New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-07-15
POLITICAL NOTES.

she committee charged with the conduct 0
the campaign by the central Republican an
thoritv. There are one or two experienced
political managers whose names we shcult
like to see in this roster but doubtless thei
services will be otherwise utilized By tn.
party.
This committee has TO easy task to per
form The conduct OF tho campalgn
means that ever ready vigilance and art
tude for Lard work without which victory
is usually ar accident. The members will
surely be held responsible ftr all political
laches; and even mieiorLunes. Let ttem,
therefore. be careful that none are Larry
chargeabie against them. AS io- rev ards,
they must be wholly question for the
hereafter
What the Republican party demands Of
its committee is an open, tranb, bnt very
vigorously conducted canvass. If :he com
1nittee is driven from TIE field by violence,
then will be fitting time for appeal t.
higher powers, and then only. We want
rim, but peace. Martyrs, unfortunately
are being made on the Georgia-S0uth Caro-
lima line. We want none here. If, after p
free and peaceful contest, the Republican
ticket fails, the campaign committee may
rest assured it will be held 10 strict ac,
countab;lity. The members will DO excused
if this is not grar ted us, and the responsi
bility appropriately fixed.
Lieutenant Government Antoine starts
for his home in Caddo this evening. and we
shall soon hear that the ball has fairly
opened on upper Red river, Hon. George
l.. Smith and G.. Y. Kelso also leave for
their homes tonight. They will contribute
largely to arouse the enthusiasm of the
people for our State and national tickets.
Uoon the adjournment of Congress some
of the most distinguished Republicans of
the country will canvass our State, and Re-
pub!icans voters will not only be instructed
as to the rights, but given iudrbitabie as
surance that they will be lua!n taired in
possession thereof
Governor Antoine will be absent about a
fortnight when the departure OF Governor
Kellogg will recall him to duty here.
The revolt against the arbitrary rulings
Of the new Democratic parish committee,
which We noticed as having broken out in
the seventh ward, has taken virulent
form in the fourth, where some of the most
influential aad respectable Of that party
openly charge that the installed officials
were guilty of dishonesty equal TO that
ascribsd by certain partisans to the Rad
cal Returning Board
La the fifth, such is the disgust OF the TN
terrified that an independent club-which
discards altogether party tramnels-is said
to have already on its rolls some 200 of the
best Democratic workers Of the ward.
In the tenth. an armed neutrality has
been temporarily achieved by the active
intervention of a well known and deserved
Is popular fireman. How long it will last
depends upon the tOrbearsnce Of the ms Or
ity.
la the eleventh ward, We hear talk Of two
delegations going to Baton Rouge but 'the
boys" appear to have ''got their opponents
so bad >" that we doubt if this game will be
tried on.
In this struggle of the great Demo
cratic masses throughout New Orleans, the
REPUBLICAN can scarcely be said to have
more than curious interest 20 we may
appropriately adopt the motto Of the late
lamented Heenan; in his contest against
the bloody Brtisher, "May the best ian
win"
In ST. Martin parish rival tax collectors
aaaT., IN ho m kioo thin pa uuita 1;.-aIv NJ,
Taylor Daspit, whom the Governor declares
was removed some months ago, is running
a collection office, and has handbilled the
parish. notifying taxpayers not to give up
cent TO his rival, Mr.. Numa Bienvenu.
A citizen writes to the Governor that Mr..
Daspit is simply collecting for the Dem
ocratic campaign committee: that the taxes
he collects will not reach the treasury.
We know nothing Of, nor care we, for the
individual merits of this controversy, but
it is a very serious matter for the State to
be deprived Of its revenues by such a teud
Judge Steele is here, and his court the
Superior CrImlnal) is expressly charged
with the trial OF causes growing out Of i'm
proper tampering with the public moneys.
We know it would be pleasanter to 60
North, but special term to try the merits
of this St. Martinsville affair, and one or
two matters in other portions of the State,
will be of great public utility Just now.
We should like to see little executive
order of this salutary nature. 1t would
beat pardons as a campaign document
The contest of Braughn vs.. Dibble for
possession of the assistant attorney general
ship, was submitted in the Supreme Court
last Tuesday at Monroe. Judge Wyly is
at the North. Judge Morgan is ill in New
Orleans, and Judge Talisferro in Catahou-
la. The public interests require decision,
and we hope before the term ends enough
judges will get together to determine who
is the legal incumbent
The "Penn movement" as it ia called.
has more than rippled the still water of
the local Democracy. Unquestionably
estrong and intelligent backing has been
found for the handsome and unpresuming
colonel-s backing so strong and so intell:-
gent that it has excited the grave fears of
some of the ld-time leaders of the city De
mocracy, lest the control of the party ma
chinery slip through their fingers. Colonel
Penn is un1uestionably in the hands Of some
of the oldest and ablest political managers,
and they are sanguine of electing delegates
in his favor to the Baton Rouge convention
IN many of the wards of the city