New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-09-12
THE LATTER DAY DEMOCRACY,

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perfect freedom Of opinion upon all ques-
tons, social and political. We find cor
respondent of the Bulletin who seems on a
tour of hotel inspection. He finds all the
landlords generous and genial. The clerks
and walters are courteous. He reports:
The Common " ealth Hotel, at which l am
stopping is one of the finest in the land. is
commodious, all modern improvements and
appliances, is we'll kept, nearly new, and in
central locality, covering the square
bounded by Washington, Springfield and
Worcester streets aud Shawmut avenue.
Cars pass in front every minute, up and
down and across, to ali parts of the city
and all its suburbs, ana only twenty min
utes ride from Bunker Hill Monument and
ten minutes from the fremont House and
the centre of business. 1t is a great plac !,
| for Souther ners.
This paragraph shown in confidence to
the clerk while in manuscript and marked
In the paper sent to the proprietoris worth
a weeks board when emanating from one
OF such consequence at the South as is in
Dictated thus:
Ii the Washington Artillery will conclude
TO visit this point next year l will, in ad-
vance, guarantee them more agreeable
and instructive visit than at any other
point they nag pitch their tents"
We should regard this professionally as
good for a seaso n. 1t would be as little
as the Bulletin could expect that the two
or three squares which advertise these in
dueements should be measured and paid
for sat card rates" But we have noticed
this anonymous communication because,
without the least personal knowledge, We
infer that the writer is Democrat of the
day from intrinsic evidences of style.
The first evidence combines business and
politics. 1t compliments mine host OF
the Commonwealth Hotel as follows:
Mr.. J. w. Walcott, the proprie ,r. is one
| of the jolliest, best-natured life long Dem
| ocrats you ever saw.
Whether this is one of the Yankee
Democrats who found substitute to SUBJ
jugate the South, we can not tell. He
certainly had the same right to take any
side of any question that his biographer
has. The second notice is of like char
acter. The principal hotels of saratog ga
are enumerated and classified thus:
The springs are doing lively business
the Congress and Hawthorn, or Hathorn
having the call, the Empire, Red, Geyser
and Others coming in third and fourth best
We congratulate the 'spiings" on the
lively business of the hotels. Long
Branch is called "the deputy capital, or
acting capital" but the most conclusive
proof of the political tendencies of this cor
respondent is 70 und in the statement:
l noticed all the hotels, or nearly all, en-
ployed co!ored help, and where stopped,
the steward informed me that most of their
walters were from the South, formerly
slaves, the majority being from South Caro-
lima, while Louisiana, Virginia and Ken
lucky were well represented. only one out
of ninety old being from No thern State,
and he was tio-n New York. The colored
race have their virtues as well IA faults,
and do think they excel in waiting On
dinner party.
The application of this fact by the tour
list is as follows:
have often heard that two of our mos
distinguished colored citizens and ex-Lieu-
tenant Governors of Louisiana excelied in
the capacity OF walters, aud l hope our
Southern hotels may some day conclude to
employ more of them.
From this conglomeration of adulation
for the lifelong Yankee Democrats who
keep hotels with. all modern appliances of
indicators and correspondents, and the
exquisite satire upon Republicans who
may have blackened boots instead of char
acters, we infer the anonymous writer to
be Democrat of the day. With this
assumption, we proceed to an illustration
of the latitude of departure from original
principles allowed by the latest Demo-
cratic programme. The correspondent
communicates the following social obser-
vations. Scene, Saratoga.
took time to scan closely the congrepa.
ton OF people there, men, women and
children, and while there were many of the
first and best people there, from all sections
of this cOuntry, and the world, in fact, still
the very large majority we're of the mash
room breed, ring men, sports, Politicians.
newspaper sprouts, sport reporters. buck
sters. gamblers, fortune hunters, etc. The |
elegant display of ladies' toilets, headlights |
of diamonds, and public gorgeous private |
displays, generally, excelled anything / |
have ever seen. and, in many instances, the |
shoddyism could be distinctly seen under |
the point lace, and, may say, acres of dia-
mOnds and precious stones; and one of |
many saw was large, overgrown, red |
faced fellow, looked like a hard trorEiDo dan
Laborer, with an elegant suit of cloth on and |
ten thousand dollar pin in his bosom front. |
and another five thousand dollar one on his |
little finger; he was accompanied by two
foreign ladies. who were covered in silks,
point lace and diamonds, and were gotten |
up elegantly, but their Big jolly red faces in. |
dlcated the fact that it had been but few |
years. months, perhaps. since they were
bending 0cer the uash tubs, earning honestly |
their e'x bits a day. Such are facts-such |
is Saratoga.
Now, Democracy originally meant re-
spect for the people. No matter how |
poor, however lowly the origin, the indi-
vidual republican was entitled to employ |
his means in any manner he might choose. !
The humblest citizen was authorized to
enter any society accessible to well be- |
haved people, and to take with him his |
wife or daughter, or any other lady who |
wished to accompany him. There was in |
the party of Jefferson and jackson no |
mushroom breed, " for there was no no.
biity. There was no ''shoddyism, for
any man.who earned access into public
assemblage was entitled to respectful |
treatment 80 long as he behaved himself |