New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-02-14

Since the election of Hon. Angus Came
the question of his Republican orthodoxy
has been raised and discussed with much
vehemence by the press OF the country
The fact of his having been elected by the
aid OF Democratic votes has been advanced
as circumstance tending to strengthen the
belief that he had leaning in the direction
of that party. The newspapers of his own
| city are perhaps as good authority on the
| subject of Mr.. Cameron's political faith as
it would be possible to find, and it is ex-
trelnely gratifying to note that they agree
in giving him an excellent character as to
Republicanisno The Lacrosse Republican
declares that the effort of the Democrats to
claim him is malignant. Mr.. Cameron. it
says, began political life as Wing, and
after the war he took radical ground upon
the question of negro suffrage
And to-day, while Republicans of q
weak and vacillating type are hating be-
tween sustaining the administration in the
Louisiana controversy and committing
that rebel rid den State to the control OF the
mercenaries, vultures and assassins of the
NICE merry stripe, he is unreserved and en-
phatic in bis Endorsement of the policy pur.
sued by General Grant and his subordi-
mates.
We can not, and be human, be otherwise
than grateful to that little phalanx of Dem
ocrats WHO assisted in elevating Mr.. Came
ron to the Senate of the United States, for
it will stand in history as the nOblest act of
their lives, but truth cOnstrains us to tell
them that in doing SO they supplied the
welding link necessary to reunite the Re.
publican party of Wisconsin, and added to
the list Of United States Senators a fearless,
outspoken and original supporter and
friend OF General Grant. = If they have been
sold, and that badly, it ia not our fault.
What they lose we gain, and in reaDing the
fruits of this decisive victory we would not
be otherwise than generous, but we can not
permit them to step in surreptitiOusly and
steal the honorable and unblemished record
the Senator elect has made and substitute
for it vacillating and dishOnorable one.
The following from the Democratic organ,
the Democrat of La Crosse, is satisfactory
enough:
We notice that various papers, especially
Democratic and reform papers, are speak
ing of Mr. Cameron as "war Democrat"
a Liberal Republican, an "IndS pendent
Republican," etc, with much other Of such
and similar fapdoodle. A great and sur
prising mistake. Mr.. Cameron has always
been a Republican; he is now Republican;
he has always been consistent and square
Republican, never pretending under any
circumsaapces to be anything but a Repub-
lican; q bid partisan withal, never permit
ting himself to break the rules of party dis
cipline for any cause or any offense no matter
how great. He has never been known for
any grievance of his own or any body else to
countenance bolt in the party, or to recog-
nize or encourage anything like Indepen-
dent or Liberal Republicans. In his
aggressive political movements he has
never been known to make any distinction
between "war Democrats" and any other
kind of Democrats. He has bitterly, vigor-
ously and effectively, politically speaking,
made war upon all Democrats. Indepen-
dents, Liberal Republicans and Reformers
alike-war to the knife upon everything
and everybody outside of the lines of the
regular, straight Republican camp. In
short, if the State of Wisconsin had been
raked with fine tooth comb, it would have
been utterly impossible to catch more
perfect specimen OF the extreme Radical
Republican partisan.
Senator Carpenter, in his great speech in
the Assembly chamber at Madison, on the
evening OF the fourth instant, after his de-
feat for reelection. used the following lam
guage in referring to his successor:
l am very happy to say this evening that
am to be succeeded in the Senate by no
man Of doubtful political sentiments, nor
by one who will fall into Democratic prac.
tees. Mr.. Cameron is known as a true and
tried Republican. l have seen this after
noon what an informed Is the platform
upon which he consented to be elected.
As now recoliect it, there is not word in
it that would not be Endorsed 10y every Re-
publican in the United States Senate.
l want to say to those members of the
Republican party who have gone out of the
caucus to secure a better man than 1 am
that in their crusade to get better man 1
trust they will not turn out to be worse Re-
publicans than am. trust that, having
the object they had in view,
they will return with Mr.. Cameron (whO
will make an honorable Senator) with this
band of Democrats led captive at their
heels.
That is the kind of man Senator Cam |
eron is. The Republican party in Louisiana
will be able to bear the defeat of Mr. Car
penter, under the circumstances, with a
great deal of resignation.