New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-02-17
AS A CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE,

| awaits them.
AS A CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE.
The Picay4ne announces that ::absolut'
or even-handed justice is not to be ex
pected from body so intensely partisan
as the State Senate. If we admitted tn,
correctness of this charge we would seel
its reform. 1t is to our mind obvious tina
while the Senate is compelled to resist
the repeal of any protection which the
| constitution has thrown around the ma
jority Of the people of the State, it has ir
every respect manifested an anxiety to
enact all laws for improving the condi.
ton of every interest in the State. It is q
plausible game for Democrats who wish
local or even personal interests promoted
to appeal to tho Republican members and
to the Republican press for aid, at the
same time that the Democratic press is
preparing unqualified denunciation fol
the Republicans in every part Of tho State
and Union.
The House of Representatives is now
sitting as campaign committee. 1t seeks
every cause Of objection to every Repub-
lican official. It seeks the overthrow of
the State government by accusing all
Republican officials, and this for no
offense save the political opinions of the
incumbents. There has been, evidently,
extravaganza in the expenditures of the
Democratic city government. The bud
get of the present year shows an increased
appropriation for the administration ex-
penses Of the city government. Charges
have been openly made against Demo-
cratic city officers of 1872 and 1874, of
having withheld moneys collected official
ly, and applied them to the payment of
official salaries. The Democratic cam
paign committee have no use for such in
vestigations. 1t has no purpose to impugn
or impeach any except Republicans. An
investigation has been carried into the af
fairs of the treasury department. Certain
alleged Irregularities have been discovered
and published. Analysed, they consist in
a perversion of the interest due the public
creditor to the domestic preservation of
order. The House committee reports
that not q dollar has been lost to the
State, nor is any criminal intention at
tributed to the Treasurer. If there has
been any official dereliction, or any per-
version of fund proved, we wish Repub-
licans treated with the same memorable
Justice as President Grant is now melting
out out to his trusted officials. But with
the sensation heading that the executive
and other State officers are enlarged with
felony" there should go to the American
people this statement: On the fourteenth
of September, 1874, the Democratic party
organized an armed force for the over
throw of the State government. This
they effected. The State police was
routed and drawn from duty; anarchy
pre- vailed in the city; life and property
we're exposed to the villains who always
gather around an unprotected community.
At this time the executive of the State
is said to have favored temporary loan
of State fund dedicated to the payment
of the public creditor to the more sacred
object of saving life and protecting prop
erty. Now, however the facts may be,
and whatever may be the personal or
official advan. ages taken of this indis-
pensable act, it would seem that the
Legislature woald be grateful to those
who had accep' ed a personal responsibility
to carry out the supreme law Of public
safety. Then, however, it will be seen
abroad that the very party which rem
dcred indispensable this temporary use OF
public fund, row enters nole prosequi
against itself, and demands the removal
of the public servants who protected the
people. We ask what more conclusive
proof could be given that the House OF
Representatives is sitting as Democratic
campaign committee, and nothing else?
Why, if the public creditor were asked,
do you object to using your deposit for
an interest not yet due to save from con-
fagration the property upon which the
safety Of your debt depends, does any
one doubt their answer? 1t was cheap
insurance. We believe those terrible
spinsters, the Misses Maenhaut, would
have said, eyes, take it, take it, and pro-
tect the city property from the condition
70 which the Democratic revolutionists
had reduced it"
We wish it distinctly understood that
if one Of these Republicans shall appear
to have employed the occasion of public
peril to profit himself, there is no legal
punishment from which we would with
hold him; but when the Democratic party
has destroyed the lawful protectors OF our
city and citizens to turn out OF Office the
men who have evinced official RESPONSE
bility to correct this evil, is the most sim
gular specimen of party hardihood which
has ever come within our observation.
Democracy disperses the police protection
Of the city to evict Governor Kellogg from
Office by force Governor Kellogg re-
stores the protection of the city upon his
own official responsibility, and the De-
mocracy insist that an officer whom they
could not evict by lawless force shall be