The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1875-03-27
Democratic Legislation.
From the N. 0. Republican, |

measures IS plainly apparent by tlel
/ work in the several States where the,
have gained political power. The.
boast of the good laws they will enact
ami they do nothing save in the wa,
of attempting to perpetuate their owl
existence. The Democratic journal
accuse them Of SHINING continually b,
4 omission and commission, and missing
i the golden opportunity Of gaining res
probability BY respectable actfolf. Il
the State Of Illinois the Democrat,
/ have a majority of eighteen in thu
Legislature on joint ballot, according
to their own admission, aud the !" re
form measures =. introduced in tbal
body have become the laughter an(
by-words Of even tile Conservative
Journals. Its reforms have all been
acted in the crablike progression pc.
cnliar to the party 6f traditions. With
high promises fol future good it gave
the command of g forward, march, ,
and straightway crawled back into
the old slums Of party policy. It is
the nature Of the beast. The first
great effort made by the Democratic
Legislature Of Illinois was to repeal
the registry law to make future Dem
ocratic majorities easy TO attain. 1t
1 was simply an act to open wide the
| doors to ballot boxes for the entry OF
fraud fraud which was SO plain and
palpable that men Of all parties united
| in favor of enacting the original reg
istration law, which was good one,
and satisfactory to all but ward poll
ticians. The Legislature of Illinois
has been pronounced nuisance by a
large number Of intelligent Demo-
| cratic voters. t4
The Democratic Legislature of In
diana has been run as a sort of mile
age and per diem harvest. Nothing
good was accomplished at the regular
session, and failure to pass an ap-
preparation bill forced the Governor
to call an extra session to give the
patriots another whack" at the treas
ury. Conservative journals in In
diana have been driven to the defense
of Legislature unparalleled for reck-
less and extravagant legislation.
The Legislature of Missouri has
been remarkable for mistaken party
zeal. Its most brilliant triumph was
to make a Senator of Cockre1l in place.
of Schurz, for the reason that Cockrell
had been a General in the Confed-
crate service, aud had used what little
talents he possessed in efforts to break
up the government Of the United
States. The Democracy showed it.
self not opposed to soldiers as rulers,
provided the soldiers had followed
the battered banners consecrated by
the doggerel Of Father Ryan and up
borne by JEFF Davis. To represent
them in the halls of a national Con-
gress the Missouri Democracy pre-
ferred CORY Confederate warrior to
q Conservative Union statesman.
: The Legislature of New York has
shown itself active only in trifling
measures calculated to perpetuate
and increase the powers of Mr.. Tilden.
Tammany has been strengthened by
Notifications for laboring men bill
has been introduced to punish com
and trades unions seeking
to protect their craft by apprentice
systems, a bill which the Ners char
as "most dangerous and i'm
proper" The Legislature of New
York has done positively no good to
the State.
The Pennsylvania Legislature had
a Democratic majority of twenty -one.
The power was used to repeal the
local option law. Democracy and
whisky are inseparable, and the in
alienable right to get drunk upon all
occasions without hindrance was the
greatest reform measure" Pennsyl-
vania Democrats could conceive.
They could think Of no other enter
nal improvements, and it is ques-
ion whether or not 4 whisky-line |
can be classed in that cata-
ogue.
Connecticut has Jared no better at
The hands of the ruling Bourbons. Its
General Assembly has been marked
or cxtravagant and absurd legisla-
ion.
What the Democrats did for New
has already been made APP
''1A SHt III UHC IAu<tl wave VI &4dCClO0, |
Cor a year they had been all power
al. They made a clean sweep of all
,ood officials, and foisted bunker fos-
Ills and bad men upon the people.
They destroyed q most perfect and
satisfactory Judiciary system for the
AXE Of removing upright Republican
ndges and putting Democrats upon
he benches. They failed to enact
uch Il liquor law as they had prom
'ed to the Prohibitionists, and failed
D act against the Capitalization of
power according to promises
lade the Changers. At the same
inc they were careful to re-district
ne senatorial districts to take surplus
votes from one candidate
nd give them to another who needed {
lem. They failed to accomplish any b
ood thing, and in the forcible lam ,
uage Of an old Democat /" raised hell I
enerally." It was thought the Dem I
,rats Of New Hampshire slightly {
'erdid the thing when they were /
gislating, and now they know it. ,
1t we were to seek examples nearer d