The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1876-04-12
GENUINE BRAZILIAN PEBBLE
VI SPECTACLES-
FERGUSON & SCHNACK
The Vote Market.

1t seems the Republicans bough
more votes at the New Hampshir
election than they wanted, and nov
they are lamenting it, and say they d.
not mean to do it again it is too ex
hausting.
This is orly the momentary languo
that results from over exertion. They
will feel better after a little. Wher
they come to reflect that, after all
about all the money used to corrupt
the voters comes out of the public
treasury, they will change their opin.
ion. Even if private persons are a lit.
tie out of pocket, they will readily fine
means to recoup from the treasury
One job at the Portsmouth Navy
Yard like the rebuilding of the s'oop.
of-war Enterprise, now on hand there,
would give, on any fair divide between
Robesoh and the New Hampshire poll
ticians, the latter forty or fifty thou
sand dollars at least in one lump
Then there are the Senators and Re-
representatives. in Congress, the revenue
collectors and assessors, the postmas-
teIs, the special agents, the numerous
contractors and .jobbers, besides the
great central corruption fund at Wash
ington, plethoric through whiskey
frauds, Indian agencies, army agencies,
District. of Columbia frauds, and rob-
berries by the million; all these, and
scores Of other resources fed direct
from the public treasury, can furnish
the necessary supply of money for
buying up voters in New Hampshire
and everywhere else. The occasional
expenditure of individuals is mere
bagatelle in comparison. 1t is the
treasury that pays.
Thus it is that the people are cor
rupted with money raised from them.
selves by taxation. If those who are
whining over the large sums they have
paid out to carry New Hampshire, will
but consider moment, they will see
that they have no reason to complain.
They will find on investigation that
they havn't paid cent out of their pri
vate resources proper. They have
nnly had to pay back little more
than usual ont of the money they have
nne way and another got ont Of the
Our Uncle SANS treas
ury pays every dollar in the final set
dement,.
Let everybody engaged in the now
general practice of cosruptiag tl.e so-
ers, therefore, sn ahead. An endless
sum of money WAS spent in this way in
1872, and everything was Republican
when the votes were counted. In the
,ft year of 1874, when no money was
'aid out, everything went anti. Repub-
lean, as would be the case now to a
great extent, if the voters were let
llone. 1t has therefore paid to put out
The money, aud it is absurd for the
men now to be crying
'ut that it costs too much to carry
Elections, and they won't pay any
more. They have got to pay or there
will be a revolution that will turn them
Ill ont, and uncover more of their
We pay no heed, therefore, to these
wines from New Hampshire; and the
political managers a t
will pay no heed to them
ither. Havoc aud spoil and ruin are
heir gain. The prospective Presiden-
ial candidates, and prospective Cabi-
net officers and Office grabbers of all
trades and degrees among the Repub-
leans; do not mean to let go their grip
N the Republican organization, or
heir claims for it's contributions. The
money must come, and it will come.
The public treasury will swelter and
weat and bleed this year as never
'efore.
Until the reformers are strong enough
o come in and put an end to this vile
restitution and debauchery alike of
he public service and the private vo-
er, and this nefarious system of public
lunder, the corruptionists are bound
o have their way in continuing the
decentralization that is turning
ur boasted system of independent
UNIVERSAL suffrage into grim mock
ry and a hideous farce.-[New York
nn.
-BELKNAP connived at the sale of
ppointments, He let a friend have
art of the proceeds and took a part
imself. Ulysses s. Grant connived at
be sale of appointments, indeed made
he opportunity for the sale, and exc
uted his brothers for their sale; but
e generally permitted bis brother to
eep all the proceeds. By this single
oint of distinction between his own
onduct and that of Secretary Belknap
q NAV keen himself in the Whita