The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-07-30
RECONNAISSANCE IN TIE ENEMY'S
LINES.

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showing the existence OF q serious ruptur
among the leaders Of the Radical party Q
the State
The primary cause of this division is
struggle for the mastery or management Q
e party machinery in Louisiana the strug
gle being one between classes, rather thai
individuals to wit: The prominent colore'
leaders on the one side, who profess to desir
the political cooperation of long reside ut whit
men; and the pure and unadultera:ed whit
ADVENTURES such as Kellogg, Packard, Syphe
and company on the other, whose Republi
canism is simply profession in which colore'
votes and prejudices, and also the impudenc
and bitterness of the Southern white mai
sometimes developed under gross provocation
are to he traded in for Office and for money
Pinchback and Dubuclet being representa-
tives of the first class and Packard and Kellogg
Of the second
The proximate cause Of the present rupture
is not one Immediately involving the Sen
atorial aspirations of Pinchback nor the Office
Of Packard but the control of the approach
ing State Convention, and, through SAID Con
vention, the succession to Dubuclet, the nom
nation Of Congressman, the complexion Of the
Legislature, and last, but not least, the com.
position and craftsmanship Of the Republican
| Executive Committee.
With Pinchback are working Casey, West,
Herwig, Parker, Cockrem, Ringgold, Sloan
l - nr,h,, .1ok
Deslonde, Brown, Burch and the leading
colored men from the parishes.
Under the lead OF Packard are ranged Kel-
.ogg, Clinton, the Police Commissioners
Municipal Judges, tax collectors, Lewis and
other placemen of Kellogg and Packard.
This contest, waged under such leadership and
with such respective following, is intensified
by certain incidental issues which grow out
of the condition OF the State and the position
of some of the contestants in connection
therewit first, the Treasurership is an i'm
portrait integer- in the problem to be solved
under the funding bill.
Whoever may be elected will be a member
of the Funding Board, and must cooperate
ing to control the rich diggings and placers,'
supposed to be covered by that wonderful bill
Again, the complexion Of the Legislature de-
termined, the Senatorial question, if Kellogg
is sustained by Congress, may be still opened
adversely to Pinchba;k, and in that event it
Is well understood not Casey but Boss Packard
or Kellogg will be the coming man. Under
these various originating and stimulating
causes the lines Of demarcation have been
drawn between the parties, and great
sides in the attempt to manipulate the dele !
gates already elected and the elections Tor
delegates still pending, especially in the city.
1t is deemed a matter Of prime importance |
10 keep Pinchback out of the convention, and |
We understand that at a meeting held lately
between Packard and Kellogg, certain police
and others, orders were issued
} effect this end by the unlimited use of the
police force and the stree gangs
Il Lewis, using both fraud and violence as far
s the same may be necessary to the end in
Jew.
As confirmation of the correctness of this
tatement the presence of a great multitude
# policemen, II citizens dress, cooperating
With heavy reinforcement from the Depart
lent Of mprovements-both police and ,
lreet gangs living i'll many instances outside {
the ward at the Tenth Ward on Tuesday |
light last, and the turbulent conduct of the l
%l,, 80
West for Casey and Billings for Kellogg, il
re spoken Of for the Craftsmanship of the il
tate Central Committee; but the probabilities
re that the contest for both president of the $
ittee will lie between P4nchbLck and Pack y
d. Y
The fight is unquestionably bitter one, Il
Id the forces so far equal that victory for Il
Their will be disaster to R.dicalism, and Il
e people are mainly interested, as this quar- e
among their oppressors may furnish them
opportunity to save their imperilled liber- Il
IS and protect the State from utter ruin. d
We honor all men from every part of the
lion who come here and invest their u
oIey aud their energies in building a., or 10
lte, q id wer'co 5nze am ing the new Corners ~
Louisiana, many OF our truest and hest citi- ~
n But the imported adventur,r, who
Ikes trade of pol tics and who is common. ze
known under the soubrquet of Clrp .t-bag- 10
r, is an uu .lulterated nuisance AMI We have TO
yer yet seen al occasion when this pestifer- Gu
) class seemed to have had, Ike other great ci
ysical evils. any compensative cd attached a.
them W.
# Boss Packard, Kellogg and company. Pc
o have done SO mach to curse this State by an
rupting ald misleading the colored voters, o.
,uld now use the influence that their ill ev
ten positions give to suppress ard defeat i"l
h aggr. ssive negro leaders as Pinchblck.
thus unintention lily open the way for IL,
'd-will between the white aud colored
pie we shall think Their is light ahead. IL.
We understand that Pinchback AN his fol-
ers are fully alive to the dangers OF the ~.