New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-04-02

thority a power superior to the veto
while the newspaper uade the vehicle o
such indispensable publication would 6t
still more master of the situation by refus
ing to obey the orders. The only remedy
within official COVER would seem to be the
PRONUNCIATION of separate law embodying
the items which have been omitted IN tbs
PRESENT, Or based On whatever bill
the executive may, in his discre.
ton, believe to have been verified
by the signatures of the presiding Of
ficers Of the Legislative bodies. and
| formally communicated to the executive
We do not know thai the executive will
make any change but should he have
been induced to sign any bill which shall
| appear to contain fraudulent, or to omit
proper items, he may perhaps effect this
object by supplemental signature and
PRONUNCIATION. AS for such items as may
have been fraudulently introduced, they
may be arrested by injunction OF repealed
by the Legislature, SO far as they may not
have vested right. At all events. these
items involve sum of only ten or twelve
thousands dollars, and if the State shall
have to pay that amount for the careless
ness Of her officials it must be borne with.
We are, however, it would appear,
about to follow New York in the prosecu-
ton Of persons charged with raising and
reducing the amount of public appropria-
tons. Two or three years ago when the
New York Times {Republican) rose up
against the ring rule of Tweed and his
associates, the grand jury found indict-
naents against the prominent thieves and
forgers. Tweed was too rich, too AFRO
CANT and too fat to run. Confiding in
lawyers fees and in the power of
money to corrupt jurors and to bride
or buy off witnesses, he insolently
asked, ''What are you going to do
about it," So he stayed and the
Napoleon Of public rascals was sent to the
st. Helena of Blackwell's. There, as an
assistant in the Hospital ward, with
q shaved head and garments striped
with alternate colors, he conducts the
purgation and cure Of convicts. But his
brethren Of less faith and of lighter weight,
where are they? Connolly, Genet, and a
number of Others, fed from the wrath |
impending, and, warned by the humilia-
ton Of Tweed, they are now making the |
tour OF the world with the proceeds Of their
fraud. The effect of these examples |
IS very salutary. Tweed looking
through the crate, like an old gray rat |
caught in the trap of the law, is daily |
warning to all who believe that the people
ire prey to be despoiled by the poll
icians. The fugitive felons, like singed
ats, have their use. They run around
lmong their fellows as terrified spectacles
If common danger.
We shall regard with much interest the
egal investigations. It will afford an
Of indicating Republican
officials from a public censure which
must fall properly upon any who forge
nd counterfeit the true laws uttered
y the representatives of the people
Whether this: investigation will put the
perpetrators Of this capital offense in
'ubllc position similar to that of Tweed.
= send those brokers between the law
nd the lobby scudding through the
7orld to conceal themselves and their
gains from the beagles of the
w, Louisiana will profit as New York
as profited We can only promise to do
5 the Republican press in the city of New .
ork has done, pursue with unswervable
gor any public offenders who have done
aything to throw disgrace On the Amer
an people and responsibility upon the
epublican party.