New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-08-30
POLITICAL NOTES.

POLITICAL NOTES.
Out of gratitude the Confederate DEM
cracy should give to Tilden unite
South" Rather than contribute to suppo'
the invasion of ''her sacred SOIL" he DR.
ferred to swear to false and frauduler
income return.
"Lost, strayed or stolene Two Dem'
cratic black sheep, answering to the name
of Armstrong and Metz. They were yer
useful to the Democratic campaign maj
ayers ss organizers of colored clubs iii
their minds), and as basis for "Radics
outrages." When last heard from one wa
enjoying the hospitality of the Par'sl
Prison, having in fit o. absent mindednes
carried off brother patriots property, ant
charge was pending against the other O
obtaining money under false pretenses iron
too confiding Democrat. the season fol
their usefulness having arrived, 1t Is hoped
they will be returned to the Democratic
campaign committee at once.
Tilden was in favor of the war. but on
the rebel side. and he took great risks fol
the cause. He risked going to the peniten.
tiary for perjury, rather than paw taxes
that would support the armed invaders.
1t has got to be Q fashion with the oppo.
sition press to stab with their pen-points
the characters Of prominent Republicans.
No knavery is too vile to be charged
against them without scintilla of evil
dence or even plausibility of invented tes-
timony. The lynx-eyed reporter penetrates
any privacy; puts his own construction
upon the most trivial incidents; makes 3
conspiracy of the accidental encounter Of
political friends; scents treason, strategem
and spoils'' in the most ordinary routine of
official business, and at last arousea
throughout the whole community . ground
less and dangerous sense Of insecurity and
of the heavy editor, who demands reform,
justice and fair play, or blood, when there
has been and is no wrong except in his
own evil concoctions.
Let those bulldozers of regulations, the
''no doubts" "they says" lit is rumored,"
evils inveighed against will disappear with
them.
The whisky ring thieves have all become
enthusiastic for Tilden. "A fellow-feeling
makes them wondrous kind" They swore
to false return and robbed the government
of whisky tax; the Democratic nominee
Col hhaI - o@
income tax. A touch of knavery makes
them all akin.
There is q case of intimidation before the
Democratic Parish Committee which, it is
to be hoped, it will speedily report upon.
According to the Democrat, "Victor Betan-
court, colored. q cripple, who has nearly
lost his sight, was assailed by three ne
groes armed with sticks, who abused him
for being q Democrat. But Betancourt,
who is plucky, succeeded in routing his
assailants, and q policeman came when his
services were not needed"
viii not this make pretty case, thought
Let the imagination picture three stalwart
Radical negro Orsons, with their clubs, At
tacking half f-biind crippled colored Dem
ocrat, and getting ignominiously put to
flight, before the peeler could come to their
rescue! This is one of the worst cases of
police intimidation that has occurred this
campaign, and the people should not and
will not endure it. Beware!
Tildens war patriotism was of quality |
with that of Artemus Ward. The latter |
was willing to sacrifice all his wife's male |
relatives in the holy cause of the Union, |
while Tilden was willing all the people |
should p sy war taxes but himself.
The Democrat very vigorously pitches |
into Governor Antoine for the clause in his
singing letter to the Democratic State
Committee, which alleges that "blsck men
are nightly whipped, shot at and even
killed; are prevented from holding political
meetings, and are deprived of all freedom
of political action" 1t requires the Dem
ocratic State Central Committee "to de-
mand of Antoine that he prove the gross
and disgraceful charges or retrsct them"
We heartily second the motion, and hope
the Democratic committee and the Cover
nor will at once take up the shooting at
Louis Morgan last Saturday in East Baton
Rouge; the hanging of the colored woman
two nights previous; the shooting at and
robbery of Levere Carter in West Feliciana
the Saturday before; the assault upon and
naked of Reason Davis, and the
murder of Ephraim Armstrong, another
colored man in the same vicinity (Gasper's
Branch, couple of days before.
By the time this batch is proved up, the
bulldozers and Regulators will have pre-
pared another list of victims.
Should the exposure of the perjury of
Samuel j. Tilden result in his withdrawal
from the Democratic ticket, the greenback
war will rage again in all it's fury. The
Western "softs" have weakened on Hen
tricks since he and Sammy lay down to-
yether at Saratogs, and would rather 60 in
'or Peter Cooper. Morrissey would not
,tand this, for though Peter, too, has q
barrel Of money" he knows how to keep
t Coopered up out of reach of such enter.
,rlsing gold-grabbers.
Old Joe Craig had his bakers dozen of
,olored Democrats at his weekly meeting
Monday night, and . white Democratic
,ody guard over them; but where, oh!
where was the Democrats hundreds of
Democratic colored menY"
Craig has made good thing of his