The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-12-04
THE REPUBLICAN SENATOR'S.
New They stultincd Themselves I'm voting
for keilogg's Admission.
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Notwithstanding the aversion which the strait
est sect OF the Republicans have suddenly con-
sceived for those creatures Of Republicanism.
the carpet-bag senators, the Republican lead
ers show a singular eagerness to do what they
can toward foisting more members of the same
character upon the Senate. To preserve the
ready to seat Kellogg and Corbin, who are at
least the peers of Conover and Patterson in the
PRpry Of their 81 tna repaaon and n
they are supposed to represent, and woo
only differ from those Legislators In the fact
that they have an inferior title to the positions
which they claim. In the confusion of the pres
ent hubbub In the Senate cool and candid citi-
xens will not lose sight of this central fact, that
reimbursement of two States in the highest
council OF the nation The discussion Of the
Ksosg puts The Leaders in
siOns , aSld that hat, Mi Kellogg yaf chosen
on the 10th of last January in accordance
with the law. and received his credentials as
such from the duly elected Governor of Louisi-
validity Of the action of the Louisiana Return
ing Board. for some Of the members of the
Lagisiasture which voted for Mr. kellogg were
turning Board although they had been beaten
n the polls, and the Governor who gave him
same body Without touching s upon 1on'' other her
considerations affecting the question whether
this Packard Legislature possessed a legal
III
see how kellogg.'s case resuscitates old wrongs
supposed to be dead and buried past all resur-
rection. Already Vice President Wheeler has
been obliged to give vote in the interest of
men and methods which he stamped with his
reprohation in his celebrated report on Louis
lana affairs In 1874. Mr. Edmunds Is straining
every resource of his hair splitting intellect for
the triumph of a clique which he has more than
once helped to defeat and Mr., Conking finds
himself In position In which 1t will be neces-
Sary for him to urge the validity of the action of
the Returning Board which it is an open secret
that In private conversation he has repeatedly
sondemned as Fraudulent. The law creating
the Returning Board and the violation of that
law must again challenge public attention, and
once more the pretense of possible intimida-
ton must be put forward to justify unquestion-
able knavery. The committee take the position
that GOV. Packard, and what is known as the
Packard Legislature were between them. the
de fdcfo and the de 5tUre government Of Louisi-
ana" and thereupon logically proceed to the
genunciafion OF the present government of the
State a. stablished by lawless and revolutionary
methods. This position cannot be agreeable to
Mr.. Stanley Matthews, who was one of the
agents through whom the change was effected,
orto President Hayes, at whose desire it was
accomplished. IT will hardly do for the Adj
ministration to admit that the Packard govern
ment was a government de Jacto and de if0.e tor
in that case the United States would have been
bound to maintain it. Veto admit less than this
is 10 own that the action of the Returning Board
was unlawful: In order to seat Kellogg
the old issue of intimidation must be brougSf
to the front: and yet the whole present policy
of the Republican party is based upon the
knowledgment that that issue was a mere
political subterfuge In word the Repub
licans in the Senate are making use of tha
frauds OF 1876. lustifying them on grounds
already shown TO be fallaeious, and repeating
over again tricks and devices which the best
men in their party have frequently condemned
and OF which the whole country is unfeignedly
sick and weary.