New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-08-04
WANTED---A SECOND DANIEL"

Seventy will require some more authorita-
tive interposition than that of the high
priests of faction. The Picagune. has
made plausible attempt to show that its
first Interpretation of the resolutions was
correct, but we fear it will be seen that
this first Interpretation has been materially
modified if not contradicted by the last.
In its first notice of the action of the
Seventy the Picoya!1e assumed that it had
followed the advice OF that journal and
counseled "a discarding of party names
REIMBURSEMENT of party aspirations. .
The Picay,uae subsequently states that it
understands the Committee of Seventy
to "leave to the convention at Baton
Rouge to decide under what name and on
what platform the coming campaign shall
be conducted And on Sunday last pro-
ceeds ''to careful study Of that instru-
nent"-the textual resolutions of the Sew
enty.
| We are apprehensive that the Picay,tne
comes out Of this story with brain be-
| wildered in the attempt to reconcile the
meaning Of the text with its previous
comments. Reading with a logical pur-
pose merely, we can not doubt but that
the object of the Seventy was:
l. To recommend the Democratic Com
mittee to so amend their call as to as
semble the convention at Baton Rouge.
2. To modify the call in this particu
lar only.
3. That to this Democratic convention
at Baton Rouge shall be RENTED the
shaping and conduct of the ensuing can
vass.
From this it is evident that no such or
ganization as ga peoples convention" has
been proposed by the Seventy. The first
conjecture Of the Picayane was that of
the Seventy, that convention at Baton
Rouge should determine 'under what
name" and upon what platform the
coming campaign shall be conducted"
1t appears that the Seventy have intimated
no question about the name of the party
movement. They have stipulated as
stated. AS for their suggestion that ''the
shaping and conduct of the ensuing can
vass shall be left to the said [Democratic]
convention" We respectfully submit that
the Sanhedrim must have a confused idea
of the relation between central commit
tee and State convention to suppose any
such suggestion necessary. Of course
the Democratic State convention will have
plenary powers, and is sent there for the
identical purpose Of shaping and conduct
ing the ensuing canvass. The convention
takes its powers from the people and not
from the central committee.
Coming to identically the same conclu-
sions, the PicayNae is confident that it's
position is correct. The radical error Of
the Picayuae is this 1t assumed that the
Sanhedrims recommended the convention
at Baton Rouge ''to decide under what
name" etc., the campaign shall be con-
Quoted. The Sanhedrim itself accepts the
Democratic name, recommends that its
convention assemble at Baton Rouge, and
that it shape and conduct the ensuing
canvass.
We have come in as ''Second Daniel
to interpret the dream and the dark say
ings of the Seventy. We decide that the
Picay,u,e was wrong in its first guess. That
in solving the coAundrum at the second
guess it has committed the ordinary weak
ness of commentators of assuming that in
its self-contradiction it has been perfectly
consistent throughout. :.
We approached the arbitration of this
question with a sincere desire to intervene
in behalf of our friend of the Picay,.ne.
1t has had very rough time, and lately
the Times has reproached it with having
repealed the investment Of five millions
Of dollars, and turned Christian excur-
sion train of Mobile missionaries coming
to our moral rescue. People are putting
no kind of faith in the massacre announced
by authority. It's sack of a country store
did not come off as advertised, and its
one dollar muskets will not go off in any
sense So we wished that impartial JUS
tice would have justified US in finding
that the Pic had interpreted the DEGREES
Of the Sarhedrim in exact conformity |