New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-07-21

away his ammunition before the actor
begins, and will keep his limbers full un
til the battle shall have been delivered
The manner in which Mr.. McEnery be-
comes party to this important question
Of strategy is little curious. Mr.. J. E.
Austin is suddenly moved by the rumo,
that during the candidacy for Gov
ernor' Of Mr.. McEnery-
Francis j. Heron, of Returning Board
notOriety. made a proposition TO you to
serve in your interest on the Returning
Board, provided you would secure to him
the office of recorder of mortgages Of this
parish IN consideration of his services in
your behalf, and that you declined his
offer after consultation with me. to whom,
! 1t is alleged. You had promised the said
office, being unwilling to release you from
your obligation.
This offered Mr.. McEuery an excellent
opportunity to show that be has never
done and never will do anything of the
! sort. he AYERS
l assert, upon my honor, that I never
pledged myself to appoint Major Austin 70
this or any other office, nor was l ever
pledged to appoint any man to office.
This declaration purges Mr.. McEnery
completely of any such imputation.
We can not, however, in looking to the
letter from Heron to Dear Captain
Sinnott, see that it throws the slightest
imputation upon the moral escutcheon
Of Mr.. McEnery. Heron was Secretary
Of State, and ex otiicio member of the
Returning Board. he wrote the letter on
the third of September, 1872, and was
removed from Office on ''the fourteenth of
November, at 10 A. NJ" The causes
alleged, were: l. That his Office was va
cant by expiration Of commission 2.
That he was ineligible for reappointment.
for alleged default in another Office.
That he offered himself as candidate
for recorder of mortgages does not seem
to have abridged his doleful days at
all. But doubly ineligible he could not
have had any influence in the election
decision, and the letter was of no i'm
portance until it was put in and au-
thenticated by the Fusion interest, Jan.
uary 90, 1873, before the investigating
committee, as an evidence of the political
dep-avity of Heron. That the PROPOSE
ton was regarded so shameful or 50 in
signiiean. that it had never been exposed
before, has never been held to implicate
Mr.. McEnery who was in no sense a
party to it. Indeed, even in these super
scrupuious days it is difficult to tell in
what consisted the corruption Of Heron.
he had marked the official scalp lock OF
an opponent, and gave notice that be in
tended to take it to himself Heron
simply inscribed his name as high on the
merit roll as he could reach. Heron ap-
pears merely as zone who loved his
feliow-men' and would administer the
record and foreclosures Of their mort
cages for them. He could have intended
no fraud. for none, according to his views,
was necessary. Heron was evidently a
man of sanguine temperament He wrote,
"Dear Captain" Sinnott from New York
that the mere intelligence of Fusion" in
Louisiana 'makes the election of the
combined ticket certainty" From the
centre of national news he announces
"there is no sort of question about the
election Of Greeley, though the Grant
people are making great exertions."
Now, why should there be any suspicion
of fraud in the intelligence that he would
perform the official service of confirming
the certainty Of this Fusion election and
certifying the result Of this walk over :?
As in point Of fact Heron never acted
with the Democratic returning board to
which Mr.. McEnery owed his certificate,
nor with that which reported in favor of
Mr.. Kellogg, his aspirations were of no
consequence, and his subsequent appoint
ment to Office could not have been due to
his manipulation" Of the registers as it was
then called. But We do not write of him
as a party before the public. We con-
slider Mr.. McEnery fully indicated from
any imputation in the matter by his own
declaration, and that of Mr.. J. E. Austin.
He will 60 before the convention the |
equal in political integrity of Mr. Wilt
or anybody else, and so far from having,
like al improvideut heir, squandered his
patronage before he has come into its |
is now full handed, and will |
so continue until the verdict Of the people
shall have assured him Of something sub
stantial to bestow. Thus far the prin-
cipal prizes are undrawn, and the Demo-
cratic club policy shops can sell up to
.he last nom nt 'Any time while the |
oaii's-a-rollin'. Step up gemmen, now's
ro,,r fimo ="