New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-01-10
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Democracy of this State had plan stead
lily in view to overthrow the State govern
ment, root and branch, and install them
selves in the high places. 1t appears that
the old scheme, which was published in
the REPUBLICAN about six weeks ago, and
afterward reported by the correspondent
of the New York Herald with additions,
has never been finally abandoned, or, at
any rate, was not considered hopeless
until the failure to seize the House of Rep
resentatives and organize it by electing
Democratic Speaker and admitting sub
stantial majority against the Republicans.
This work once accomplished. business
was to begin and the fur fly at once.
1t will be remembered that pone Of the
opposition Senat tors appeared in their
seats. Not one of them has yet presented
himself, and it is believed they, in COM
mon with the members of the House.
have taken an extra judicial cath to stand
by each other in their strike as long as
their leaders deem it advisable. This
clearly shows the ultimate intent to be to
| first organize the House, and then to
collect together the pretended Senators OF
the Odd Fellows Hall Legislature, which,
| added to the nine declared elected by the
Returning Board, were to constitute the
Senate, to be recognized by the House.
The first thing in order would then be to
make clean sweep of all the Republican
State officers, either by impeachment or
by counting the returns of 1872. A Gen
eral Assembly organized in the manner
pointed out by the programme, it was ex-
pected, would develop capacity to as
certain almost any result from those re-
turns without exciting much wonder,
since three several Fusion returning
boards have tried their hands at counting
them, and all arrived at different results.
OF course Mr.. McEnery S friends hoped the
General Assembly would find that he had
been elected, but they were by no means
sure of such result. Some of the Dem
ocracy have evidently soured on their
standard bearer of 1872, having since
made the discovery that there many men
in their party-Penn, Ogden, Mari, ETC.
whom they like much better. But while
there was and still is wide divergence of
opinion az to who should succeed Cover
nor kellogg, they all heartily joined in
the plan to forcibly Gust him, Messrs.
Clinton, Brown, Dubuclet, and every other
Republican official. By fortunate acct
dent, which might almost be sscribed to
a special providence, enough Democrats
were unavoidably detained from the
House on Monday to throw the Democracy
in the MINOR ty, notwithstanding the alb
duction of Mr.. Cousin, of st. Tammany,
on the foolish charge that he owed the
parish treasury about three dollars on a
settlement two years ago. As weak as
they were, however, they sought to ac-
complish by Exclamation" what they
knew they would have failed to do by the
ordinary mode of procedure.
1t is but just to say that several Con-
sentative members objected, in caucus, to
these revolutionary proceedings, and
wished to form some sort of alliance with
the Republicans in the interest of the re-
form measures proposed in the Governors
message But they were largely over
slaughed by the majority, who were de-
termined on revolution. We hear, upon
what may be considered good authority,
that one of the members of the congress
sional com mittee demonstrated against
the revolutionary proceedings, but his
advice was received With no more respect
than that of the better disposed Conserve
tiYes.
The conduct Of the Democratic mem
bers subsequent to Monday corroborates
in the strongest manner the existence of
such a conspiracy as we have noticed.
The withdrawal of the entire party from
the House in body, the continued alb
sence of Senators from their places, and
the daily meetings in secret caucus shows
there is something Matching besides plans
for the public good or reform Of any sort.
The fact that our local Democratic papers
have given q fat and indignant denial to
the charge that any scheme to overturn
the State government in the manner indi-
Gated by the REPUBLICAN and New York
Herald deceived no Republican They
expected something Of the kind, and were,
fortunately prepared to meet and battle it