The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-11-01
FREE AND FAIR ELECTIONS.

Mr.. John Sherman, who liz bllsily engaged
making stump speeches at the North In his
own interest as a presidential candidate, is q
sorry example of a would be-great man, who
In his eagerness to accomplish his purpose,
stoops to the meanest and lowest arts of the
charlatan and demagogue. His speeches are
about equally made up OF glorltcation OF
himself, laudation OF the Republican party
and reckless denunciation OF the Democracy
La speech delivered at Paterson, N. j., on
the twenty-fifth Of November he fairly roted
In abuse of the South and the Democratic
party, and In order to give the fullest express
sion to the scorn that he felt for both, referred
to the last Democratic President as Jimmy
Buchanan" This indecency on tho part of
the Secretary OF the Treasury and III asplrant
! for the Presidency was promptly rebuked by
some one IN the audience who In loud tone
Informed him that he 'had better go home
and attend to his business"
! This doubtless well meant and really ex-
callent advice was net received in the spirit In
which 1t was offered, and the Radical chair
man OF the meeting evinced such temper
about 1t that u repetition of the otfense would
have been attended with dire consequences
| Freed from interruption, Mr.. Sherman pro-
| ceeded to aetonish his hearers by telling what
| a pure and patriotic political body the Repub-
| lican party was and how much he had done
| to add to Its glory and renown by his man.
agement Of the finances and his work In Con-
Rress at q time when, to use his own classical
| and elegant phraseoogy, t'the devil was to
pay"
With the true instinct Of the demagogue he
pinfuraI fha Rapuhlianu " ar ,r,odn ~, ~
honest, unselfl5h and patriotic gentlemen
while the Democracy was composed OF band
Of traitors who have been "falae to every
pledge and false to every human right" and
who are trying to nulity the laws and destroy
FREQ and fair elections.
What a shameful and bare-faced mockery
It IS for John Sherman, Of all men, to pirate
about free and fair elections! The alder and
abettor OF the infamous and notorious men
OF tho r stunning Board of Louisiana when
they deliberately stole the vote Of this State
and gave II to Hayes instead Of TIlden; the
associate Of those thieves, to whom he has
paid the price set upon their villainy by ap-
pointing them to lucrative offices; the in
st'gator Of many Of the most monstrous
acts Of wrong and oppression ever perpe-
trated upon the people OF Louisiana and the
South, he to talk about protecting tho ballot
and preventing fraud
He should have had sitting on the platform
with him, that night, those sable friends of
his, Eliza Pnkston aud Casanave, to whom
be IS 50 largely Indebted for hts fame as
successful manipulation Of the electoral votes
Of Louisiana. They would have added great
ly to the show and have emphasized his pa
trtp HI iIt for ot.n
protecting the ballot, honesty, etc.
Casanave might have entertained the au-
dience very much by telling them how hon
estly ~ this great Secretary had performed /
his promises to him hoW-when his business
as an undertaken was nearly ruined, and his
effects about to be sold out to satisfy judg- I
Inent obtained against him, he rushed off to
Washington, scared Mr.. Sherman little by
threats Of telling what he knew. and finally got I
from him enough to staye off the SALE That /
story properly told and garnshed with such
"reminiscences and Incidents of days when the
visiting Radical statesmen, with John Sher-
man at their head, were engaged in showing
the clumsy local Radical politicians how a
maj GRITTY Of 5000 for Tilden could be trans
mttted into majority for Hayes, would have
served to amuse the audience at Paterson and
to have assured them Of the sincerity and
sterling, heightened patriotism and virtue
OF the man who thinks himself admirably
fitted to occupy the chair once filled by Wash
ington.
In speaking of the South Mr.. Sherman
grows specially eloquent and threatening.
The whites are all assassins and bulldozers,
invariably 10 the wrong, while tho negroes
are pure and spotless lambs whose rights
only are to be respected. The ballots of tho /
negroes must and shall be counted, whatever \
may become OF the white ballot. The negro Il
vote, he assumes, Is soItdly Republican, and /
hence his great anxiety to have it counted. !,