New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-09-02
SHOTGUN CAMPAIGN,

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The REPUBLICAN, was justified by the
new rule Of shotgun suffrage in adopting
the expressive terms of description which
heads this article. It is more especially
significant of the present than Of any
preceding campaign. The Democratic
organization adopts all the amendments
1t signifies the abandonment of sectional
ism by nominating New England at
torney. It manifests its devotion to the
law by defeating the most prominent
White Liners in the South, and putting
| up such blinds as Hampton and Nichols.
It invites the colored vote as the robber
with the musket solicited the traveller for
.alms in the name Of Cod" In this
State the disguise adopted by the Demo-
cratic party is as thin as that worn by the
Coushatta assassin.
We quoted the advice given according
to the Shreveport programme to ''go for
the white Republicans. This was accom-
panied by the news that Sheriff Dinkgrave
had been assassinated at Monroe with q
degree of Goodness and judgment" not
excelled by the dastardly unknown OF
Coushatta. The New Orleans Times at
tempts to certify that "politics had
nothing whatever to do with the affair, "
as fully substantiated by voluntary
statement from 80 gentleman who was .
resident of Monroe from early childhood
until several years ago when he came to
this CITY," The gentleman says that
eight years ago Dinkgrave in self-defense
shot man named Wimberley, and was &C.
Quilted. The brother of kimberley was
heard to swear he would kill Dinkgrave
sooner or later. He moved out of this
State and has not been heard of since
We really suppose that no one except q
sensation reporter or a Democratic con-
gressional subcommittee could draw such
an extraordinary inference from such
premises.
A man living in New Orleans for many
years past assumes to say that murder
committed by man not known was per-
petrated by particular man, as the re-
suit of vendetta that had slept for eight
years. Excluding all other men and all
other possible causes, the Times assumes
that this anonymous and utterly irrele-
want theory substantiates the assertion
that politics had nothing to do with the
matter. It was thus the Democratic sub
committee certified that the unknown
man who assassinated King and mutilated
Mr.. Twitchell was not influenced by
political motives. We can not imagine
upon what canon of logic or evidence
those who neither identify the murderer
nor his motive assume that the murder
was committed by particular man, or
that a motive altogether unknown was
not political, when, being unknown, it
might as we'll have been instigated by
political motive as by any other?
It is not unusual with the police, when
they see some near relatives of murdered
person, especially ready with theory Of
the murder which either exculpates them
selves or eliminates some one else, to
watch the theorist with suspicion, and
sometimes this ingenious individual sud-
denly feels the handouts upon his own
wrist as principal or accessory in the MUIR
der which he has just explained away.
The Times subjects itself to this suspicion
of an extra swift witness, and need not
be surprised if its extreme readiness to
furnish an alibi for the Democracy should
be construed into connivance to protect
them from inquiry. We must again re-
mind the Democracy that neither the fact
nor the motive of these murderous deeds
can be concealed. The circulation of the
press may be limited by ostra-
cism, the voices of an inundated people
may be feeble, but these cowardly and
cruel deeds have as certainly cried out
to civilization and humanity as did "the
blood of righteous Abel" All this cruel
and unmanly catalogue of political muir
ders from Coushatta to Hamburg have
been chronic.ed. They have gone by the
powerful pulsations Of the Republican
press throughout this broad Union and
into foreign lands. In the farmhouses
and workshops of the West, in the mines
Of Pennsylvania and California, in the
railroad cars of the plains, the bread
ships of the lakes, the canal boats of the
Hudson, these deeds are read. The work.
men and work women of New York, New
England and of humane Pennsylvania
read aloud to their fellows these testimo-
nials Of unregenerated sectionalism. The
Bulletin of yesterday publishes the vio-
lence of Cincinnati Republican meeting.
Is it worse than the daily utterance Of the
White Leagues? Our Democratic con-
do not appreciate this power
Of the Republican press
They seem to fatter themselves that
The Republican and veritable version of |
these murders is not accepted and dis
'eminated by this press. 1t seems to be |
that the plea or pretensions of |
he party which profits by these murders
md intimidation will accompany and |
the horrible and specific de-
ails of murder. Such palliations are
and the deeds themselves, in
heir naked and unvarnished enormity, |
ire placarded in every hotel aud railway
tation, and it is only by ignoring or con-
lemning these horrible deeds that the |