New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-09-24


and the solid ballast of Tilden, the great
reformer.
Then the raid upon the Republicans,
by which the Democrats head their ticket
with as true and trusted Republican
Abolitionist as was Horace Greeley, is
blazoned as iberality. A merchant is so
hard up that he can not meet his bills
payable in the last extremity of financial
sklnning, he goes over and borrows an
Endorsement and so avoids protest. Is
this to be treated as an affair of gratitude?
Not at all. 1t is an example of liberality
in accepting an aid indispensable to his
continued mercantile existence.
Our reading of the New York Democratic
action is this. The fragrant frauds of the
ring which had ruled the Democratic city
had become so insupportable as to render
necessary the sacrifice of some most noto-
rious members of the ring. Tweed was
taken in the thicket and presented as a
sacrifice to the exasperated spirit of
popular and property morality. Tam
many was purified and disinfected,
and Morrissey put in Coventry. De-
mocracy sought for Cincinnatus Til
den, who was found humble brakes
man on the Erie railroad. He commenced
preparing for the great popular scrutiny.
He put the Democratic Tweed in Jail
from which he has been released). He
instituted suits at law (which have been
nonsuited) to compel the restitution of
plundered millions. He chased the Demo-
cratic Genets and Connollys into foreign
lands, and having cleared the city of the
the Democratic leaders, he attacked the
Democratic lords and others who lived in
the canal contracts like rats in Cheshire
cheese. With this savage programme
there were few Democratic leaders left
wno vvuiG e,vu constitute !. s.,.ts &C. Sc .i:s
uncompromising reformer. The necessity
was apparent for filing the bill with Re-
publican names, since integrity was not
so rare in that party. Nor does it, per-
haps, matter. The Democracy of New
York have borrowed not merely the men,
but the principles of the Republican
party, and if they should succeed, of
which there is little probability, the peo-
pie of New York would gain an honest
Democratic administration, which would
be great advance upon Tweed and his
ring.
But we are greatly amused at the idea
of Democratic party without spoils. A
Democratic party in New York without
Democratic Auditor to allow bogus bills
for imaginary work. A Democratic party
without Morrissey or an Isaiah Ryn-
ders! Democratic party without an
Empire Club or Tammany! Now, had
we the mind of Calhoun obstructionist
we could not conceive OF Democracy
without these indispensable Incidents
Not seeing New York broker, a canal
ring expert, bloated bully, with shil-
lalah in his fist and raw oyster to his
eye; Witnessing the sad spectacle of Nor
rissey drinking branky and playing soil
taire in the morbid melancholy of polit-
ical ostracism. Why, if this stress of
responsibility should continue to press
upon the Democracy we should not be
astonished to see Mr.. Tilden accept the
TIE importance nomination and reiuvenate
his Democracy in the Young Mems Chris
tan Association. No plumber, no whisky,
no thuggery nor jugglery at the polls,
nothing but cold water and common hon
esty! Well might self-denying Repub-
Gcan like Bigelow fancy himself in Re-
publican assembly. Expansive must be
the cheek which can assert that there is
any Democratic party left after the re-
nunciation of all the practices of modern
Democracy. -.-f.-