New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-09-29
THE REPUBLICAN, CONSERVATIVES,

THE REPUBLICAN, CONSERVATIVES.
1t would do ones heart good to read
again the denunciation and ridicule with
which the "What is liz" press assailed
the Roundheads who took up the O'Fin-
merry and the Fitzpatrick. The amount
of editorial and communication which
asserted the paramount authority of
wealth and intelligence and denounced
the self-assertion of the voters was fear
full The average voter has discovered the
awful fact that one man can fill an Office
as well as another. Under this theory
they have passed over presidents of banks
and insurance offices, over the choice Of
attorneys, over the metaphysical philoso-
piers of the Carolina school, over the
White Leaugers, White Liners and Last
Ditchers, and have nominated some
men unknown in part, and unskilled
in public affairs. 1t is true that the duties
of principal Offices may be performed
with more ease than those of subordinate
Offices. A principal may employ subor-
dinate to perform every duty except to
draw the salary of the principal. This
the principal may do even with cross
mark, if he has boil on his hand. We
have even heard of an instance in this
parish, where a citizen, having taken q
fancy to The amount of a Judicial salary,
proposed to run for the Office and employ
legal friend to attend to the duties.
This city, at least, is under as abject club
rule as Paris ever was, and the most
prominent men Of the anti-Radical party
will disappear from public affairs before
the uncomfortable vengeance of the clubs,
precisely as did the philosophers and
scholars who inaugurated the French
revolution.
The great number of Democratic can
didates, with the immense army of fol-
lowers, who produced the disgraceful
mob scenes described by the Democratic
press, proves that the unemployed and
destitute people resort to politics for
bread. Not one, perhaps, of the crowds
that thronged and clamored in aud
around the convention for the last six or
eight days, but had some direct or con-
tingent expectation from the result. This
alone would prove that the emoluments
and patronage of the city government are
too great for public morality. Such a
system Of politics as we have wit
messed can only be subsisted by sys-
tenn Of public waste and corruption. The
Democratic leaders and press stand aghast |
1t the situation of political element that
cares no more for those leaders than for |
any other who stand between themselves
md bread. This element has gone d.
'ectly for the spoils. 1t has not asked the |
to distribute the Offices and |
contracts. The short-hairs know enough |
o pick their own men, and draw their
'wn pay, without the advice of lawyer
v landlord.
The sceptre has passed from the aris-
ocrscy. Do not the business and prop
rty interests of the city wish union OF
II its conservatism? Secretly and at their
learts they do. They have put down and
ut out the Last Ditchers and disunien-
sts. Scarcely an avowed member Of that
angerous faction is recognized in the
tie nominations. Would not those in
srests wish to splice the ticket with
ames which would come in and cover
1e very weak spots which it presents?
We commend to their aid the Republican
ominees and voters. We would counsel
hem to intrust the reform of the ticket
, that most conservative element, the
olored Republicans. They have no
spirations to live by official labor. They
esire alone protection in their rights,
le education of their children and
just compensation for whatever
lay be due them. They are at
ched to the country and to the
Mon. They are obedient to the laws,
'spectful and respectable. Sooner or
ter they will furnish balance Of peace,
over. Why not take them, have them,
nploy them as part Of the political
oise for the preservation of property and
der? We see the Last Ditcher, the
'istocrat of the shanties, and the pro-
ssional Office holder sitting on the ruins
the caucus system. The sceptre has
,parted. They are political outlaws.
ill it not be better for them to ally
emselves with the substantial. labori-
IS, law-abiding element which makes
the cotton and sugar, that pays all the
laries,. commissions and profits upon
Itch the business men and property
'lders rely for income?
A SAMPLE OF MISSISSIPPI JUSTICE. q
An incident comes to us from Missis- !.