New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-02-09
4 CARPET-BAGaERs AND sCALAwAGs.

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Under this heading the New Orleans
Democrat has the following editorial para
graph:
1t is evident from the tone Of several in.
huential Northern journals that the poiiti.
| cal thieves commonly called carpet-baggers
and scaiawags are rapidly becoming a
stencil in the nostrils of decent people in
all parts OF the country. We reprint in an :
| other column some remarks upon Hays, of
Alabama, which are very pleasant reading.
The remarks in another column of the
Democrat, (which are very pleasant read
ing" are in an extract from the New
York Tribune, prefacing paragraph from
the Hartford Post as follows, headed
''Hays, Of Alabama"
1t was unfortunate that the usual plan
OF alphabetical arrangements had to be
followed this year in announcing the
National Republican Committee. Several
Republican journals have had unpleasant
feelings at the sis ht Of the name Of HAYS.
of Alabama, OF the top of the list. The
Hartford Post is especially stirred up
thereby, and enters this commendable pro
test: There is Hne thing it is to be hoped
the Cincinnati Invention will insist upon
that the Nationa. Committee shall be purified
of the inOdorOus elements that make it a dis
grace to the party. There are men on this
committee at present, especially at the
South. standing as representatives Of the
party, who have proved themselves IN
worthy of confluence Or respect; and if anv
State delegation 90 far forgets it's duty as
to present for reelection any one Of the fell
lows whose nam stink in the nostrils of the
people, the COW antion should exercise it's
Of <l,o
for revision. The Republican party can not
afford to make itself responsible for such
creatures by giving them place in its Off.
cial organization.
There is nothing in the words Of the
Post referring to Congressman Hays, but
the Tribune, as Jay Gould's organ, and
an enemy to the railroad interests of the
South, endeavors to torture general
good advice into a personal attack on
Southern member Of Congress. Mr..
Gould's organ, in so doing, is perfectly
consistent with the course it has pursued
since it became one. man and monopoly
organ. Indeed, it went so far in assailing
Senator West, who proposed to make Mr..
Gould disgorge, that it used the ma me of
Mr.. Wilt, without authority or warrant,
to back up its ISLANDERS. Mr.. Wilt man
fully gave the Gould organ the lie in the
and so silenced that particu-
lar gun.
The New Orleans Democrat is perhaps
not Intentionally hostile to the welfare of
the South, but it takes to its bosom the
Tribune ISLANDERS for different motive.
MIR. Hays is member of the National
Republican Committee, and for that reason
ne must be classed as carpet-bagger or
scalawag by the old residents Of the Den,-
ocrat. Any schoolboy who knows any
thing OF the public men of Alabama should |
know that the Hon. Charles Hays, Of |
Haysville-representing in Congress the
fourth district of Alabama-was born in
Greene county, Alabama, and was edu-
Gated at the universities of Georgia and |
Virginia. He has devoted himself entirely
to agricultural pursuits, and is a cotton
planter. He was member of the con.
convention of Alabama
- 1867, was elected to the State