New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-11-02
THE REPUBLICAN SUPPORT OF THE m
DEPENDENT CITY TICKET.

THE REPUBLICAN, SUPPORT OF THE IN
DEPENDENT CITY TICKET.
The Independent press Of New Orlean
opposed the action of the turbulent and
rapacious Democratic convention. 1
protested against the nomination OF mez
without claim upon the party or the coun
try. It convinced the people that thu
Democratic convention was but formula
for calling the people together to indorst
q ticket, Of which Mr.. Fosdick says:
The officers to be nominated bad all beer
fixed up, and most of tho delegation.
pledged to tho interest Of particular indi
viduals.
This spirit of independence having beer
awakened and fostered by the independ.
ent press, could not be allayed by the
same power that had excited it. As the
wicked magician was sometimes supposed
to be torn to pieces by the power he had
imprudently evoked, so the independent
press has had its impotent wand broken
and thrown in its face by the Independent
people whom it had arrogantly assumed
to put Up or down like puppet.
This revolt of the Independent spirit
has been made notably manifest in the
resolute and respectable names which
have dared to demand the SURFACES of the
people. Upon one portion of the city
this fixing up" before the Democratic
convention has operated very harshly.
Our white fellow-citizens chiefly inhabit-
ing the city below Canal street are numer-
Gus, intelligent and wealthy. They once
governed the city, and for q long period
possessed so much influence that they
participated in the administration to an
extent at least equal to that of any other
nationality. The presidential election of
November, 1860, showed total of 10, 1853
votes in the city. This has been swollen
since to about thirty-ive thousand by
the accession of white numbers
and the emancipation of the
colored race. The Creole population to
which we refer has received no increase
from immigration. Their approximate
vote at the election of 1874 was, for the
wards below Canal street, including Al
giers or white, 11,248; Re-
publican, white and colored, 5000. The
aggregate city vote for that year was esti-
mated at 36,8S7. It will be seen that the
white vote of that part of the city was
about one-third Of the whole. We may
add for the Creoles elsewhere what We
will, and the political power of the white
Creole does not amount to forty per cent
If the whole city vote. The Democratic
disregard Of this important element is
7isible in the Democratic ticket.
It is far more obvious in the unclean
treets, broken bridges, clogged cutters;
q the want of water, and the fatal fires
'hich devastate the lower city from it's
entire to its suburbs This weakness Of
be Creole vote is manifest in the want Of
Employment of her people, and the want
contracts for the mechanics. It is
roved by the superior improvements and
lore liberal corporate expenditures in the
ther parts of the city. The Creole pop
lation may, therefore, see that while
icy sacrifice their local interests to Fed
al politics they are not recognized by
leir Democratic allies to the extent their
1mbers, wealth and intelligence de-
ands.
Suppose they should unite the whole
tie interested in an equal distribution of
@ repairs and patronage Of the city /.
his would give them q Republican
10 nearly equal to their own, or a solid
II of more than twenty thousand votes.
lere would then be conference with
her parts of the city, and a just con-
1eration would be shown to each and to |
i. We are aware the white voters be-
Y Canal street have been exasperated t
ainst the very name of Republican, but t
impartial examination of the pro- '
sssive policy of that party with the per- t
,al character of the general and local q
ket will convince them that the welfare =
the State and city will be promoted by b
success of its Republican and indie 6
adent candidates. o
The colored Republicans have at least s
much cause to dislike and dread the q
itical ascendancy of their white neigh b
IS; yet we have seen them voluntarily q
hdraw the Republican Endorsement '
IN the Independent ticket, at the same n
le that the Democratic nominees have | E
used to accept the votes of the colored v
publicans. In addition to the names T
Bourges, Vienne and other Creoles, t,
re seems to our mind signal evidence i,
the generosity and good faith in which
colored Republicans have acted to- n
d their white neighbors. Colonel =,
melville Marigny had been announced 70
N Independent candidate for criminal -,
riff. The Endorsement of the Recub- =,
ms caused the Democratic Committee -
MORN such of the parties Endorsed as .,
Q also upon the Democratic ticket that ~,
would be dropped and their assess ~
ats declared forfeited should they &C. ar
the Endorsement. These nominees ~
save four, among whom Oh
Colonel Marigny, who refused to obey az
lmperious mandate. The Repub- II
n support having been thus repudiated | s.
he Democratic nominees, that party ar,
'eeded to put ticket in the field. and h.