The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1870-01-12
THE AUDITORS R0BBERIES.

! Governor Warmoth has sent spe
cial message to the Legislature setting
forth the manner in which the Stat
Auditor has extorted money from tn
people of the State, and calling 70
Especial legislation to arrest his caree
of theft and extortion. The message
lif its statements are true, of which W.
have not the slightest doubt, is a mos
startling expose of the manner in which
this Radical official has filed his peck
cts out of the necessities of the people
regardless of their political or socia
status, levying black mail on friend o
foe alike. The charitable institution
are swindled out of the funds provided
for them by the beueficence of thu
State. That enormous outrage, the
printers bill, seems to have particular
ly excited his covetous appetite, ani
the poor printers are made to disgorgt
a most astounding per centage of tht
magnificent largess bountiful party
had provided for the dissemination o
sound Radical doctrine. Just think O
Hahn and Blackburn, and Francis ani
Leonard and other Radical editors be
ing forced to "shell out" to Wickliff,
before he would cOndescend to audi
their quota of the stealings of the
State. It is no wonder that the Radi,
cal press is down on this bjgh-handed
Radical officer.
The governor says the credit of the
State has been seriously Injured by the
crimes of the Auditor and we have no
doubt of it. Ifstealing is to be carried
on in this wholesale manner for any
length of time, the treasury Of the
State, now almost empty, cannot hold
out long, and it's credit, so sorely press
ed, will soon be exhausted. That the
Radical party would bankrupt the
State, if it should remain in power for
even short season, has long been evil
dent to US all.
But will the Legislature do anything
to arrest Mr.. Wicklife in his course z
The chances are most decidedly in IA
vor of his coming out as triumphantly
as he came out of the prosecutions be-
fore the Criminal Courts. 1t has been
understood for some time past that the
great work of the present Legislature
was to settle whether Warmoth or
Wickliffe is to be the "big dog" of the
Radical lanyard. Wickllfe has evil
IDENTIFY not been idle, and seems to
know exactly on what to depend. He
would not have moved into the State
House so majestically had he not
known that the Legislature would sus-
tain him in his undertaking. In the
election for Speaker, which was said to
be a test vote, Wickliffe got his man
elected. The Committee appointed so
promptly by the House to investigate
the charges against him was appointed
by his friend, the Speaker, motion to
refer them to the Judiciary Committee
having been made and lost. The COM
mittee will smother the charges until
the end of the session, Oh, in case the
Warmoth men force the investigation,
the tracks of the Auditor will be very
ingeniously covered up. Men who are
themselves engaged in wholesale steal
ing cannot be expected to throw dis
credit upon their own operations by
one of the head rogues.-
Wickliffe will eventually triumph, and
Warmoth will do well if he saves his
own head.
We know a great deal about this
man Wickliffe and can conscientiously
say that we look upon him as fair
sample of the vampires who are now
feeding on the life blood of the State
A hot-brained disunionist, when dis
unionism was thought to pay, and
Radical when Radicalism was known
to pay, he furnishes a fit type of the
of those who, with so many
points of difference, are fully agreed in
the great object of Southern Radical
lsm-unlimited plumber and corrup-
ton. If he is any worse than War
moth or Ray, and their companions, it |
is only on the Spartan principle of the
discovery of the theft being worse
than the theft itself. The rest of them
have managed to conceal their mis-
deeds (as badly as even they have con-
cealed them) a little better than Wick
life; hence all this virtuous indigna-
ton against the acts of the AUDITOR
In the fight between the Governor and
the Auditor we wish to be counted out.
1t would be exceedingly fortunate for
the State if, as the old woman said of
the ram and the billy goat, they could
both "butt their id brains out"
A>SHEET OF P4sER.-It is curious to re-
hect upon what uses sheet of paper may
be put. 1t lies before you in state Of
virgin purity, and its utmost value is
cent. 1t is scrawled over with poothooks
and hangers, few promise to pay" are
vrittan an IL and If hecomes Oood for