New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-08-04
VOLUME X.---NO. SO.
POLITICAL NOTES.

POLITICAL NOTES.
Cons rest on this tcsom my own nigger dear
Though the carpet basgers have ied thy home Is
still here;
The shotg un is hidden and the neart overcast;
The Lesguer's heart and Land are thine TO the
lati
Oh. what vert thou made for, ii It's not the same,
Through 10Y and through torments, through glory
and shame?
know not ask not if quilts in thy heart,
know that love thee, Niger wherever thou art
Thou hast called me thy master in moments of
Still thy master r Il be mid the horrors of this
Through the caneDrakes, unshl sking thy steps
to pursue
To kill thee OF slave thee or perish there too
Isl OLD FRANCO.
TIE absorbing subject among local poll
ticians is the coming contest for city and
parish nominations. 1t vexes the anti
Republican leaders By day and troubles
their dreams by night. They see II it po
litical .Scylla and Chary bdis-a narrow
and dangerous current with ''short-
haired and destructive monster on the one
hand, and An all-devouring and insatiate
respectable cid" property grabber on
the other. The bark launched and 80
trinity set asailing at Baton Rouge is in
danger of disastrous wreck; fer neither OF
the opposing forces can be lul!ed into re-
Taxation of vigilance, cor diverted from the
expected prey.
So far, the "bummer" element, otherwise
the "Wiltz ring" have the best of the fight;
for the combination holds we'll together.
notwithstanding the defeat Of its chief OBJ
iect In this combination the principal
offices are already supposed to be appor-
toned out among its managers; which
being generally admitted, shows how COM
pact and thoroughly drilled the rank and
fle must be. in so much as this bold distri
button Of prizes appears to have created no
revolt. Excepting in the second ward, We
have heard Of no serious disintegration of
the "short-haired" element which stood so
solidly, and was so ably generated in the
late State contest. Nor is there any likeli-
hood Of serious inrosds being made in the
ranks of combination flushed with past
victories, welding the party machinery,
and with well-detined chances of victory
By delaying nominations until it is too late
to organize in solid phalanx the opposing
factions, it's chance for seizing all the
offices, and thus rewardirg the patriotic
labors of its projectors and supporters is
we'll nigh certainty.
1t we were addicted to wagering, the
stake would be put up on the boys" Vive
L. for and tbhu;D-
,ner'' rule
When the White Liners called a mass
meeting at Coushatta to order Mr.. Sheri-
dan. the newly appointed tax collector to
decamp-cut stick-leave-two or three
colored men slipped into tie courthouse
under the protecting wing of an officer OF
the United States army, who had been in
yired to "spectate."
After the proceedings had become pretty
warm. one of these colored citizens, Abe
Bosley 1--WE think this is the namel, a col
ored planter OF wealth and influence, rose
to point of order" Addressing the chair
man. he said:
Mr. President, is this Democratic Con-
aervative. Republican, or a taxpayers
meetlng9'
President-"It is taxpayers meeting"
Bosley-''Then would like to state that
represent some five hundred coiored tax
payers of this parish who have not been
consulted or invited to take a hand in these
proceedings"
This was a sumner for moment but
finally one young gentleman sprang to his
feet and declaring that his "father-in law
paid more tax than any ten negroes in the
parish" peremptorily ordered Bosley to
hush up, adding that if he again interfered
with the "citizens" he would not be allowed
to come into town at all.
Bosley retorted that he would come in
next November with 900 colored votes for
the Republican ticket-a boast that it is
feared may cost him his life at the hands OF
some mysterious "green-goggled' horseman
1t ia right to add that the Baton Rouge
platform was not adopted until day or
two after this occurrence. Of course Bos-
lev can pin that on his sleeve, and charm
the Red River ruf1ians into respectful con-
sideration of his rights.
The word tsspectate,' used above, was
coined because we did not wish to be
outdone by the colored delegate at the st.
Charles Theatre, who described Governor
Warmoth as the ''soonliest' man in the
party to give aid and comfort to coiored
men in the country.
The Republican campaign committee is
doing vigorous and effective work, and the
result is apparent in the healthy and con.
6dent tone of the responses from the par
iahes The party will 60 into this campaign
with solid front and absolutely unbroken
ranks-which never before has been the
case in Louisiana. In 1868 there existed
scarcely an organization; in 1870 the Chris
tian Republican movement caused some de-
fection and considerable inertia: in lS'a
and 1874 the unfortunate effort to iberalize
Democracy carried over to the enemy
numb Der of the best workers and campaign
managers. This is all ended now, and every
man who is opposed to the destructive and
proscriptive policy Of the Bourbons will be
found in the victorious Republican phalanx
next November.
That Bogus Dispatch.
The p;couune and Times have evidently