New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-05-05
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4 LIE ELElI19h,
/ On Monday next the election for parish officers
i takes place. As this election involves total
change in the offices which appertain to our par
ish system, and as it is the first election for i've
years in which there has been free expression OF
popular win with reference to those offices, the
4 occasion is one of extreme Importance We SIN
/ cerey hone that there will be a full vote cast
that every citizen who is able to go to the polls
will make use Of his privilege as an elector and
that thus there may be no complaints afterwards
/ in regard to the result. We are too much in the
habit of over estimating the Importance of cleo
tons of a more general character, and of neglect
ing elections which, like the one now to take
place, embrace merely local offices. But rightly
viewed, these are of more consequence than any
Of the others The questions of wide interest,
dependent on general elections, may, and fire.
quently are, of extreme Importance but they are
comparatively few in number, and they are fire.
quently of only speculative or theoretical char
acter. On the other hand all the practical affairs
OF the community are more or less affected by the
operations of the local parish and municipal sys-
TENS The easy and proper working of our insti-
buttons depends far more on the manner in which
our local offices are administered than on the poll
teal complexion of a Congress or State legisla-
ture. We require good sherifs, good coroners
| good clerks of courts, good justices of the peace
and constabes, even more than we require good
Congressman or good governors. The right OF
local sefgoyernment lies at the foundation OF eur
SYSTEM It'll the basis on which our pohtieai
structure is reared II constitutes the essence OF
the kind of Democracy to which we are attached.
L thls right pc neglected or Improperly e&er-
eised, all the Congresses and legislatures IN the
world could not remedy the eVlis Nhleh would
necessarily ensue.
For these reasons, therefore, we would impress
upon our readers me absolute necessity OF gong
20 the polls on MONDAY next lou are not con
tentea win the PARISH organization as 1t, at
pfesen9, eAis's-Fely "e1l YOU nave now an op-
portahiey " cA44se4t " 10y nave nao no power
-! NY years y eAefcise your rgnts OF cltizen
s.lip-Eely "ei.' dle power Is now IN your hands
Aou "aliV " nave oiiioers VI your own choosing
otuoeis y "Noi you eaii sieiy cohnue your rlghts
NY elie ehsatlon q Jusueei ana the
eAeou'ioh y ne la"s5-'e5y "eh' you can nov
eoiiseliuiaee yeut uesres' 1ou wish 10 eieet a
oapapie hiaa ior sueflu' competent coroner a
gooa olst3cs Attorney trustworthy clerks and
J1sS'ees auu "el' the Natlohat
pelloetalic ueAst saves you the trouble Of gong
sny tispet " mans selection. we are proud OF
sAae liCAe'i anu ths people Oh lhe PARISH should
pc proud OF II. Inc general convention which
nominated parish olncers discharged It's delicate
auty ~ way winch leaVes no room TOT caYll on
the ground OF the capacity and fitness OF the nom
lnees'
NO man can nave other than political motive
LOT Young against tnen' or any Ct them. But,
Deslaes Delng IN all respects htted TOR the oHces