New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-10-25

Republican party has devoted no money
to public improvements, but has chosen
rather to rob the treasury, and treat the
public to the bag of the pudding, We
have concluded to investigate the case
! and show the actual state Of the banquet;
and our idea is that we have pretty con-
clusively established that the Democracy
has stolen the entire pudding when ii
had chance, and that the Republican
| party is the only organization that ever
did offer the people of Louisiana a chance
to benefit by their own taxes. Oul
method of doing this is to prove that I'M
der the present administration OF affairs
| there are in actual progress to-day
more public Improvements than were
ever built in this State before.
There is the railroad to Texas.
| There is the railroad to Mobile. There is
the railroad to Shreveport. There is the
ship canal below the city. There is the
Baton Rouge railroad. There is the road
from Vicksburg to Homer. Besides these
improvements which have been set in
motion by the help of the State, We have
the Jackson road rescued from misman-
agement. The State and city is separated
from any hand in private corporations.
The levees are in condition to resist the
floods, which is a novel announcement at
this time Of the year. There is money III
the treasury, and the credit of both the
city and State is good. We appeal to
every class of the community, outside of
the radical Democracy, to look at these
facts. We appeal to every citizen to re-
ply if the facts which We have given in
answer to this Democratic libel are not
correctly stated?
But we have more. When the Repub-
icans entered upon the government of the
city Of New Orleans, the iaborers were
unpaid; the school teachers were unpaid;
band of sharks stood at the city treasury
and barred the door to every honest
claimant the most shameless traffic was
carried on in public securities; the streets
were left unclean; AN unsightly
placard barricaded st. Charles
avenue for days because the
wrangling Democrats could not live in
peace long enough to mend a bridge; the
credit of the corporation was entirely
gone; the charity funds were in danger;
the various departments Of the city We're
SO mixed up that it was matter OF guess
work which controlled the different eX
penditures; committees were authorized
to draw upon the treasury without asking
the consent Of the Council; the members
fought among themselves because they
could not arrange their private disputes.
We had no regularity in the assessment
Office. The Mayor was at war with the
Council and the Aldermen denounced the
Mayor. And this was o Democratic gov
eminent.
More than this The State and city
have spent millions OF revenue in the last
forty years. The Democracy has had
control Of the public purse during ali the
time. Let it show single Improvement
worthy to be remembered. We ask for
single one. Louisiana has been the victim
Of forty years Of misrule and plumber.
Millions Of money have been expended,
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there is no record in the State to show
that it has done more than feed the party.
We had railroad started to Texas, and
that was converted into a monopoly for
the benefit of a New York steamboat
house. We had a railroad to jackson,
but that was run in the interest Of Boston,
discriminating III favor of freight going
North against freight coming South, and
the vote of the State Democratic direc-
tors determined this extraordinary wrong
against us. We had canals that were
ted in Democrats. We had public
sentiment which was constantly being in
famed against the nation, and against a
portion Of the people. Trade was driven
from our doors because we could not
tolerate men with different ideas from the
narrow prejudices that aff,ict the Democ-
racy. People were run out of town be-
cause they thought and spoke as other
men said they should not talk and speak.
And this was Democracy. 1t was not the
community that did these wrongs, but it
was set of men who set themselves above
the community, and presumed to do the
thinking and talking for the community.
The same set is here to-day. 1t is as
violent as ever in speech, and all it wants
is the opportunity to be as violent i'll ac-
ton as it was in 1866. 1t constantly
threatens hemp and revolvers. 1t con-
stantly talks Of plumber. 1t discourses of
rascality. Yes, this party which abused
office when it was trusted, now abuses the
party which has not betrayed its trust
This party which can show no single i'm
provement out of forty years lease of
power, is so stepped in ignorance that it
dares to come before the people with such
q statement as that at the head of this
article. Where does it expect to find
believers?
1t is pity that General Lee can not be
allowed to sleep in his grave without hay