New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1877-01-31
POLITICAL NOTES.

POLITICAL NOTES.
On the passage of the electoral bill IN the
Senate, Of the senatorial committee who
were recently in New Orleans, Messrs.
Howe and Mcmillan, Republicans, and Mo
Donald and Salisbury, Democrats voted
yea, and Messrs. Oglesby and Wadleigh did
not vote.
George Alfred Townsend has given the
New York Graphic q sketch of Governor
Wells:
saw David Dudley Field examine j.
Madison Wells. They were siDgularly
contrasted, and to my mind Wells was al.
together the most romantic character.
While Field was Of immense height and of
q head like bulging steeple, with almost
colOrless eyes and perfect insinuaton as
ne put his questions, 81 Jringing them luke
warm into the witness, old Wells was
thick set and squsre-headed, with white
tuft of goatee and the st0lldity of hermit.
lie is rather liked by every body who has
come in contact with him. | was intro
duced to him by Brady, the photographer,
the other day, as he was going up TO have
his photograph taken, and when he spoke
out OF that rough exterior in an atfable, soft
voice, and closed his hand upon mine, it
felt somehow genuine. / do not propose to
lot parcel of CreOles and pro slavery men
make up my taste on such men, who have
at great risk upheld a suppositious North
which was all the while melting away,
while they supposed it approaching to sup
port them. Old Wells, they say, has killed
men, but ii appears that nobody is re-
apected where he lives unless he kills some
body.
Dual Legislatures are no new thing The
Christian Union says:
1t seems to have been forgotten BY our
friends of the opposition that dual Legis-
1atuIes were invented twenty years ago
under a Democratic administration, and
that the one which may be said 10 have
represented Republican sentiments was
dispersed by Colonel E. V. Sumner latter
wards Major General and force of
United States dragons. The Legislatures
referred to were elected in Kansas In
1866, respectively by MissOurians who
crossed the State line avowedly for the pur-
pose, and by Free Sellers, who, having
been uDlawfully and fOrcibly defeated at
the polls, called special election and
chose such representatives as they were en-
titled to- This Free Soil Legislature met
at noon on July a, 1856, but its organize
tion was prohibited and it's members dis
pers by Colonel Sumner under orders from
President Pierce, and in accordance with
a proclamation previously issued. Mr..
Pierce's Cabinet, at this time, included such
good Democratic names as William M.
Marcy, James Guthrie, Jefferson Davis, J.,
G. DObbin and Caleb Gushing. 1t will
hardly be denied, then, that the Legisla.
ture which was thus recognized owed it's
ex 'stence to Democrats whose memories
are to this day cherished in the party ar
chives. Dual Legislatures, therefore, and
military interference Herewith can right
fully claim respectable Democratic parent
age.
Senator Hamlet, of Ouachita, having been
cheated out of his reelection may as well
return to his duty. His colleagues will
probably be ready to forgive, though they
can not forget his desertion.
The Democratic party has just held an
election in Ouaehits parish to fill the vacaD
cy in the Odd Fellows Hall caucus. The
choice is reported to have fallen upon Mr.
f. P. Stubbs, of Ouachita, who seems tt
have had no opposition. Even Hamlet
who was in the parish at the time, and ex
pected to receive the Democratic IOmna
ton, stood alOof, and took no part in the
contest.
Administrator of Commerce Cavanao hal
been again summoned to Washington in tht
interests of the Democratic party. Tht
duties of his department are not very en-
crossing, and such as have not been let ou
by contract can easily be performed BY
deputy.
The Democrats in caucus at Odd Fellowa
Hall have not yet succeeded in choosing I
Senator,
Banning is in trouble. The chances are
that he will have to step aside, when h
reaches the portals of the next Congress
end give way to Hon. Stanley Matthews
He was declared elected to Congress from
the second Ohio (Cincinnatil district b.
about sixty.seven majority over Judg
Matthews. That the election was carriet
by fraud has since been demonstrated b.
| the number of repeaters who have alread.
been tried, convicted, and sentenced to tn
penitentiary for illegal voting. The leade
of the gang, who voted from poll to poll il
both Bannings and Say ler's districts, wa
known as Charles Young. He fed imme
diately after finishing his work. A warran
was issued for his arrest, but not finding hin
he was indicted by the grand jury at Cincin
natl, and bench warrant was issued fO
| his arrest. In 1871 Professor Cato, col
ored man, was brutally murdered in Phils
| delphiA by a Democratic rough name'
Frank Kelly, but last week Kelly was cap
tured in Chicago and brought 10 Philadel
phia to answer the charge of murderiDI
Cato. The Department of Justice has in
formation that Kelly, the murderer o
Cato, is none other than Charles Young
the Cincinnati repeater, who contributes
his valuable services to the election of Ban
ming and Sayler in the interest of reform
Banning is the chairman of the Militar.
Committee Of the present Congress, an'
the army Cfieers will spare him and she'
| no tears.
The Graphic says that the Oregon slush
money has been traced as near to Tilden a
the Marsh money was traced to Belknap
and as near as the Credit Mobilier none.
was traced to Brooks and Colfsx. .Belknal
ought to set up as a refOrmer.