New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-09-30
POLITICAL NOTES.

POLITICAL NOTES.
Msjor ]. e. Austin has been North CLEAN.
ing political knowledge. He says the Dem
ocrats will carry Ohio by as large msiori-
ty ~ they do Indiana, . ststeme in which
We can heartily concur. The Major learned
some other dissgreeable truths, if we may
judge BY the following humiliatiDg state
ment. which We clip from his interview"
with . Democrat reporter:
The DomOcrats North lind it almost nec-
essary to apologize for the presence of
prominent Southern men among them, and
tor the unanimous support OF Tilden BY the
South.
What can excuse or explain this admitted
humiliation Of Southern men, except the
hope and intention to wrest the powers of
government from their cringing Northern
allies should Democracy win control of the
government The ''unsnimous support of
Tilden" means the absolute control of the
Tilden government, and no apologies for
the presence of prominent Southern men,
can blind the North to this fact.
Jo. Craig has turned up again. For some
weeks his club and his contribution books
have been retired from public view, but
suddenly he arises from the depths of his
impecuniosity freshly made martyr. The
Democratic press teens with adjectives
and exclamation points inteded to repre-
sent outrsge= put upon this scaly old fraud
by Republican negroes, but the very simi-
lsrity in the statements stamp the whole as
"put up job" to deceive.
Why don't tho Democratic committee re-
port upon the former outrsges on Craig 7
Or Why don't Craig make afidsvits against
his oppressors, and then the over-ready be-
levers of tho Democracy will have chance
to sec whore the truth comes in.
The most casual observer can pick out an
eleventh ward msn-a Democrat-by the
length Of his "physog" 1t hundred yards
distance. With eleven solid votes to swap
and to trade, tho extremely shrewd and
knowing leaders 90 managed to boggle and
quarrel that they left their large and reallv
deserving Democratic constituency actually
without representation ON the "What 10
Iti" ticket. An eleventh wsrder 10 the
synonym of 'left, !" "goosed" and bounced
in the vernacular of the day; and when the
bosses try to explain that if Smith had
done this, or Jones done that, all might
have been we'll, he is told to ''chin it in an
ear trumpet" by the disgusted boys.
All tho eleventh ward Democrats, how
ever, do not propose to be served up "a
sacr,fcial lambs. Following the example
of clubs in other wards, the MCCARTHY
Guards" ON Thursday night passed . reso.
luton fatty repudiating the What is Ita''
| ticket, and called for . conference with
| izations with which it has been in political
alliance. The outcome will give new and
practical support to the Independent OF
peoples ticket, which it is evident to all,
will now be put in the field at an early day.
The Italian organizations, which were 90
warmly clasped to the hearts Of Democratic
candidates and 90 carefully excluded from
| any official honors or emoluments, are rap
| idly disintegrsting. This class of our citi-
zens are not Democrats by impulse. %
the contrary, . very bad condition of things
must be impressed upon their convictions
/ to divert them from their natural Repub-
lican instincts. So marked slight BY the
Democratic convention a. the utter ignoring
of their worth, their intelligence and their
numbers, is . lesson that sinks deep in their
susceptible nature, and is bringing them to
. realizing sense of their proper affiliations
in our political contests.
There was . report of . hostile meeting,
on the field of honor, to take place to-day
between Messrs. Emile O'Brlen and J. B.
Gervais Arnault, growing ont of the blow
given BY the latter to the former for alleged
unfair conduct in the Democratic parish
convention. The police were last evening
ON tho alert, but NO definite information
was obtained.
The Democratic nominations for the Legia.
lature in the second, third and eleventh
wards are in contest. The peoples ticket
will settle these disputes on reform basis
A correspondent writes: "At the conven-
ton, when it was found out that Bishop
McCaffrey had received the nomination fol-
improvements. one prominent member OF
the short hairs, who is in the habit OF get
ting periodically excited, wanted to bet
that the church (mesning St. Joseph's new
church) would be built inside of six
months" What may be the special signi.
ficance of this bet we admit our inability to
fathom.
We apologize to Mississippi Fire Com
psny No. 2 for clipping it of its honors.
The REPUBLICAN, credited "Judge" Walter
Il. Rogers to No. IA. He. a. we'll as Messrs.
TAYLOR Gsuche and John Curry, belong to
No. 2, and but for the chance defeat OF