New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-09-24

| other man. The Tom Sawyer Doy gov us
fence whitewashed by other boys who
wanted to try the brush. A stranger in
printing Office will ask to be allowed to
set type, and will make bad mess ct it.
A young lady riding Oh the river will
want to steer the steamboat. She woald
swamp the craft unless watched by the
man at the wheel. A political party,
which well-nigh wrecked the govern
ment fifteen years ago, is row
clamoring for chance to run the ship of
State. The Democrats swear they can do
a little better than the party which made
the States a nation. They come before
the people with black hearts and red
hands and talk Of reform. The first prin-
ciple Of reform is to abandon that which
is evil or corrupt The widest stretch of
imagination can not associate the DEM
ocratic party with such purpose.
When driven from power, its leaders
retired southwark, carrying with them
all Of the public property and treas
ure they could lay hands on. After
the murder Of our second Washing
ton by rebel hands, there was an
accidental interim of Democratic ascen-
dency in the administration Of Andrew
to be refornaer. He nearly ruined the
work Of reconstruction so we'll begun,
and he filled the offices of the country
with desaulting adventures ike Steed-
man. In 1865 the Democrats of Louis
lana undertook to reform the State gov
eminent Of Louisiana. They commenced
in earnest with the July riot, numbering
a couple of hund red IRepublicans and
bringing about martial law. They have
several times since attempted similar re-
formations, notably in 1874, forming
a White League organization for
the overthrow Of the legal State
government. Texas has been COM
rletely reformed AID plundered by the
party in power in that State until there
is no treasury, no public schools in exist
ence, and the administration of law has
become farce. New York city was re-
formed by the Tammany process until the
people could stand it no longer, and now
the same party, backed by Boss Kelly, !
successor Of the other great Boss, assisted |
by John storrissey. proposes to reform the
government of the United States. No cry |
Of demagogues is more shallow than the |
Democratic cry Of reform. Il has become |
a meaningless by-word and 5urlesque on
honesty when connected With the name
of Tildsn.
Reform within the Democratic party
would be a good thing Its members
greatly need individual reformation. That
is not qrite what they propose. They
propose to run the government on new
plan, and they Offer no guarantee that the
revenues would be- more Eaithfully and
cheaply collected, that the public debt
would be more speedily reduced. that We
should have quicker return tc specie
basis ard use in currency, that we should
have better postal system and more eff
,ient tariff laws, that the once enslaved
race would be better protected in their
rights OF citizenship than under the tried
and tue dire" tion of the Republican
,arty. Indeed the, record Of the Demo ,
ratio party makes. the asp.,.ants to power ,
That party has shown 8
tself to be the enemy, and not the will
ng promoter Of good government, and
he people will have none of it. 1t does
lot trust itself. Governor Seymour, in his
TRANCE letter declining the offer of being
ct up as gubernatorial candidate in =
Jew York, tells the people of the United ..
states that Mr.. Tilden can be safely
rusted as President, because be would !,
re curbed and hedged about t. the
opposition party. There is world
t meaning and deep sarcasm hid 9
ZEN in Mr.. Seymour's Endorsement Of :,
be crafty little lawyer. If we'll watched
e could safely trust pickpocket in
hurch. Let the Democrats say, 1--WE :
want office more than We want REFORM"
n d they could begin to make an honest
anvass. There have been dishonest men :
ailing under the cover of the Republican
arty. Their sins are of the world, and =.
ct of the party bad man in church
ulpit does not shake the foundations ,
f the Christian religion. Jacob Bar v
er and the Bank of America robbed =
undreds of poor people in this :,
ity. The failure Of the Freed
lans Bank did no more Merchants
claiming to be respectable, i
Ill and cheat their creditors The IRE
ublican party is not responsible for in =:
ividual shortcomings, and Democrats, as
uch, can not assure the cure Of moral !,
bllquity. A reformed man is a sample
triumph over self. A man with r
0 sin marks on his soul is better u
, put in high places. Raise the :
andard of morality at home, and -
lr representatives will come up u
, it. Characters formed by the love of
pod mothers, strengthened by good
and habitual respect for the 81
ghts of others and the laws of the land, o,
ill SO endow laan that he shall Iced u,
D reform. Our hopes for wise and ell
ootless government, that shall continue 81
rever as blessing to men and women e,
no shall live under it, is based on the Il