The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1877-01-16
The BULLETIN,
LOUISIANA.
m. Rias.Bsraeaed state.


The Republicans are concentrating
their efforts on the supreme court and
are waiting with much anxiety the result
of the report and recommendations CT
the United States senator's. now in the
city. lately forwarded to Washington.
They express confidence in the receipt OF
favorable news from that quarter, but
the delay Is working sad havoc in their
ranks and nothing that has TRANSFERRED.
there or here. up TO date, Is calculated to
cheer them.
Notwithstanding
the anxiety ON this point. tho Conserva-
,ives are hourly getting stronger 10 their
position while the Republicans are more
and more distracted by internal factions
and the involved and bitter warfare
waged BY the various rings into which
their organization Is divided. For conyen-
fence OF reference, these rings may be
divided about as follows:
!. The most numerous and powerful
subdivision IL composed OF Kellogg,
Packard, Pitkin. Beckwith, Fellows. An
tome, Lewis, Hahn, Shaw, Joubert, a
large number-perhaps a majority--of
the members Of the Republican senate
and house, and numerous Judges, and
other officials and aspirants.
.. Not 30 numerous, but tentold more
cantankerous, Is composed of Warmoth,
Pinchback, Carter, Weber, Hamlet and
number Of other senator's, representatives
and hangers-on. These may be denomi-
mated the hell-bent brethren, aud manifest
. strong disposition to have what they
want or smash things. They are more
formidable by reason OF that disposition
than on account o. their numbers.
3. The third ring is composed of Casey,
Herwig, Herwig and Herwig, the state
treasurer, . few brokers and others.
Thess are sly fellows who make their
points by strategy and by slipping up on
their game. Mr.. Casey is identified with
It more by association than by active par
ticipation. .
4. West, Coekrem, Billings. Ringgold,
Norton aud others. Tnis ring is more
or less identified with the preceding and
the following in the dispensation Of fed
eral patronage, but the senatorship and
some other issues have made them, to
certain extent, separate families.
s. Tom Anderson, Wells. Morey,
Ludeling pud others. The party lie more
or less under cloud, but is not disposed
to be thrust Ioully in the earth to be
forget" and IL an important factor on
account Of Its combined ability and cuss.
ednees. Some OF the members OF these
various rings are more or less intimately
related by interest and affinity to othel
rings, but ~ rough geographical dl
Vision Of the party, the above is suff
cieutiy correct.
Kellogg's election to the senate Is ga
sod NORWOOD TO the West ring. tn
amazement which followed that even
must have been crushing for an interva
Of orninous silence Immediately followed
but yesterday pent-up wrath found ven
and the auathems maranetha was heape'
upon the devoted head OF his ex-excel
lency. The Republican party, if not al
ready there, is TO be consigned to tn
lowest depth of infamy, and politica
wreck OF matter Is in the immediate per
spective. Although ostenslbly formid
able, and amply provided for as q politi
cal potentate, the ring in no
highly regarded. Mcssrs. Bill
lings, Ringgold, Cockrem, and thei
immediate subOrdinates constitute
the rank and file, but none of these arr
particularly influential with the 'boys.
Their chief is chairman of the railwa,
committee, and until the 18th of Marcel
will be q magnet, but unfortunately sey
erai episodes in his adventurous caree
are too fresh ia the retentive memories
OF his oppnents to justify violent on.
slaugbt, and the probabilities are that
after brief interregnum Of buster hl
and the ring will subside.
lsnDors concerning the election O
Casey to the senate by the Democrat,
legislature are gaining In volume if no
'astrength. aud the visit OF an influentia
Aehba Of the house TO the custom.hous
y~terda. is construed as preliminar,
mUen t,is direction. casey and tn
iadiss CT tie white house" have accom-
Piished woders in the past, aud man,
stu believe heir powers to be unsimir
ished.
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