The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-09-22
RADICAL INIQUIT1Es MUST BE DE-
FEATED,

The General Assembly of Louisiana wi
meet in about one hundred days from TIL
date to enter upon one Of the largest an
most important tasks that ever devolved upo
Legislative body.
One branch of the Assembly, the Senate,
dominated by Radical majority, the repre-
sentative Of all the usurpations, frauds, swim
r dies and oppression suffered by the Stat
1867. 1t is the abiding remnant of the polit
ical power which has damaged the State o
Louisiana to the extent of some hundreds o
millions of dollars. 1t is power secured
by Federal jurisprudence, sanctioned b.
Federal executive and sustained BY
Federal bayonets. 1t is power iden
tilted with all that is reprehensible il
the legislation and administration of Louisi
ana during the entire period Of her degrade.
ton and bondage. In this body are repre-.
sented all the speculative and swindling
rings of the State. No reform can be pro-
posed which will not take from some of the
Radical Senators and the ciques which they
represent some lucrative franchise. Sup
porting one another, and held in close union
by the potent bond of common interest,
they will resist every change, every reform and
every repeal. If an attempt is made to abol-
ish the disgusting and odious printing bill,
and to leave printing, like other work, open
to competition and common sense, the great
printing anaconda will at once uncoil and
show its teeth. If the police swindle is at
tackled, the police ring porcupine will bristle
up and thrust out its armed quilts in every
direction. Arm but a straw against the
school swindle and the monster will tremble
with rage in every muscle. If any hostility
is shown to the bond-funding swindle the
members of the bond ring will become COM
plete hornets nest of vindictive defense.
And thus throughout the entire cata-
logue of Radical frauds, rings and
swindles, any reformatory legislation
which may be proposed will be taken as
rallying signal by all who are interested in
any one of them. Of their own accord Radi-
cal members of the State Senate will not
yield one jot or title Of their vantage ground.
To effect any repeal or reform some kind of
compulsion must be employed, and we know
of none that is likely to be effectual unless it
is one that appeals to Radical cupidity. 1t SO
happens that the swindling rings represented
in the Radical Senate are dependent for their
base profits upon the treasury and
revenues Of the State, and while the
Radical majority in the Senate may refuse
to repeal nuisance or to enact reform,
the anti-Radical majority in the House
can refuse to pass any act for raising or ap-
money. The House can, there
fore, put period to spoliations upon the
while their command of the purse
strings of the State will give them sufficient
influence to secure the enactment Of some of
the most important measures of reform.
Among the matters requiring the notice of
The General Assembly are the present abom-
nable and atrocious laws relative to elections,
contrived and employed to defeat the
will of the people. These laws must be
epealed in toto, and replaced by some
,rief and simple enactment like those which
admirably subserve the purpose in other
states, and like those which we had here in
ther and brighter days. Our House of Rep
must sturdily refuse to raise OF
appropriate single dollar for the support Of
ny branch of the State government until the
xisting election laws are repealed. The Re-
urning Board, the quintessence Of Radical
illainy, must be wiped out, and the whole
ystem of snares and pitfalls of which the elec-
on and registration bills are composed must
9 abolished. There are many execrable rec.
rds left of the regime of Radicalism in Lou
lana, but none so thoroughly stepped in d.
bolism as the laws framed and passed ex-
ressly and avowedly to defeat the will of the
eople and to perpetuate Radical usurpation.
ct the consequences be what they may, the
ouse should insist upon the repeal of these
It's before proceeding to any other business,
I'D not rest content until the repeating law
as been signed and promulgated.
1t is even believed by many that the Kel-
go Election Bill of 1874, which has slept in
le office of the Secretary of State since its q
assage, has become law by delay, as it was v
1t sent back to the Legislature during the q
ext session. This act is more tyrannical 9
AN that of 1872, under which the existing G
'urpation was installed. A regular session,
-called, and an extra session have been held
nee the pretended passage Of the act, and T
It it is claimed to be q law, although never
omulgated. Honest legislators must arouse
emselves betimes and get ready to defeat
is and all other iniquitous purposes of the
'urpers.
A MODERN AJAX. !,
As Ajax defied the thunderbolts Of Olympus, G.