New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-10-24
THE PEOPLE AT THE HELM.

The Pittsburg Dispatch says Of the
Pennsylvania Republicans:
1t is conceded on every side now that
they hold the November elections in their
hands.
1t adds:
Candor compels us to say that the Re-
publican party stands fairer before the peo-
pie during the current campaign than tor
many years previous. 1t has been sharply
castigated for its misdeeds; most of the
men who brought it into disrepute have
been thrust out of the political field in dis
grace, and those who remain have virtually
no longer show in the leadership. The
Republican masses are aroused, and once
more the voice OF the party has got the old
| time ring of honesty, reform and efficient
fexecution of the publictrusts. The people
| are potent IN the party again.
We note in the same connection the
rigid exploration-we can call it nothing
else-of official delinquency ordered by
President Grant in the federal appoint
ments of Arkansas and Texas. The Re-
| publican party everywhere is determined
that its principles shall not be debased by
the selfish schemes of individual aggran-
dizement This noble party. to whom
has been bequeathed the destinies of the
republic, will not be expelled from its
| trust for the deeds Of venal and incom-
| petent men. This imputation has been
the only impediment to the universal
accession to the Republican party, and
the nominal adoption and avowal of its
cardinal doctrines. The Democracy has
been ordered to disperse. Each man has
been commanded to save and shift for
himself. He may take service on any side
of any question, according to his locality.
This general order lberates thousands
OF voters who differ in nothing from Re-
publicans in principle, but who have been
barred by the Tweedi.es against what
those gentlemen iiguratively called Radi-
cal rascalities.
The rigid review made by President
Grant, with the exposure and ex-
pulsion of recreant impostors who
have taken the name of Repub-
hcan in vain, shrives the national
party Of this unjust imputation, and will
relieve the people from any danger of in
stalling those political jayhawkers now en-
gagged in bushwhacking for Office. The
people Of Pennsylvania have followed in
this reform. The Republicans of Louis
lana commenced it by discarding from
trust members of its own party who had
assumed in the name of the party to load
the people down with debt and taxes, and
who had brought the party into reproach
by concessions Of monopoly which our
political opponents now employ to enrich
themselves and Cypress the people.
When the record of Republican reform
shall be made up, We proudly say that
Louisiana, with her majority Of negro Re-
publicans, has expelled some eminent
leaders, arrested and reduced the public
debt, and instituted the most important
amendments of constitution and laws.
The people-the people always Repub.
lican-are moving. They kick aside the
rickety clap-trap of Democratic platforms,
and they cast out OF the temple of freedom
those mercenary impostors who may have
stolen the Republican garb to cover thei,
fraudulent purposes. These two base
elements expelled and excluded, the PEG.
pie will purify and perpetuate Republican
rule in America.