The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-02-07

PUBLIC OPINION.


Nashville BannerI
Let IL not be forgotten for moment
that the Associated Press ID still using
Its influence to have Hayes elected anu
Tilden counted out.
tPittsburg Post.1
It looks as IL the Louisiana business
had been exploded so thoroughly that
tho Republicans will not care to save
the pieces.
baltimore Gazstte, Ind. Dem ]
The Democrats as partisans have no
reason to object to the appointment of
Morton and Garfield. AS Napoleon,
holding back his assault, said ut Aus.
terlitz: "The enemy Is making false
move; we must not Interrupt him.
tNoble Register, Dem.l
with the record made by tho Supreme
Court in the past. and with the only
prospect IL has for distinction in the
future. there seems to be no room for
experimenting that members OF the
court placed upon the new and i'm
portant tribunal will sink the Judge In
the mere politician.
IJoulnal of commerce. Dem,1
The judiciary Of the United States
have never in our history received so
great compliment to their uprightness
and high mtndedness rs that conferred
upon five judges to hold the balance OF
power in settling the great overshadow-
Ing politioo-legal question before the
country.
Washington Capital, Iud.l
One sentence In % confidential letter
from witty politician la New Orleans
tells the nature aud extent OF our con.
fidencc. IL reads, "It our friends Che
Hepublicaus) take Supreme Court in
theirn, goOd-by, Rutherford"
iTfoy Press, Dem.l
ACQUISITION Of law must arise at the COM
mencement which will probably dispose
of the Louisiana case at once, The re-
suit promulgated by the Returning
Board, wherein 1t changed $4,000 votes
from the Democratic side TO the Repub-
lican side. was an illegal act and void
In law. This settles the election at
once and makes Gov. Tilden President
without aoy further nonsense.
tAlex.ntrs Gazette
In the good old times of the country,
before the Supreme Court had been de-
graded by having the chief justioeship
rendered to such men as Caleb Gushing
and q. II. Williams, position on the
Supreme Bench was deemed q much
higher honor than seat In the United
States Senate: but 1t Ia otherwise now,
when neither position entities Its holder
to much consideration.
[Courier- Journal.
Just think of woman suffrage petit.
tion to Congress with seven thousand
names signed to It, 1t IL a great pity
that there can be scraped UP in this
country seven thousand woman who are
so foolish or inconsiderate as to place
themselves in the attitude OF suffrage
shriekers. But, thank goodness, the
bright and the beautiful may shrek
when they see q mouse, but never for
suffrage.
[Boston (fep,l Advertiser.1
The new developments in the Louis.
lana ease are such as, II they are not
quite clearly and satisfactorily ex-
planned. will inevitably weaken what
ever confidence honorable men may
have In the proceedings Of the Return
ing Board. 1t Is easy TO say that a clerk
who would do what Littletleld acknowl-
edges to have done would not hesitate
to periure himself. but that ID not an
answer to the apparent fact that the
return was altered without reason, and
that the change that appears to have
been made accounts exactly for abe diff
ference between the return compiled
and that which was made up by the Su-
pervisors.
lspringdeld Republican,
The Louisiana case Is so outrageous
in its facts that we do not believe it will
be allowed to stand as Il precedent, but
that on one point or another the Re-
turning Board will have the condemna-
ton put upon 1t. This is the general in
depreciation OF the situation. The prob
ability that Tilden will ultimately be
president Is felt on all sides, not only
by the Democrats and the Indepen-
dents, but by both classes Of Republi-
cans, those who favored the settlement
bill and those who oppose it, alike.
LSt Louis Republican. Dem.1
We are to have peace, after all. We
hear no more talk Of trouble at Wash
ington-no more marching of troops to
that city to defend somebody against
somebody else-no more withdrawing
of ammunition and ordnance from one
place to be sent to another-no more
preparation to inaugurate Hayes at the
point OF the bayonet. President Grant
no longer tells the listening interviewer
OF the Associated Press that he will
t'hand over the government" to Hayes
which was very silly thing for a
President to say-and he has complete
ly abandoned the idea that 1t was his
business to inaugurate his successor.
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