The New Orleans Democrat., 1876-08-13

and Twelfth Wardet y. NJ. Brooks
4 Tenth Ward, Dan Waddell. sea .fs4
The convention will be very large In
numbers; |; perhaps the largest OUTSIDE
organized for the campaign. " ~
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4 s PUBLIC OPINION. al@.
On the whole, though IL IL a great
shame that Belknap should have got off
In this way, we do not so much regret
the farcical termination Of the affair.
For rascals like him-and he is q type
OF, . rascals Of the day In p.oIititics--
by Senators, and opened with prayer.
are altogether too pompous. The place
for them Is the dock OF criminal court.
and the proper form Of procedure a
common indictment for crime, and the
proper body to try them common jury.
The Nation Und.)
Several Republican journals find
themselves shocked at the vile manner
In which the whole Democratic press
has turned to abusing Carl Schurz, after
petting him 80 daintily for four yearS.
| Undoubtedly, it Is a great shame; bat
the files OF Republican jounals Indicate
opinions OF the talented German leader
which are quito as tickle, Perhaps
| Utica Herald (Rep.)
The ticket Is Cooper and Gary. It Is
too alliterative to be successful. There
Is too much 90" ABOUT It. Unless the
voters Of the country are half-seas over,
probably the ticket will not receive an
alarming vote. We have uniformly said
third parties" that they were wasting
their energies. Cincinnati Enquirer
(Dem.)
Gov. Chamberlain denial that he
asked Grant for soldiers has placed the
President In a very ridiculous position,
after rushing his bloody-shirt message
| into the Senate. The Administration Is
mad--very mad--and Chamberlain will
now be blackguarded by the two Wash
ington organs. The Administration
gauges a mans Republicanism by the
frequency Of hts demands for troops.
Kellogg, Of Louisiana, understands the
game very well, and has thus main
tained his standing in the party
| [Courier.J Journal Dem.)
Grant Ia no worse than the party. He
Is the outgrowth Of a venal system
which Congress created partly In the
interest Of those who shaped the legis-
lation, and partly to appease the ava
rice and the ambition OF the President.
They made common cause together,
and opened the doors wide to extrava-
gance, corruption, waste and specula-
tion, until the collapse came and the
whole thing exploded. Now, they are
fighting to save all that is possible from
the wreck, by resisting economy In
every form and threatening the peoples
representatives. GRAM Is master Of the
situation, and the party dare not offend
him.-[New York Sun (Dem.)
Somebody writes letter to the New
York Herald for the extraordinary pur-
pose Of proving that Grant gave all his
strength In the Cincinnati Convention
to Blaine. Nothing could be more alb
surd. It Is too we'll known to need
proof, that the Grant crowd voted for
Hayes, and that he actually owes his
nomination to them. This effort to
make IL appear that the Grant vote
went for Blaine shows that the Republi-
cans know that Hayes is greatly weak
Q ed by being known as Grants candi-
date. But since II Is true 1t cannot be
helped. .-[St. Louis Republican Dem.)
| Gen. Butler Is encouraged by the
resurrection OF the old battle-cries, the
bloody shirt and skeleton machinery,
I to lift his banner In his old district for
Congress. He has been solicited by
many admirers to accept the nomina-
signal response. He will tell all he
knows about Confederate wiles, and will
remind his district that IL he had been
in Congress last winter, there wouldn't
! have been so much stoning OF the saints
as Jim" Blaine permitted. He will
make strong race and enliven things
| In the Bay State, where Danaism and
Adamsism are lulling "the boys" into
the pokiest kind OF respectability. OF
course Gen. Butler supports our brother
Hayes. Gen. Butler wants all Of Grant
eral waxed rich and grew into fine man.
sions In Observation-Disclosures Times
Und.)
The answer OF Gov. TildeR and other
defendants concerned In the st. Louis,
Alton and Terre Haute Railroad Com
pany transactions, Is long, but per-
spicuous and to the point. It shows that
the company was immensely benefited
by the accession OF Gov. Tilden and his
friends to its control. The transactions
in the stock were individual acts and
not those Of trustees. The amounts
paid Mr.. Tilden for legal servicesIwe
were less than they might justly have
been made. In short, there is no ap-
parent occasion for the mud-throwing
about this business In which some OF
Gov. Tilden's opponents have 80 vigor-
ously INDUCED. IN. Y. Tribune Qnd.)
BY their fruits we shall know them
The Republicans have had complete
control for years Of such States as Mis-
sissippi and South Carolina. The Re-
publican party has first RECONSTRUCTED"
these States to suit itself; and then re-
constructed its own reconstruction.
What is the result by the showing Of
publican press? Almost every speech
made by any OF their public men, almost
every leader in their papers, has told
the same story for weeks past. The Re-
publicans insist that the South Is given
up to disorder and anarchy, and that
the killing Of negroes is an every
day matter. particularly in the States
which are absolutely under Republican
control. Either the Republicans lie, or
they tell the truth. Our own belief is
that they lie. But II they tell the truth,
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