New-York tribune., 1876-07-10
LOrISI1Y1 hRAM REPTBLlCANISH.

II will be a mistake to take in tie whole OF
either party with the acceptance of its NOM
nations for the leading positions In the pres
ent CANVASS 1t is good time to discriminate
wisely. There may he things to commend
in both parties; points in the platforms
cf each and Qualtics in heir candi-
dates and it is certain that there are many
things that the conscientious, independent
voter cannot thoroughly approve i'll both the
platforms and both the tickets. 1t Is not
necessary for any honest PEI son to swallow
whole party platform, ticket organization, ana
machinery, isimply because nc has made up iis
mind upon mature deliberatiOn to support that
party'S nomnccs for the chief Offices. We
have been enjoying for year or two past
something like eclcctcism III politics. The DIS
ycsition 10 select from all parties and all
tickets whatever in the Judgment Of the
voter seems fttcst, has worked well. Ii has IL
n measure broken the tyranny of caucus ana
weakened the power of partisanship, ana what
j. Of vastly more consequence, has brought the
| party managers to q sense of prop1cty and tie
Cency. Ii is good thing to pclpCtnate. no
scheming politicians who would like nothing
so well rs to have all votes confined to choice
between two parties, have been compelled during
the past two or three years to take into
their calculations a new factor and new
force, to VIII. the Independent Voter; and 1t
ha, done them good, while it has been of
service To the country. 1t will be well not to
lose the moral effect of that force, and well
also to keep the politicians we'll drilled in the
lessons 30 difficGlt for them 30 lean thoroughly,
that the People have got through being voted,
and for the future are proposing To Vote them
selves.
Here il a case in point, where the voter will
Do well TO discriminate, and where the man
! aging Republican politicians will he wise not
to expect too much. i great many citizens
will vote for the Republican candidates for
President and ce-PrcSident who under no
circumstances would support or sympathizc
with the gang of g,lycn.urcrs who are III CON
troll of the Republican organization in Lonisi-
ana. Tire objects which these fellows have in
view in Louisiana are widely separated from
what we conceive TO be ,he purposes Of
the honest body of Republicans in the nation.
They themselves are, indeed, if wo NAV
Judge from their previous record, in direct and
positive antagGniSm to tho party which tl,y
pretend TO represent. They mean all manner
Of mischief. and they geek 10y al means and
at every hazard plundcr. They combine foT
no purpose but gain; they quarrel over nothing
but sp0ils. Under an incompetent Admini5-
tratiou they have succeeded not only in fasten-
ing themselves upon the party, bat in loading
il down with the responsibility for al thcir
misconduct. II j. quite Jimc they were shaken
of. No one who knows anything of the politi-
cal history of Louisiana since It's reconstruction,
or what was called its reconstruction. can have
any doubt as to what course should bc taken
with TIE whole tribe of conspiratois VINO call
themselves the Republican party OF that
State. They would not tie tolerated
for an instant in any Northern state.
Nay, more, we take it upon ourselves 10 say
that in no Northern State would tho R,publi-
can party permit such fellows to held CON
spicuous POSITIONS much less assume to cor
troll the crgarizati0n. They arc bad through
ard through bad in spirit, bad III purpose.
bad Of character and OF record an unmlt-
gated set Of political scamps and Adventures.
Their success, however they might label it,
would be Il Republican defeat, and we are not
certain but that Republican national victory,
coupled with their triumph in Louisiana, would
be somewhat in the uatuc of public ca
lamity.
We have so grown INTO the habit of con-
Meeting State and National politics that We do
not readily discriminate between them, but
here is one case at least where the two may
properly and ought actually to be divorced.
Rrpublicanism in Louisiana is n sham, and
worse than a sham. Ii has 10 claim upon the
confidence of honest men, and deserves only
defeat. The party is stronger without than
with IT, Ii will be well to have il understood
that the support of the Republican Presden
tial ticket does not by any means include re-
sponsibility for or sympathy with the Pinch
back Packard alliance in Louisiana.