New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-09-01
POLITICAL NOTES.

sympathy shown for them by the officers |
and crew of the English steamer CordOva. |
The little formality Of naturalization can
be dispensed with in their cases, and there |
are several sailor boardinghouses in prox- !
unity to the ship which will answer tenn
porarily for homes. We hope this hint will |
be sufficient. There are number OF Dem |
ocratic canvassers whose experience will
justify them in undertaking the Job. 1t is
not at all essential that the Englishmen re-
main here to vote. Their registration papers
may be left behind with friend.
Will not Mr.. Tilden please to make an
other at1idavit' He is good at afidavits-
that is. good for Hayes.
For q real, solid, downright anti-reformer
give US q Democrat whose pocket is touched
by reform measure. For days past the
''boys" have been button boiling committee
mon and friends possessing "pollitickle in
.fu ence' for appointments as United States
supervisors, and the lucky ones were al
ready IN Imagination fondling Uncle Sans
stiff greenbacks. Imagine their disgust and
dismay upon learning that Congress has
made no appropriation for paying them,
and that they must await the action OF
future session before they can get dollar.
Their curses are both loud and deep against
this quality of Democratic reform.
This fact helps demonstrate, too, how lit
tie real merit there is in the reduced appro.
pristiens for support OF the government,
which is the sole credit the Democracy can
claim from their control of most impor-
tant branch of the government. The reduc-
ton is delusion and q snare-a mere elec-
pioneering dodge. The deficiency bills of
next session, which just such laches as this
neglect to provide for, absolutely unavoid-
able expenses must necessitate, will be the
true test of the quality of reform the Dem
ocrats have given the country.
The arrival at Monroe of the mysterious
stranger on his peculiar and unrecogniza-
Bile horse, armed with his trusty gun, and
the consequent cold-blooded murder of q
prominent white Republican leader, may
not be traceable directly to politics; but the
tragedy could only be 80 deliberately and
safely enacted where community condone
such bloody deeds wherever they can be
given a political coloring-a community
which the official organ Of the Democratic
party of this State understands so we'll as
to feel safe in rendering them editorially
this advice, even at the very hour when the
assassin was riding calmly away from the
mangled body OF his victim. Says the
Democratic:
If it shall become necessary for our white
| fellow citizens there to resort to desperate
| measures to protect their lives and proper
| ties, we hope they will act with GOODNESS
and Judgment, and "go for" the white ras-
calls who are at the bottom of all this
| trouble. Let our friends, as far as posi- BILE,
hold the deluded negroes guiltlees; spare
their lives if possible, and if they are forced
| to take life, let them deal with the white
villains who are, beyond question, urging
| the negroes into these riotOus acts.
Ouachita parish, under Republican rule
| and the Republican leaders there are al
most without exception natives or honored
| old-time citizens of the State-has been
| noted for its peace and respect tor law. But
in the very first moment of political excite
ment, the Democratic appeal is not to the
| of rapine and murder which it knows so
! well how to arouse in the breasts of it's ad.
| herents. Assassins, act with Goodness and
Judgment" get a fast horse, safe disguise
and true weapon!
The Democratic editor, as general thing,
has so far been unable to wrestle with the
| perjury question in connection with s. Jones
| Tilden. The nearest he can approach to it
is feeble protest against admitting per-
sonalities into the canvass.
Oh. how he must fairly long for pure
and upright candidate like Hayes, whose
record is simply unassailable. But that
kind is not to be found in the reform
party.
| Would it not be we'll for the Democratic
Conservative State Central Committee to
| give some answer to Mr.. Packard's request
| to have Joint canvass of this State! How
ever weighty may be the considerations in
the matter, it is big h time decision was
reached. The party is placed in an unfor-
tunate bad attitude by the apparent hesi-
| UdUcy duu luutClolOu III cO uplc q uotuOL .
| If in q multitude of cOuselors there Is
safety, it is not asking too much to suggest
that the concentrated wisdom of the Cen.
| tral committee as nO,c enlarged ought to
settle this matter at once and wisely
Times.
| Will our contemporary pardon US for
suggesting that Mr.. Fitzpatrick has not yet
taken his seat. One thing at time, please.
The $4,000 additional appropriation
made for the Department of Improvements
fits in very neatly. During the next couple Of
weeks the Democracy will be busy electing
delegates to tie parish nominating cOnven'
ton.
How would it do for the Republican cam
| paign committee to ask q fair representa-
ton of Republicans in the gangs this fund
will employ? just to see that the interests
of the party are fairly protected, you know
! The Republicans have q vital interest in
the honest expenditure of the money.
The Republican campaign committee are
having colored ex-senator Poindexter'a
speech-so much iauded by the Democratic
press-rsprinted for general circulation. II
| will be prefaced with biographical sketch
of the author and the laudatory compli
ments of his new political allies. 1t is 9
good thing-on the Democracy.
This is all the Times has to say regarding
our exposure of its mendacious assertions
that Republican officials were tamperine
with the registration records:
| The REPUBLICAN has that discretion
which is the better part of valor. 1t hat