New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-03-11
TIE NEW BONE OF CONTENTION,

! THE NEW BONE OF CONTENTION.
One faction Of the Democratic party,
represented by the Bulletin is bitterly
hostile to any sort Of understanding by
which the Demo cratic members of the
Legislature will be permitted to take part
IN the State government as at present Or
ganized. 1t will have nothing to do with
Governor Kellogg, Lieutenant Governor
Antoine, Speaker Hahn or any other Re-
publican official. An entirely new deal is
demanded, with McEnery, Penn, Wilt
and the rest Of them as trump cards.
Nothing less than the whole will satisfy
these grasping men. They constitute. if
not majority, at any rate very large
and influential fraction of the Demo-
cratic party, and have in their pos
session all the ancient watchwords ana
properties Of the old party, including the
! glory Of the Confederate achievements,
the battle flags, memories, monuments
and debris generally of the late empire of
Dixie. These obstinate and intractable
gentlemen succeeded for sixty days in
keeping all the vitality of the Democratic
party cooped up at Deutsche Company
Hall, and denied to every individual men,
Der the right of personal action except by
consent of majority Of the whole. For
sixty days they could neither agree upon
line Of policy nor agree to disagree.
But the main object was accomplished.
The session was suffered to pass away
without the appearance of the Democrats
in the House. Their appearance in the
Senate was permitted only at the last mo-
ment, too late to participate in the initial
steps of legislation. This was the policy
of the Democratic element in the Con-
servative party, and it SO far succeeded
that little or nothing was done in the way
Of passing reform measures.
The other elements of the same party
became antagonistic to this policy and
began about the middle of the session to
demand some sort of compromise or adj
justment. The points to be compromised |
arose out of differences in the Democratic |
party more than from any disagreement |
between them and the Republicans. This
wing of the Democracy finds its champion |
in the Picayune, and it has finally carried |
its point by securing majority in favor |
of what is known as the Wheeler PROPOSE
ton tor compromise. The Picayu,se, by
the way. errs in saying that one of the
conditions of that adjustment was the
calling Of an extra session. There was
no such understanding, though Governor
Kellogg in dispatch to Mr.. Wheeler in
timated that he would be governed in the
matter by the advice of the President
and that gentleman himself. Reasoning
from that dispatch, We are still of the
opinion that the Governor does not wish
to put the State to the expense of an extra
session unless the reasons therefor are
urgent.
For the rest, the Picavsne has as good
for finding out what Cover
nor Kellogg intends to do as the REpuB-
LIcAN has. The doors Of the executive
office swing open in response to the
knock Of its reporter as freely as when
ours applies, and the Governor is as free
md frank in imparting information to the
ons as the other. If We desired to ''know
It once whether or not Governor Kellogg
Intends to call an Extra session, we would
lend reporter down to his Office to ask
lin. The Picayuae can easily do the
anne and speak by authority or not, as it
hall think proper. If anybody will give
good and valid reason for an extra ses-
ion, eeen the REPUBLICAN will make no Z
opposition. At present, however, we have
ot heard one urged on the streets nor
cen ii in the columns of our able contem-
orary. We wish the Picayune to under n
tand that we are in favor of the employ p
lent of all proper means to still political
citation, though We may not repose much
nth in some of the numerous specifics =
hich have been recommended +