The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-04-04
A BRACE OF GOVERNORS.

tefG Is an llIlVtlIhI AVN A1A'AON'
LIS himself Governor of Louisiana. although
y has lust as much right to that tile as his
onpenial fr;e,ds Logan, from the same > ale,
nd Morton and Butler, whose constituencies
have recently repudiated them In no eqnlvo-
eal manner. What this man is, everybody
here knows, and thank heaven, good many
people outside Of Louisiana also reAllzs II a.
The present moment. We will not, therefore,
&vaste an her word On this bright pattern OF
~ha. Grant and Durell think Louisiana "Gov-
ernors" ought to be.
There is another man who wears the
same title as Kellogg, but who IS to hln
4 Hyperion to Satyr." A man without lear
and without reproach-a CIVIC warrior "nose
q pcl;tical escutcheon is symbolical OF honor
3ard virtue-a Governor whom the once
Seought and who, no sooner was lac electea os
an overwhelming tidal wave" OF pubic
dominion. went at once to work to put down
81 eyery corrupt "riug' combination and every
time hoaored abuse, regardless of the clamor
# If friends or foes, and with single eye TO
4 the protection Of the thrice happy citizens OF
II %he State over whose affairs he has been called
upon to preside.
N This remarkable Governor name is SAMUEL
Il J. TILDEN, who, in the short apace Oh '1iu0
! which has elapsed since lie was trlumphant'y
u elected to the executive chair OF MS IauSe
i State, has already made = record which even
4 the spotless patriots who laid the corner
stone Of republican government Al America
~ rIory q their own.
d For more than thirty years past powerful
combination Of men Of both parties, kno~n
Il "a the "Canal Ring" have virtually con-
\ trollea every political movement IN tue
d great State OF New York, and until few days
4 ago, they had found no one invested With
nnblic Office who was bold enough to defy
u their power. or to expose their rascaltles
When the New York Democratic adminlstra
n ton went into Office. the members OF this
3 ring thought they would have Just Is easy
4 time under Samuel J. Tilden as they bad en-
q loved under his predecessors in Office
y sshoot -him-down on he-spot' Dix bclns
q conspicuous among the number.
Il Now this is the way this s'true-grit' Demo
Il cratic Governor talks to this very Legislature
4 in which the Canal Ring is known to wie!s
3 that almost irresistible influence which tn
= cohesive power Of public plumber places II
\ the hands of politicians who understand tn
act of locating money s'where it Will do mos
good"
We quote from Gov. Tilden's message o
the 9th ult., to the New York Lesisl sture:
For ten years the Peopio Of this State and Q
the country nave been living beyond Their means
and for some time past they nave 3rea pay ~
moro taxes than they can afford. We are nov
Day,nc at the rate Of 10000 0 . year. Il
1865 | recolect asserting that we Sere then Nv
ing on the .rotl Of our riches; and warning N
country that the prevailing estravasance coui
not go on without eating down below the ilte'
eat into our capital. The time has como IN
capital OF the majority OF taxpayers Is ailscte
by the prevailing rates OF taxation. Ever
farmer, every small mechanic feels tLis ans!
sore abozt it. Where he used to pay $40 h
came to pay s75 or cleo.
While business b tered in corresponding Pr
portion he could afford this without Eiuch Sruint
ling: but when taxation keeps on IL casing as
n has since done, while at tie eame time cuisines
and values collapse after o.eriptation. the ia!
Il payer OF whatever order te' - his pocket an
Y looks around him asking, Way fhe answt
81 il SIMPLE Rings, organized soif-lnterests, nay
grown up and got tho better OF capital and II
g dustry II takes . very sclal org nlZed IN
q disciplined force to sack an unorgamzed comm'
nifty Of perhaps hundred times Their number
q The COLLISION OF few alert, intelligent me-
bent on proitng themselves at tho expense
q the tax payers at large was certain to succet
during p Rod when the people we're too bus
"a and too prosperous to pay much attic ton 10 pn
lie affairs or TO the character OF calbre OF publ
q officers elected TO defend their interests. III
i day after the election OF legislator or a putt
official he called upon, and the man who
interest it was to secure his favor didn't let IA
GO.
1t would be owing to uncommon strength
character and Stiffness of Judgment if the publ
y servant was not soon prevented from dong 81
public good. But now the people themselves o
81 beginning to look into this matter They 4
4 the oppression Of the load they carre. They l
qure how it can DO ghened. To show the
the way Is to win their co operation in the mes
ure The eff ct OF this popu' ar attcntion to pu
lie affairs is not SO apparent now as it will
later and will not be so great tins year as 1t W
be the next.
q Brave words these, and worthy Of the n;
4 Who, regardless of party affiliations. broke
Il the infamous Tweed Genet combination til
was eating up the substance Of the prop r.
= holders and taxpayers of the great comn'
cial emporium of the Union just think
q moment what kind Of q message louisa
Tilden might send to any one of those pee
liar bodies, whose ''high-tantast1c tricks" hs
afforded 50 much food for bitter reflection
all who have beheid them within the last {
4 years IN Louisiana.
Look upon this picture and on thf
i The counterfeit presentment Of carp
bag, "andit.on and DIVISION bayoneti
posed Governor-and that nobiest work
God, an HONEST MAN, placed into Off ce by
unbought. untrlmmeled suffrages OF Fl
q people and Judge We between them
Take notica-
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