for him
self and in behalf of the Democratic ele-
ment of the State, denounced an alliance or
any determination with such men as War
moth, Campbell and Sheridan, as ian ALI
ance with infamy, and therefore infamy
ITSELF" turned around directly afterward
and canvassed the State with them in the
same interests, and Endorsed their claims
before the people. This sounds strangely,
but it is true. and seems decidedly romantic
to the Republicans of the backwoOds of
North Louisiana.
You need not therefore, tell me that such
an alliance-snch sell out to corruption
for corrupt purposes, so plain and impu-
IDENTIFY glarihg-could have had any other
influence than to cement the Republican
party as whole in q more solid compact,
and at the same time win over many honest
minded and fair dealing Democrats. And
such precisely was the result, as every we'll
informed man in this State well knows, and
as every candid and truthful gentleman
acquainted with the facts will acknowledge
And in closing this chapter l must assert
most distinctly that all the calculation
about our election in 1872, which is founded
upon the superstition that the Republican
party was in the least disorganized by the
attitude assumed by Governor Warmoth in
that campaign is false and fallacious. If
there was any special cause of disorganiza-
ton or weakness, it was founded in the
folly and injustice of the Republican party
in the formation of its own ticket And Of
this propose to speak more fully in my
next chapter-simply remarking here, by
way of premise, that North Louisiana felt
this folly and injustice to degree which
amounted 10 romance founded on fact.