T. Harry Williams

Romance and realism in Southern politics

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The Gentleman from Louisiana: Demagogue or Democrat

W AS IT TRUE, THE REPORTER ASKED, PROBING DEEPER WITH HIS questions, that the state officials and the legislature of Louisiana were corrupt? Governor Henry Clay Warmoth exploded. His answer reflected what one suspects was a common complaint of the carpetbagger caught up in the swashbuckling politics of Louisiana but at the same time demonstrated that he himself was rapidly adjusting to the realities of the Louisiana scene. I dont pretend to be honest .... I only pretend to be as honest as anybody in politics, and more so than those fellows who are opposing me now. Here are these New Orleans bankers making a great outcry against the dishonesty of the Louisiana legislature .... I tell you ... these much-abused members are at all events as good as the people they represent. Why, damn it, everybody is demoralized down here. Corruption is the fashion. One may admit a certain exaggeration in the Governors remarks, and also in the statement of a later critic that Louisianians are not interested in ideologies or principles but in the fundamentals-the whir of slot machines, the pounding of horses hoofs at the Fair Grounds, and the clink of ice in a Sazerac cocktail.