The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-12-20
A PARTY AFFAIR.

making up the committee his resolution calls
for Is the very best possible evidence OF the
mistake and the grievous character OF the
mistake he made In inaugurating such q
policy Of agitation. Tho Republican Sena-
tors have almost without exception refused
to accept appointments on tho committee,
and thus consent to divide responsibilities
with the Senator from Maine in tSn record no
has concluded to make for himself ms basis
for his presidential canvass. On the othet
hand, VIZ find TINT there can DC founi no
Democrats who are willing to accept the Tour
minority places on the committee. frlehes
and foes nike have agreed TO allow MT |
Blaine to conduct his siege and do his own
canning and mining for the Presidency as
suits him best and without aid or abettance
from Thorn.
or course this IA MI very severe on Mr.. |
Blaine. but how Is he to help HIMSELF II such
n bitter and vindictive partisan rs Garfield
refuses 10 ally himself with him, and assum
ing the role Of Cato the Censor, goes so far rs
to even crIticisc aud repudiato him, what re-
course has he left2 IT, on the other hand,
Thurman, from Ohio, and Lamar. from Mis-
sIssippi agree to take higher ground and 70
refuse the issue he provokes them to- we can
not sympnthize with any complaint he can
make
Rochefoucaud we believe, 1t was who said
that jest'a prosperity was found IN the ear
of him who hears It, and not on the tongue OF
him who tells IL. Baine's speeches. both his
first and last, afford u happy Illustration 81
the aphorism Both efforts were described as
eloquent, ndroit and exquisitely exasperating.
Yet thoy both failed Of their purpose no ono
was outraged. no ono was angered, no ono
responded to the note he touched though ne
smote upon the mouldercd strings with all
his might. What he said so well and SO
strongly palled upon the cars Of tho Senators
ABOUT him, and has failed, utterly, to awake
anySrcsponsc from the popu n heart How
ever his theme and his treatment Of II, may
have inspired his own tongue, they have failed
to meet with prosperity in tho oars Of his
hearers
But what docs all this mean? II 1t simply
involves Mr. Blaine and his personal amb-
lions IL is hardly worthy of consideration.
We fancy that 1t has n larger meaning and q
more comprehensive scope. However great
and lndefensble Blaine's folly may have been,
he has succeeded In making IT party mis-
take. Whatever protest individual members
OF the party may make, OF whatever re-
luctance they may manifest to participating
In 1t, the Republican organization was. never
theless. thoroughly committed by the passage
Of his resolution by the Senate There can
be no avoidance of the fact that Blaine has
forced his personal policy and his individual
fortunes upon tho Republican party. And
after all. he has but done In tho Senate and In
the political arena what tie Hayes admins
tration and Devens are doing much more win
dictively through the machinery Of the courts
and the Department OF Justice, and for a pllr
pose not less flagrantly partisan. We SEE
nothing, then, In the manifestations 81 popu
lar sentiment condemnatory OF Blaine In TIM
, Senate, which Is not equally SO OF the admin
istration In the courts and Of the Republican
party.
Another indication of tho fatal mistake
these people have made In their effort to re
yiye the old sectional issues Is afforded In tn
circumstances connected with the discover.
OF the bill repeating tho requirement o
Jurors in the Federal courts to take the iron
clad oath This bill had been hid away In tn
room OF a committee to which 1t had not bec
referred. and had been lost sight Of for tw
sessions OF Congress-, and it finally saw tn
light of day only through exertions inspire
Attorney in this State AZ soon as attentio
was called to it and a demand made for its re
turn to tho Senate Mr.. Christiancy wa
brought to his feet with depreciation and a
apology. showing that he was ashamed Of hi
participation in the suppression Of tho bi
and that he was afraid to assume any respor
sbility i'm connection Herewith. Yet W
know that. scarce d week before the resurreC
,t,,igi ti,,
had busted itself to procure from Fedora
Circuit Court q ruling upon the very sectio
of the Revised Statutes this bill repeats, 10
the express use Of the Department Of Justc
in the persecution that has been set on foot /
this State. In view Of this fact how ca
Blaine be set apart from his party because q
what he has said and done in the Senate?
The truth of it is, they are all responsible
What Blaine has done the whole Republica
party is doing, and they will all be condemne
by the people together. Blaine's resoutlo
was passed. but nobody will serve on the con
mttee 1t calls for. Hayes and Devens al
prosecuting the people of Louisiana throug
the courts, as Blaine proposes to do tbroug
a committee of Investigation, and they hay
even gone 70 far as tn procure conStructio
of an Infamous statute for the purpose OF ca
rving out their project. but secreted bi
for the repeal of that statute IS diseovere
and called for, the Republican chairman
the committee that had puroned it rises
expostulatc and apologize, and the bill is r
ported and will most likely be passed. Tn
remarkable sensitveness must mean som
thing. 1t looks to us like the awakening
conscience, seasoned with a rare and unusu
sense of hereafter.