The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-02-23
a0ssIp In CHICAGO.
what II said There of The NJ. Louis
Hotel farce.
Account by a stranger Of the Situation
In new orleans.

Account by a stranger Of the Situation
| In new orleans.
tGhicago tI'mes.l
'paekard shot by u 'White4liner' and
by Postcards clerk, aud supposed to be
fatally iniuredl' Such was the pufport
of n startling "stiff" sent over the wires
on Yesterday afternoon from New Or
leatis. Crowds gathered around the
bulletin boards and ttickets," and
eagerly swallowed the CHASTITY news,
commenting thereon according TO their
political pfoclivities or common sense
mostly the former. Democrats re.
GREETED, the occurrence, and feared that
Ii would have bad effect on the
| Electoral Commission. Republicans
were evidently delighted. It was d for
tune for them In political way. Itgaye
them d new leHBe Of the bloody shirt,
and at the same time pitt out OF the way
| one of their tools whs had outlived bis
| usefulness and was liable to have d
reaetionary effect. Packard dead WAS
better to them than thousand Pack
ards living.
The first dispatches were exceedingly
| meagre, not even giving The outlines Of
the affair. They were, furthermore,
evidently eoneoeted for effect, the OBJ
vious effort being to create the impress
sion that Packard had been shot down
| In cold blood by Democratic eniissary
Later dispatches, while they were In
tentionally Indefinite, served to show
that the affair was either personal
row. or that the wouldabe assassin Was
d luney enthusiast, probably on the fag.
ends of d big drunk, who had suddenly
conceived the Idea OF becoming hoto-
rious.
A gentleman who was In New Orleans
three days ago stated to n Times re-.
porter on yesterday that bets Of twenty
70 one were freely offered in that city
that ]. Madison Wells would never
dare return there after leaving Wash
iugton. He says the feeling against
him ID Intense.
Mn. W. p. BRAzELToN,
OF this city, was In New Orleans shert
time since. A Times reporter called Oh
the gentleman last evening, and had a
lengthy conversation with him. The
nlleged attempted assassination seemed
aatural enough TO him. rs will be seen
from what he said:
Il went TO New Orleans some four
weeks ago on business, and remained
there about two weeks, During that
time / studied the political situation
whose opiaion was worthy OF attention,
and caught the spirit OF the situation |
pretty clearly. / found Gov. Packard, |
his State officers and his Legislature |
immured In the fort as the population |
there call II. THE fort IL the old 81. |
Louis Hotel, now used as the Packard |
Capitol Of the State. II is guarded by |
the Governors metropolitan police.
who are armed and uniformed as other |
policemen. There are In tho capitol |
about two thousand persons, OF whom |
only ten or SO are whites. all tho others |
being negroes. Not one OF these dare |
leave the place In the daytime. When |
they go out at oil. they sneak out ut
night.
THE POLICE DO nor PATROL THE CITY.
for If ono of them appeared on the
streets. he would be shot an sight. The
entire numbers eat, sleep and transact |
their business In this building, which Is
a four.story brick and stone structure.
Nichols and his officers and Legislh. |
ture have their headquarters In st..
patrick's Hall, u building much like
Farwell Hall, In this city. Nichols
policemen are also called Metropolitan.
They are so numerous as TO amount al
guard the Supreme Court, and other
offices recently captured, and have on
tire control OF The city. Nichols and
his officers go about the streets with
perfect safety. Nichols himself boards
at the City Hotel and conducts himself
with the freedom OF the Governor OF
this State.
Everybody In New Orleans 10 % Dem
oerat. Get that idea well into your
mind. Everybody-among the whites
- is Democratic. In the two weeks |
i ~ lt.tH B,txi h |
One OF them was gentleman from
Kenoshh. and tho other was Gen. Bus
sey. OF Iowa, who has been In business
In New Orleans since tho close OF the
war. He Is President OF the Cotton
Board, and is highly respected by oil.
THE FIGHT Is BETWEEN
the Packard party and the Nichols
party. In which the negroes are u third
and neutral element. In the city J.
think the negroes were entirely safe in
voting for Hayes IL they wished to. /
talked to number who voted for TIL
den, but they all said they would rather
have voted for Hayes had not their en-
ployers asked them to cast their ballots
! do not think any force
would have been used against them.
'1pe NOT Know GOV. PACKARD.
but as am Republican and SYM
with him, / called on him
while there. / had great difficulty
IN seeing him, as he admits no
one who Is unknown, for fear of assassi
nation. had to show to the guards ut
several different doors my business
card and letters received from Chicago,
before [ was admitted to his room, so
suspicious OF all unknown applicants
are they. From the time got to New
Orleans until left there talked with
sverybody--as have said-and every
Y here heard IL repeated hundreds OF
simes. by capitalists, wholesale mer-
,hants, bankers, exGovernors, ex-
II the very best classes, that II Pack
ard was recognized as the legitimate