New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-12-22
ANOTHER REPUBLICAN GOVERNOR,

The Republican party is gratified witt
the stern integrity shown by Genera
Grant. We may well imagine that whe,
he saw the frauds of the Freedmans Bank
and the heartless plumber of the poor ant
trusting people who had confided their al
to the Republican party, he was indig
nant We may suppose that when h
avowed his determination to free the Re
publican party from the imputation of be
ing in completely with the various publ,
robbers who have plundered the nationa
treasury, he was advised not to risk tn,
exposure, because it would be uset
against the Republican party. With &
resolute determination not to com
promise with wrong, he repulset
such timid advisers, as he hat
done those who advised him not t
advance after the battle of the Wilder
ness, and will fight out the reforms on the
line announced in the trials of Mcdonald
and Babcock. He has advanced in bis
ulSuOuGStN. ut TtSull
has proved his wisdom. While the De.
mocracy lost thousands Of votes on &C.
count of the New York prosecutors, the
decision of President Grant has endeared
him to the Republican party, who rally
around him with pride and confidence.
This course has also either won the conf.
dence or secured the neutrality of Con-
servatives who may not vote the Repub-
lican ticket, and do not wish to vote for
Democracy.
Following in the footsteps of this
great leader, we find the Republican Gov.
ernor of South Carolina He has won
Conservative support or neutrality by his
uncompromising war upon dishonest men,
committing frauds in the name and at the
cost of the Republican party.
The Republican Ex-Governor Moses and
a person named Whiprer have been
elected by alleged legislative corruption
judges of principal circuits. Governor
Chamberlain thus describes these men:
look upon their election as horrible
disaster-d disaster equally great to the
State, to the Republican party, and great
est of all to those communities which shall
be doomed to feel the full effects of the
presence of Moses and Whipper upon the
bench. did year ago speak publicly of
Whipper, who was then a candidate for the
very position to which he has now been
elected. Then l denounced him as incapable
and utterly unfit for the Office of Judge. Of
Moses, no honest men can have different
opinions. Neither Whipper nor Moses have
any qualities which approach to quslifica-
ton for judicial positions. The reputation
of Moses is covered deep with charges,
which are believed by all who are familiar
with the facte, of corruption, bribery and
the utter prostitution of all his official
powers to the worst possible purposes.
This calamity is infinitely greater in my
judgment than any which has yet befallen
this State. or l might add any part of the
South, Moses, as Governor, is endurabie
compared with Moses as Judge.
The Governor says:
l am free to say that my highest am.
bition as Governor has been to make the
ascendency of the Republican party IN
South Carolina compatible pih tie attain
ment and maintenance of as high and pure
tone IN the administration of public affairs
as can be exhibited ,cithin The proudest
Democratic State of the South, and
it was also my fondest hope, by
peaceful agencies here in South Caro-
lima alone, of all the Southern States,
to have worked out through the Republican
party the solution Of the most difficult and
one of the most interesting political and
social problems which this century has pre-
sented. If these results shall not be reached
the responsibility for this failure will not
rest upon me nor upon the Conservative
citizens of South Carolina, who have hith-
erto, with unvarying fidelity and gener-
osity, stood by me in my work, but upon
those who dealt the cause of good govern
ment 80 deadly blow on Thursday.
He anticipates from the election of
these false apostles of republicanism-
One immediate effect will obviously be
the reorganization of the Democratic party
within the State a. the only means left in
the judgment of its members for opposing
a solid and reliable front to this terrible
crevasse of missovernment and public de-
bauchery.
Governor Kellogg has been moved by
similar motives to institute and favor the
prosecution of Republican members of
the Legislature and Republican officials
implicated of high crimes and INSIDE
meanors. Adopting the policy of the
President he repeats the declaration of
the Republican Governor, Chamberlain,
that it is his purpose to show Repub-
lcan administration to be as completely
compatible with the highest state of polit-
ical and social morality as that of any
other party. If the Republican legisla-
tors, who are charged with having each
sold Republican vote for SIG, shall be
proven guilty. then they will, for that
paltry sum, have contributed to sad
die the people with an immense
claim of the Levee Company and
the Republican party with the shame of
their deed. The seven hundred and odd
dollars, if received, is the gain of cash of
these men. Their fraud may cost the Re-
publican party the control of the State.
As the friends of the colored voters, we
protest against such frauds as those i'm
puted to these legislators. The right of
suffrage was established to enable the COL