New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1877-03-13

curing such appointments, the Last Ditch
regency will come in and so direct the acts
and patronage of the helpless Conserva-
tive incumbent that, while all the respon-
sibility of official maladministration will
rest upon the Conservative godfathers, the
Last Ditchers will monopolize the sub
stantial influence of the Office. We again
cite the conservative speech of Mr..
Nichols. He was eminently conservative.
He had beaten the Last Ditchers under
Mr.. McEnery, and yet the first and latest
gift in the hands of Mr.. Nichols was be-
slowed on his antagonist and political an
tipode.
What do the Conservatives want
They will say, an honest administration,
with competent incumbents of all offices.
Very well; let them give their approval to
the Republicans who meet this condition.
They wish national policy for the repa-
ration of levees and commercial access to
the Pacific. Why, then, do they give
their support to party which, with ma
jority of more than sixty members of
Congress, have not done Louisiana this
justice? When they are told by Demo-
cratic Representative in Congress that he
looks to new House, in which the Dem
ocratic majority will be reduced to little
or nothing, for the grant of those rights,
is it not obvious that the Republican
party and policy can alone obtain for a
Democratic Representative those con-
sentative measures which he does not ex-
pect from his own party. Let, then, the
Conservatives dissolve this discOrdant
alliance with the malignant and OBJ
structive Democracy. They can find
Senator among the Republicans, honora-
bic, able, and pledged TO the success OF
those measures for which Louisiana is
suffering. With large majority of Re-
publicans pledged on prime iple to a fair
apportionment of the national appropria-
ton, the support of that body may be Sc
cured. The small Democratic majority
in the next House OF Representatives will
be annihilated because enough Southern
members cldSsed as Democrats 1oU cote for
the Ievee and the railroad. The ConserVa-
tives will find at the head of the govern
ment Western man, favoring the Missis-
sippi valley, instead ola New Yorker work.
ing with the railroads tapping and cross
ing the Mississippi valley. They will find
a statesman of the Wing school advocating
protection levees as a means Of giving
more productive force to the national
specie staples. They will find friend of
the protective tariff maintaining the duty
on sugar and rice, instead Of politician
pledged to repeal the present tariff as ga
masterpiece of injustice, inequality and
false pretense." They will find states
man who will demand for the Mississippi
valley foreign postal service departing
from the port of New Orleans, instead of
New Yorker who prefers that city to hold
its present monopoly of this service, and
who will oppose any rival steam lines to
Southern port as he would oppose all
rival railroads to Southern terminus
We can not see why the Conservatives
should not give notice to the Democratic
rattlesnake that they intend to terminate
the joint occupancy of the political den
of which they have been denizens for
some years past. They should do so, and
propose conditions of Republican qualif-
cation for office which which will assure
their honorable and able political ASSOC
ciates competent to make every reform
and render effectual every measure of
public welfare which the Conservatives
demand, and the Democracy has proved
incompetent to secure them.