The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-06-07
ELEVENTH. HOUR REPENTANCE.
Editor New Orleans Bulletin:

l hope and trust that neither you nor
any of the honest, intelligent masses whom
YOU represent will be deceived by the
I eleventh hour repentance of the Republican
the bantling of corruption, fraud and usur-
patton. That its penitence is assimilated
there can be no question in the minds OF
those who can read the signs of the times.
Its admission as to the sins and transgres-
sons of the party of which it has hereto
fore claimed to be the accredited organ, are
true as far as they go, but having been re-
served until this late day, gives them the
appearance Of "A death-bed confession, and
reminds one Of the ancient couplet, which
runs:
The devil sick the devil = sal would be,
The devil well, the devil saint was he
That the Republican desires a change in
its party all this time, none will question,
who have kept themselves posted in regard
to current political events: but the reasons
it gives for desiring change, at this late
day, have existed since the Inauguration OF
the reconstruction policy in this State. The
fact that it has required six long, weary
years to enable the Republican to discover
that "there are enough good people in the
city tc govern it properly" and that such
a result is more important ethan that even
the Republican party shall be successful
is an evidence that it has been an unfaithful
or incompetent sentinel, whose duty it was
to keep watch and guard over the rights
and liberties Of the people.
1t is late in the day tor the Republican to
discover the necessity for the Republican
party to "get rid at once of the ignorant, the
dishonest, and the incompetent This ne
cessity was discovered by those who were
not interested in the netarious schemes and
designs Of the adventures and renegades
~, 4 10, Of f1,., la + ta
very inception Of the so-called Republican
party The Republican owes its existence to
the very elements of which it now processes
a desire to be rid. 1t has fed and fattened
on the ignorance, dishonesty and incompe
tency of which the Republican party Of Lou
isiana is mainly composed. 1t was Legis-
lature composed of such material that levied
upon the people of Louisiana the forced con
tribntions which have maintained the Re-
publican and aided it to insult and villify
those who were plundered for its support.
In turning against the ignorant, the dis
honest and incompetent Of the Republican
party of the city and State, the Republican
is guilty of the crime of base ingratitude.
1t is virtually shifting the hand that has
fed and protected it. And until now it has
been the apologist and defender Of the dis
qualifications Of which it processes desire
to be rid at once. These facts are calculated
to give rise to the suspicion that the Repnb
Hcan is not actuated by honest, .disin
terested motives. Besides, if the party,
whose organ it has been, is rid of the
ignorant dishonest and Incompetent, how
much of that party will be lef6 TO find
in the ranks of the Republican party, those
whose intelligence, honesty and competency,
politically speaking, will command either
the respect or confidence of a mallory of the
mania wnul1 Ina u m hi t1icnf task than
that at tempted by Dogenese.
The Republican puts it mild when it says,
" men have been honored with the favor Of
the Republican party who have proved
themselves unworthy of it," recurrence
to the history of political events i'll this
State since 1863, will show, that with few, if
any exceptions, such has been the character
of those who have folsted into place and
power by the party claiming to be Republic
can. 1t is owing to this fact that the people
have been oppressed and plundered, until
the State has been reduced to the verge OF
to avoid which the authors of
those wrongs were forced to attempt the re-
pudation of large portion of the public
debt. To discover these facts, patent to the
most casual observer, has required six years,
experience on the part of the Republican.
Now, the question very naturally arises, |
what has caused this wonderful and sudden
change to come over the spirit of the dreams
of the official journal of the Republican par
ty of louisiana 1t is the impression of
many that the cause can be traced to the re
suit of the late primary elections held by the
Republican party for the selection of execu-
tive committees for the various parishes
These elections showed quite conclusively |
hat the colored voters have determined to
be no longer kept in leading strings by the
rpet-baggers, white or black and their
equally INSCRIPTIONS allies the scallawags,
and to set up in politics for themselves.
Hence the discovery by the Republican, Of a
necessity for ga change in some respects in
,ur own party usage" for not getting Grid
It once of the ignorant, the dishonest and
ncompetent;' for not being governed too
strictly by antecedents in selecting candi-
lates." To those who have closely observed
he movements on the political chess-board,
his sudden change of front on the part of
he Republican smacks strongly of sour
grapes. OBSERVER.