New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-10-28
Especial Correspondence Of the Republican
OUR NEW YORk LETTER..

Senator Conkling's Popularity with tho
People-What this popularity Means
The Tribune and Tammany Both on
the Defensive ON State Issues COnkling
a Representative Man of the Heart of
the Republican Party-The Anti.Sia.
very Sentiment in New York and Penn
syIvanfn-Nlassach chusetts and Her Pc.
siti0n and Duty.
NEW YORK, October 20, 1875.
did not in my recent letter over. estimate
the impoI tance of the appearance of Roscoe
Conkling in the arena of political debate in
New York. The State Central Committee
is to have bin here. He is to speak on Fri
day night at Cooper Hall, and there is
expectation is running out toward him.
The New York Tribune, having taken forty
eight hours in which to digest Conklings
late speech, comes out this morning on the
detensirc. The sudden assault by Conkling
on the Democracy upon purely State Issues
is producing a wonderful effect. That the
party of State reform should thus find itself
in the position of public criminal, on the
canal question for instance, is so unexpected
that the leaders of Tammsny, including
Kelly, Tweed and Ben Wood Ito say moth
ing of the stately and eloquent Fernandez
are thrown into utter and hopeless confu-
sion. This advent of Conkling possesses
significance outside of the influence to be
attached to his personal courage and intel.
lectual force. He is the representative of
the heart of the Republican party. His
hearty reception by the people, therefore,
means great deal for the party. 1t means,
among other things, that the true, tried and
earnest leaders of the party, those who
have stood by it under all circumstances,
are the men eff real power with and before
the people. Itmeans that Roscoe Conkling
alone, as one man, is to-day greater power
with the people of New York than the New
York Tribune.
The news from the anti-slavery districts
of the State indicate the revival of the old
time enthusiasm of the party of humanity.
The same indications are beginning to
manifest themselves in Pennsylvania. A
special correspond dent of the New York
Tribune kindly informs the public that the
same causes which defeated the Democracy
in Ohio are working to the same result in
Pennsylvania. This correspondent writes
from the old anti-slavery Wilmot district
of the Keystone State. agree thoroughly
with this person in regard to the result in
Pennsylvania. But he, as well as the paper
which employs him, has to learn that the
hipo oh cd nhin wo "a
union of the anti-slavery and Protestant
sentiment of the State. The anti slavery
sentiment among the Germans is very
strong, and this, with Carl Schurz' per-
sonal influence, brought our fatherland
friends back into the fold of the great ma
tional Republican party of America.
The Protestant organizations continue to
spread throughout Ohio, New York and
Pennsylvanis. These organizations are
non partisan, it is true, but the encroach-
ments of the Roman Jesuits will more and
more drive large numbers of Protestant
Democrats out of the Democratic party.
If these men do not vote Republican, they
will at least abstain from voting. This is
the lesson of Ohio and will be also of Penn.
sy lvania.
1t is very important to know how Massa
chusetts will go in the election pending
the Republican indicator. Massachusetts
holds to the Republican party the same
relation which Kentucky ever held to the
Whig party, and which New Jersey has SO
long held to the Democratic party. 1t is
important to carry Massachusetts, of
course, and by large Republican majority
But it is also important to carry the State
of Charles Sumner on the. real, vital and
permanent. issue which underlies all this
conflict of parties in the United States. On
the issue of impartial suffrage, of the rights
Of American citizenship and of civil equal
ity before the law for all men of all creeds,
of all races and of all conditions in life, the
State Of Massachusetts therefore can not
remain silent She can not be a negative
on such issues. We need her example as we'll
as her influence to arouse the anti-slavery
sentiment of the nation to the highe st point.
Nor can she be Indifferent to the Protestant
cause. In conflict like this her true men
should all fall into line and make common
cause against the common enemy. B.