New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-08-16
PoLrICAa.' NOTES.


What must be the antecedeats Of club
vhere it IL thought necessary BY solemn
resolution to forbid the secretary making
alterations, either in additions or eras.
uresu Of the rolls upon which voting at tho
rr;mar;es ID conductedi Il it mot > confes'
siou of past fraudulent practicess les
.ucb = resolution was passed BY tho Fin
oerty third ward club. A. the resolution
ALSO declares that the club may change the
.nrollmsnt at will, and thatUp one not en-
rolled shall be permitted TO partacipats In
the elections, and %, further, the IinneRty
ring appears absolutsly 70 control the
club, we don't see that any set of politicians
cou!d want softer thing.
The adoption Of these resolutions ap-
,ears to be the snub dirsct'to the Walker
Brickell bolters; and, in the language OF
Asa Hartz, these latter may be expected TO
"git up and rar."
Mr.. Archibald Mitchell intimates that
the Property Holders' Onion IL not an a.
sociatien organised to advocate resistance
to the payment of taxes. BUTT can not be
denied that in their individual capacity the
members both preach and practice this doc
trine.
We have in mind the case Of poor
widow in the Sixth District, which illus.
trates some Of the fruits Of their work. A
prominent property holder" Whiting her
house professionally, advised her not to pay
the taxes on her little property. She could
have done % ct the time, but had faith
that her adviser's Recommendation would
prove saving, and followed it Her place
was sold for the accumulated tAx, and the
inevitable array Of charges and costs added
to her original debt. Does any ono suppose
the eminent s'uaio,ist" sped to the relief Of
the poor woman he bad % srievously in
volved9 Not any, ws Judge. The widow
vas looking Ter aid from . synpatheac
broker day or two ago, and . prominent
Republican ofRcial has promised to obtain
relinq quishment Of Ill the extra charges that
he can.
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facts regarding the attack on . white Re
publican, on tho night of the Dsnoeratic
ratiication meeting ct Lafayette square.
send them to this ofisef It seems thst f0F
expressing Republican sentiment num-
ber of Democrats roughs chased him into
: Camp street store, and but for the deter
land strategy Of tho proprietor,
would have executed their threats upon
him before he could have escaped. We
should Like the details of the assault in an
authentic form.
A writer from the Teche says, through
the Times, that 'the evil which svershadows
all others Is vsgrancy," and that ''one-sixth
Of the able bodied men have no visible
means of support. and do no work, but get
their entire subsistence, with that of their
families, by petty and grand larceny" He
wants to know what the Democratic party
is going to do about it-has it "any plan
which, while it secures to every citizen his
rights, win ct the same time
make him earn his own living| This
countryman il. not Writing about the orna-
mental loafers Of Canal street, nor Of tho
Of we'll dressed idlers and
''cousins" who mysteriously live upon the
dripping of Office spoils. This energetic
Techite evidently means negroes. II hs
could control the Legislature of Louisiana
how long, think ye, coiored mon, would it
be ere the vsgrant and labor lsws-only .
degree removed from the Black Code itself-
would be reinscEibed upoa our statute
booksi And there are Thousands Of Dem
ocrats who think - this wribsr does, but
Who will await safer moment for express
It appears similar game to that 80 sue.
cessfully played in the third was to have
been tried in tho second ward. A meeting
Vas to have been held the same night, and
it was whispered around among the ini-
lated that delegate to the State commit.
10 might be chosen; but the opposition
,lubs entered 90 vigorous protest that . |
was deemed advisable. The
short hairs" don't give mp, though, by any
means.
Befeuling It's Own Nest.
Antelope" tho special correspondent Of |
The Picayune, writes from Now York, As
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