New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-07-13
R0uNn TO SAY.


fore existing under the style and form OF
the Democratic Conservative party must
make settlement or an assignment 1t
is impossible to conduct the business fur
Their. Their sole common stock consists
in the charge of dishonesty and extrava-
gance against the Republicans. These
have been both refuted by the nomination
of Packard, the contamination OF the
funding policy. and the reduction OF the
State debt and taxes
The concern must then say whether
thew intend to sustain the laws OF the
land or resist them; whether they will
stand by the capital and labor invested
in the culture of sugar and rice; whether
thew are content for the interests of Lou
isiana to be snubbed and snuffed out by
Congress. 1t even seems that the honor
of having worsted the law and overthrow
the government will be controverted IN
the convention. A correspondent OF the
Bulletin declares that Mr.. Penn
Never conceived, never advised. never
planned, never organized the swift CAM
palpn Of the fourteenth of September
against the vile despot, Kellogg.
It is, moreover, argued as an objection
to Mr.. Penn that he
Not only sustained the compromise with
Kellogg, but (see the PicGyune OF October
last) opposed the assembling of the people
of Louisiana in peaces BILE convention for
fear they might interfere with the comprO-
mise and even went to the extraordinary
extent of prOolaiming that the compromise
was the logical sequence Of the fourteenth
of September.
Mr.. Penn is also charged with having
declined to celebrate the anniversary of
the fourteenth of September, 1874. This
correspondent claims to know the spot
where the revolution-which did not
prove revolution after all-had its
birth; he :'knew all-everything: about
it. he signs himself "a real believer in
the fourteenth of September" Somehow,
though not strictly in the tone Of this
article, We suspect that this believer was
not himself under fire. 1t has always
been your bonb-proof civilian or Pa
risian observer who knew most about
military movements. We somehow im-
agine from the calm and savage
severity with which this White League
historian comments upon those who
were so exposed, that he was not in the
line of battle on that day. This Real
Believer" contrasts General Ogden with
Mr. Penn, greatly to the damage OF the
latter in the esteem of the White
Leaguers. "Real Believer believes that
McEnery is entitled to the nomination,
and such, he thinks. is the wish Of Gen.
eral Ogden and thousands of others. y
While the latter does not seek the nomi-
nation, should that honor be crowded on
him, IF he is elected he ,oiN talce the seat. "
If he is elected according to law, Mr..
Ogden will be escorted to his seat by his
predecessor and installed with the appro-
baton of all. But We infer from the
italics used that he intends to tabulate the
returns and take the seat any way. How
is this to be done? Real Believer" says
it will be
just as he led thu little army to victory
on the fourteenth of Sep TENDER.
This s'little army" did nothing except
to send a few brave and misguided young
s'real believers and policemen who stood
to their arms to premature burial. but a
few companies of United States troops
stopped the revolution. Mr.. Penn is not
the only citizen who sees the folly OF re-
sisting the national authority. 1t would
not, perhaps, be as easy for such "real be-
levers" as plan the capture Of Office to get
as many soldiers together in a similar
cause. The examples of Coushatta, Fell
ciana and Of Mississippi have taught the
Republicans that it does not do to see the
time return when General Ogden
whipped Kellogg out Of his boots with a
few poorly armed men" Perhaps the re-
suit of such "a revolution" may be more
serious.
These differences thus stated must be
met. The P;cayune undertakes to insist
that the campaign must be waged with
peace That such issues as that Of Sep
tember must be avoided. The advocates
of Mr.. McEnery and General Ogden deny
and denounce the decision Of the election
by the vote Of the people. They demand
that it shall be determined as a resort to
arms. They refuse in advance the returns
to be published according to law, and if a
White League candidate shall be elected
in the opinion Of his friends "he scM take
the seat with his little army"
The Baton Rouge Convention is bound
to say whether it means to abide by the
law or resort to anarchy. We do not
suppose that these military chieftains
know or care about railroads or levees.
We can not expect they should occupy
themselves about the ''ruinous tariff or
the financial question. We may suppose
the schedule of these White League
leaders would be pretty much that
of General Porfrio Diaz-to de-
nounce the government as an out
rage: to march on the capital,
capture the government and dictate con-
stitution. All common objection to the Re-
>or&v Gov oil