New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-04-01
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Since the Bulletin concluded to turn its
back u. on the principle Of financial hon.
esty, as it has long since done in refer
ence to political honesty, it INDUCES in
the widest figures of hyperbole. So long
AS it was permitted to enjoy stipend
from the city treasury for doing very in
differently what the REPUBLICAN did so
WELL perform the city printing, it could
see nothing wrong at the City Hall. It
sang the praises of John Conway's
administration in its most musical voice,
in season and out of season. Nothing that
that unprincipled ring Of politicians ever
did could draw from their hired organ one
word Of censure. Now, however, the
situation is changed. Being no longer
charity pensioner upon the bounty of the
city officials, it writes satiries, very coarse
at that, and boasts of its inability to fat
ter. In the issue of yesterday we find
the following Wholesale charge against the
present City Council: = .t-so.
d. Six millions have been expended by the
Board Of Administrators of the city since
the fourth Of April last, when they entered
Office BY the grace Of Warmoth!
Now, this is apparently serious charge.
Sir millions is a large sum for any pur-
pose: but when our city corporation is
theoretically charged with having spent
that much without sufficient reason, it
becomes Z matter for complaint from
places Of greater dignity and influence
than the Bulletins silly ''Talk on Change"
column. And as the charge is new as
we'll as serious, we, for one, shall require
better testimony than the bald assertion
of one writer, and he obviously pre-
JUDGED and superficial one, before we
can possibly believe it. We soy, then,
that even if we did not know anything
about the case at all, we could not accept
the wild statement of the Bulletin, unless
supported by more reliable evidence.
But let us first give an insight into the
style adopted by the self constituted organ
of the repudiators:
Six millions from city of not quite
two hundred thousand people in less than
Expended Not 90 stolen. Our rulers
are thieves. Thieves rule the State, rule
the city, and the plumber taken from the
people buys the votes Of petty thieves to
send big thief to the Senate Of the United
States. -
OF course it is impossible to dissect 30
heavy charge at once-six millions gone
at one fell swoop, and all stolen at that !!
This is prodigious. It is in vain to parade
facts and figures before man who writes
thus wildly. Even though we could
prove that two-thirds of the six millions
had gone to pay the. expenses of the
proAigate administration Of which the
Bulletin was the organ and apologist, all
would not do. The great load of debt
that was handed down from the times
when the city was terribly misgoverned,
had to be shouldered; unless we had
adopted the plan of some of the modern
camp followers of the Democracy, and
fatty repudiated the debts Of the city,
good and bad alike, provision had to be
made for their payment The great army
of hungry contractors and unpaid en-
ployes that hung around the corridors OF
the City Hall, watching with jealous and
angry eyes the financial policy Of the
present administration, were the victims
OF the Democracy. That party Of which
the Bulletin, With its loose notions of finan-
cial honor and political honesty is fitting
exponent, has saddled upon this peo-
~ IN addition to fearful floating debt
tA6oue million ten per cent loan, dray
loadg q city notsA ill-advissd contracts
| "a hSlsf1re, which il cost the city large