The New Orleans Democrat. (New Orleans, La.) 1875-1876, 1876-03-12
From Yesterdays Evening Edition.I
The Morning Press.


The Bee says that many improvements
have long been needed in our judicial
system, but that under the Radical re-
gime the abuses Of the system have been
so increased as to render the admins
tration of justice a mockery.
It reviews the acts of the Legislature
tampering the organization of courts ;
abolishing those which stood in the
way Of the Governor, and establishing
others, to which he could appoint his
plant tools. Not content with this
prostitution of the judiciary, the par
doning power, as a last resort. is terribly
abused; and the Bee is informed that a
list of pardoned criminals has been
sent, for concurrence in the Executive
clemency, to the Senate, which, having
acquitted Kellogg himself, is not likely
to seriously object to the release OF other
rulfians.
The Republican is rapidly recovering
from the shock produced by the Bel
KNAPP exposure, and stands ready to
deny that Belknap ever committed q
dishonest act. Indictments are the or
der of the day, and the Democratic
Congress deserves no praise for what 1t
pIeases the Republican to term ''hasty
and partisan action" Under the cap
ton of Friendly Advice" it makes u
labored effort to answer the comments
of the DEMOCRAT on the rejection of
Pinchback; praises with evident reluct-
ance and bad grace, making virtue of
necessity, speeches and resolutions at a
meeting of the Southern Republican AS
ISOLATION, charging corruption upon the
Republican party; tries to give lessons
in Spanish to tho Bulletin only to fall in
error similar to that of the Bulletin;
keeps up the old cry that Republicans
are not responsible for Republican
thieves, but that the Democracy is re-
sponsible for Tweed and Tammany, and
concludes by giving us the important
information that Governor Kellogg is
engaged i'm discriminating between job
bills and reform bills in the work of the
last Legislature. s.a
The .Picay,tne laments the hard posi-
ton OF the Republican, which, to
defend its party from the disgrace heap
ed upon it by the crimes of Williams,
Delano, Babeock, Belknap, and num-
berless others, can find nothing better
than the old tune of YOU'RE another;
and seeks to counter-balance the crimes
of it's party chief by recalling the soil
tary example of Tweed among the Dem
Ocrats.
In the face Of the declaration by the
U. S. Senate, that a vacancy existed at
the time Of the election of Mr.. Eustis,
it does not see how Kellogg can with
hold that gentleman credentials with
out repudiating the compromise.
The B,tlleti,, defends the bill author
izing the levy of tax to aid in the con-
struction of the New Orleans Pacific
Railroad, on the ground that this road
is public necessity, this being the only
ground or plea on which it can be justi-
fled. Tt thinks that, in view of the in
crease in value and productive resources
of our city which this road will cause,
no one will resist the collection of this
tax.
The Bulletin wants to know if even
the turpitude of Belllnap is more fla
gitiously indecent than the conduct Of
the President in the Indian Bureau,
wherein he afforded opportunities to his
brother Orvil to levy blackmail from
the traders at the Indian posts.
The Times says that the coming cam
naion will undOuhtedly usher i'm a de-
parture from the established party
usages of the past, though it does not
think that the recent scandals have
wrecked the Republican party and rear
ed afresh the Democratic ire. The
struggle will not be one of party aims,
but rivalry in the cause of public well
fare in which honesty, strength and
firmness will attract the widest favor.