The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1875-05-22
NEW ORLEANS CORRESPONDENTS

NEW ORLEANS CORRESPONDENCE
NEW ORLEANS. May 10th. 1875.
EDITOR CHIEF:
Last week m event Of some interest
transpired in this city, and, except
the Loaisianian newspaper, l have
not observed a mention of it in any
quarter. 1t is due, however, to the
| friends of Mr.. Pinchback as we'll AZ
the Republican party generally in
this State, to know that lie has been
elected president Of the Fourth Ward
Central Republican club. He is now
the nominal head OF the party Gin
his own ward" perhaps the actual
leader, also. It will be remembered
that Mr.. Pinchback after Il vigorous
contest was admitted to the last Re-
publican State Convention, with the
privilege Of casting one-half vote,
and even that concession of the friends
Of Mr.. Packard was declared to he a
compliment and not right of Mr..
Pinchback, For some reason or pur-
pose it was teles raphed all over the
country, that Pinchback had been
defeated in his own ward" His friends
claimed that he was fairly elected and
entitled to a full vote, but the move
ment was to defraud him of the posi-
ton Of delegate and also of his right
full prestige as a leader Of the Repub-
lican party, backed by a stout and
real constituency. This event fore
Swallowed the subsequent action of
the Senate i'll postponing Mr.. Pinch
backs admission. 1t was humiliating
then, as it is now, to reflect that
personal.contest should have so pre-
JUDGED Mr. Pinchback s interest-and
more, that it should have aroused
jealousies when Il complete unity of
counsel was necessary to secure the
triumph Of the Republican party.
The time draws near when such bick-
erings will be utterly futile, and when
greater than personal contests will
engage the Republican party, then
the schemers and wire-pullers will
thoroughly understand that Mr.. Pinch
back comes with a full vote from his
own ward!
The signs of the impotency of the
Wheeler award to stife the honest
Of the political masses, of
this State, and give us the semblance
Of a truce to bitter partisan warfare
are daily increasing. In regard to
the fist open violation Of the COM
pact-tlie expulsion of four Repub-
|ican members Of the Housc-Mr.
Frye was very emphatic in denounc-
ing, because he rrlnem bered and knew
it to be fragrant violation OF the let
Ter and spirit of the award. Mr..
gave the Interpretation which !,
we now insist on, when pressing to
success the compromise, and pointed
to the letter of the instrument to give |
to suspicious Republicans |
out, being at a distance from tho
scene of his labors, and appealed to
~ our opponents, he Eow concludes
hat no violation If the award has
been made. When the doctors dis
agree, the patient must suffer. The
ward is to be law only as each ill.,
lividual affected chooses to interpret
" submit to it. That is the fate of
III compromises. Natchitoches has
wo police juries and refuses to rec
'gnize the Kellogg government; a
Kellogg judge was rudely assaulted in
and was compelled to sub
nit to a White League luxury by
aving his hat knocked off, while
scending the bench. The old spirit
must have vent-a sheet of paper OH
'esuvius will not restrain the irrup-
ions.
On Monday Governor Kellogg signed
he supplemental funding bill, which
makes the president of the Cotton
Exchange an additional member of
he board, and places in question the
alidity of eighteen different series of
tate bonds-near $l4,OOO,OOO in
before and since the +,
ar, by providing that none of them
hall be funded until their validity
hall be fully established by decree
the Supreme Court. The Attorney
IeDeral is authorized to press suits
peedily-and they will have prefer