New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-06-04
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aity which compels It to wear disguises.
Next to that, is inability to keep ON . die
guise for sufficient length of time to &C.
complish the object eought.. 1t H. bod tor
the party, and infinitely worse Tor the
country, that it was compelled to simu
late desire !. s., for !. ,sf'.9 Re oi.i
Il Wa = worse thing - r krty.
though good thing for the country, that
the disguise Of reform. under which little
Congressional patronage was secured, be-
came ct once irksome and disagroeable and
was thrown off without ceremony. It
disclosed the real spirit Of the party
that had been protesting 80 loudly
and promising % generoualy. that poll
tics should b purified and the methods
The record of the party was 20 bad, and
in the face OF II, the protestations and
promises seemed 20 absurd that for . long
time little heed wac paid to them. the
people prefe rring to Judge . party by what
it had done in the past rather than what it
promised to do in the future. 1t was only
when Republican administration got to be
30 reckless and corrupt that people decided
that any change must be IN Improvement,
that the Democrats in their reform disguise
were admitted to Q taste of power. The
taste was enough to utterly demorslize
them. No party ever 90 suddenly threw
down the weapons with which it had won .
skirmish and broke into the wild disorder
of spoils distributing and camp plundering.
They could not wait for the more abundant
plumber beyond, for which they must retain
their weapons and keep their DISCUSSES.
They had won an outpost and were
small success they flung away all
that WAS beyond it. We gave them
the House Of Representative 70 try their
hand on. 1t was not . 1eeeo 0ppor-
tunity for plumber, but it was 8 me field on
which to exhibitthe spirit and purpose of
reform, and illustrate at once the sincerity
of their professions and their capacity for
meeting the responsibilities Of power. We
all know what they have given us-a wild
movals, regardless of fitness, capacity or
integrity; succession of discreditable ap-
pointments, and a. worthless Q rabble of
p0th0use politicians put in place as ever
focked to the Capitol upon 9 change of sd-
ministrstiOn. SEES So z''s sss@
The average of the civil service un.
der Democratic administration lie Fitz-
hugh. Take Fitzhugh and Hambleton and
the journal clerk caught violating law, and
have been lifted up on this Democratic
wave into official positions, and you have
fair picture of what these people mean BY
civil service reform, and what the civil scr.
vice would be under their distribution of
patronage. The exposure il complete. No
man can look at the character of the newly
appointed officials of . Democratic Con
grees and any longer doubt what would be
the tone of official life in the country under
such rule. Look ut the Congressional lot,
and then give guess ct your own village
postmaster, or your collector or assessor,
under an administration such ~ these fol-
lsws seek to elect. We have seen what they
do in the green leaf; We can perhaps i'm
agine what it might be in the dry. So far
they have only had an opportunity to ''puri-
fy politics" to limited extent, but they
have given rs stencil that before We
had not dreamed of. With larger oppor-
ence. The party seems fairly saturated
with dishonesty and hypocrisy; the only
encouragement to be had from it is in the
fact that it's hypocrisy is go thin and ehort-
lived that it must be comparatively harm
less. Ont Of all its reform professions the
party has given Us but one conspicuous
practical reformer. and that is Gov
ernor Tlden. The party leaders never |
desired his nomination for Govern
fact that the pretense of reform on
which it was playing two years ago had no
other logic than the nomination of the best |
known practical reformer in the State. The |
did not want him then, ana do not |
now. They are very sick of him. He is not |
If their kind. He has prosecuted thieves,
and thieves do not like him. And go the same /
Democratic leaders who profess to be so pro-
Oundly in earnest for reform are saying
hat Tilden must not be.nominated at ST. |
Louis because he is not popular with his
lose votes. Whose! Why the
I'D TammaDv and the present canal ring
# course. The boast is nade already that
Cilden hss been killed OFT: that he has no
'hance for the st. Louis nomination. It
nay be true. If it is, it is only another
pen and shameless abandonment of the
principle for which this Democratic party
las pretended great devotion. They are
md they deliberately sacrifce Tllden tor
10 other reason than because he has shown |
himself such q practical refOrmer that the |
hieves hate him and will not vote for him.
hey can not make q nomination, except |
hey nominate him, that will represent
nything more than the universal Demo
ratio aspiration for power and place and
atronage.
A strange fatality has attended the
Democratic party for the past sixteen
ears. 1t has two or three times been
rusted with enough power to permit it
cope to show it's own unfitness, and it has
1variably shown it. 1t loses its head upon
be slightest prOvCcation. 1t has rarely
hown anywhere, except in New York. I'M
er the administration Of Governor Tilden,
nything like honesty of purpose or ability
: capacity. 1t is feeble and corrupt, and
ppreciable period. The congressional ex-
ibiticn, and the general disposition among
,e party leaders to put the knife into Til
On, because he really is what they pretend
} be. show up the party better than it's
latfOrms. Tvs bad all Thoroughbred York
ribune.
The ''Shotgun'' Policy.
The South lacks money, capital and pros
Gritty. 1t was lacking these things when