New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1877-03-07
THE cOMPLETED COUNT.
The Men who Tried 20 Prevent the Al
nOuncemenf Of Hay ea, Election.


lowing to the New York Grapkic, under
date of March 2:
1t is to be understood that have been
up all night, watching, with more fidelity |
than the apostles on great occasion, for |
the bursting of the electoral roc's egg and
the birth of a genie. He has come. They
fetched him forth with instruments by the
CRsarean operation. His name is Hayes.
Having been up with the infant, having
heard the equeal usual on such occasions,
as if to say, ~ didn't want to come," and |
having had very little sleep, throw my
notes together like an actor undressing.
The last day of the long quarrel over a
disputed succession opened like a Sunday |
in Paradise. Spring is the natural season
of Washington; March weather is only its |
normal spring in new linen. The river and |
pools of wafer shOne as if newly polished; |
| uneasy grass, hardly yet in color, worked |
in the yellowish complexion of the soil. |
The distant ridges of hills, with their undu- |
lating backs, wore softer blue, like the !
smoke Of Indian wigwams silently returned |
there. The Capitol building arose upon its
hill like the spirit of ivory on the elephants
| bulk, in architectural expression. Cut like
] q cameo, it seemed near while distant, in
| every line exquisitely produced, in Greek
purity rest to the brain. There it stood
spanning the vista, neither a temple nor a
home, itself religion, lost as it seemed in
serene consciousness, standing in the lam-
| bent atmOsphere-the sacred ark of the
| Jew, the stranded vessel that brought Co
| lumbus over, the custodian of every my
| lhOlogy, the repository of every aspiration.
The trOwel of the great FreemasoD, Wash
! ingtOn, struck its corner stone and pro-
nounced it plumb. Then 4 secret craft of
builders disbanded, who had raised the
Gothic roses of the world, and, like their
perfume, roved among the peOple-maaonry
and liberty were one.
The Capitol lighted by night rocks the
| clouds like an ocean steamer, big enough
to have q lighthouse for mainmast. In
that mast the light of lenses flows; the Lam
| tern shows cooling light on the creeping
| world and the shade Rs Of the ground. But
within ie no such transcendant light. They
fight like emigrant runners all day on the
Bourbon side to stave off any decision.
Here are the riDRleadere: David Dudley
Field, q man seventy-twO years old, spared
by time in the fulness of his talents, stat.
ure and ambition, but apparently under
doom never to be fully trusted, never to
seek confidence in the right way, He ex-
pected to be great leader here; he leads
scarcely the ra6ble end of the party. He
is the Lord George Gordon of this riot,
where, instead of writing "nO pOpery" on
the DOORS his following write 'nO religion"
As think he is ashamed of himself, will
say no more about him, except to say that
he was both ignoble and unsuccessful.
Fernando Wood rose to honor by discern
ing that the path Of honor was not where
Dudley Field went,
Springer, of Illinois, the self-imposed
leader of the flibusters, is man apparent
, ly fOrty-fve years old, of naturally tid-
getty and school marin nature, perfectly at
home in Congress and perfectly restless
there. He is almost deformed around the
, , mouth, as if he had St. Vitus's dance there,
: by the gable he has gone through in the
, last two weeks. He wants splints for that
mouth aud good bandagea and blue glass
for bis head. / asked Mr.. Knapp, whose
! fathers newspaper correspondent Springer
: used to be, what kind of man Springer wac
I Forward, oficious, impudent, thin" saiC
q Knapp.
Caulfeld is a man who wears in the oper
daylight red face, and conveys the nOtioI
of dissipation, but he looms up in thu
: dusky light of this chamber to proportion
= and features of dignity. He has a large
3 forehead. ringletted black hair, with bale
= temples, and a beard of black and gray
and thinniah Roman nose with bulbOul
termination. Possessed Of q good voice
: confidence and severe courtesy, he takel
the floor in rather manly way and hold
it with the spirit of reVOlutiOniat. WheT
3 he laughs through that thick beard ant
moustaehe he laughs coarsely, as if politics
. had demeaned his original sensibilities.
= Walling is the inhabitant of country
: town near Columbus, Ohio, in fine grazing
Z and prairie country. He has been defeated
!; for Congress, and another Democrat, Tom
e Ewing, is coming in his place. Wallinl
y seizes the flying moment to shoot his arrow
: at the sun. He is youngish, of tall head
\ with black eyebrows that run upward, etIf
! ish black hair, and black mustache. Hi
o forehead is of that tall, spare characte
which suggests soldiering, and added to th'
= = mustache-which is nine parts of some
: men and tailors-and the carrying of tn
I head on the neck, he may be said to b
y strong looking, though en- the bOyish order
). His speeches are semi dramatic, like hii
y athletic appearance, but Of thin conseguen
tiality. when fraud is law flibustering ]
= patriotism" " he exclaimed, with an attitude
!. This is easily understood, and meane
= = "FrivOlity, however futile, Is high-minded
70 and the very nobility of noise"
don't know how / happened to pfais
10 Beebe in one of my letters the other day q
worthy Of political esteem in New York
= = He is the person who mounted his desk AM
Y walked from the top of desk to desk, ant
u equaled the antics of the worst pro-slaver.
= days. Yet he is reelected by the peopl
Il who make mild article of cheese in OraDg
"A county. Beebe is nervous man, exelta0Ie
y and resembling Tilden's nephew, Pelson.
I, O'Brien is little man, like merehan
tailor OF the slop-shop claas, lounging ava
i the hours and squintiDg down the stree
q for q customer. He has an unenergeti
a and then that suggests detective ''stal
= ing" somebody. His little body is SUI
y mOuntSs;ai oy 4 big, dwari'e head full 9
gray hair, He is deaf, and therefore !
te heroic under difficulties. he is general
10 lonesome, like deaf men, and appears I
. enjoy this lOng-desired opportunity OF
deaf man to hear from himself he pul
-, his thumb in his vest pocket, where iittl
'h silver chain communicates with his Watel
and reelines against q desk and gaze
OI Beautiful visions OF eminence float throug
u his mind. He is retail man an the verR
at Of tte wholesale trade. He doesn't cal
. much for Tilden or Hayes or the union laC
sn or anything, but he feels somehow TN
William j. OBrien is rising II not rlse
a. man. It shall be so recorded in the Bali
more Sun Recorded or not 1t is so,
IN Jovep says William j. 0'Brien.
Ne PoppletOn, of Delaware, Ohio. 10 ml
u whose breeches will not tit him. de ls o.
OF handed, as l see when he holds it brOadsi!
up TO vote. He pulls his slight mustacl
e1 with this big hand and snifis his smi
ne Roman noae. He is biggest IN size, 81
~ from under his vest drO0ps . long chai
OF Which, with his prize fightery face, auggea
g q man who has Just foraaken the ring 81
e9 Opened game. He ought not TO 90 nam,
eu Poppleton. Springer's name ought 70
PoppletOn and Pops "the Delaware mlao
ns weight Yet, methinks, Pop Is . tell9W la0a
good humor, though not re-eiecteo. ~
mt Re said to day, in the heat Of debate, .'agi
OF for sgainst, with three people looking
MS him and never knew it. said 70 myse
ssHog little Is language 70 force. de
really putting in his point and enforcine
ith against the Speaker, and after he had DC
-ss 80 with a most grims belligerent face. l O.
him ehuck1e "NOW,n said I, "that n