New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-05-06
THURMAN and RAYtPD

inere is decrepit old cabal at Wash
lngton known as the Jackson Democratic
Association. On Tuesday night it mounted
It's wig, slapped its dogmatic snuff box
brought down its antique cane, glared
through its spectacles, and INDUCED in a
resolution in behalf Of Thurman as Presi.
dent and Bayard as Vice President. Its
cue, long embellished with funereally black
ribbon, stood erect like the tail of a mas
TIL on guard, and admonishes the torty
millions or so that the jackson Association
IS stlll vlgllant il their behalf. The reso-
luton was laid over until the next meet.
ing which, in view Of the painful suspense
till that critical hour should be as soon
as possible. The forty millions now pic
tire the association Eliminating upon the
candidates, its nose and chin colEding in
the process. 1t is not the President at
the capital, but the rheumatic Warwick.
ABOUT to dictate President, that engages
attention III long way Off from the
national convention Of 1876, and we can't
discover Why We should yet be constrained
to persplre abou: it, but the associa-
ton thinking otherwise, We defer to its
senlle Judgment. Ohio and Delaware
would be a good geographical seesaw
We're they to maintain their present
Democrats status till the. assem-
| blage OF the convention, and Thurman
and Bayard have been diligent enough as
| partlsans to receive countenance. Baya-d.
as General Bcum, has been grandilo-
GueIt II his wrath at the federal soppres-
son OF the South. in order that the eyes
CT all the States below Delaware
might be upon him, and the clank of his
impalpable sabre ezhilarate the Southern
heart It likes its Chevaiier Bavard
Thurman. who II his Virginia cradle so
absorbed her 1898 resolutions in his lac
.eals that they have ever since been q,
hanoT IN his blood, as Lis oratorical
eruptions disclose, has likewise COM
mended himself to Democratic attention. !
but we venture to suspect that his name
would not have invoked the attention Of
the Jackson association if his adopted |
State were not about to engage in a
spirited canvass. What more urgent an |
peal could pe made to the Ohio Dep,oc-
racy than this: Garry the State once
more, and you assure to your Thurman
the executive chair" That the Demo-
cratic thermometer went up for a season
before the New Hampshire election, We
admit; bat thereafter it Wen. down again
with 10 interruption save last month
connecticut, and IS still going down.
The jackson Association proposes in
Humans name TO hold a candle IN
Ger the bulb Of the thermometer
and boil the mercury up the scale. This
scheme VIII serve, too, to inspire Governor
Allen with new zeal. The chair he occu-
PIES he owes to his nephew, Thurman,
and he can suffice the claims of kinship,
and personal obligation by
autheniicating him in turn as candidate.
The Ohio election will occur il October
and VIII be the first Of the State contests,
beginning in August and contin,ling
through Septem Der, that can convey bv
NE result hint as to the locality Of an .
opposition candidate in 1876. Iowa will
acct similar ticket at the same time. ,n4
an present no aspirant to tie National ,
Democratic Convention. In November =
however, seven commonwealth will elect Z
tate tickets; hey are Pennsylvania, New i
-ork, massachusetts,, Wisconsin. Mime 4
ota, Maryland and Mississippi. The two +
Isl alone are especially competent TO 3
rrest serious attention il that convention 3
the question Of candidature, and OF f
lesa two New Jerk viii doubtless present 4
l Iilden or Herman q better reason for <
lch attention than her sister State. Ill FL
Ed Is busy making arecord by spasmodic 4
9al for virtuous administration, and Eer- -,
III lois back CT the comfortable velvet i .
the Roman Catholic vote. 20
We have 70 doubt that tie uollv or
.cksoAvcciation viii commsnd Thur. II
an to- the Presidency before the canvass "
'ens II Ohio, and as that concludes and oc
e one in New York begins, will recon TO
Ter its discrimination, and pronounce for fro
New York man. To excite and expend Cd
e fsrv0r Of the Democracy in the several tn
ates wherein elections ensue is the in
sd;ate end in view and is about as homes.
'tratasen as might be expected at the /
nds OF the Democracy. To present the | II,
urman-Bayard resolution s'on q plat an
N recognizing all the amendments to to
constlsutlon,' as yesterdays Press tel DO,