The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-11-20
THE PRESIDENTS PLAN.

The President Is credited with purpose tt
reorganize the Republican party In the South
by bringing about coalition of the old line
Wings and the several other elements op
posed to the Democratic party. In plair
English, he Is represented as having expressed
. ,..'e,. =, ..'.'4e che old Wings with the ne
groes and carpet-bag and scafawag thieves
and by this combination to secure several OF
the Southern States to the Republicans.
The President displays very great ignor.
ance of the situation here. There are still
some venerable men who cling to the name
and traditions of the old Wing party, and
who still love to talk of Clay and Webster
There are, however, very few of these re-
naming among us, and they can never be
seduced or bribed into filthy and disgrace
full political organization. One or two gener-
ations have passed away since the Wing
party gave up the ghost, and there Is no
Wing party and no Wing sentiment in the
South which can be used In the way the
President suggests; and the sooner he learns
this fact the better 1t will be for the credit of
his Administration.
II Mr.. Hayes will acquaint himself
with the real political situation In these
States he will realize that he cannot carry on
any such scheme without discredit to his ad-
ministration and great detriment to the
country. The hostility of the Southern
people to Republicans in the South does not,
as the President seems to think, grow cut Of
spirit Of political intolerance among u.s.
Southern Republicans are prescribed socially
and denounced politically because they have
been the prosecutors of the white people; be-
cause they have been public enemies, and be-
cause they are dishonest and disreputable
men. Three of the most prominent of them
have just been convicted of disgraceful crimes
in South Carolina. A number of the most
conspicuous of them in Louisiana are under
indictments and will be sent to the peniten-
tiary, and there is scarcely one of them in the
whole South who is not suspected Of being
thief, forger or perjurer.
Thus when Mr.. Hayes recognized the Re-
turning Board by his appointments in this
State, he heard nothing but indignation and
nothing but resentment among the
people, not because Wells and Anderson are
Republicans, but because they are pair of
precious vulgar rascals who are under indict-
ment in our courts for forgery. When, real
izing the indecency of such appointments, the
President resolving to purify and nationalize,
to use Mr.. Evarts expression, the Republican
party in the South, throws the Returning
Board over, and appoints the representatives
and friends of Warmoth to office, he raises a
protest equally indignant, not because War
moth and his friends are Republicans, but
because they have plundered and robbed the
State; because there are no set of men here
who have done so much to ruin and humili-
ate Louisiana or to outrage her people.
These are harsh facts to speak, but they are
rrefutable facts. The rank and file, and the
leadership of the Republican party in Louis
ana are, in very truth, composed of
he worst elements of society. They
,ame up out of the slums , of the
titles and the cesspools of society; they
,rawled in all their filth and slime, like nox-
GUS insects from dark places and out of the
n1re and dust of the country. Natural robbers,
rained thieves, auGacious and insolent up
tarts, were the leaders, and they rallied the
gnorant negroes under the flag of the Union
nd the glitter of Federal bayonets to rob and /
ppress the State. AL men who were half