New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-11-26
WHAT HAS CAUSED THIS ooxxoT1oH7

WHAT HAS CAUSED THIS CONNECTION,
The REPUBLICAN has shown the subor.
dinatiou Of the executive. It is obvious
that tho temporary or even permanent
lapse of this agency is not indispensable
to national existence. Why, then, this ex-
trsordinary excitement, especially at the
South, for the instant Inauguration of the
executive2 We will answer. From the
enterprise of the American people has re-
suited the organization of an association
for securing the spoils Of executive power.
The law has conferred upon the President
the appointment to something less than
. hundred thousand officers, while the
concurrence Of this agency has been en-
ployed for the expenditure of many mill
lions Of appropriations. The importance
of the executive incumbency is not, then,
to the existence or even to the opera
tons Of this government It is to fur
nish bread and meat, drink and spending
money. travelling expenses to several hun
dred thousand persons who have chosen
the presidential election as q mode of &C.
curing the free and easy living of Office.
We have the same provisional party gov
eminent asserted over the presidential
election that there had been established
over the State and city elections Of Lou
isiana. They clamor for the immediate
settlement Of the presidential incumbency
that it may award salaries and settle bets.
Any delay in filing the presidential va
caDcy would make little difference to the
nation, but it may be present death to
those who have depended for subsistence
upon the eleemosynary fund which Presi-
dent will have the right to disburse. We
may also include with these unhappy
holders of tickets in the great premium
scheme Of every man an Office, the
gamblers who have, under Morrissey,
chosen to make the result of this
election q game Of chance, and they have
co-operated with the Office beggars with
money, falsehood, violence or obloquy as
agents by which the politician may win
his Office and the gambler his bet. Now,
however the Presidential election may re-
suit, one or another set of mercenaries
are to be left bowling in the cold. Should
the Office be held in suspense; should it
lapse for longer or shorter period;
should the nation decide to suppress it
altogether, to exterminate the horde of
Office seekers, who alone disturb the pub
lie peace and progress-just as q house.
keeper will sometimes burn q chicken
coop to get rid of the vermin-there viii
be no detriment to the republic. We
may even imagine q very grim smile
stealing over the faces of the men who
work for their living at the thought that
the politicians and gamblers who lie and
steal for living should be discounted
and even destroyed by suppressing even
the inspiration Of their fraud
and the source Of their arrogant contempt
for honest labor.
The extraordinary desperation Of these
spoil hunters, who have done what they
could 10 imperil the existence of the re-
public, must suggest to the friends of the
Union the necessity of guarding against
} repetition of their usurpation and of
heir abuses. National legislation is un-
wanting to provide fair and
rec will suffrage with just election of
he men whom the people intend should
% elected. A further amendment would,
lowever, promote this principal object.
It would be the reduction of executive
patronage by signifying in some anthem
ic manner the popular choice of such
and local officers, as collec-
ors, postmasters, foreign ministers and
,onsuls, with all other officers that now
contribute so much to the fraud and tur-
noil of presidential elections, and OBJ
truct the public service as they impair
he popularity of the President when
lected. The American uprising Of 1910
vas directed againt this abuse of execu-
i've power in the hands of the Democra-
ic Van Buren,. 1t is reform that would |
% far more necessary at present to defeat |
be possible re-establishment OF those |
buses under the administration of Van |
'uren, q graduate Of Tammany Hall, and |
be representative of the New York doc
rine Ito the victors belong the spoils."
The political commotion which over
preads the land involves no Danger to