New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-08-20


| fcient appropriations to finish them. This
| means to abandon them and lose what has
| been expended, or to largely increase the
| appropriation next year when the election
| is over. The government property at the
| different navy yards and naval ct atoms il
estimated to be worth $5O, OOU,OOO and from
| its nature requires annual expenditures foI
repairs and to keep 1t in serviceabie eondi'
ton. The amount necessary tor thus pur-
pose was estimated by the Navy Department
1T 81, OOO, 900, but the House refused to appro'
pirate anything, and the Senate, after long
conference, obtained an allowance of only
&IOO. 900. This retrenchment results in absO-
lutte loss. 1t is the duty OF Congress to make
appropriations from year to year to nay the
Judgments rendered by the Court Of Claims.
The amount required this year is y, OOO ,O00,
and the House refused to appropriate dol
lar. This is retrenchment by reputation.
refusing to pay his debts is no: regarded as
economical, but ss rascally. In almost
every instance where appropriations are re-
duced it ie at the expense of salaries already
low enough, fixed by Democratic Congresses
before the war, OF to the injury of the pub
lie service, greatly Gripping it, and if not
remedied by deficiency bills next winter, in
many respects destroying it:
In reviewing the action of the House in
CCK6IO " 0PRIVpAAouOAo oAN "A0u eAOy
call retrenchment, no man can resist the
impression that it has been taken in utter
disregard of the public interest. Nothing
has been done because it ought to be done,
or the public interest demanded it, but, as
far as we can see, in every case for political
capital or profit.
TO create the impre sion of retrenchment
and economy it repudisted public debts,
st,nted and crippled the army and navy,
lett unfinished public works, left navy
yards to get out of repair and become use
sary to enforce the laws, and reduced sal
aries to starving rates. Looking at the
House from its legislation we should say
that it is as unfriendly to the government
as we know the body Of its members to
have been q few years ago.
AN ADMINISTRATION WHAT THE PARTY MAKES
IT.
The administration of any President will
be in the main what the party which elected
him makes it. If he breaks away from bis
party, the chances are that he will be
broken down. In q government of parties
like ours the President must have his party.
The men to whom he owes his election,
who have defended him from assaults, tU
whom he must look for support in the fu-
ture, will ordinarily control his action, and
he will do nothing offensive to them. The
success of Mr.. Tlden will mean the success
owe his election chiefly to the South, and
from that section would come the men OF
stern will and purpose demanding and re-
ceiving the recognition of their policy. The
late rebels would swarm in the Cabinet,
run the departments, command the army
and navy, represent the government at for
eign courts, and find ten thousand ways to
punish loyal men of the nation for their
humiliation and defeat.
To understand what Democratic admin
istratlon would be, examine the position
and controlling elements Of that party.
The man who expects that hungry cOrmOr.
ants, long deferred expectante, gangrened
instigators Of rebellion, the Northern sym
pathizers who trod the narrow isthmus De-
tween open treason and resistance to the
government fighting for it's life the slave
drivers who have lOst their occupation, and
that innumerable caravan Of dead beats
and Adventurers who compose 80 largely
the active list of the Democratic party TO
become the reformcrs Of the land, must be
indeed the most hopeless of idiots.
HOW THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES is
MADE UP.
With q majority of nearly two-thirds in
the House they have wholly failed for eight
months to produce any plan, scheme of re-
lief or policy upon the subject of currency,
banking, tariff or any other economic ques-
ton. While abusing every thing that exists,
they produce nothing, can suggest nothing.
They have displayed imbecility, incapacity
and stupidity Of thought and conception
heretofore unknown in the history of par
ties. They have shown strong predictions
for the detective business, but have done
nothing to elevate its character or remove
the suspicion that naturally attaches to it.
Utterly unable to build themselves up, they
seek to pull others down.
The composition Of the present House of
Repre- sentatives at Washington illustrates
the strength and organization of the Demo
cratic party. The Southern members con-
stitute the body and brains of the party,
shade it's action and control whatever policy
it has. They are the head and body Of the
animal, and the Northern Democracy con-
stitute the tail, and our acquaintance with
all Quadrupeds teach us that the body wags
the tail and not the tail the body, and we
have seen this winter that the Northern
Democracy are as subservient to the South
as they were at any time before the war.
The interests and passions of the South
will in the future, as in the long and bloody
past control the action of the Democratic
party. Among the Democratic members Of
the House there are sixty-fOur persons who
were officers and sOldiers in the C0nfeder-
acy. Overthrow by the North and de-
feased, they are eoured and desperately Ia
earnest, and with whom the Northern sym
patizers and doughfaces will be as clay in
the hands of the potter. If you ask me
what will be the Democratic policy in the
future, answer whatever the South de-
mande whatever her interests, hatreds and
passions dictate.
DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM.
The Democratic platform at st. Louis
NAV be described as an elaborate and ex
tended falsehood, divided into sections.
We may safely defy the most ingenious to
find in it one honst and truthful statement.
Ia the first section we have this declare.
ton:
For the Democracy of the whole cour try we do
here reaffirm our faith in the pernanency Of the
Federal Union our devotion to the constitution of
the United States with its amendments univer-
versies that engendered the civil war and do here
record our steadfast confidence in the perpetuity
OF republican self government.
When we reflect that nearly one-half Of
the authors Of this declaration had been en-
gagged in armed rebellion to destroy the
Union in which they had the sympathy of
the other half, we know what they mean
by reaffirming their ''taith in the perma-
nency of the Federal Union,' and when for
more than four years nearly the one-half
with the sympathy Of the other half, had
waged bloody war for the overthrow of
the constitution we know what they mean
by devotion to the constitution; that they
love the Union and constitution as we'll
now as they have ever done, we can all
readily believe. Such declarations by the
convention in view of the pereOnal history
of the great masses of its members, are but
hiaeous mockeries, and intended only for
deception. A little further on we come to
the following extraordinary declarations:
Reform is necessary to rebuild and establish in
the hearts of the whole people that Union which