New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-04-22

It il evident that the Democracy Of New
Orleans has lost it's influence in the coua
try ~ we'll ~ its respectsbility ct home
Tho holding of tho convention ct Baton
Rouge will be . concession to tho wild ele
ment Of the country, and tho HcEnery
movement of 1874 is to be re-enacted. The
city party 10 without home, and may OF.
pect to take back seats. Tho country oven
goes 80 far a. to criticize our Mayor, just
because he is opposed to railroads In the
country. 1t can be for nothing else, for
Mayor Leeds is after the straightest scot q
Democrat. and his cooperation with the
White League, and efforts to overthrow
tho State government in September, 1874,
should have satisfied all Democrats that he
was truly loyal to the great Democratic
party of disorder and revolution. But
here comes the Reporter. of De Soto parish,
. paper which fairly represents its party in
the parish, and which is the ablest Demo
cratic paper in the State, always excepting
first the Baton Rouge Adrocate, and next
the New Orleans Democrat, and the Report
er, in an article headed "Veto of Mayor
Leeds" says:
We have examined the veto of Mayor
Leeds, Of New Orleans, to the City Council
bill authorizing an election to be held, in
accordance with the provision of act No. 20
not the city would take stock in the New
Orleans Pacific, and We pronounce it the
lamest, weakest and most highly diluted
nonsense that ever emanated from the
brain of fossilized fogyism. 1t is just such
folly and stupidity as this which hiss made
the city . driveling, sniveling, half-handed,
one-horse town, with its once popul0us
thoroughfares falling into dilspidstion and
decay, and exhibiting as much emptiness
found anywhere outside the desolations of
the Hcly Land. Many of its streets, which
were once teeming with thriving indus
tri0us population, are now empty or are
tensnted by lazy, lousy, frowsy, leprous,
satanic population, whose chief delight
seems to be in summing and airing them
selves on their doorsills and adjoining ban
quette. There is kind of dry rot and mil
dew manifestation that is unmistskable
pervading and hanging throughout the en-
tire confines of the city.
The business men as q class have not
half the energy and enterprise that is every
where apparent in the small city of Shreve.
port. A small importation of few of tho
business men of that place would give tho
whole CITY . good deal of fresh air. Their
great mayor, who did not have to climb the
pole high to give Q full exhibition of him
self, backed up BY the professedly starving
many Of whom have incomes sufficient and
ample to luxuriate in European society,
falls behind the usual defenses of . Door
man, who has fifty or q hundred thousand
dollars worth of property to pay taxes on,
and sings the dOleful changes of povertyis
strains. He has also some technical legal
quibbles, which, not being . lawyer any
more than his honor, We fail to see the ferce
Of. We hope the Council will pass the bill
over his veto, and that if the city fails to
carry the tax and subscribe money enough
to build the road, that the goods may
moulder on their shelves and the ships rot
at their docks.
North Louisiana and Texas are finding,
and can and will find way to st. Louis,
and those. wise people, wise behind their
day and generation. may - we'll find out
first ~ last few stern facts. Their NOR
chant princes can do very we'll without this
never ask for it by advertising in the papers
or otherwise, except by the periodical
visits of some well kept. oily tengued
drummer, who drops in with his little bag
samples once and occasionally. Nice peo-
pie, those New Orleans merchana, and
their drummer boys. They rather
calculate the jetties are going to
raise them to the seventh hesvea'
of eternal prosperity. Trade with Rio.
trade with the Amazon, trade with Mexico
and other portions of the world, is an old
cry, and We think We heard the subject
mentioned twenty years ago. It is little
curious that after quarter of q century it
happened to be thought of again. The
property holders with their citv ring can
pay out more money for officials, city and
parish, constabulary police and otherwise,
pay bigger gas bills, street commission bills,
drainage bills. etc, than anywhere else,
and yet the Mayor. Property Holders
Unions ct al, have no money to open an
empire of trade to the city BY building one
short line of railroad. Such short sighted
and suicidal policy is enough to disgust
any man and turn the stomach of Digger
Indian.