New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-08-09
AN ACCEPTANCE.

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promise to pay their seedy followers one
day after victory. This policy has beef
observed ever since the party went into
business on its own account in opposi
ton to the Union Republican party
While old Mr.. Buchanan slept in the
White House, as general agent for the ma
ton, his Cabinet stole millions OF money
and all the munitions of war that could
be moved South, joined JEFF Davis and
the Hamburg people of South Carolina
and endeavored to set up an improved
Democratic government. That com.
bination was the new Democratic
party which tries to make the
South unit, and takes to its hear;
copperheaded and white feathered leaders
like Hendricks and Tilden. The bottom
Of the reasonable and experimental gov
eminent was knocked out by the per
sisteat blows of Union soldiers, but the
great principles of States rights and
negro subjugation remain When the
Confederate-D Democrats set UP business
they had scarcely gold enough to pay
the officers Of the concern, and were
obliged to issue notes to the stock
holders The notes were issued much as
Tilden issued his iron mine money tickets
in Michigan, payable ir groceries when
the wagon arrives The Confederate
! notes We're payable in SO many months
| after the declaration Of peace between the
United States and the Confederate-Demo-
cratic party, and they are as good to-day
as they ever WERE
The credit system is still continued. 4
convention at st. Louis draws on New
York barrel of money and Western pa
per balloon. The convention is the
drawer, names the conditions, puts up
the shutters and waits for the letter of
acceptance. The nominations were the
bills of exchange. Neither the hard nor
soft financial man would accept at sight,
but both have finally endorsed after
thirty days, payable in kind after election.
The platform promises everything and
the promising candidates promise to pay
in promises after either of them shall
have been put in Office by the party Of
short hair and loud voice.
Being men Of widely different records,
the one tricky little railroad sharp and
Tammany ballot-box suffer. bidding for
Wall street and stock-gamb.ing favor, the
other statesman, with pronounced in
aation principles, the acceptors were
long time agreeing upon concerted action.
They finally agree that Tildeu has no OBJ
lection to specie payment, and Hendricks
thinks, upon the whole, that he is right.
As political platforms are always taken
down after an election, and fled away
with old lumber, the hard and soft men
agree to agree that they will stand by the
st. Louis lumber, and their letters Of
agreement and acceptance are satisfactory
to the two component parts Of the Demo-
cratic party-those who know that the St.
Louis platform and the letters mean
and those who have no under |
standing or idea of what they might mean
if honest.
The acceptance business and credit sys-
tenn comes down in the Democratic line |
from candidates nomination for the |
highest Office within the gift Of the people |
to the promise Of a boost as alderman Of |
bis native village. The man who is prom
sed al elective Office is required to say
few words Of encouragement to the men
who expect positions through him by ap.
pointment.
General Nichols, who could not have
It the time known much about the Baton
Rouge platform, accepted at sight, and,
crippled as he was, knocked the whole
party machinery to pieces by saying that,
f elected, he should be Governor of the
whole people; that be had no friends to
avor and no wire-pullers to reward. That
vas the idea gathered from his virtuous
maiden speech He promised to do Justly
" all if ever he had a chance. Tha. was
lot exactly what was wanted, as it left
many of the party in the predicament Of
he Irishman at court. The Judge told
i'm to be quiet and he should have JUS
ice. That's what I'm afraid of, yer
!onor; ye might be afther hanging me-"
The boys know how to fix Nichols. He
J good man to pull up a dead weight
icket, but they talk of Offering him the
ugar plum OF the United States Senate
ttsr the State election, in case be should
g made Governor. That would rid the ex-
cutive Office OF man who talks Of giving
1stice to all men, and Of making appoint
lents according to the capacities of APP
ointees and necessities of the positions
D be filed.
The Picayune has seen letter to a
ameless friend, il which General
,icholls says lie would not go to the SEN
te if he could. It does not appear that
le Pioayune has been authorized to de.
line the senatorship for General Nichols,
nd the unwarranted publication of pri-
ate letter to al anonymous man does rot
e.tle the matter. Il is not safe for Gov
rnor to say what he will or will not do.
suppose he is elected to the Senate by a
Democratic Legislature He will either
lump on to Washington and take his
eat or be addressed out of the Governors
flee, and then the gray will be on deck !
gain.