New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-03-07
POPLAR REPRESENTATION

POPULAR REPRESENTATION
We certainly claim the passage through
the House of Representatives of tn
amended bill to suppress insurrection a
the voice of majority of the American
people. The Picayune contradicts thi
by citing the result of the late congress
sional election to show the number o
Democrats" elected. It infers, there
fore, that the majority Of the American
people do not sanction this act Of thei
Representatives. We have regretted t.
see the same disposition to intervene be
tween the Representative and his con
stituents which has wrought so mucl
, mischief here applied to regulate the re
assembling of the Representatives o
other States in Congress. We had un
derstood the Picaytne to oppose the at
torneys and the Bulletin when they
claimed that an assemblage in New Or.
leans could explain to Representatives
from Caddo or Cameron what their con.
stituents really wished and needed. We
understood the Picoyune as contending
for the right of The Representative to in
terpret the will Of his own peo-
pie when it ridicules the attempt
Of forty-two persons to speak
for more than two thousand in one
of our city representative districts. But
to the facts: The amendment of the act for
suppression of instruction was not an
issue in the last congressional election.
The Democratic party at the West and
North condemned the Democratic violence
at the South, which made it nece ssary.
The Ohio Democrats offered to send volun-
teers to suppress the insurrection Of
September IA. They defended them
selves in the canvass from any complica-
ton or responsibility with the Southern
Democracy. The testimony Of MI. Burke
is very distinct on the point that the
victories of the last election were not
gained on the issue of oppression and
tyranny in Louisiana. 1t is equally pal
pabls that the congressional Democracy
refused to recognize or confer with the
Democratic emissaries sent from Louis
lana, and that such disapproval and
abandonment of the Louisiana Democracy
was the cause why these emissaries ac-
cepted and recommended the compro-
mise. These are evidences that the |
Of the law for suppress
sing instruction was not an
issue decided by the last cleo
lion. No one defended in that can
vass the instruction Of Louisiana, and
after the question of enforcement, rem
Tered necessary by the insurrectionary
dispersion of the Republican Legislature,
very member of Congress was free to
epresant his constituents as he thought
proper, without imputation for incon-
istency from outside advisers.
The Picayune compares the vote of the
republican ticket at the last election with
hat which it facetiously calls the ''Dem-
cratic ticket. Where, we should like to
earn, were the Liberal Republicans, such
5 those who entered into our Fusion
ompact of 1872 Are they Democrats ?
,othing could offend them more than to
e called by an appellation expressive i'll
leir opinion of false doctrine. Why,
ven the Picyune, when it lately took an ,
oservation of its political meanderings,
id it was no Democrat. Its all {
but the Democracy insists that $
wins all the elections in which even one $
epublican IL beaten by another, De-
ocracy has always had an arrogant and s
lblushing way of claiming whatever po- t
nj waif was lying around loose Us its e
gn peculiar property. Every such fed y
al, State or ward officer is promptly !,
thered up by the New York World j,
d put into the Democratic grab bag. O
lis is an old game, we'll known to the ~
ell mob. A gentleman finds pocket h
Ok on the sidewalk. 'See here, mister" II
rs brazen bystander, Il believe l will b
ieye you of that" If, however, the a.
der demands to know the contents or
: name wri ten in the pocket book the =,
azen bystan der, with timid glance at
/, policeman who has looked on at the :,
'ceeding, sinks away. Democracy CO
Is finds Senator Booth, or Christancy, -
a dozen others elected on an indepen. =.
1T platform. and boldly inscribes them ~
the Democratic column When asked
at proof the position or principles of 49,
Sc gentlemen offer that they are Demo- =,
is in faith. it is shown beyond ques- -
n that to whatsoever party they do be- -,
z, their names are not to be found on
Democratic register. But, We claim, -,
t so long Us the terms of representa- =,
continues he has an exclusive right to 49,
,e his own interpretations upon the :,
stituent will, and the constituents have -.
exclusive right to indicate their wishes
heir own manner. -.
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