The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-08-12
THE POLITICAL OUTLOOK.
Views Of Judge Kennard.
ELLERAY, NEAR WooDvILLE, MISS,
August s, 1875.

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Editor New Orleans Bulletin:
Dear Sn-The spirit has moved me fire.
quently during the past month to utilize q
practical suggestions as to what the people of
Louisiana should be doing politically.
| This spirit has been especially aroused and
directed toward your paper, by the various
editorials which have appeared of late-com-
pretending and expounding, as think, the
situation very satisfactorily.
| The letters of Messrs. Keyser and Kidd
appearing in your issue of the Sd, have
raised the inclination to send you line and I
obey it.
What shall say is not designed for publ
cation, although the views are my convictions,
but merely as suggestions to you who have
the ear of the public. !, Of course, have no
desire to keep private any political sentiments
entertain, but think impersonal views may have
more effect and do more good. Besides this,
my engagements with the New Orleans and
Pacific Railroad business, and other non-poli-
teal measures, consume so much Of my spare
time that have not and most probably shall
not have the leisure to take any very active
part in politics, hence prefer not to appear
prominently in print as political adviser.
The anti-Radical voters of our State, hereto
fore connected with parties of various Names
should keep constantly in view the following
facts, if they desire to subserve most efficient
ly the public good.
The, Radical party has wrought most of the
evil that has been done the State since the
war; its overthrow is essential to the purifca.
ton of politics in the State. Its numbers are
not insignificant, its discipline is military.
Between the holdings of elections they do not
hesitate to denounce each other, for consider
alton, as thieves liars, perjurers, ETC., but
when the voting time comes again they do
hesitate to vote against their party-self
preservation, ''the first law of nature" impels
them to entire scrupulousness in retaining
'the loaves and fishes"
This fact has been SO often demonstrated
within the past ten years, that it is waste
of time to enlarge upon it.
We should then conclude that fight has
to be made in 1876 against combination of
all the Radical elements Gf any such
there beg, bad and Indifferent. How can this
best be done? A President is to be voted for
at the same time.
l entirely concur with Mr. Kidd in thinking
it an impossibility to separate State and Ma
tional politics. We must, then, choose be-
tween the two National parties. Can any
Conservative in Louisiana hesitate on this
point I concede there is room for differ
ences, honest differences, as to some of the
uolallS, lOI cAdIuplo, VI tuc mOuoy QuobtlOu
and the question of government subsidies to
works OF internal improvement.
Some good friends of home rule, revenue
tariff, supremacy of civil over military au-
thority, support of State governments in all
their rights, are clamorous for initiation and
against government subsidies. Some Repub-
licans, enemies of the first enum Grated meas
ures, which are vital to us, are friends of the
last mentioned measures, in which Louisiana,
owing to levee and railroad difficulties, is
deeply interested.
If elected to Congress from Louisiana, any
man who truly represents her real sentiments
will favor both hard money and government
subsidies for our great and other great inter-
nal improvement wants. To my mind nothing
is more absurd than for US to say to Uncle
Sam, after his millions have been spent upon
the Union and Northern Pacific Railroads,
that We have constitutional scruples and can't
accept any aid to build our Pacific road or
levees This would meet the wishes of Ma
ryland Democrats, one of whose resolutions
reads:
"We are opposed to the granting of sub
sides to railway or steamship companies, or
other monopolies, as unwarrantable in law,
corrupting in tendency and utterly subversive
of the principles of good republican govern
ment."
all uohIIIy oPpoSou W ILLS P1aHn, onu
consider the granting of subsidies in certain
cases as highly expedient and strictly legal,
yet I can not turn my back upon the Ma
tional Democratic party, because it offers
larger measure of hope than any existing
party, and no third party will be started,
unless to make division in favor of Radical
ism. 1t is extremely fortunate that the South
as whole seems to prefer hard money
platform, because it is as certain as anything
can be in the future, that no man Of either
party will be elected President who indorses
the views of Gov. Allen and company of
Ohio, and Mr.. Kelly of Pennsylvania
1t is equally fortunate that our views on the
money question concur with those of the
East-as the East is solid unit on this ques-
ton, and as her mighty votesand purse goes,
so goes the election.
We must not be misled by the buster of
the West. We will seek no combination with
any section, but 60 into the nations counsels
free to exercise our judgment on all these
questions, bent primarily upon securing the
supreme good to all the States, 'their right
full position and influence in the Union"
Very truly yours,
JOHN Fl. KENNARD.
George Ellis has received late French and
English illustrated papers of great interest