New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-09-29
POLITICAL NOTES.

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the law" We had no doubt of it before
this confession.
Mr.. w. w. Farmer, the Democratic nOmi-
nee tor Congress in the fifth district, could
not stand the pressure, and has given up
the contest. He started out on . canvass
ing tour with our candidate, Mr.. Leonard,
but the latter outorsted him 80 badly and
got such monopoly of the cheering that
Farmer threw up the sponge before the
programme of joint debates was half con.
cluded. General Nichols can judge by
this what would have been his sad fate had
he accepted Mr.. Packsrd's challenge.
The fifth district will resume its old Re-
publican standing in the next Congress.
General Jim Steedrlan, Colonel Phi Fouke,
General Denver and other whisky ringsters
and claim agents of the Andy Johnson class
declare the glorious Hayes ratification by
the Boys in Blue at Indianapolis to have
been ''demnitiou partisan affair" and they
threaten to get up demonstration of their
own in favor of Tilden. reform and internal
revenue collectorships.
Have not the heirs of Titden's brothers
pretty good claim against their wealthy
| uncle9 The first explanation of the income
shortage was that he had made large do1a-
tions to his impecunious relatives; but in
the authorized explanation by his secretary
not word is said of these liberal fraternsl
offerings. Yet the figures are made to como
ont all the same.
The statement in Q city paper that Mr.
John G. Roche viii run as an Independent
| candidate for coroner in the MP town dis
trict, was warmly spplsuded by the voting
masses, who sympsthize with him warmly
over his alleged unfair defeat. We have no
doubt hs will be elected, and the arbitrary
ruling of the chairman in the convention
will thus defeat its own object.
The rapidly growing sympathy for Mr..
John Fitzpatrick, whose manly fight
against powerful and lesgued enemies,
wins the admiration of all, would make
him, too, dangerous candidate against the
"What is LII" ticket.
These Democratic editors are so con-
frmed in their habits of going out ito take
sugar in their'n," that they miss the op
portunjties for instruction which Provi.
dence flings in their path. Says the Rich
land Beacon of the Packard jubilee at ita
town OF Rsyville: .."
They came-those big guns of the Rapub-
lican party-on Thursday last, according t0
I and onOka N nuifa n WA nj
both white and black, Democrats and Re-
publcans; and we would like v. ry much t.
lay before our readers q full report Of the
affair, but, in the first place, We were nm
! avoidably prevented from being present al
the time, and in the next place, we have moi
time and space to make such report.
1t is consoling, however, this authorita
tive admission that there was . big meet
ing, for the Democrat of this town (less fail
than it's rural political ally) had dwarfet
the meeting SO that We were getting il
doubt about its having been success.
General Leonard Sewell, in his great re
form speech on parish and city affairs, be
fore the Mechanics and Workingmen's Cen
trail Council, made severe structures on tn
} INN igration commissioners who fruit)essl,
seuandered the $4,000 appropriated b.
the State for building an EWigrante
Home. Our contemporary, the German
Gazette. lmmagining this to be reflection
upon the German Immigration Association
attacked General Sewell. and accused hin
OF voting for knavish bills while q membe
of the Legislature. General Sewell showe'
to the editor that the gentlemen he was de
Tending had not been attat ked, whereupol
the editor formally Withdrew all his allega
tions rejecting upon General Sewell.
We may add that the Generate legisla
tive record is unimpeachable. In fact b
went 80 far as to resign his position on tn
Committee on Appropriations, because o
tho wrongs it countenanced-an excess Q
virtue for which even the Democratic 1e
formers of that day laughed at him.
. Authority founded on, or uaintsine.
by, injustice, is never of long duration,
declared the wise Seneca. The usurpe,
authority, and the arbitrary exercise Of il
BY which the real candidates of the voter
were ruled off the "What is LIZ" ticket, fuz
nishes an illustration of the truth of thi
aphorism. All classes of the people suppl.
recruits to the legion who are alignini
themselves in opposition to the ticket jus
put in the field. This army fights for prac
tical reform, and bipartisan local gov
ernment; and its ticket will be triumphant
ly elected.
, This union, for q local general good, o
political factions opposed to each other Of
broader issues, will be a happy omen tha
in future campaigns personal acrimony o.
account of political differences will b
, eliminated.
Hon. William Murrell, of Madison, as b.
is known to bis equals. Major Murrell to hi
regiment of Louisiana militia, and Bill
Murrell to his familisrs. has filed mos
vigorous protest against the accusation o
being Democrat, which was made agains
him few days ago aid recorded in "Polit
ical Notee." The Major swears roundly thai
he always was Republican, is now, and
ever shall be to the end Of time with him
and is not. therefore, trying to "sneak bacl
into the Republican camp" Doubtless b
is the best possible authority on point
.. this kind, even if his testimony does COZ
fict with that of some Of his politica
| friends, though, as it seems, personal enc
, | mics. According to the accounts whicl
, came down from Madison not long agc
Msjor Murrell was not on the most cordia
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