New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-05-21

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May yet zee God, and heavenly glories win,
While We who scorned them mouth our creeds Il
vain
And may not enter in.
-woman's Journal.
he Spirit Of the Now YORK Press On
the Conferesce Meeting of Liberal anl
Independent Republicans.
The New York Herald of May II opens {
broadside of ridicule upon the conference
of Liberal and Independent Republicans
held ut tho Fifth Avenue Hotel in New
York on the fifteenth and sixteenth in
slant. Our New York correspondent, in
his letter published this morning, gives On
estimate Of the character and importance
Of that conference, which will serve to OK
plain the animus of the Herald According
to the REPUBLICAN, correspondent, the con.
ference was . success. and its efFect will be
to strengthen the Republican party BY 20
curing proper nominations at Cincinnati
This does not suit the Herald, Of course,
and hence the discomfort Of the American
''Thunderer." The World joins with the
Herald in attempting to break the force Of
the proceedings of the conferences:
The Adamses are certainly the enfants
tc,ribIes Of American politics. That Mr..
Charles Francis Adams has done the state
some service in his time, nobody can deny,
and nobody, indeed, eeems disposed TO
deny. But that service has been chiefly
rendered in foreign land, and in the dis.
charge of diplomatic duties during Q season
of great peril to the nation, in which Mr..
l. l.
sion for the display Ut those qualities which
seem to be inherent in the blood of his
family, and which, on the whole, have made
them from generation to generation very
much more formidable in domestic affairs
to their friends than to their enemies. Mr..
Charles Francis Adams con and namesake
proved himself true child of the house of
Quincy yesterday in the assembly of the
faithful, according to Carl Schurz, .'among
the faithlese, faithful only they" For
after Mr.. Schurz had read his sounding
address to the honest men of the United
States of all parties, and had defined it to
be the mte ntion Of his advisory council to
urge all honest men throughout the cOun-
try to join together in 'bringing the influ-
ence 6f patriotic public opinion to bear
upon" the nominating conventions of tho
two great political parties in the republic,
up rose Mr.. Charles Francis Adams. Jr.,
and waving of all the fine generslities OF
the address with nod Of careless approval,
brought the whole thing at once to its true
bearings by stating explicitly that he took
it to mean either the nomination of Mr.
Bristow by the Republicans or the nomina-
ton Of Mr.. Tilden by the Democrats. Either
of these candidates Mr.. Adams announced
that it would be possible for him, with self
respect, to support" If neither of these
candidates should be nomins ted, it would
then be the duty of selt-respecting men to
vote for some other candidate, who OBJ
viously must be neither q Republican,
since Bristow is the only Republican fit to
be voted for, nor vet Democrat, since Til
den is the only Democrat fit to be voted
for. 1t we exclude both the political par
ties in this way from the field. clearly
nothing remains for US save to vote for an
Adams, the political world of the United
States being divided into Republicans,
Democrats and Adamses. Whether it was
the desire of Mr.. Schurz and his friends in
calling thu advisory council to have it's in.
most inwardness thus fOrcibly and dis.
tinctly uttered. may be doubted. But if
Mr.. Schurz at least did not desire this, he
gave Us another proof of his incapscity in
practical politics when he made this cei-
tain to be done by f0olishly emitting to put
an Adams upon the committee fO-eOr.
dained TO prepare the address of his couu-
Gil to the country.
Whatever the secret wishes of Mr.. Schurz,
however, may or may not have been, the
thing has been done, and done effectually.
The country now knows and the leaders of
both parties now know, that the choice of
the American people for the next Presi-
dency must be limited to two citizens, and
two only. if the country is to receive the CO.
operation toward its salvation, of the gen.
tlemen who yesterday disbanded at the
Fifth Avenue Hotel. How this information
will be received by the country in general
we may pretty shrewdly guess, but it is not
necessary for US just at this moment to pre-.
dict How it will be received by the leaders
of the Republican party and by Mr.. Bris.
tow, who has thus been singled out as the
only honest and decent man left in
the councils of the organization with
which he cO-operates, we need not concern
ourselves to imagin 9. That it will be re-
celved BY the Democratic party and Gov
ernor Tilden with combined amusement
and indignation, we may very safely assert.
The assumption that Mr.. Carl Schurz has
been dlylnely appointed to sit in Judgment
upon the moral and intellectual qualitica-
tions OF ell the eminent American Demo.
cratic citizens who have earned the respect
Of their c0untrymen by their fidelity to
their own conceptions of public duty, and
in whose hands thousands of other Ameri-
can citizens would fearlessly see lodged the
highest functions of the State, is go exquis-
itely Iudlcrous, however, that indignation
must eventually give way to amusement in
right minded persons who assisted in the |
of this curious council,
while waiting for Mr.. Schurz to get his ad- |
dress ready to be read to them, and who |
will read it over again to-day in their news
papers with emotion and approval, can not |
ponder its moral aspects and pre- |
tensions, we are sure. without q sensation
Of something like shame. Interpreted prac
ideally, as Mr.. Adams interpreted and ap.
Piled it, it is simply piece Of prepcsterous
Impotence. Interpreted as q sermon, and |
IN appeal to all decent people to think |
seriously about their political duties at this |
critical time; to insist o. administrative re- |
Orm as the most important issue in the |
lext presidential contest, and tU give their |
Import only to honest men, and, therefore.
o the only party which can afford to put |
onest men into power, it is certainly
imely, a1d it ought to be useful, con-
ribution to the great political revival of
he day.
The Tribune comments upon the confer
nee thus:
1t ia made a reproach to the Independent
'eformers. whose address to the people we
rint this morning, that they are the men
mo have failed in politics and quarreled
nth both the great party organizations.
If. Carl Schurz could not lead the Senate.
n. David Wells was defeated as Q can
ldate for Congress. And if we scrutinize
10 roll OF the conference We find ministers,
40 enthusiasts, and college professors, and
great multitude OF other ''unpracticaIn
arsOns, who know no more about packing
convention or manipulating . caucus
IAN the average customhouso plaoeman
Rows about "Kant's Critique Of Pure Rea.
n" Hence it seems to be assumed not
lily that the conference can do noth;no