New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-09-03
THAT GRAND OUTPOURIyG.'

! As SopiS w
was: "Wha., IN the name Of common
sense. did the White Leaguers rally their
clans Cor o.: Tuesday night" As they
had nothing 70 say. and less to DO. the
answer is a most Difficult: one. We will
ASSUME it as u foresone conclusion that
every confirmed White Lacquer present
on Canal street to listen to the concili-
ating voice 0: the graceful and persuasive
McEnery will vote ior the seven wise
| lawyers nominated at Baton Rouge. pro.
yided he has taken GU: his registration
papers by election day. and does not get
drunk too early. Blu. suppose he does.
There we're no more than 5000 or 1000
| voters OF tina: persuasion in front Of the
ili-starred Varieties. and their votes can
be easily neutraiized by the Republicans
Of two OF three wards.
We have no: seen such a :izzlc .: . pub
lie meeting in twenty years. There was
no speaking worth mentioning: the reso.
lutions are in antag onisn with the nine
adopted .: Baton Rouge. ana the
crowd :e:: :grcran: Of tho very
name Of the party in whose cause
they were expected to hurrah. We're it
not for the stupidity Of the whole proceed.
iugs. the ::tfair might have been taken for
Republican mass meeting. The indorse-
!ment Q: Ted river assassins, however.
would tisabusc airy impartial mind Of
such an error.
II this is really the best show The Lou
isiana Democracy can make. they had
best retire and admit themselves to be
third rate affair. Every thing the speak
ers said that was stupid was original, and
everything tina! was original was foolish.
The appearance Of the morning papers
without single speech worth reading. or
one that contained IN lola Of interest,
broughta feeling 0; chagrin and NORTH.
cation to those who had paid money to
defsay the expenses Of this grand ''ou:.
pouring"
4 party without fixed principles is con.
temptible. and one that ignores the code
Of right and justice is odious. When
three Q. four thousands Of people ripe for
revolt assembled. therefore. in front Of
the Varieties ez-show shop and listened to
orators apologizing for the cold-blooded
murder Of American citizens. thoughtful
men turned away in disgust and inwardly
swore they had no part nor lot with such
a party. Perhaps the thought may have
occurred to the majority Of the listeners
that the mos! rampant Of the speakers on
the occasion were foremost in voting a
deb! Of sixteen millions Of dollars in
something less than two years, which they
left Republican administration to pro.
vide for. Another consideration which
influenced the Democratic portion Of the
crowd (they generally looked like labor.
ing men who were there according to the
orders Of their employers may have been
the fact to which the attention of the pub
lie has heretofore been called by the RE.
PUBLICAN, that there IS but one class rep.
resented on the mongrel ticket. and that
by no means the most useful--the law.
yerss What interest can a merchant or
laboring man have in striving for the ele-
vation Of seven or eight attorneys at law
to lucrative positions?
All these considerations certainly lad g
tendency to throw cold water on the fer.
vid eioquence Of orators who were eyi.
IDENTIFY speaking one word for the theory
of white mans government and two for
themselves The s'deep-seated feeling"
to which the eulogists of the meeting re-
fer appeared to us to be one of utter con.
tempt for the Barmecides feast, to which
number Of people had been invited