New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-11-10
POLITICAL MOTIFS.

The Democrat describes the ebb and flow
Of the populace around Democratic head
quarters, and declares that ''each man was
full of earnestnsss" This is q new item to
be ADDED to the teetotsller's list. If Dem
ocratic headquarters were not in Q bar.room
centre the populace might avoid getting
full.
On Wednesday morning the Democratic
specials announced that Tilden Had "won
in eanter." On Thursday, Democratic
betters thought he had won only in Q de.
cAnter.
A member Of tbs Democratic committee
yesterday declared: 'Well, boys, We can't
whip these damned Radicals through the
Democratic party, 90 move ws al Join the
Republican party and see if we can't clean
'em out in that way" The Republican fold
is wide, and the ''vilest sinner may return"
No doubts we're expressed this morning -
to the election of TLden, none 40 to Louisl-
ana being carried for the State and national
reform tickets.-Demoerat.
Which is evidence that the Democrats up
to yesterday morning were not prepared to
disobey Colonel Patton's secret circular on
Democratic compartment. Subsequently
they heard the news from Red River, and
were not only doubtful, but disguised.
Natchitoches is . bitter pill to the Dsmo-
cratic committeeman. In one breath it Is,
1--WE never did trust those damn niggers,"
and in the next, "How could Cosgrove and
the rest have been 90 blind!' With the
murder of poor Pierson and the virtual
squelching of Judge Myers the Democrats
imagined that all backbone had been taken
out of our party, but the "blood of the mar.
tyr is the seed of the church." New cham
pions of Republican principles arose, and
the parish goes for Hayes and Packard by
double majority.
The Florida Democratic majority met
with inuumerable disasters. 1t was ex-
ploded ON steamboat, emsshed in . rail
road collision and struck by lightning, but
the official figures give it the deathblow.
Tompkins with "p," who runs the Min
den Democrat, will have some severe ex-
planning away to do, now that Democratic
Webster parish has gone Republican. Here
is what he said on the eve of election:
The election of Tilden may be certain,
but the election of Nichols and Wilt and
the Democratic Conservative State ticket ID
H. l.
cause for rejoicing, in the heart Of every
patriot and lover of truth and liberty.
Every white man in Webster parish who
has not sold himself to the enemy will be
found earnestly and zealously at work for
the Democratic ticket that day. The white
man who is not found in the ranks of his
people when 90 many vital interests to him
and them are at stake, will be known and
| recognized as . renegade, . political harlot
who has prostituted his brain and talente
| for chance of Office. He will have proven
creatures who lead the Radical hOsts-he
will have earned and deserved the SCOTT
and cortempt of every honest man and
woman in the land, and when the election
| is over, and the Radical hosts defeated, a
they surely will be, are flying before the
victorious Democracy, who will feel meaner
aud more degraded than the white man
| that left his people to advocate the cause ol
| the thieves and rascals? Echo answers
| who's
1t is now in order for all those white citi
zens who carried the parish for Packard Il
compliment the Democrat man upon thu
correctness Of his judgment-and his cour
teous manner ofexpressing it.
What has become of the 10000 Democrat
| who were to be disfranchised and "draggei
l to prison by the heels?"