New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-09-02
VOLUME X.-NO. Il
POLITICAL MOTIFS.

POLITICAL NOTES.
The mysterious horseman who, in the
heart of town, murdered that respected
Republican leader, DR.. Dinkgrave, like his
prototype Of the Twitchell- King crime, got
away without any apparent difficulty. 1t
is only the ''nigger" who killed hog in
the woods that can be caught at any con-
venient subsequent time, identified and
hung by indignant citizens to the nearest
tree.
Mr.. Dan Sullivan takes to task Colonel
Patton, and the Democratic State Central
Committee generally, as they deserve. Mr..
Sullivan is president Of the Eighth Ward
Club, and Mr.. Miles Riordan has been ap-
pointed United States supervisor without
his consent. This is one OF the most sggra-
waited insults We have ever known during
long intimacy with political affairs. Mr..
Sullivan exposes, in q card in the Picayune,
the whole vile plot against the party, and
shows, too, that Riordsn has the audacity
to be the brother Of q man who is clerk in
asked. "Csn such things be9'
The opposition press, the Bulletin es-
pecially, has borne down, so far, too hardly
upon the newly appointed supervisors of
registration. 1t is not in q moment that
they can acquire perfect familiarity with
the complex laws and regulations govern
ing our system, and it is far better to start
slow and correctly, than by rash haste run
into all sorts of Irregularities. The journal
named above says that "though only open
two days." the officers were ebstructing the
registration of voters, and cited an in
stance of citizen who had been detained
an hour because the registrar did not know
how to act when the case was one merely
of change Of residence.
Would it not have been fairer to attribute
this to the fact that the supervisor had only
been in Office two days. especially as in the
adjoining wards, on the same day, the Dem
ocratic supervisor closed the registration
Office entirely until this identical question
could be referred to the chief State super
visor for settlement!
Those who are so exacting for fair play
should at least be willing to manifest a lit
tie of it.
The Democrat alleges that police canvas
sers visit the houses of citizens during
the absence of the male members with
"ominous documents, to impress the belief
that they are after the individual they ask
for to arrest him." in the hcpe that the re-
sponse will be that he does not live there.
And "thereupon they make thei. report to
that effect to the registrar, who grasses the
name from his books"
We pronounce this, upon authority,
wholly and unqualifiedly false, and chal-
lenge proof Of single instance of such
procedure.
Republicans, be on the qui rice. Let not
the naturalization frauds Of 1874 be repeat
ed. In that year Of memorable outrages,
minors and incompetent foreigners were in
scores taken to the Second District Court
and given citizens rights in contravention
of law, or even of decent regard for appear
ances. The same individuals swore, as wit
nesses, to the qualifications of dozens Of
persons of all nstionalities, who were made
American citizens. Let the Republican COM
lent list. The court records furnish all
requisite data. 1t is not too late yet to
punish this gross crime against the govern
ment. At any rate let the frauds be culled
out, and NO votes be cast on such papers
Few of these are in the hands of original
owners. Every foreign born citizen, who
has been honestly and legally made such,
should assist, from motives of self-respect,
in ferreting out these rascalities.
Governor Hahn has always been 80 ''con-
servstive'' as to keep his strictest party
friends in hot water, and was ever ready to
do kindness for or extend . courtesy to q
political opponent. The Democrat is trying
to teach him how Democrats appreciate
such consideration, and we suppose it
speaks as the official organ of the State
committee.
The political dissension among the st.
Landry Democracy has resulted in one
serious misfortune-the enforced retirement
of the late Speaker Estilette to private life.
He was urged to accept denomination for
the Legislature, but having congressional
aspirations, refused. The action of the
Democratic State Convention in seating
both of the contesting delegations from his
parish on half vote, defeated what was
o<Lo,rr;.a n ~ oaaurod anoooaa for q p1oca m
the ticket as the competitor of Mr.. Nash.
Thus is he left out of the race, although
the people of St. Landry desire his candi-
dacy, and W ould cheerfully vote for him.
We repeat that it is q misfortune to
Louisiana that Mr.. Estilette is not to sit in
the next Legislature. A man OF high
order of ability, strict integrity, courage
and moderation, he has earned this slight
expression of esteem from political op-
ponent, and the present appears not an
unseemly moment for it's utterance.
It don't take much to ostracise man
among the eighth ward Democracy. To
have brother in the employ of . Repub
lican official appears sufficient.
The Times chief regret at the murder of
DR.. Dinkgrave, the loved and respected
Republican leader, in Monroe, appears to
be that it was "most ill timed" and cslcu-
lated to interfere with Democratic political
prospects. Mysterious horsemen, with re-
heating firearme, please take notice.