New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-09-05
VOLUME X.---NO. II
POLITICAL MOTHS.

POLITICAL NOTES.
Burke, who is popularity accredited
being the principal one of "these fin
that won 80 much favor for Governor
emoth with the Democracy in 1872, and
- certainly knows more election tricks
lodges than any other man in Louis
A, was unqaestioningly admitted into
rholy OF holies'' Of the Democratic man
GERS, although he has always been classed
. very Liberal Republican. Mr.. Fitzpatrick
acted as umpire at q Republican club fight
between individuals, and for this treason
| to his party was rejected.
1t seems to have been q question of utility,
not of justice, therefore, which guided the
Democratic committee to their conclusions.
Clearly the organ of General Nichols
has got into such . complexity of mis-
etatements that in this instance it has
tripped itself up. Speaking of Republicans
Raising race issues to hold the black vote
together the Democrat says:
They never fail to organize negro riots,
Md generally succeed in urging the negroes
30 perpetrate murder. This programme
Ducceeded in Ouachita.
The only murder perpetrated during the
recent political excitement in Ouachita is
that of the lamented Republican, Dr.. Dink-
grave. and the above statement points to
conclusion, We may add, which alone of
those so far suggested carries with it any
legree Of probability.
The following suggestive paragraph We
reprint from our New York correspondence
- Sundays issue:
he contest in Louisiana excites great in
st at the North. 1t will be worth mil
be to the State to have her cast her vote
the same side with Hayes and Wheeler
= their capital in States that are Repub-
na. Northern laborers prefer to emigrste
such States.
he might have added that should Con-
bss again be Democratic, the answer re-
ened to Louis ana's demand for levees
u be, I'VE are opposed to internal i'm
ovements." If our people petition for a
uthern Pacific railroad, they will be met
ith the same chilling response. To their
emsnd for full restoration of protection
i sugar and rice, they will bs told again
hat ''the Democratic party is in favor of
tee trade.'
Let not our business men and property
owners lightly toss these suggestive
thoughts aside; but soberly and seriously
ponder them, and act out the convictions
they must bring.
Here are couple more names of colored
victims which were omitted from the list Of
political murders and thuggeries given in
Saturdays issue. Perhaps General Nichols
bryan. or the Democratic State Committee,
ban explain these bloody tragedies as per-
betty innocent and proper transactions?
hey are, and We take from the official rec
I'd:
Samuel Myers, aged twenty three years,
ody found about l30 yards from Joor's
bad, thirteen miles from Baton Rouge,
pril 13. 1876, shot six times through body
Id twice through the head
Jerry Myers, aged sixty-nine years, body
6und on Joor's road, twelve miles from
atom Rouge, hung to an oak tre.
ID We desire to know why the playful bull
bzers murdered these two hard.working
rmerse Here is what a correspondent
ys of the father:
neraIiy took the blue ribbon for the first
lie Of cotton raised in that parish. He
as an ardent and influential Republican
the tenth ward.
The same informant adds these addi-
kional names to the frightful score:
Rev. Minor Holmes was hanged, but was
nt down before he was dead.
Levi Spriggs was first shot, and after
vards rope was placed around his neck
nd be was to have been hung, but in the
arkness escaped.
Both Holmes and Spriggs are within easy
reach.
The Times reiterates its denial Of the
truth of the outrages perpetrated on Re-
publicans in Louisiana, the details of which
the REPUBLICAN has given, which justifies
hn application to itself Of its own neigh
borly reflections on the Picayume:
The most injudicious friend that people
can have is an incautiOus newspaper. 1t
gives publication to fatuous statements that
ave their only foundation in the disordered
nagnations of windy idiots whose acme
of delight is reached in hearing themselves
talk.
The Democrat makes sq uare back down
tom the statement that names are being
rased from the registr alton lists on the re-
ports of policemen, who first present 'omin-
& #onsr documents at houses to frighten timid
females into denying that voters who are
Registered at such houses live there. 1t
eontents itself with reiterating the charge
that policemen do 90 60 around with papers,
and as this may be in the line Of their bust
mesa and does not affect the main question,
may be taken for granted as of no impor'
tance whatever.
n John Gair was captured in his flight and
shot.-Democrat.
/ Another slander on the murdered man.
He was not in the parish at the time OF the
Alleged attempt to poison DR.. Saunders.
He was in Baton Rouge, where he surren-
dered to the law officers, and on tie way to
Clinton was taken from their custody by
Regulators and "shot full of bullets by the
roadside. His remains lie there today, his
tablet an oak tree with John Gair" cut in
a blazed spot, his mound few rails from
an adjoining fence, the whole shameful
monument of Democratic inhumanity and
lswlessness.
Will the Republican Campaign Commit
tee arouse The naturalization frauds, we
1..-. orn >ro;r In4rn y,nrnatrafAd. Let ue