The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1876-03-19
NEW ORLEANS BULLETIN
HEw ORLEANS, MARCH -. 1875
WHAT rs COMING.

WHAT k6 UUm1Nus
The Radical victory in New Hampshire il
somewhat suggestive Of the change which il
steadily going on in American politics It il
peoven that throngs Of young men from
honest Maine on the east, from solemn ole
Massachusetts, on the south, and from piouf
Vermont on the west, went home to New
Hampshire in the latter part Of the second
week in March to see the "old folks The
number of hundreds of these visitors il
found 10 have remarkable approximation to
the number Of votes which the Radicals
gained last Tuesday, but which the Demo
Gratis did not lose. The total populaaoa q
the State is without change during the pre-
ceding year.
The Democratic vote has not fallen off.
Tho temperance vote has long ago been
xeabsorbed into the Ffee-Soil or Radical Re-
publican party. The granite-headed politi-
clans OF the State know almost exactly how
many votes each town can and will poll for
each party in any interesting election. But
there is peculiar floating vote in New Hamp-
shire, not consisting of the ballots OF men
Who have no fixed ideas, occupation or resi-
dence, but Of those who float out OF the state
70 work or attend to business, and who only
Aoat back to visit and vote the Radical ticket.
In close election these affsctionate foaters
can 60 home from surrounding States at very
small expense, in fact, at no expense at all
Their travelling expenses to and fro are paid.
They are at no outlay for hotel bills. When
they get back to their work they have more
money than when they started "home." 1t
Il really astonishing to see how home. sick the
native of New Hampshire becomes about
three days before each election. L is still
more surprising to notice how many Radical
voters whose relatives do not live in New
Hampshire fall into the fashion Of going home
% rec the "old 70 ks"
The time is coming ben the honest people
Of our States must eithlg resort to revolution
ary violence to secure their rights or else
tamely submit to see Offices shamelessly
bought and cold under the guise of sham
elections. Not fifty years from the day when
Centennial bells ring out the voice of Q nations
triumph, the purchase and sale of offices will
DO common, notorious and without the pre-
tsnss Of disguise. Political corruption is
spreading with such rapid growth that the
Door laborer and mechanic will soon cease to
Be ashamed Of selling his vote to the candi-
date who will pay most for it When
nonsy will buy Office, the place will be valued
according to the money which can be made
out Of it. For merely mercenary purposes
To value Of an Office is greatest in the hands
of him who has most cunning and least char
hese.
Since the Inauguration of the dynasty of
fhs "ppral IDEAS" party the public has been
1Amiliafzed with the pecuniary uses to which
svesy kind Of Office may be tusned in the
hands Of shifty and dexterous incumbents.
We have all seen numerous instances of petty
place holders, whose lawful pay or fees
would aff,rd nothing more than decent
subsistence. yet whose tenure of Office
has resulted in the possession Of more
money than they had ever before dreamed of
hsving in AL their lives. The common senti-
msnt among Americans is that one man has
~ good right to an Office as another; when
Il is seen that vast sums are made
out Of purchased Offices, and that
such Offices are to be won by
money and not by merit, 1t will be COM
mon feeling that one man has just as good
right to buy an ofics as another, and the
uAme right to buy an office as to buy horse.
q boat, or house. -