New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-10-14
NEW ORLEANS REPUBII0AN SATURDAY OCTOBER A. 1875.
TER DEFEAT OF HOLMAN.

S0 W V8DADAAA8VoN
THE DEFEAT OF HOLMAN.
u The Democratic papers affect to rejoics
: in the defeat Of this national Democrat
Why? Because he has been an obstacl
to the South receiving her proportion o
public appropriations. The defeat o
Holman occasions us no delight save tina
there is one earnest representative the les
Of Democratic principles. Holman wa
conscientious advocate of those princi
Piles, and he has been defeated, no doubt
because of his fidelity to them, and
men calling themselves Democrats rejoic,
that he has been defeated.
We propose to cite little history t.
show that the defeat of this or that indi
vidual by no means implies the repeal O
Democratic principles, and even thai
Holman, though politically dead, still
speaks through the doctrines to which he
has pledged the Democratic party.
l. On the fifteenth of December last,
Mr.. Holman is thus reported:
Mr.. H0lman-I submit the following reso
luton, and on it demand the previous ques
ton:
RESOLVED, That in the Judgment of this
House, on the present condition of the
financial affairs of the government, no sub
s'dies in money, bonds public lands, in.
dOrsement or by pledge of the public credit,
should be granted by Congress to ass0cia-
tiOns or corporations engaged. o. prOposipg
to engage in public or private enterprises;
and that all appropriations from the public
treasury ought to be limited at this time TO
such amounts only as shall! be imperatively
demanded by the public service.
Mr.. Holman, on being Intercepted
whether this resolution would cut of the
centennial appropriation, replied that
though he did not consider that SUBJ
sidy within the meaning of the resolution,
yet he "would be willing to have it so con-
strued." This indicates the rigid economy
on principle and policy which he subse-
quently carried out in his votes. The
previous question was carried, and the
yeas and nays ordered on the adoption Of
the resolution. The yeas were 223; the
nays 80, and the not voting 80. Now,
upon Analysing this vote politically, we
find the following result:
For. Against. Mt voting.
Repasiesn:. IS RspaSIicsn. Rspusllaan,ls
Total. ...223 80 80
Is it not apparent, then, that the Democ-
racy are opposed to permit appropria-
tons for the purposes specified in the
Holman resolution? Is it not plain that
those Democrats who voted for the reso.
lutions are still in Congress, and can not
with consistency vote for any mode of ap-
preparation which they have thus pledged
themselves not to support?
Among the Democrats who voted with
Mr.. Holman for that resolution we find
the names of Messrs. Ellis, Gibson and
Levy, Democrats, with Mr.. Nash, Repub-
lican. Among those who voted against
that resolution are the names of Messrs.
Darrall and Morey, Republicans.
1t will appear, therefore, that unless
these Democrats who imposed such a |
resolution by so large a majority shall re-
verse their action, it must be impossible |
for Louisiana to secure a subsidy in
money, bonds or public lands for the cor
porate association engaged in construct
ing the Pacific railroad, or repairing the |
evees. The defeat of both these works |
~ the same House proves that in limiting
III appropriations at the present time to
'such amounts as shall be imperatively
by the public service" these
wo works were excluded from any direct
appropriation at the present time. This
costive policy with respect to
Internal Improvements is borne out by
he only section in the Democratic plat
orm which has reference to the subject.
t is there said
Reform ia necessary to put q stop to the
,rotligate waste Of public lands. and their
Inversion from actual settlers bv the party
n power, which has squandered 200, O0O, 900
cres upon railroads alone, and out of
/
POSED of less than sixth directly to the
illers of the soil.
We have no space to devote to defense
# the grant Of alternate sections Of buffalo
,astures to works which have built up
civilized States where the wild beast and
avage alone held sway. Still less to the
act that settlers have preferred to pur-
base homes on lands thus improved and
than to accept wild lands for
othing. We demand some of these lands
0 build up railroad access into Texas and
. the Pacific. The Northern and West
IN Democracy have got their share of all
'ederal appropriations for internal i'm
rovements 1t has been estimated at
ne hundred and forty million dollars
he Southern States have received but
ourteen million dollars, or one dollar in
N, and we protest against a change of
ystem just when the Southern States ap-
ly for something like fair proportion
II works indispensable to their restora-
on and development
2. The national Democracy ''denource
lie present tariff ''as masterpiece of
Justice, inequality and false pretense.
Te do not learn that the Democratic
lajority in the House of Representatives
isturbed this iniquity, except to repeal
lie duties on Southern grown sugar ana
&c, as to one foreign country. The
emocratic platform, however, goes
lrther than the preamble quoted. It