New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-10-06
TUESDAY, OCTOBER

city taxation received no cOuntenance
support from those Democratic who now
"complain 80 loudly of the burdens undel
which the State is suffering" These are
facts presented to the country by Governor
Kellogg, and they show that the charge Of
corrupt and vicious legislation" is false.
On the other hand, Governor Kellogg
shows that the McEnery Democratic Legis.
lature of 1861, composed exclusively Of
white men, squandered the money OF the
people in the most reckless manner, apprO-
priating $l7, ,l29, ,554. while only $3,379, 600 in
taxes were collected, leaving Q deficit OF
$13, ,750, ,554 to be provided for by it's sue.
cessors. He shows that for the years 1868
to 1871, both inclusive-fOur years-War-
moths administration made appropriations
to the amount Of $40, ,378, ,345, while his own
administration has made for the years 1873
and 1874 appropriations to the amount of
only e2,726, ,379. The record stands thus:
Three years of Democracy, Sl7 Log, ,554; four
years of WarmOth, $lO,378, Jas; four years
of Kellogg lat the rate Of 1873 and 1874,
$5,452,75S To the truth of this exhibit
Governor Kellogg appeals to the records as
a witness, and sOIicits the most thorough
investigation and rigid scrutiny.
Governor Kellogg strips the mask from
the theory OF Mr.. MARI that the State of
Louisiana is Democratic. and hence that he
(Kellogg) could not have been elected in
1872, and that the Republicans can not
carry the State in 1874, except by fraud.
Mari bases his argument on the census of
49, 0, which shows a small excess of white
males over the age of twenty-One years. 10
this Governor Kellogg responds as follows:
1.-The whole force Of the argument is de-
stroyed by the fact which Mr.. MARI design
edly or accidentally fails to mentions: That
4 Oh hat hnr v1oArlU
$4,000 alien males over the age OF twenty
one in this State who are, of course. dis
qualified from voting. Deduct these Is, 600
aliens from the total of white citizens claim
ed for the Democracy; deduct also the 5000
or 10000 known white Republicans, and add
that number to the cOlored male adults, all
made citizens by the war, and the census
argument establishes larger excess of Re-
publicans over Democratic voters in this
State than even the Republican party
claim"
This analysis is absolutely conclusive, and
furnishes the key to the late insurrectiOn.
Knowing these facts to exist az Kellogg
states, McEnery, Penn, and Marr knew also
that fair election must inevitably result
in q Republican victory; and Republican
victory in 1874 settles the disputed question
of 1872 in favor OF the justice of the claim
of Kellogg to the Office Of Governor, which
he now holds. Hence the revolution be-
came q political necessity. Hence the
charge that Kellogg had "heaped upon the
people of Louisiana innumerable insults,
burdens and wrongs"
1t is incumbent upon McEnery and Penn,
and upon the whole body of Democratic
White Leaguers of Louisiana now to over
throw kellOgg's statement or confess them
selves falsifiers or slanderers. The odlum
of thieving, corruption and robbery is
shifted from the shoulders of Kellogg, his
and the Republican party
and rests upon the White League usurpers.
If they can not relieve themselves of the
load Of shame they must go to the wall.
From the New York Commercial Adrer-
iser:
Governor Keliogg's letter, which has just
been published. ought to throw oil upon the
troubled waters. In it he shows that under
his administration the floating debt has
been decreased $900,00U. while under the
Democratic regime the appropriations were
$l3,7 ESQ, ,554 in excess of the revenue. In
two years State taxes have been reduced
from twenty-one and q half mills to four
teen and one half mills; the city of New
Orleans, with debt of 1000 900, incur
red under Democratic rule, has been
enabled to reduce taxation five mills; State
expenditures have been rigidly kept within
the limits of the revenues; provision has
been made that no parish shall ever be
called upon to pay more than twenty nine
mills, and over $8,O00,00O of contingent
liabilities have been wiped cut. This is a
good exhibit, and the Republican party in
Louisiana has no reason to be ashamed of
it. Provision has now been made for q
full and fair registration, and the McEnery
party express themselves satisfied with the
situation. If Northern Democrats and
will keep their hands of, there
will be NO more trouble in Louisiana.
From the Washington National Repub-
lican:
The defense which Governor Kellogg
makes of his administration in Louisiana
against the charges of his enemies is simply
He has been charged with
Wholesale robbery, with giving the treasury
into the hands of thieves, and with general
mismanagement of the important trust con.
fided in him. The indlsputable facts, based
upon official figures, which he brings for
ward in answer to these accusations show
that under his administration the taxes
have been reduced, the debt funded, and
the interest on it promptly paid, and that
the expenses of running the State govern
ment have also been reduced. The only
possible point upon which his enemies can
possibly hinge q charge of an increase Of
the debt results from the action of
his predecessor, while a comparison Of
the figures proves that notwithstanding
this temporary increase he has in the end
reduced the total amount of the obligations
of the State. In view of these facts and of
their general acceptance as satisfactory, We
do not hesitate to call upon the press of the
country, in the interest of fairness and
justice, to give his explanation q wide
spread circulation. Especially do we ask
the Republican press to do this, because
they have in the publication of partisan
colored Associated Press dispatches unwit-
tingly injured not only the reputation of
State but of the Republican
party. The truth is that to these kind of
is traceable much of the disaffec-
ton in the North regarding Southern
affairs, and now that an opportunity is
offered to give the facts to the public it
should not be ignored.
From the Baltimore american:
The address which Governor Kellogg has
put forward, and which was published
exclusively in the american of yesterday,
may also be counted as among the good re-
suits of the past crisis. The wonder is that
with 50 much to say that was strongly per-
tlnent to the case, Governor Kellogg had
not previously made his appeal to the pub
lie judgment Undoubtedly the sharp array
Of facts which he now presents, backed up
by the fOrcible arguments used, will cause
many to revise their opinions "a to the con-
litiOn Of affairs in Louisiana. Such q pre-.
as hehas now made can not be
dismissed with simple denunciation Of the
source from which it comes, or even weak
ened by mere counter statements. Cover
cor Kellogg asserts that he is able to prove
the frauds and forgeries by which the
majority for Mr.. McEnery was
obtained, and in regard to the financial
measures of his administration presents an