The Donaldsonville chief., 1875-04-24
DONALDsONvILLE APRIL
ss The People /" Again Defeated.

s'Tho People . Again Defeated.
lF'tom the n. Q. Republican April l7th.]
/ When the vote for Speaker had
been taken, yesterday, and the success
Of Mr.. Estilette announced, Mr.. Wiltz,
his chief competitor, indnlged his
feelings.in speech of considerable
warmth and bitterness. He probably
felt his defeat kecnly, aud something
may be parsloned in q n,an smarting
under a real or imaginary wrong.
Yet, he was deliberate enough, in most
that he, said; and arraigning the
House for the choice it had made, he
stepped q little outside OF strict par
liameatary propriety. He charged
that Gov: Kellogg, Gen. Sheridan aud
Marshal Packard have scllemed and
planned to defeat the wishes Of the
people. This is nothing unusual. A
defeated Democrat is very apt to sup
pose the people are in sympathy with
him, and he generally attempts to
prove his position by denying chat
those who oppose him are q part of
the people. As a historical fact; Mr..
Wiltz represents the minority of the
late. coalition banded together with
the sole object in view to defeat. the
Republican party. The. Republicans
are people in as full sense Of the
term az the Democracy, and any
member of the House is and Of right
ought to be quite as capable of know
ing what his constituents want as Mr..
Wiltx does. 1t would not be true to
say that nobody wanted Mr.. Wiltz to
be Speaker. Doubtless many of them,
and notably hisown constituents, did
but it is /, notorious fact that his per-
sistent 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 op-
posed his election. The Republicans
went solid against him.
We are quite willing to believe
that Governor Kellogg, Genenal Sher-
idan and MIR. Packard, or either Of
them, know quite rs we'll what the
people want as the unsuccessful as
pir:.nt 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 minority, We feel u strengthen
ing Of impression which amounts to
absolute conviction.
But it appears the. Bourbon faction
are not satisfied. There is to he war,
bitter war wag-d against the Cover
nor aud every thing else which the
people do not like from this time for
wand. The terrors Of this threat are
greatly modified by the well known
fact that the doughty warriors who
threaten to become assailants have
generally been sleeping in their war
paint for several years. Especially is
this the case with those who happen
t. l,e out Of office. If they can pros
ecute the. balance of the campaign
with increased vigor in consequence
Of the latest affiunt to "the people,"
the result will lie a prolougation of
the fi,ssing that has kept this State in
hot water since the war, driven COM
merce away from this port, and sent
cotton wl,irling to the seaboard over
lateral lines Of transportation as fast
.s steam can carry it. But it will
never restore the Last Ditchers to
power, nor make the world believe
that, when Il few New Orleans politi-
clans take snuff all the people Of tho
State sneeze. There are people in
this State of whom Mr.. Wiltz and his
political associates take no account.
But they are a living fact. They are
putting in their claims to recognition,
and the politician who expects to sue
.eed by disrcgarding them and their
demands must be both bliud aud deaf.