New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-03-20
. Row PARTIES ARE BROKEN down..

ligious establishments dissolved by thu
ambition and wickedness of priests. In
each case the theory of q paternal, free
and virtuous government, is apparently
refuted. Kings became tyrants, republics
anarchy, and the sacred authority Of GOO
is, in the mouths of men, hypocrisy. Par
ties tend to the same result. A question
of administrative principle arises. Able,
honest and courageous men succeed in
basing the action of government upon the
principles established by conflict. The
battle over, follows the distribution oil
the spoils. Then comes forward, under
pretense of principle, many men who
have neither the mind to comprehend,
the force to execute, nor the virtue to
illustrate the principles established. They
employ the power Of the party to which
they belong to promote their own interests.
They commit wrong, exasperate some,
discourage others, confound the principles
with the abuses, and the people reverse
the principles to correct the abuses. One
of the hardest consequences of these
frauds is that while the rogues of both
parties join to prosecute their common
interest, the whole responsibility of their
crime falls upon the party which con-
ducts the administration. Such has been
the history of the Democratic party in the
United States and such would have been
that of the Republican party but for the
resolute arrest of similar abuses. The
Democrats of New York were obliged to
bring Tweed and the ring to justice for
the same reason. 1t had destroyed the
party. Respectable men would not be
held responsible for such associates. The
present Governor Of New York was the
Democrat who brought Tweed to justice,
and that act placed the Democrats in
power. Both parties in New Orleans
have long been infected by
class of men who call themselves ''poli-
ticians," but whose capacity or thought
can not ascend above an Office or
a job. These men have combined in
every disreputable robbery ever perpe-
trated on the people or the treasury. The
lions share of the canal lease, the lottery,
levee, drainage and butchers meat mon
opolies, the funding of discredited city
and State obligations, has fallen to the
Democratic officers, stockholders and bro
kers. The exclusive responsibility has
fallen upon the Republican government,
under whose administration these meas
ures have been enacted
We are tired of this inequality. We
wish each party to be held responsible for |
the abuses perpetrated by those who pre-
sumo to steal in its name We have here
tofore assumed that the REPUBLICAN will |
always be the first to denounce, and will |
never defend any offender who shall add
10 his crime the insult of expecting the
honest men of the party to defend it.
We have an example of this abuse before
Is. A State assessor has been arrested on
he charge Of having received bride TO
.educe the values taxed to citizen. The
reporters have put into his mouth that
le collected that bribe to subscribe to
Republican election fund. Suppose that
we're so. He would throw Oh the Repub-
lean party the responsibility of defending
lis crime for the value of his personal
support. No one in this respectable COM
nunity would make such an absurd bar
,ain. Where that bride money would
purchase one vote, the fact of such means
Employed would lose the Republican party
hundred. But every one knows that
his practice of reducing the tax Of man
'ase enough to corrupt sworn officer,
nd throwing the deficit upon other men
90 honest to do the same thing, is Of
ong practice and confined to no party. 1t
as been ,practiced under the administra-
ion of all parties, to the disgrace of all
arties. We have seen statement in
'hich, for the year 1869 or 1870, there
as difference of $4,000, 900 in the
alue o. the same city property
S assessf ID by the State ard city officers.
he lates I case stated is that of State
SCISSOR who had dealings with one Mr..
ackson. By an odd coincidence there
as city deputy assessor, who had deal
lgs of the same character with another
[r. JacR son. The name of this city dep
ty asses sor was not, we think, given to
le publ lie. but in the last days of the city .
lminist ration the fact was published, it ,
as serted in print that there was ring ,
four persons in the Democratic asses
'r's Office who had perpetrated this prac-
ce. We were promised an '.investiga-
on and an exposure. The Democratic
have never found time to inves- =
gate the charge, and the criminals,
hoover they were, have escaped. /;
There was another high offense sug- 4
ested. 1t was no less than the suppress c
on or abduction of bill formally passed, t
lrolled and Transmitted to the executive. t
he same audacious trick, or even a @
eater, has been practiced by the New a
ork lobby. There the public printer Q
rs employed to print, with the same =
sper and type, bill just as the lobby t
ished it. 1t was substituted for the bill =
hich had been ordered for enrolment, v
I'd had nearly become the law of the a
ate. Ii the abduction of the bill placing s
e criminal sheriff and the clerks of the fl
lrst District and Superior Courts on sal c