The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-10-20
The New York Press on the October Elec.
tons,
A VALUABLE HINT.
From the Herald


| The Republicans ought to learn some wis
dom from the visible decline of their part,
stength. 1t is not too late for them to re
trieve their losses if they will reform certain
leading features Of their policy. They canno
afford to repeat nor to persist in their blunder
in the Southern States. There must be NJ
more of the unwarranted intermeddling b,
which Kellogg was made Governor of Louisi
ana. Congress must give that State fail
election as soon as it assemblies, and the Presi
dent and his superserviceable sAttorney Gen.
eral must leave he local affairs of the South
to local management. The Administration
must relieve itself, so far as it 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 Cover
nor of Louisiana in January 1873 as he
| would have been if the President had not in
terfered, there would either have been no
trouble in that State or they would have been
chargeable to a Democratic State Government
The New York Times (Republican), after
ascribing the position taken by the Republ-
can in favor of the temperance movement
the misdeeds of public officials, the Credit
Mobile scandal, the back pay bill and the
Sanborn contract, as among the causes of the
recent overwhelming defeat of the party in
Ohio and Indiana, goes on to say:
Then, the condition of the South is not
winning Republican votes. No one doubts
that the President did his duty in putting
down the White Leaguers in New Orleans last
month; but the fact that, nine years after the
surrender at Appomatox, such duty de-
volved on the President is not calculated to
excite enthusiasm for the party that has been
in power during that period. The party lead
ers have felt it necessary to circulate reports
concerning outrages in the South, some of
which We're obviously not to be relied on.
They undoubtedly expected to bring into
prominence the depravity OF the Democrats;
but the public seems to have thought that,
however depraved the Democrats may have
been, the existence of this alleged '.reign of
terror" in the South was something for which
the Republicans were not wholly irresponsi-
bic. And it IS not impossible that portion
Of the people of Ohio ere foolish enough to
believe Gen. Grants personal partisans in
their assertions regarding third term, and so
far as they do believe these, they are not en-
thuastic over them.
The New York Tribune of the 18th, says
Then party ties have been growing looser for
year or two. Men have learned to bolt
easily, and to accept unsatisfactory caucus
Nominations with very Ill grace.
The panic has been followed by hard times.
Furnaces have blown out. Manufactures have
stopped Wages have fallen. Thousands OF
la oorers can find no work at any wages. 1t
always happens that such a condition makes
heavily against the party in power. Some
think the Government directly responsible
for their misfortunes; all think that something
is wrong and they want a change.
Local causes have swelled the Administra-
ton disasters. The temperance crusade
aroused an unusual feeling, and the adoption
Of prohibitory plank in the Republican plat
form in Ohio cost them far more in the cities
than they gained in the country.
But how clearly the result in each case may
be traced to some local cause, the important
rem ms, that the effect is national. Tilden is
10000 votes stronger to-day in New York by
reason Of Tue days work at the West; and
the politicians may as well take that fact into |
all subsequent calculations