The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-03-20
NEW ORLEANS BULLETIN
NEW ORLEANS, MARCH 20, 1875
PREPARING FOR THE FRAY.


Gays the New YORK itmeS OF Marcn II.
We have no doubt that the Republican
sill from this time onward gather up thei
strength carefully for the great contest be
EuGe them. The party has album ant vitaht
la ID. The people are by no means dispose
10 abandon it. although last fall they gave
u broad HUT that it would do wcil to get on
d the nut III which 1t had been moving back
ward and forward. Since then the emocrat
have been showing their hands, if onl'
lhrongh the medium Of their newspapers
70 seeIas perfectly clear that the people do no
IKE what they see there.
II, now, orr oTn party will pursue policy
Di wisdom, Justice, and liberality, and brinl
Forward some men who are on level with tAc
wants Of the age, we shall regain all our lost
ground, and securely hold what we now pcs
seas We can win next year if the obstacles
20 success which we have ourselves called in
20 existence are removed from our path.
The Radical party is getting to be rather
pli. Touchstone's sage soliloquy might az
ply to it:
And SO, from hour 10 hour, We ,ip3 aud ripe,
And then, from hour to hour, We rJt ana ret
Many arc OF the opinion that this old party,
shich has the sheen and glow of ripeness
only, is rotten already at the core beyond
terminate in future years, but as an organ
Med body its summer of existence is nearly
dome.
There are good reasons why party after
iong tenure OF power should become CORFU ot,
1t least as to its leaders, fnnc.ionaries, sti-
pendmries, adherents, hangers-on, servants
aud dependents Long continued possession
Fosters a proprietary feeling. Sons and grand
isons raised on leased land are seldom willing
10 surrender the rented homestead without a
Eight, fnss or a law suit The agent, in the
prolonged absence ofthe principal, is apt 10 put
Wn consequential airs. The present holders
~ public places originally elected by the peo-
pie, or appointed by the representatives. Of
ihe people, have forgotten the source from
Ehich, the tenure and right by which,
and the legal purpose for which, they have
aaid their places They look upon their
Biace8 as belonging to them 10y a sort |
3f presumption akin to the 'diyine right"
ander which tyrants arc wont to hold by |
lorce that which they have won by fraud or |
inherited through the mere caprice Of fortune. /
ing, dictatorial, greedy for emolum ents inso-
lent and trnculent to opponents, rude to in
}erlors, ungrateful to friends scornful toward
honest advisers, contemptuous to constitu-
ants, jealous Of superiors, avdcous for in
creased spolls, eager for promotion, with con
'hences torpetied, and ambition rendered
aonbly intense. Offices sought for pro fit and
not from duty, habitually spoil the meaner
rhss OF men, while even those of better mould
2an scarcely escape the coltlmnating and
soIrnptlng influence
1t Is well enough for organs like the Times
10 talk OF casting off these leaders and Off
RAILS but when the trial comes, it will he
1Rnd that nineteen-twentieths of the old in '
sRmbents will be applicants gain fr position I
i nominated, the rank and file of the R4pub- a
lcan party proper will be disguised ana dis /
iGrtened: If they are not nominated, their a
S;.lTe or silent influence will DO adverse TO
heir more fortunate rivals. |
There are innumerable abuses, more or :,
eSS gross or heinouS, which the Radical II
erty has carried, which must DO search /,
ngiy investigated and exposed As to each 7
no OF two courses must be pursued II
must be Ju titled or it must be repudiated. "
he first will be dangerous effort at fraud i
10 second will work the condemnation and p
ienation of all who participated in, aided or
,ncealed the abuse n,
party must be judged by its record and So
Y the men who have made up that record '
7 IT'S acts and by its leaders. When either (,
% wrong 1t does no good to ignore the one X
repudiate the other. Corrupt Congress tn
en- and mean Governors cannot be made ~
% 1900 re
lectual as scapegoats to carry away the sins nj
party When leaders come short in
pacity or fidelity, the people are very apt to
arch for substitutes in another party. When
ose who rule have record to blush or
ologize for, the people seek remedy from
ose who promise better things. They will -,
'k for wisdom, justice and liberality
ewhere than in ranks marked with folly,
ustice and grossly iliberal sentiments.
e people will next look to a party not ~
6armssed with obstacles of its own crea-
n. ~