New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-04-29

own harmony is perfect, for they hav
nothing to quarrel over. But the despe,
ate hope of spoils which has occasione
this outbreak of delight conveys its ad
monition. What should cause a confic
among members of the Republican party
. Has there been any descent from the doc
trinal principles of the platform? Ha
there been any claim for one set of mel
of superior capacity for public usefulness
or larger sacrifice for party service thar
another? We observe nothing of tn
sort, and yet there are symptoms of dis
sension which separate Republicans, and
even form them in antagonism to each
other. We can perceive but one possible
cause why men united in principle and in
political destiny. should stand in antagon.
ism. For some years past it has been usual
to charge upon men in representative and
other Offices corrupt practice of selling
the power extended by their constituents
for price, That something of this sort
has been practiced is rendered possible by
the strict legal enactments adopted for the
prevention of SO high crime against
republican government.
Hit be that such unworthy emoluments
are incidental to the appointments con-
ferred by the people, it might explain any
extraordinary zeal to secure such emolu-
ments, and might even account in some
degree for an ebullition of temper at the
prospect of defeat in securing them.
We address then the Republican masses
to whom the permanent success of Repub-
lican principles are vital We quote the
words of an eminent and we'll tried Re-.
publican on this point:
ask you, sirs, to rise abdye Individual
prejudice. and act for the interest OF the
whole party, white and black; because, if
place for me. I know what follows the
success of our common enemy. The his
tory of Alabama, before the last election,
Of Virginia. Georgia and Texas, teaches me
what would come. In no State where the
old Democracy succeeded could l find
safe place to abide. know Louisiana is Re-
publican from twenty to thirty thousand
majority, but division will destroy it.
This is true. A great many Republi-
cans could not get away, and go where
they would the same political bondage
would beset them. Is it not well worth
considering by the mass of the party
whether they are willing to jeopardize |
their rights by the discussions of those
who seek Office? If men seek seats in the |
Legislature that they may retail their
votes. if the competition for this brokers'
chair shall provoke such ill-tempered con-
troversy as that the party is defeated,
what then will be the position of affairs?
Simply this: That Republican who has
no aspirations for Office, and can not posi-
bly, get dollar from that source, is bet
ting his right of suffrage and other civil
rights upon another man, who may make
money out of an Office, and who will break
up the Republican party if he can not get
the Office
Plain men, who mean to do right;
those who must suffer, if the Republican
party be divided and defeated, should
look to this thing in time. They should
know that it is heavy weight for the
press and party to carry any
candidate VIII ose personal record requires
10 be defended. 1t should be seen to in
time that none such shall be nominated
for Office. Honest and respectable repre-
sentatives bring moral strength to the
cause. Dishonest representatives bring
weakness, and may bring destruction
lpon the Republican party. Good men,
f defeated for a nomination, will with
lraw their pretensions, and unite warmly
n the success of the nominee; selfish
men, defea ted in any nomination which
has money in it," will pursue the sue
,essful candidate, to weaken him in fu-
ure; or, if all chances Of getting an
advantageous position in one party shall
all, may fuse, as it is called, for half
Jay under the antagonists of the party 1
which declined to employ them.
We are to have many conventions and q
,reat many competitors for Office. It
would be well for Republican voters to
lemand the nomination of men whose
PERSONAL record gives some assurance of
ringing strength, not weakness. It may
70 that in giving lucrative position to
ne set Of men you may take away the
lights of great many others. The Re-
'ublican press throughout the State has
light to speak on this subject. It has
light to stipulate, and even to demand,
hat that men shall not be put up for
flee whose character requires defense.
here will be formidable contest before
IS. Our antagonists are out of Office.
hey are fighting from behind rampant
+ political obscurity, which conceals
hem. We are exposed in the open field h
nd must suffer from any erroneous ma
euver. Remember this disadvantage and
o not require the leaders and writer's of
be party to carry Objectionable men or a
measures through the campaign. 1t may
Q political destruction of all who are ,
oncerned in the established ascendency t
f Republican principles. a
THREATENED MUNICIPAL MUTATIONS.
The st. Louis Democrat is entitled to
be credit of having made one of the most
discoveries of modern times 1t
II came about through its researches into