New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-08-15
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SHARP PRACTICE DEFEATED.
The very eminent attorneys who con-
duct the policy Of the Democratic party,
have attempted to steal march on the
various sects which compose the anti
Republican movement. 1t was but last
week we have had a protest fled by
the Conservatives, Liberals and White
Leaguers, that the Democ ratio party shall
not conduct the next campaign in their
name and for their benefit.
An injunction was sued out of the Su-
preme Court of Seventy, and the under
standing seemed to be that all these
sects were to come together
their stronghold at Baton Rouge, and
there determine on ''the mode and man
ner of redress" While this truce was
pending, and each sect is marshaling its
forces for the conflict, comes the astute
attorneys for the city Democracy, and
assuming that they are the only parties
to the next election, demand that the
Governor shall appoint an equal number
Of Democrats and Republicans to con-
duct, officially, the next election. The
Governor, very properly, objected to this
unprecedented demand. A Mr.. Lawler,
in the Democratic excitement of the
occasion, had nearly passed into
the superlative degree of lawless, by
threatening that the Governor might be
''nade' to comply with the demand
This threat caused the Governor to drop
very suddenly the conciliatory tone in
which the conference had been conducted,
and speak with the dignity and decision
that became the highest State officer
treated with indignity.
This action of the Cover nor will save
the rights and considera ton due to other
branches of the oppo sition party, and
has, perhaps, prevente d snap judgment
which the city Democratic attorneys
might have obtained.
What would have been the position of
the various branches of the country oppo-
sition, justly indignant at the continued
assumption of q few pseudo Democrats in
the city, to have found when assembled
at Baton Rouge that the Democratic lead
ers had already organized the elections?
Counselor VOORHEES, is no doubt greatly
vexed at the untoward result of the very
ingenious scheme. The premature explo-
sion of Mr.. Lawler, who, we infer, do es
not belong to the citizens profession,
spoiled all The attorneys for Democracy
were dealing with very prudent antago-
mist, but the unlucky threat of Mr..
Lawler simplifed the interview greatly.
Some of our contemporaries intimate
that this irrepressible committeeman was
berated by his friends and colleagues for
an untimely yelp just when the game was
within shot. We do not think it made
any material difference in the Governors
reply or action. He will see that the
election is fairly cond ucted, but it will be
done according to law a nd within his own
legal discretion.
1t may anticipate what Mr.. VOORHEES,
will hear at Baton Rouge. But we will add
an extract from the Natchitoches Vndi-
Gator to show that the White Leaguers
have not the most remote idea of yielding
the conduct and control of the campaign
to the sole massas' of Democracy. Says
the Vind Gator:
The few old party hacks who have ruled
and ruined the Democratic organization in
our State seem defiant in their attitude to-
ward the expressed will of the country
parishes, and in etter addressed to Gov
ernor McEnery and others, in response to
the manifesto Of citizens Of North Louis,
lana, ''unhesitating'y decline" to rescind
the call for convention in New Orleans.
After an indignant denunciation of this
assumed supremacy Of the sole massas, >
the indicator says:
We have said once and We now reiterate
it, there is no Democratic party IN Natchi-
toches parish. The White League will send
the first of September, and it matters little
to either party whether the Democratic
convention like it or not.
And yet the astute attorneys tried to
snake the Democracy in to the exclusive
control of the elections over all White
Leaguers. We shall expect these gentle
men to serenade the Governor with resolu-
tons of thanks for protecting their inter-
ests and securing to them equal rights with
the sole massas." The astute attorneys
are indignant, and so express themselves
through Hon. Mr.. VOORHEES,, pro querente
FRANCE AS A MODEL.