New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-09-29

proves ltS own status. Before defending
ourselves it is fair That the accuser should
be heard and his character considered
The vacillancy Of our neighbor is hes:
shown by its own words. and consistency.
and the past two weeks show lightning
changes of character beyond the powers
of Lingard. Who owns the Times, or
how it prospers in business way. We
know and care NOT.
September 2. speaking Of tie Cousha:ta
massacre. it says:
We charge distinctly ina. this atrocious
deed is the direct and legitimate outgrowth
OF the violent Red river White League or
CARNATIONS, and for it the able and dia-
bolical White League organ, the Shreve.
port Times. is in . large measure respon-
sibie.
A little later OF. September IL, It
claimed to support ''We the Peoples
Party" and in answering correspondent,
charging it with weakness on the White
League side, it says:
One allegation il that we have noth:ng
TO say in favor Of the Eaton Rouge candi-
dates. This is not correct, and is singular
error for q gentleman VINO says he reads
the Iis2cs to make. A reference te the
Times OF the day after the nominations
were made will show that we commented
favOrably in two or three articles on the
repeated These things frequently because
We are not in the business OF mailing tickets
to the ''masthead'' and blowing the bellows
of sdulatiOn daily, even in favor Of those
We like and wish to see elected.
On the morning Of the fourteenth in
slant, before the flop over to the enemy
consequent upon the riot, it comments on
the mass meeting to be held at noon.
saying:
Some fifty gentlemen and firms Of greater
or less prominence, have signed u call for q
meeting OF citizens to-day ON Canal street.
The politicians who constructed
the document have carefully kept them.
selves in the background and put forward
these names in order to give it u weight
which it. would not possess if signed by
them. 1t Is useless to pretend
that apprehens;ons Of riot as result Of
the meeting are wholly upfounded. The
air is full OF threats and preparations en-
one eide or the other. . The gen.
right to close their own stores, if they see
tit to do SO. but their implied command to
all others without exception to d" likewise
must BE- regarded simply as . flourish Of
the political LASH
In the same issue it makes another
feeble protes. against the murders com.
mitted in the country parishes: it quotes
the letter Of Henry Smith, published in
the REPUBLICAN, regarding affairs in Red
River parish. and says:
l: seems TO have been well understood in
the parish that the I.eaguers would induce
the Objectionable officials to resign. "peace.
fully If they could. forcibly il they must.
and to save their lives they resigned!'
On the seventeenth instant we find the
Times fully committed to the new regime.
and quite as happy as the Buletis. 1t has
a glowing accoun: Of the arrival Of "Goy.
ernor McEnery." 1t speaks Of the Presi-
dent as '':he sphinx at Washington" and
says:
1t is virtually impossible for the Presi.
dent to re-establsh the rule SO suddenly
and SO completely overturned by . popular
uprising OF our people.
1t sees that
In the discretion and common sense of
Lieutenant Governor Penn. the public have
} guarantee which is wholly acceptable.
The field is open. and the people OF the
State and country will be glad 70 see the
new candidates enter and occupy it.
ltspeaks hippantly Of the "Kellcgg adj
"Durelrs ORDER" and in its
Jubilee issue of the seventeenth altogether
the Picayaae in its bid for the
favor Of men who bull: street barbados
md killed policemen.
The situation Of the eighteenth. instan:
proves too puzziing for its little brain.
md it condemns and commeris all par
les with bewildering volubility. l: il.
aores the existence Of Auditor Clinton by
Graham, publishing his first
edict and editorially commenting on it
With honeyed words. as follows:
Tho publication just made BY Auditor
Graham, to the effect that all tax sales Eow
announced in tho various parishes OF the
State are suspended till .nrther orders. will
property was thus imperilled.
This should appease the Piccyue. which
las repeatedly charged that the Times
was backed and controlled by Clinton.
L also publishes card which Mr.. Lrsher
Volunteered to write about the opening of
schools, a notice from William Wright,
he real Registrar Of Voters. an address
rom 'F. n. Ogden, Major General COM
handing militia" proclamation from
Governor Kellogg. as usual. all in the
Utmost confusion. and at the same time
ays General Brooke is invested with a
military goyeraorship." It recognized
everybody and nobody in authority, re.
,eated every rumor and gave no informa-
ion. It was helmless hulk at sea, in
he dark. without compass. Notwith.
this the Hopper assumes virtue
md wisdom. and the medley nnmbe, of
he eighteenth puts forth the following
comments on the situation:
Since then the smoke of battle l,a. blown
way; the blood shed upon the :evee has
Tried up or sunk down into the soil, and
mother revolution. almost as sudden, has
'een ace omplished. The State arms which
.aa been captured from the Metropolitan
brigade have to be Incontinentiy returned
o the armories. and the State House. wi,htI
is various offices. has been yielded UP to
ienerai Brooke. as military custodian.
Thus the brilliancy Of Mondays revolution
) dimmed by that of Thursday. and tina.
which was SO pompously paraded as the !
omplete redemption of the State. sinks into |
most lame and impotent conclusion.
AS soon as the sober second thought of !