New Orleans Republican., 1875-08-14
A NEW FUSION,

its opponents is observed from the incon-
gruous substances that drift ashore from
its wreck.
One by one its ''strong swimmers" are
cast by the breakers high on the strand,
while more timid spectators array them
selves as with garments in the miscella-
neous measures which constituted the
cargo. =.
Mr.. John H. Kennard accepts this ship
wreck of principle and this salvage of
measures. He seems entirely respondent
on the point of Republican division, be-
cause while they abuse each other on the
off year of election they uniformly vote to-
gether. We believe Mr. Kennard went
into the Reform movement of 1872, which
was based upon the schism of Repubi-
cans white and colored. 1t seems to us
! that he was a nominee of the Fusion party,
and therefore has right to say that
''self- preservation, the first law of nature,
impels 1.-THE Republicansl to entire scru-
| puIousness in retaining the 1oaves and
| fishes themselves and not dividing them
| with the Fusionists.' We are sorry for
| those pure and disinterested individuals,
and as the Republicans who went in there
are equally disgusted with the disappoint-
ment. are not at all surprised at this notice
! of dissolution.
Mr.. Kennard bravely assumes that the
national Democracy is better without
principles than the Republicans with
| principles. A Democratic member OF
! Congress from Louisiana
Will favor both hard money and govern
ment subsidies for our levees and other
great internal Improvement wants.
The Maryland Democrats, on the other
hand, who need neither levees nor rail
roads
Are opposed to the granting of subsidies
| to railway or steamship companies, or osher
! monopOies, as unwarrantable in law, cor
| rupting in tendency, and utterly subveraive
| of the principles of good republican govern
ment.
Mr.. Kennard ridcules these scruples'
and says that his engagements with the
| New Orleans and Pacific railroad bust
ness, and other non-political measures,
will keep him out of politics, but that,
to his mind
Nothing is more absurd than for US to say
| to Uncle Sam, after his millions have been
spent upOn the Union and Northern Pacific
railroads, that we have constitutional
scruples and can't accept any aid to build
our Pacific road or levees.
He is heartily opposed, therefore, to
Democracy in Maryland, and considers
the granting of subsidies in certain cases
as highly expedient and strictly legal. "
Mr.. Kennard deems it extremely for
tunate that the Democratic South, as a
whole, seems to prefer a hard money
platform, because the Ohio Democrat
Mr.. Allen, can not be f1oated into the
presidency on the flush money balloon,
and because the Democratic South, ''as a
whole, will, on the money question, con-
cur with those of the East, as the East is
a solid unit on this question, and as her
mighty vote and purse goes, so goes the
election"
Here a Fusionist sets out with the
proposition that the Republican party
has wrought most of the evil since the
war, and therefore ''its overthrow is es.
sential to the publication of politics il
the State
How can he then vote for the National
Democracy, which does not run on the SAME
side of any question in any two sections
of the Union? He recommends a fusior
in the the East because the ''weighty vote
and the purse" CT the East will carry the
election. Does Mr.. Kennard remember
that this mighty purse and vote are no
J Democratic? Does he not know tina
while the "wants of trade" is the Demo
cratic gauge for circulation, the ability o
the government to resume is the gauge o
: the Eastern Republicans? A fusion VIII icl
: embraced Mr.. Warmoth and Mr.. Nc
Emery, some colored men under Fusiol
! policy of life insurance, and the Whit
League killers, was pretty strong, bu
= the new fusion is to embody tn
l friends of subsidy and the foe
' of improvement, the Democratic in
t Aationists OF Ohio with the resump
: ton Republicans of New York an,
: Boston. We beg the reader to compar
e the morality of these two propositions
4 The abuses OF Republicanism are such a
to justify their expulsion by any means
! The Democracy shall abandon its prir
f ciples and combine opposite opinions, tn
a members of the Fusion party shall unit
S with the "mishty vote and purse" of th
s Eastern Republicans to effect this highl
e moral object, and to secure fer themselvt
, the offices of the country. The ethiC
g that Democrat "can do no wrong, ca
a alone justify us in admitting that thot
n who will enter such an unscrupulous pc
e litical company to get Office, can not
o superior in morality even to those VII
are charged with abuses in Office.
- ED.