New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-05-17
Especial Correspondence of the Republican,
NORTHERN POLITICS.

NORTHERN POLITICS.
Presidential Candidates ON the Repub.
fcan Side.
New YORK, May 10, 1876.
Now that Governor Tilden is universally
in the political circles Of the
United States as the coming presidential
nominee of the Confederate Democracy at
St. Louis. all interest is concentrated on the
looming man" at Cincinnati. As usual, our
Confederate Democratic friends propose to
help us out of our difficulty in this matter.
We are kindly informed that there is large
"liberal" and "independent" Confederate
Democratic vote ready to join us in the
election of . Republican President next
fall if we will only select men to whom this
liberal and independent Confederate-Dem-
ocratic vote has no objection. For instance,
We are told that Wheeler, of this State, be-
cause of his conservative record in the
Louisiana affair, would be acceptable" to
the opposition. Bristow is another favorite
of the liberal and independent Confederate
Democratic vote. Other equally acceptable
men are named as the proper persons for
conciliating the opposition.
In regard to the existence Of the liberal
and Independent OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
voter, l have my doubts. l have had
pretty long personal experience in politics
North and South, and have, during this
time, come in contact with large number
of what may be called the more intelligent
members of the Southern Confederate par
ty, and of the Northern Democratic party.
have never yet me: with single specimen
of either the liberal or the independent
Confederate thinker, or the liberal or in
dependent Democratic thinker. IT you
agree with the Confederate, well; if not
bad. In such agreement the Confederate is
an agreeable fellow, but out of such agree
ment he is an ugly fellow, relentless and
overbeariEg. In word, the Confederate
is made of that stuff which must either
govern or be governed. Civiliz alton and
contact with the outside world will, in time,
soften him and enlighten him. and then he
will be splendid fellow indeed. But, for
the present, he needs restraint for his own
good. So of the Northern Democrat Of to-
day. say of to-day because the liberal and
independent Democrats of the North long
since joined the Republican party, and are
now among it's strongest and most uncom'
promising supporters.
As to Mr.. Wheeler, his most intimate
friends have no idea that his name will be
seriously pressed at Cincinnati. Mr.. Bris
tow's nomination would have a twofOld
effect, which the Republican party can not
afford to encounter. One of these effects
would be confession of guilt" by the
party itself of the charges of corruption
which the Confederate-Dem have
been making against us for the last four
years. The second effect of Mr.. Bristow's s
nomination would be to narrow the issue of
the presidential canvass down to to the one
question of reform. Now the question of
reform" is one with which the Republican
party is quite competent to deal with within
its own ranks and through it's own agencies.
We are, in fact, dealing with it now, and
incline to the opinion that when the time
comes for such an investigation that the Re-
publican Congress will investigate Southern
corruption, and it will then be seen that
leading Confederates in each Southern State
bave been participants in the specUlatiOns
out of which such colossal fortunes have
been made under reconstruction. 1t will
then be seen that the Republican cat did
not get all the chestnuts which she raked
out of the fire. There is the largest kind OF
q Confederate monkey in the Sou thern re-
construction business, who is yet to wear
his cap and bells and dance before an as
tonished public to the hand organ tune OF
"InvestigatiOn." The Republicans, there
fore, have no idea Of confessing judgment,
or Of alluring the enemy to nom mate their
presidential candidates or forming our is.
sues for US. We shall from the first assume
the aggressive. We shall select our own
standard bearers. We shall select the is.
sues on which the election will be made,
to turn, and force the opposition to ''fend
off,"
For these reasons the nominee of the Re-
publican party at Cincinnati will either be
a radical like Morton, or a conservative
like Fish, Conkling or Adams. The man
who, being thoroughly Republican, best
represents the free North, and who can
best unity the North against the now re.
sectiOnalized Confederate South, is the
man " no will be nominated at Cincinnati.
Who that man will! be no one can now
state with certainty; but as the North is to
be the battlefield in the coming contest, SO
the Empire State forms the citadel of that
battlefield. Governor Tilden's nomination
at St. Louis threatens the loss of New York
New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the Re-
publicans. We can not lose New York and
win; hence our standard-bearer will come
from this State, and will either be Roscoe
Conkllng or Hamilton Fish. 1t is possible
that both Mr.. Conkling and Mr.. Fish may
finally unite their joint influence on Mr.
Adams, and this may be the final result Of
this contest at Cincinnati, if Blaine fails
to carry the convention by storm, as bis
friends in New England would under such
circumstances undoubtedly take Charles
Francis Adams as their second choice.
The fact that Mr.. Adams nomination would
be equivalent to an election would weigh
with the convention, and Mr.. Fish for the
same reason would be "available." B.
The Rivers.
The Red river rose fvo feet at Shreve.
port during Sunday and Monday, but is
now again falling. The Missouri has risen