New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-12-12

nsr Of I'll political parties, expeceed some
of the pledges made BY their
leaders They had been assured that all
the restitution of New Orleans arc Sc
from the mal-administration OF tbe
.susurper Kellogg" The reduced Fate of
rents, and the inability Of the tens mt, the
want of work or the non-pay ment Of
wages, was attributed to the Same COM
prehensive cause. 1t is true toe city was
under Democratic admin stration. 1t
could not he denied that the debt. taxa
ton and expenditures of the State were
scarcely more than aalf the same
items resting upon the city. Still,
the people were told that il Kel-
logg were by any means removed
from Office prosperity would revisit the
land aud all men would be happy. When
we look at this extraor binary popular de-
fusion we find but one fair parallel in ell
history. It is in the numerous and au.
thenticated cases in which a murrain hav-
ing befallen the cattle or an epidemic dis
order Of the bowels proved fatal to tie
children in a community, the old woman
nesrest, most ignorant and most innocent
Of all capacity for harm, was seized.
held as hostage and bu rned as specific
remedy 'for the prev ailing disorders.
The delusion as to the efficacy of chang
ing the city government froEs one set of
Democrats to another has been exploded.
There is no more business. no better
wages, no lower rents and no cheaper
food or fuel since the electi on than before
that millennium. The city has settled
in the trough Of The financial sea
that has SO long threatened to en-
gulf her. The people have elected the
most prominent Of their leaders
to lucrative and honorable posts One
gentleman, who commanded at the stack
on the police station at Jackson square.
will receive an Office rep uted to be worth
some $4,000 or $4,000 per annum.
Another. who expected the people TO take
up arms and 60 to the re lief OF she people
Of distant parish, then in open insur.
rection against the law, will carry his
doctrines into the halls of natl onal legis.
lation. 4 third Of these leaders. who
made personal assault upon the execu.
tive of the State, stands in receipt of a
good salary. and the dispensation OF
patronage larger. perhaps, than that Of
any other officer Of the city.
Where are the people who drilled, and
assaulted the lega! authorities. and thus
gave most of those Offices? Treated with
consideration and justice. no doubt. Re-
ceiving their equal share Of the result of
conquest achieved by their misapplied
valor.
We will show the sense Of their services.
from the testimony of at least one of those
organs most viol snt in exhorting them to
violate the laws.
The Picayune Of the ninth Instant has
the following heartless notice Of the VIC
tins Of delusion and false assurances:
The City Hall is still crowded with hordes
u
bcen lingering there now these three weeks,
| and it is becoming serious question how
they are to be got rid OF.
"a serious question. how they are 70 be
got rid Of"
Was this serious question discussed be-
fore the election?
But the sensibilities OF the Democratic
upper ten are placed in strong and con-
temptuous contrast with the physical suf-
fering Of the poor ex-voters:
Tuesday morning it was quite cold and
| the crowd was reduced to about three or
| four hundred. These, however, proved
serious Nuisance, and leave the hall several
inches deep in tobacco juice every morning.
The suffering of these poor people from
weather so severe as to disperse and drive
them hence has no phrase Of compassion
from this journal. Yet it is the same
which so fattered and melted them to take
the State Offices by storm. Even the
"tobacco juice" expressed no doubt in
undue quantities by the rage and despera-
ton of disappointment is serious
nuisance to those refined gentlemen. 1t
, is true that they only occupy this hall
upon the Suffrage Of these deluded and
shivering chewers Of tobacco. This is
just such treatment as some hunters give
the hounds which they exhort and applaud
during the chase, but lash and kick when
! ever they would repose their wearied
limbs before the hall FIRE of their masters.
1t is nearly as bad as that ''certain lord,
neat, trinity dressed, fresh rs a bride
groom" WHO abused the soldierc who ha d
won the fight as.
| - Untanght kha+es rninsnneriy.
| To bring sloye9y, unhsndscme corpse.
| Betwixt che wind and his nobility.
But this is not even the utmost of this
harsh and ungrateful TRADE against the
men of the fourteenth Of September who
may be among those repulsive spitters Of
amrbTer. The Picayune adds:
This crowding around the City Hall is
growing Tito q disgrace The door of every
| Administrators office is blocked BY Gro wd
Of eager men, and if it be bat half opened
dozen or tsso will push in 10 plead for a
position.
1t is a severe enough sarcasm on our pa
| triotism that there shOrld be some thou
sand office seekers, but when it grows to a
nuisance, and more than nuisance, the
I police or posse cOr1itatus should be called
on to Dust this crcwd and restore tho City
Hall to its pro;yer condition, where business
can be transacted. As it is now, the mob
seems to regard it as an asylum for broken
down politicians.