The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-10-04
T,InNts FIGURES.


IL would be Instructive TO yet inside Of NJ.
Ellis this morning and ascertain what he
really thinks oil hs bureau nj n machine, and
Of himself as lightning calculator For
several days past Nj. Ellis has besn eiaeulat-
Ing and the T1nsea and Picapsne have been
reproducing tho most remarkable figures and
computations relative TO the country vote
figures which HI three cases out III live we're
promptly eontradieted from the parishes to
which they referred. but which Ellis persisted
In, all the same. Tor weeks past Mr.. Ellis
has been fruthing over with hts choicest guRh
In speeches, addresses, proolamatiuna, yards,
etc, for weeks past he has been holding e9urt
III hia committse-roum, receiving dispatches
81 solemn but secret import, plating the
hair Of tho tender nnvlees who swarm
about bim. muttering darby with Boots
and Brewer IN cunning corners and, gener-
ally, wallawing III the pomp and elfoun-
stance Of leadership. But Ia none Of these
manifestations has he loomed with such
large and lurid fleet ~ In those figures and
computations. Here he has given rein to his
tlurid fancy and run riot among the reverend
numerals as formerly Ia the wigwam or upon
the field of the election he used To slaughter
metaphor and leave logic bleeding Ia his
wake. Ill tha arena he stands int and
windy, though wondrous conaueror. with the
scalp of I'LL the sciences dangling from his
sumptuous belt.
But, row thnt Ellss figures have served
their purpose, now that the struggle Ia over
and Ellis. az great moral and mathematical
engine. may be said to have been CREASED and
a a,,f ~ f,.a Elnr WA
confidence for q moment and hear what he
really thinks VI himself and his achieve
ments. 1t is plain to the rest uf the world, at
least, that the game fell flat The MASSES
here In New Orleans could not be deluded
Into throwing away the opportunity and al
lowing themselves to be luggled out off, ptlvi-
lege which the country offered them and 10
which the city was fairly entitled. III have
split the city delegation between Witt and
Ogden would have been To tell the parishes
that New Orleans could not agree upon q
candidate and 10 confess ourselves unworthy
to appreciate the distinction rendered ,ls. 10
have sont the New Orleans vote It'd Baton
Rouge feeble and divided and irresolute
quantity would have been to AJAX tho parishes
By supply liz with nominee and to waste no
our dignity. This is the result that Mr..
EllH's committee. with their menlfestoes and
their gllah and their hawllderlng arithmetic
sought TO produce. Ii they had managed to
palm off their estimates upon the masses
or thia city, and thereby to discourage tile
friends Of Mr.. Witt. tho effect would have
been to deprive New Orleans Of her uppor-
tunity and TO defeat the man whose fltneaa
and whose claims the whole State mud volun-
tarily and warmly recognized and sought to
honor. There WAS never al any time any
other possibility within Mr.. Ella'a reach. and.
whatever may have been the motive It was
To this eonsum nation that all HE efforts
tended
Az we have observed. however. the efforts
failed. The country cannot entertain rea-
sonable doubt 40 to whom the dominant sen-
timent Of New Orleans favors. aud thus Mr..
Ellis's figures, along with his little stock 81
bulk eloauenoe and assorted metaphors,
must he slowed away In the lnmber-ruom
until some future oooked.up crisis OF phan-
tom constituency shall summon them forth
once more. What ~ to become Of Mr.. Ellis
himself, and Of that band Of artiess patriots
who have borne him company, lot va not seek
to conjecture. Creatures 30 pure and I'M
aeliish. patriots of go supertins a texture,
citizens 80 averse to the cares and bardships
Of office, will certainly bs looked after by
Providence which watches over the oyster
and the pollywog.