New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-10-24
hPARLOR Pr

conference of Confederate committees and
federal councils of war. 1t is alike appro-
pirate to arrange the obsequies Of the dead
or to organize the joys of the living. There
the politicians may plan the victory or
divide in advance the spoils; there Dem
ocracy has held its most exclusive coun-
ellis, and there Democracy has yielded to
necessity and again opened its arms and
its jaws to receive all corners. s'Parlor Pr
must have smiled at this change of de-
meanor, "Parlor P'must have absolutely
winked through its windows and chande-
Tiers as it saw Mr.. VOORHEES,, who is re-
garded as at heart one of the most exclu-
sive Democrats in the State, recommend
ing call of all opposed to the present
"usurpatory State government" to meet
for the purpose Of sustaining the Wheeler
compromise
Mr.. Rightor made stand for the un-
| diluted Democracy. He claims that this
central committee is the sole patentee,
| authorized to call Democratic conven-
ton, and pronounces all other limitations
''as in defiance of authority" Among
other consequences the resolutions of Mr..
Rightor predicted, from such unauthor-
| lied actions, "a dirersiOn Of the Demo-
cratic and Conservative press in the pres
ence Of the enemy" That this press
furnished very diverting spectacle we do
| not deny, but we can not see how this
revocation and reputation of the author
ity of the Marr-Booth leaders can aid in
restoring harmony among them.
We understand this thing perfectly. The
Democracy, which has had nearly as many
an alias as any other fugitive from po-
litical justice, thought few weeks ago
that it could stalk boldly forth and claim
| the fruit of its own successful audacity
1t repudiated all partners and pals. 1t
| said that none need pretend genuine au-
thority unless their Democracy was blown
in the glass oy John Slidell. The Booth
Mari proclamation applauded the nominal
ton of William Allen, and declared gen.
| orally that while Democrat could take
any side Of any question, national or local,
| no one entertaining these various opinions
could be eligible to Office unless he was a
Democrat This programme stood, and
Notwithstanding that Administrator Burke
dared to wrestle II open contest with one
great political athlete for the right to re-
tain his own political patronymic of Fusion
list, yet did our grand political champion
strut the stage and proclaim that there
was but one name under which men could
be politically saved, and that was Democ-
racy undiluted.
Ohio voted. The Bill Allen cataclysm
swallowed up and destroyed the Bill
Allenite Democracy, and exposed all his
promoters and associates to a storm of
Democratic obloquy which has caused
them to seek shelter in any Granny of po-
litical obscurity. Since that election
| neither Mr.. Mari or Mr.. Booth, nor Mr.
Booth Or Mr.. Mari, have spoken, have
written or have chirped in tongue or print
Sitting in the sackcloth of refuted predic-
ton, pelted with the reproach of impecu-
NOUS poolers, avoided by those who had
been prepared to send up rockets for
success, but who now hedge on account
of failure, sits Mr. Booth. We were sur
prised to see that Mr.. Mari, whose call of
Democratic convention for November
next has been so much censured, was
present, presiding over this surrender to
the Conservatives. Certainly the fate OF
these two orphans of an exploded Democ-
racy sh ould not have been divided. Yet it
is SO. While Mr.. Booth sits musing over
a napless Democracy, Mr.. Mari is presid-
ing over the courtmartial which virtually
condemns their joint and unauthorized
programme. Will this indignity be
submitted to in silence? Shall there
be, as at a private wedding, "no
cards"-no letters-no orations or re-
signations nothing? The public
will demand to know whether the Demo-
cratic party is unit in refusing to recog.
nize any political affix or suffix to its
ancient appellation: Were Messrs. Booth
and Mari mere reivers and raiders, gallop-
ing through the political range and brand.
ing huge D on the posteriors and
withers of the political herd, or were they
honestly combining this designation to
their own political cattle?
This admission of very junior partner
shows very shaky firm. There are still
more deplorable indications of impending
Democratic insolvency. The Democracy
abandoned all its political principles.
Now it proposes to institute the issue Of
a "usurpation, which can alone be de.
termined by Congress, or the next State
election. OF what advantage will polit
cal combination. be in determining the
action of Congress? OF what effect would
be the popular decision in November mex,
that W. P. Kellogg was not duly elected
Governor in 1872? His term of legal ser
vice will expire at the same date that his
successor will be installed. His competi
tor, Mr.. McEnery, and other officers elect
as of 1872, may, like Messrs. Sheridan
and Lawrence, receive their back pay, but
is this an issue worthy of putting this
State in civil war? Business men, land
| lords ord tapouxc v,;lI oov 49,