New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1877-03-03

Of Republicans whose Ability and integ-
rity shall be undoubted.
2. These Republicans will be chosen
with regard to their permanent interest
in the State, and their social acceptability
to the whole people.
The class of politicians who subsist
upon Office, whose attachments and in
vestments are elsewhere, will no longer
be permitted to weigh down the party by
their support, or weaken it by their
desertion. The Republican party has
discharged every obligation, if any ever
existed, to this mischievous class. If
there be any of these equivocal patriots
to whom the State authorities conceive
themselves under obligations, let them
be sent elsewhere for compensation. We
do not doubt but that if Governor Pack
ard should request it, President Hayes
,oould place at his disposal a number Of Off
ees sufficient 10 meet any such Obligd-
tons. There are clerkships by the
thousand at Washington. There are
places by the hundred in the custom
houses and postoffices of New York, Mas
sachusetts, Chicago and st. Louis. There
are missions and consulateL in other coun-
tries The national Republican party is
bound to provide for partisans within its
domestic and foreign jurisdiction. There
would be no need and no justice in con-
gestion of unpopular appointments here.
We can speak for the class referred to that
a salary would be the same to them in one
place as in another, and we do not hesitate
to say that to place the members of q
class alike obnoxious to Republicans and
Conservatives, ''where they could do the
most good" would be to transfer them to
position inSwhich they will do least harm.
We can safely say for them that they
would take an Office anywhere rather than
hold no Office at all. We do not choose
TO argue the grievances of the per-
manent Republicans, natives and resi-
dents, white and eolored, against those
oficeholders who have drawn 80 much
from the party and done so little for it.
We merely advert to those electors who
have jeopardized the vote of the State by
holding on to duplicate offices, State or
Federal, and to those wretched subor-
climates who went about to sell the vote
and honor of the State. We wish to see
the Republican party so organized that
every officer will be responsible in his
person and family for any public measure
in which he may exercise an sgency. If
in thus protecting the Republican party
the conservative element of the country
shall be satisfied, if the Last Ditchers and
bulldozers shall be exasperated into
separation from the Conservatives, it will
furnish no objection to the exodus which
we have suggested. The reorganization
of the Republican party in its official and
representative relations will proceed from
the party itself, but it will in effect take
from its enemies all pretext that its men
or measures are unworthy popular sup
port.
If the unemployed patriots who think
their services in the last campaign must
be rewarded by the Republican party are
to be taken care of, let them be sent to
serve their country as near to their sew
eEal homes as possible. We sincerely
hope it will not be part of the Southern
policy of the President to quarter them
on Louisiana.