New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-08-16
4. BAD REASONING.

|If.rs BAD kEASObING.
The chief glory Of Mr.. Tlden consist
S in the fact that he appears to have turne
States evidence against one Of his ow
81 political gang. The State of government
g. sf-As~--Yosk .was-- Rspah'isan.--Th
= tiotous, mors popalous and indnsatia
d city of New York WAS governed BY tn
Tammany Democracy. There vas nothing
of political corruption in the lesser Re
publican administration of New Yorl
State, but there WAS mass Of corruption
: in the greater Democratic administering,
Of New York city. The government o
that city isgreater than that of my South
ern State. Its debt is four or livs feit
that Of any Southern State. It's patron
age stands in the same relation. Here
then, was an example of Democratic powe,
and of Democratic abuses. Mr.. Tilden,
4 who stood by this corrupt administration
until Republicans had instituted invest.
cation, now claims the honor of being
Q reformer. OF whom? Of what? OF d
4 Democratic administration; avowedly, the
most corrupt municipality in America.
From the alleged services Of Mr.. Tlden
in bringing to justice Democratic robbers
has been deduced an extremely incon-
sistent theory. That he is the most ct
man to administer the Federal govern
ment and that the Democracy, Just
proven by him to be the most corrupt
gang in the world, should come into an
exclusive administration of the govern.
ment ee.
We hear it said in one Democratic
breath that the whole Republicah party
is unworthy, Of Office because the Presi.
dent has prosecuted and convicted the
whisky rings. We hear it said in the
next breath that the conviction Of Dams.
cratic rogues who have stolen forty mil
hon dsllsrs from . city treasury, SO far
from proving that party unit for rule,
demonstrates their exclusive competency.
These are Two Sisgslar absurdidts in the
Democratic programme.
l. That . msjori4y Of the American |
people shall be hisftanchised Of Office be.
cause Of the incompetency Of few hun
dred employees in an, army Of some three
hundred thousand persons in the civil
and military service Of the last fifteen
yeexSs 'ss ss.g- Y. ,ers~s -
It would be hard case if those sSlead
6ies in the ointment" 70 should dashsy1
the whole theory of representative zuls.s
Yet such would be the inevitable reason
ing, for if majority Of the American
people have four times elected the Re
publican ticket and those called to ad-
minister the government have. been
proven incompetent, then is the failure of
he representative system palpable, and
may be 80 claimed by any sdyoeate Of
'ap.cy, imperialism OF simple monarchy,
II of whom claim that the United States
overnment is a failure, and ought to be
urned over to their several systems Of
utocracy. go,
2 The above failure Of a Republican ma
,rity of tho American people to admins
sr an honest government renders it
roper to transfer the government to the
'smocratic~ minority, just - . boy who !.
dis to strike ball may be caught out
nd supplanted by his antagonist in the
anne. When, however, we come to ex-
nine the claims of the Democratic nil
ority we find that they have themselves
zen cast out for the most abandoned cor
lption, and that when reinstated :
icy have found themselves either
awilling or incompetent to MAIN
in the form of government, which $
10 fathers entrusted 10 them To =
Wits them, therefore, to administer the 9
would be to tempt that Provi- ?
.nce which has once vopchsafed to pre- 9
rye this form Of government from q
emocFatic administration, It would be q
call up again the pilot who would bat y
: opposition TO- his reckless course have =
rocked the vessel, and extend anew the u
Ter 10 his unsteady or treAcherous hand.
These singular contradictions make the q
crew '.all muddls" to rs, Is
d We can find but one solution. tits u
Is, that Democracy is privileged class; q
may do any act or hold any opinion .
th impunity and applause, but if any n
Q not,of that class holds the same opin- d
, Or does Q similar act, he forfeits in -