New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-08-18

| ~ou0AS were granted MI. Uarrall upOl
: the ''official" report of certain gentleme,
; requested to supervise the action of tn
} Returning Board on behalf of the Con
; servative party. Mr.. Breaux does not'a
} parently hold the report OF these Con
. servative supervisors in the same respect
but proceeds with the preparation of hi
contest, in the humble hope of Joyful
political resurrection through the in
Unite devices OF the Yankee Demo
Gratis II Congress. Mr.. Darrali, ".
may suppose, fled his certificate O
III. McEnery as a sort Of. quit claim
not knowing into whose hands he nigh,
fail, but this contest Of Mr.. Breaux con.
trorez;s the validity Of any such certif-
cate. When gentlemen are called to occu.
Ply lucrative Offices they, in justice to their
constituents. omit no opportunity OF secur-
ing the positions assigned them. Thus
we Lave seen Mayor Wilt ,Democrat)
accepting the certificate OF election from
Governor Pinchbaci. while Messrs. Ellis
and Gibson hold the certificates Of cleo
ton signed by the '',lsurper, denounced
by each OF them as wholly without author
ity in the premises.
The letters by which Messrs. McEnery
! and Ereaux concentrate the fire of their
displeasu-e upon the Picayune constitute
but small part Of the tempestuous wrath
Of the Democracy here and elsewhere.
We would not lnjure the Piicayune by
affecting sympathy for its position. We
have seen it standing for the same men
who now ''spit fire and spout rain" against
it. /: was then ''every inch an organ
because it followed. We do not suppose
it can address this tempest, with Lear,
and say, You owe me no subscription"
But the Democratic tempest is inexorable.
The Ptcayune may approve the rag money
OF one side or the bag money of the other,
but ii il dare to withhold its obedience to
the dictatorial clique which commands
the campaigns and fills the Offices, it will
be discarded We're it twenty times our
cousin Bulwer marks the breyity of an
interval in his narrative by saying mine
generations of highwaymen had passed
away" The generation Of New Orleans
Democratic journal is OF equally short
duration. We have seen the Ptcap,,ns
wane while another Democratic organ is
quietly creeping into position. The latter
has not entirely cast its conservative slough
yet it boasts that the P;cay,.ne has for
feited Democratic confidence and lost the
temporary popularity which its obedience |
to orders had armed it.
We have no idea the Picay!ne can sus-
tain itself under this concentrated. wrath |
Of the political elements. Our journals
are like q British ministry. II they ad-
venture upon line Of independent policy
the editorial writer's in one case, as the
Chancellor of the Exchequer in the other,
put their professional and official heads
upon the result. Gladstone goes on. in
tie one case, whites change Of proprietor.
ship or the suppression of the writers in
he other preserves the popularity of the
OR the continuity of the
gazette. We have seen the same paper
from Loyalty Head, in Confsca-
ion Bay, through the Straits of Neutrality
INTO the haybor Of independence; We have
'nown the same journal captured and
condemned in the contraband trade of
'usion, repaired, reprinted. boldly steam.
ng ahead with Conservative coiors at the
tern and Democratic organ" at the fore.
was all accomplished by q simple
hange either Of or in the officers OF the
eek.
The P;cayune will be compelled to sue
unab to the continued demands Q:
hreveport. Vicksburg and Handsboro. q
must become Democratic organ, or
ne Central Democratic Committee will
ever advertise another notice Of meeting.
OF will Hon. E. Booth ever address
mother epistle to Mr.. William Allen
trough its accommodated pages. The :
icoy.ne is, We fear, doomed organ. Not :
zen the same vigorous abuse of the
which has animated the .
:ganic aspirations Of other journals will
'otect it. The king is in high rage" {,
I'd no explanation will appease him.