New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-05-27
About Various Asplrants.

About Various Asplrants.
George Alfred Townsend, in . recent let
ter from Washington to the New York
Graphic, says:
When Hamlet heard from the Ghost the
story of his papa's decease he exclaimed the
well-known line: 20, my prophetic soul,
my unclew Judge Thurman is just now
learning it, Bill Aliens nephew faltered in
the assertion OF the good principles he be.
lieved and hid in his own snuff box, and his
hard money advocacy went up his nose.
Others swore by q sou marquee, he by .
sou rappee. His sarcoDhsgus must be q
large snuff box with this inscription:
ALLEN THURMAN,
OF ohio,
Who came within pinch
OF the Presidency;
But, having an uncle in 06ice
(such was the Nepotism Of the Times)
And gently sneezed away
about that period.
"Al the world is humble bees
Here never loose my sneeze,
Cruel uncle. slam by you,
I've the rdb and yOu-A-chewr
THE CONFERENCE ANSWERED.
The resolutions and choice of the Ohio
Democracy answer the New York Confer
ence by presenting the question how We
are to consign the United States to the
Democracy and its principles in order to
force q point ON the personal tone of the
President. How can President, in or ont
of tone, cure the country ofits ignorance on
. matter like the money in our pocket
Why is William Allen alive and potential
as we'll as Professor Woolsey? Why is John
Cockerell of more consequence in govern
ment and of more authority over masses
than David A. Wells? Why is Washington
Mclean able to beat down q man of the
learning and correct principles of Judge
Thurmsni For certainly the choosing Of
Q President has no relation with these
things.
The reason is this, and it was an idea that
never entered into the Fifth avenue confer
ence. There is Q power in this country
above Presidents since l852-the press.
Judge Thurman, anticipating his own fate.
perhaps, made an address about 1870, say
ing that no 0ratory, no energy, no character
could successfully contend against that
myriad d-tongued machine which had sprung
up in thirty years-the newspaper. Behind
it lay the great past of our oratOry and per
sonal ststesmanship; beside it nothing
could reign but for money. Yet IL is that
palmy period OF personal government the
confreres desire to restore, the respectable
oratory and punctilious modes of "the
Fathers of Mr.. Schurz. How is 1t to be
done with the press what it iea
The fact above all others was that hard
money and Judge Thurman were beaten in
Ohio by q single newspaper, the Cincinnati
Enquirer. A man of long and respectable
service, the best his party had in the Sem
ate was beaten by one Of "the fathers, 3"
William Allen, of whom it may be said that
he Is as pure as Charles Francis Adams,
and nearly as old ss Leonard Bacon.
The conference, seeking only character
and nothing more to administer the pres
idency, is recommended to take William
Allen. He is as wiee and as scrupulous as
Isaac, who felt of Jacobs chin to be sure
he was Esau, and. having made q mistake,
refused to transfer his blessing or 60 back
on his principles. They were both ''time
honored.'"
THE TORTURE OF LOCALITY.
In more serious view of the situation,
is it not shame that the mere loss of pres
tige in q State must lose to Q great party
and the country the best candidate that
party had-at least in the West. Among
'.straight Democrats" Thurman was the
best qualified by age, mellowness,. ex-
the country, feebly perhaps, but respect
ably. His character was sincerer than
either Seymours or Tilden's; his cowardice
not 80 chronic as Hendricks; Hancock was
boy with new boots beside the fulnees of
Thurman's mind. But he was antagOnized
ty q newspaper, voted down by it's sub
scribers, and he disappears from the field.
THE SEQUEL.
The result of the Ohio convention will be
to inspirit the Western inflatiOnists and
probably to nominate Hendricks. The av-
erage Western Democrat is q radical for
reaction on every subject of the past war.
The South has the opportunity to decide
between Tilden and Hendricks. who will
probably come to the scratch with nearly
equal chances. 1t is hardly probable that
they will prefer the Eastern business man
to the Western politician.
In short the elements which run the
Democratic party do not want reform or
much appearance of it. They want the
government and it's contents, and their
hungry behavior at the opening of Con-
gress elbows the perfectly Hunnish inva-
sion that will follow the election of any
Democratic President whatever. 1t will be
the abdication of all the decencies of the
organization of human sOciety-such a
scene as Newgate prison when it was set
on fire in the Gordon riots and the convicts
lived familiarly on the ruins.
That possibility will increase the chances
of the Republicans more and more as the
morning of the election approaches. 1t
makes q Republican success so easy that
the hot rivalry between the candidates will
burst out again in few days.