New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-02-27
TEE CALL FOB SHOWING OF HANDS

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very good days work on Thursday. The,
succeeded in getting a positive showing o
hands for and against compromise in til,
Democratic party, with result which
must be as gratifying to the friends O.
peace as it is startling to the chronic aci
tators.
Two committees started out to pol
''the people in the usual fashion. The
only departure from precedent this time
was that the objects Of the respective
committees were antagonistic. The one
was after opinions favorable to compro-
mise; the other was collecting the in
diSnant protests. Both succeeded very
We'll SO far as numbers are concerned, but
the weight OF metal is fearfully on the side
OF the friends Of compromise. The mer-
chants, the moneyed men, who have here
toiore sustained "the peoples movement,
BY contributing funds, have at last grown
weary Of submission to the onerous ex-
actions, and virtually notified their sti-
pendiaries that the indignation business
| must hereafter be conducted at the
expense and risk Of others. It
IS an open and avowed quarrel
among those who have heretofore
been at least professed friends. The
payers, on the one hand, demand that the
political agitation shall cease The pay
ees, on the other hand, insist that the
agitation shall be continued. The respect-
I've opinions are based upon perfectly
natural causes. The merchants wish to
be relieved of an intolerable burden: the
politicians are averse to surrender:ng a
comfortable income. Hence we see it an
nounced ''the people" assembled in a
grand mass meeting a. H;bernia Hall to
denounce this act Of treachery on the part
Of the merchants. The effort will he
vain. The dissenting cries which awoke |
the echoes of Camp street last night were
cries for split milk. The bands are
broken by which the merchants were
bound to the politicians and they are not
likely to be soon renewed. On the con
trary, there is o Probability that those to
whom SO much good money has been paid
under promise to overthrow the Kellogg
government, will be called to an account
Tor the manner in which it has been spent.
What has been done with the tvs hundred
thousand dollars withdrawn from com
nerce and thrown into the votex Of poll
tics! This question will have to be an
5wered satisfactorily before any more pay
nents VIII be made.
The solid men Of this city have at last
'entured to secede from their tyrannical
'ulers We hope the movement will not
prove to be a spasmodic affair-a transient
'eturn to common sense and indepeod
nce-but permanent resolve. Let any {
Intelligent man who is possessed Of even a {
olerable knowledge Of this city scan the !
Wo lists Of names and he viii have no S
IN deciding which abounds in
oats and which is nearly all composed of I
heep. The unexpected bifurcation is q t
otab!e event, and one which will. we G
ope, settle for all time the boundaries i
etween the good and the merely indiffer- a
ht citizens; between those who would b
lie or ruin and those who are determined t
nave season Of quiet The line Of ii
enarcatlon has been distinctly drawn Ii
etWeen the moderate Conservatives Il
nd the lmpracticable Democrats, and 4
he stronger and better portion OF the late b
'aLtion IS ranged upon platform which S
oseiy approximGtes the Republican. It Il
evident that without the powerful sup Il
ort OF the gentlemen who have just ap-
owed the compromise proposition, the II
IRENE Democrats can make but feeble HI
ar against the Republicans. With their at
however, the Republicans Ell
n carry out their reform programme, oi
1t only IN regard to proper measures to
passed, but also to a much desired i'm pl
ovement in the personnel of members hi
the Legislature and public officials. or
al the merchants been left free to act ca
thout fear of being denounced, these it
alterations could have been effect dc
long ago. The Conservative cit II
ms have been willing to accent to
netits from any who had the power to di
nter them. The extreme Democrats jo1
Y no good III anything that did not lit
ng grist to their mill The latter would pa
control their Office and gain-seelzine Us
'penslties and willingly remit the gr'
Eer OF the government and the result
emoluments to the Republicans if the
Ter should offer to accept the duty free as
expense to the people. This is con- MI
slvely shown by their persistent refusal not
sanction any plan that left them in Pro
gate station, and the latest exhibition fin;
) made at Hibernia Hall last niobt doe
1t mass meeting Of ''the people" was
last feeble attempt to reach out for the
mercantile nose, the latest futile Del
It to control the checking power TAX
those who YET have a small dea
nee in bank. We shall prob am,
: never again see the deposed the
5 reinstated, never again behold the the
'tacle of the mer chant princes Of dan
t city overawed and absolutely con- pre-!
ed by old party hacks and ward poll tive
ms. The people will be the gamers, hon
ore ways than one. They will enjoy rest,
'son OF repose. There will be time to proa
ID to material interests, The ever. or '