New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-04-17
1.-THE PEOPLE" AGAIN DEFEATED.

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taken, yesterday, and the success of Mr..
Estilette announced, Mr.. Wilt, his CHIEF
competitor, INDUCED his feelings in a
speech of considerable warmth and bit
terness. He probably felt his defeat
keenly, and something may be pardoned
in man smarting under real or i'm
aginary wrong. Yet he was deliberate
enough in most that he said; and ar
raigning the House for the choice it had
made, he stepped little outside Of strict
parliamentary propriety. He charged
that Governor Kellogg, General Sheridan
/ and Marshal Packard have schemed
and planned to defeat the wishes of
the people. This is nothing unusual.
A defeated Dem ocrat is very apt to
suppose the people are in sympathy
with him, and he generally attempts
to prove his position by denying that
those who oppose him are part of the
people. AS historical fact, Mr.. Wilt
represents the mino rity of the late coali-
ton banded together with the sole object
in view to defeat the Republican party.
The Republicans are people in as full
sense of the term as the Democracy, and
any member Of the House is and of right
ought to be quite as capable of knowing
what his constituents want rs Mr. Wilt
does. 1t would not be true to say that
nobody wanted Mr.. Wilt to be Speaker.
Doubtless many of tn EN-, and notably his
own constituents, did; but it is noto-
rious fact that his persistent opposition
to compromise, based upon his hostility
to Governor Kellogg, has greatly impaired
his. popularity. Some Of the leading men
in the late coalition strenuously opposed
his election. The Republicans went solid
against him.
We are quite willing to believe that |
Governor Kellogg, Gen e1al Sheridan and |
Mr.. Packard, or either of them, know
quite as we'll what the people want as the |
unsuccessful aspirant for the Speakership
does. And when the opinions imputed |
to them are ratified by the popular
branch of the General Assembly by seven
or eight majority, we feel a strengthening
Of impression which amounts to absolute
conviction.
But it appears the Bourbon faction are
not satisfied. There is to be war, bitter
var waged against the Governor and
else which the people do not
ike from this time forward. The terrors
If this threat are greatly modified by the
veil known fact that the doughty war
Tors who threaten to become assailants
lave generally been sleeping in their war
'aint for several years. Especially is
his the case with those who happen to
'e out of Office. If they eau prosecute
he balance Of the campaign with in
reased vigor in consequence of the
atest affront to ''the people" the result
ill be prolongation of the fussing
hat has kept this State in hot
after since the war, driven commerce
way from this port, and sent cotton
'hirling to the seaboard over lateral lines
transportation as fast as steam can ,
airy it. But it will never restore the ,
asst Ditchers to power, nor make the
ord believe that whe n few New Or .
ans politicians take snuff all the people ,
the State sneeze There are people in .
lis State of whom Mr.. Witt and his
olitical associates take no account But
icy are living fact. They are putting q
claims to recognition, and the
'litician who expects to succeed by dis c
garding them and their demands must b
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