New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-03-25
The Election-The Vindication.

The elections Of last Monday have resulted in
the choice of a wing Mayor, A. D. Crossman;
wing Comptroller, Divide DeBuys; whig Treas
urer, Vim. H. Garland; wing Street Commits
sioner, james Jolls wing Surveyor, Louis H.
Pile; three democratic Recorders, J. L. Win
ter, First District Joseph Genois, Second Dis
trict, and W. W. Vaught, Recorder of the
Fourth District. In the Upper Board, Con-
verse and Stockton, Clark and Giquel, are
elected upon the regular wing ticket. Harris,
SeWell, Gasquet, Labutut, and Lugenbuhl
on the democratic ticket. Messrs Robb and
W. .. 9. Claiborne on the Independent In
the Fourth District, Mr.. j. NJ Burke was
elected on his town hook This gives five
wings, five democrats, and two Independents.
The two Independents have heretofore been re-
cognized as wings; and if, as we hope, they
continue to act as such. the wings have major
ity Of two in the upper Board of Aldermen
The returns show that Mr. Robb's name was
scratched on one thousand and sixty-eight
tickets. MIR. j. b. Slawson, in spite of his per-
emptory refusal to run, announced in the most
positive and prohibitory terms, received five
hundred and eightyfour votes. Had it not
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been elected and Mr.. Robb defeated. As it was
MIR. Robb, exceptionable to both parties, chiefly
owes his election to the fact that his name was
on all the three sets of tickets, and there was
not time left to combine sufficiently against
him. Hundreds to whom he was distastefu
voted the regular wing or democratic tickets
without thinking OF noticing that he was on the
ticket. That, under all the circumstances, his
name was erased, shows how decisiyely, with u
little more time, his defeat might have been
effected
And there is another point yet to be noticed,
and tits this. The wings have succeeded against
the most extraordinary combination of political
hostility, of moneyed power and personal ami
mostly we have ever known in political history
The recent elections were held up to both par
ties as the turning point in the history of poll
tics In Louisiana. The leaders of both parties
bestirred themselves with every energy to secure
triumphant result upon their own sides, This
alone was tremendous opposition for the wings
10 lace. In the next place there was an i'm
mense moneyed power at work From all we can
learn the independents spent not less than ten
thousand, the democrats not less than eight
thousand five hundred, and both through their
money and their influence against the regular
wing nominees Money is a strong thing in cleo
"ohs, We do not believe, and we have the best
opportunities of knowing, that the wings had on
an, uurihg the whole election more than enough
,'i 'nc current expenses of the election, such as
maho bills, advertisements, election tickets,
ights OF public buildings, and so ON.
H. H..
III 'he next place, the wings had to contend
against the most extraordinary personal hos
ulfy-not to say personal maice-we ever
heard OF in political history Against three of
the candidates, Messrs. Crossman, Garland and
MARKS, no possible insinuation was left unut-
tered 1t is creditable to these gentlemen that
none OF these slanderers dared make a direc,
charge against them; and that their great and
only crime was untiring energy in behalf of the
wing party, and sagacity, experience, and
utiity above what their abusers possessed. One
Oh these gentlemen, and one only, has been
deieateo' but he can calculate upon the un-
shaken confidence and increasing appreciation Of
the wing party.
we call the result of this election A yindica
tion. Ii Vindlcates the integrity of the whic
party 1T vindicates the sanctity of private
character so ruthlessly so slanderously and So
unscrupulously invaded, as to arouse all the
most bitter and personal feelings 1t is the
verdict Of the people against unsubstantial in
sinuatlons, slanderous rumors and private NAL
Ice 1t is the declaration of the people that
icy will be governed by their known friends.
not by self appointed rulers, bond agents
bank controllers.