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

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primaries which We have already fixed.
It will occur to the majority of th
voters, however. that If anything is to b
done in this centennial year ito proven
tho national election from becoming
choice of evils" the men who have faile
are precisely those upon whom We mu:
call for help and counsel. 1t is no recon
mendation to . politician in these time
that he has kept on good terms with tn
and capacity for the arts which disgrac
public life under our model representativ
democracy. Professor Seelye truly said q
Mondays meeting that our great evil ia no
90 much population as political corruption
men who would refuse Q direct bride ar
not above bartering Offices and seekinI
political advancement by means utterl
ruinous to private and public moral
ity. We want statesmen who hav
advisers whom the party leaders of our de
generate day look upon as failures; whom
they would not tolerate in their Senate
whom they have treated as they did all tn,
great men of the past. Greeley was fail
ure, according to their standard of success
because he was too honest; Chase was
failure, Sumner was q failure, Schurz is
failure; The prosperous men are Spencer
and Morton, and Schenck, and Cameron
and Conkling. all of them in full communion
with the party and able to control the Us,
OF the party machine.
If either organization is to reform itsel
and renew its strength it will accomplish
chat result only by recalling to it's ranks thu
'sorehead" and college professors whom
the men inside politics now affect to regard
with 80 much contempt. They are of the
saving element in American society, and
We have seen what the profession of poll
tics becomes when they are driven out oil
| 1t. 1t 10 the parties that have failed; moi
| these men.
The Times. of course. has it's say, and
what it Gays is to be added to the utter.
ances of the other great dailies of the
American metropolis:
On the whole, We think it may be fairly
said that the conference which adjourned
yesterday has satisfied the demands of the
great majority Of those who were in sym
pathy with it's purposes, and has disap-
pointed those who expected rash and un.
reasonable action. Its work may be briefly
stated. 1t adopted an address to the people
of the country which stated clearly, and in
language fairly sustained by the facts, the
condition of politics with reference to re-
form; it presented q description of the kind
of men from among whom it hoped that
| . presidential candidate would be selected,
and also described class NO one of whom
it would willingly support. 1t declared
that it . satisfactory candidate were not
chosen by either of the party conventions,
1t would take further steps to put one in
the field, and i. provided for an executive
committee, charged with the duty of using
all proper means to secure good nOmipa-
ton through the regular organic atoms, and,
failing that, to call together the members
of the present conference, or to summon q
similar one. 1t also passed Q resolution
submitted by Mr.. Eaten, declaring the de-
termination of its members to secure, if
possible, the establishment Of q system of
regulations for the civil service which shall
require all minor appointments to be made
for fitness only, and all removals only for
the want of it. Finally, 1t refused to con-
slider any proposition TO designate Q candi-
date. or . list of candidates, for the presi-
dency.
There is no doubt that this action will
receive the hearty approval of q large
body OF good citizens throughout the c0un-
try. It 10 impossible to say exactly how
large the body is, or to what lengths they
are prepared to 60 in carrying out the line
of policy indicated by the conference.
But that there is large number who de-
sire to see first class candidate nominated
to the Presidency, who would greatly pre-
fer that the nomination should be made at
Cincinnati, but who, if it is not 90 made,
are prepared to risk the election of Dem
ocratic candidate, either By directly sup
porting him or by an independent move
ment, it is useless to deny. Relatively to
the 7,OOO. 900 or more of voters, who will
take part in the approaching election, this
number may not be very considerable but
relatively to the 300 900 or 400, 900 whe in
all probability will constitute the majority
on one eide or the other, and the still
smaller portion who may determine the
electoral vote, the number may be very i'm
pOrtant. The opinion of this class, there
fore, and the results which may flow from
the action which they feel themselves COM
PEELED to take can not be safely or reason
ably ignored by the Republican national
convention.
We may believe that, when all practi-
cable means have been exhausted to secure
q good nomination from the regular party
organization, it is the part of duty to choose
between the two candidates, one of whom
of the case, and We have already announced
our intention to support the candidate
whom the Cincinnati convention may name.
We have confidence enough in the moral
energy and in the honesty of the Repub
lican masses, and in the substantial efficacy
Of the organization by which they express
their purposes, to expect that no man will
be presented to them by their convention
who will not be incomparably superior
to any who can be presented by Democratic
agency subject to Democratic influences.
Considering, as every intelligent citizen
should, not only the men from among
whom the candidates Of the respective par
ties must be taken, talso the force which
each party would .ert on any candidate,
we are prepared to sy that it is morally
impossible for the Republican convention
to nominate man nder whom the govern
ment would not be Letter administered and
the country better served than under any
possible Democrat President
But it would be idlo to shut our eyes to
the fact that this vie v is rejected by q very
considerable numbe of men who have here
tofore acted with The Republican party,
and whose loss might give the presidency
to the Democratic ,arty. There is a por-
ton of the Republican party which is not
only sick of makiDe choice of evils-near-
~ all OF us are that-but who will no longer
consent to make thu choice by voting for
Republican because he is not SO undesirable
as Democrat. AMI since this is the case,
and since also, as was freely said in the con-
ference by several its leading speakers,
the Republican party has many men from
whom to take q candidate who will not
present that choice. it is the part of COM
mon prudence and common sense to respect
that fact.
We commend the above extracts to the
careful reading Of the voters Of both par.
ties in Louisiana. 1t is clear that the indie
pendent element at the North is still Re-
publican. 1t will be recognized at Cincin-
natl, for in the coming contest with South
ern sectionalsm the cause of nationality
can not afford to lose single vote.
Living Through the Tears Again.
In certain farmhouse twenty years ago !