New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-05-08
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Reformers to the Rescue.

Reformers, you have worked nobly; you have
worked as men should work having o noble
cause in view. Two short months since you
were unknown, unorganized, In that brief
period you have sprung from your embryo state
nto full grown manhood That enemy, that
but a few months since arrogantly overrun the
ield with its colossal stride, smiling in derision
at your liliputan efforts, now trembles, terrified
like olden Phillistines at their Heaven inspired
opponent.
But wonderful as has been your success if
you fail to-day your efforts for the present will
count as nothing. It is useless to talk of your
majorities it is useless to refer to the officers
you have elected; fail to-day and all power re-
mains in the hands of your adversaries; and
past experience, even very late experience,
teaches you how little reliance is to be placed
upon their magnanimity. Look at the contempt
with which your Recorder has been treated, a
man symbolling the wishes and views Of the
people, crushed, trampled to the dust-power-
less as a newborn babe. His hands tied, de-
prived of every right, debarred even from the
exercise of those privileges that common cour-
esy should suggest are his. Learn from this,
learn from all past precedents what you are to
expect if the democrats carry the day. They
will have majority in the Councils, and then,
besides the appointment OF all their officers, they
will at the ensuing annual election name for
Commissioners their former democratic tools,
and thus they will doubtless succeed in per-
petuating that system of police that has become
the curse of this land. Give US q majority in
the Council and we will have pure men pre-
siding at the ballot-boxes give us pure men at
the ballot boxes and take my word for it, we
will have Reform Mayor and Recorders, q
Reform Council and Police, and in short, Re-
form i7e totot
But if from principles you run to men, how
nan itotn 5n obo n, lo,,st
know Pride, Prague, and Bailey? Not to know
them, is to argue yourself unknown Mr. Pride
is an upright, honest, and successful mechanic
q good and true man every inch Of him Mr.
Prague is an old Standardization intellect
ual-a hard working man, and deservedly very
popular; and it would be almost superogatory
for me to dwell on the merits of Mr. Bailey
For years he has toiled among us, earning an
honest livelihood with the sweat of his brow
He has raised family in our midst, and here
has educated his children; and while others
were seeking fashionable watering places at
which to expend their capital, he has remained
at our side-one of us-toiling, laboring, pro-
ducng; in every sense of the word, most use
full citizen. He has worked, too, ably in an Of
fetal capacity. AS an Alderman, he did his
duty; and in return, he demands but your ap-
proval of his stewardship. His defeat would be
our loss, while his election would, doubtless,
aHofu MIN lnHnlte gratlncatlon, as an evidence
of your satisfaction of his official conduct. To
fail to elect such aman would be to re- enact the
ostracism of Aristides.
And now, who are Messrs. Jameson, Rub, and
Rayburn' Echo answers, who! But though
we haoac nothing of the gentlemen, we do know
something Of the manner Of their selection. We
do know that they were the dernier resort of
democracy. We do know, that after the whole
city had been sifted for good men, these were all
that were found left, We do know that the three
former candidates were afraid again to present
themselves; and, finally, we do know, that such
men as Smith, Macmurdo, and Stark, could not
be induced to permit their names to be used by
modern democracy. While all this we do know
of Messrs. Rub s. Co., we must say, in all can
dor, 70 NO SR NADIA.