New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-12-24
CHEATING ON BOTH SIDES.

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down in my butte"
DR.. McMillen, who says lie has nevel
been anything but the best kind of Re.
publican, returns to his excellency Mr..
McEnery commission as Senator elect
stating that it won't fund worth cent,
since the Congress has declared it ''un.
authorized that being, we believe, the
latest and tenderest term for documents
issued without warrant of law Mr.. War.
moth went of with the signet of Repub.
lican authority, and received some of the
same sort OF currency from the same Dem.
ocratic members of the Legislature. He
also aided in the management of the Lou
isiana case, but abandoned the enterprise
earlier than the more sanguine DR.. Nc
Millen. The Shreveport Tines now
| speaks Of the 'prohigate administration
| of Warmoth." Notwithstanding that
statesman spent much breath and some
money in the campaign, and was received
| in full political brotherhood by the Dem
ocratic friends of Mr.. McEnery in North
Louisiana, DR.. McMillen is requested TO
hand up the two Republican aces he had
slowed away in his capacious "butes. -
He has had no opportunity TO ring them
in" the game. Here is what the same
Democratic journal says Of the doctor;
l. He is "a Hessian" who was elected
United States Senator in 1873 by the legal
Legislature of this State. McMillen has
made up poor pretext for his desertion
of the cause Of Louisiana.
2. He is lectured by the organ n his
ezcellency Mr.. NcEnery in the saraGs.yle
as lately by Mr.. McEnery himself.
3. He is criticised for not having with
drawn last session. This the doctor, having
no doubt expended some OF lis own money
and time, regrets also. He, however, re-
ceives no credit for having stuck to his
cause until such Democrats as Mr. Lamar
gave it up
4. The doctor is told "he well
knows that 1.-THE Kellogg usurpation"
has not been recognized, and that 'the
issue between the McEnery and Kellogg
governments" is still open "for future de-
termination" This is pretty hard on a
"Senator" to say that be "knows"-"y
know'-tha. what he has asserted was
false when he said it,
5. It is charged that the doctor
1t is generally charged by the press of the
country, and we have no doubt it is gen.
orally believed, that he has "sold OUT
agreed to quit the fight for consideration.
And this conclusion is reached from
these premises
We think there can be little doubt that q
consideration rendered by Pinch stimulated
the sluggish mind of the Senator to con-
clusion IN 1873 which i. failed to grasp in
1871.
6. Moral
But his action may be useful lesson 10
our people. He was taken up by them as
the most reliable Radical in the State, and
they may realize from his detection at q
critical juncture the folly, we may say the
criminal folly, of trusting any of his breed
or class. "Hessians' may do we'll enough
to tight in the ranks where they may be
watched, but the policy which in this State
shall hereafter put them in the lead or on
guard will only equal in the magnitude of
its folly the vileness Of the treason 10 the
mercy of which it will subject Us.
This is fair specimen of Democratic
morality in politics. Three prominent
officials of the Republican party go over
to the Democracy. They affirm they
were promised the reward of political Of
fee. They were known to have econo-
missed large fortunes from their meagre
official salaries, and they no doubt made
the usual contributions to the campaign
fund. One of these Republicans was sup
ported for Congress by the Democracy,
and accidentally secured some thirteen or
fourteen thousand dollars for some thir.
teen or fourteen hours service in Congress.
Another secured Democratic election and
commission to the Senate of the United
States, and the third, who signed the
present Returning Board act in the inter
est of Democratic Returning Board, re-
ceived scattering Democratic vote, and
fraternally escaped the fate of the doctor,
McNIillen. Now the Democracy has the
face to talk about those "Hessians' the
Democracy who would have profted by
the defeat of Governor Kellogg and Sen
ator Pinchback-the Democracy who took
up these men, now calls them "Hessians."
We have had some Of this same morality
from the same quarter, when the whole
responsibility for the imprudent and cor
rupt grant of certain monopolies was in
Democratic hands In neither case is. the
receiver at fault.
1t is the dupe of superior art, or the
victim of poverty, who bears the whole
odium. The respondent rogaes, who
have got away with these monopolies, are
meritorious persons, and in no manner to
be blamed. This peculiar ethics would
place the clerk who had purloined the
money Of his employer in prison, while
the person who had induced him to COM
NIT the wrong, and who had received the
money, krao,cing Il to be stolen. would be
guiltless. Tweed has done nothing but
this. He has purchased official sigma
lures, without which he could not have
entered the city treasury. Such, how
ever, would be the effect of Democratic
ethics, that DIR. McAIillen and General
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