The New Orleans Democrat. (New Orleans, La.) 1875-1876, 1876-07-24
AN ARMY OF OFFICEH0LDERS.
TyE STRONGHOLD or L0UJsTaNA RAD-
JCdLrsM.
How MANY Destitute Politicians We sup
port at the Public Expense.

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It has been tho aim Of the Radical
party In this State, It's sole hopc Tor the
future, to buy up enough OF the unre-
liable purcbasable classes as TO give the
party u slight margin ut elections; to
bribe any and every one by Office that
could be bribed. to so stultify the com
munity by gifts and offices. monopolies
aud sinecures. that the very public NOR
ality and honesty would be corrupted
and diseased, aud Radical infamies ap-
pear less infamous to us, Radical thefts
less fearful.
Knowing that their only converts werv
to be bought by Offices 1t has been their
work to create new offices aud new sine
cures for their followers and partisans.
with such utter recklessness has this
been done that they themselves have
lost reckoning OF the number OF OH
cials that devour our substance. 1t IL
only by long and close investigation
that we can even approximate their
number. for tho Radical craft and inge-
nuity that conceived this system. have
hidden some Of the grossest tyrannies
and begottep whole legions OF hungry
officials under a IT ltute nominally for IL
religious. philanthropic or charitabi"
purpose.
Let us glance Mt this army that tho
people OF Louisiana pay and feed to-
support the Radical party In power.
THE LEGISLATURE.
rsI..A A.. iivc dana RI IN ant
| This IL, of course, small. The Senate
and House of EeDresen tatives cont7tli
| lag legislators. The employees OF tho
two houses were last session only 13e.
| Tho Senate, with ~ mem bers, had near
| ly half of these, some sixty odd EN-
ployees: secretaries, assistant secreta.
ries, stenographers, clerks OF every dis
cription, re .ding clerks, Journal clerks.
minute clerks. enrolment clerks, clerks
OF various committees. sergeants-at-
arms. assistant sergeants-at-arms. mes
sengers. porters, door-keeDers, post.
masters, pages, etc, etc. This would
give two hangers-on for each Senator,
n great reduction from former years OF
Radical rule, when each Senator brought
n regular army of followers with hin,
for employment.
JUDICIARY.
In the Judiciary Department the in
crease of officers is marked. Now kinds
of courts have been created. new kinds
Of Judges appointed, until now we have
a judiciary almost altogether ap-
pointive, at least lC) per cent greater II,
numbers than we had in 1850, with what
corresponding increase in the admins
tration OF law and justice we all know.
Associate Justices. District Judges,
Judges Of Criminal Courts, Parish
Judges, Police Judges, District Attor-
neys, Parish Attorneys, etc, swell the
sum tot.l Of the present Judiciary OF
Louisiana, exclusive OF all executive
officers, to the grand total OF 9o2: In
fine. more judges and more courts to
pactice before than we have lawyers to
practice.
EXECUTIVE
In like manner the executive officers
Of the State, Sheriffs. Constables, etc,
have been increased to the immense
number Of 1859.
ADMINISTRATIVE.
But IL was in the creation OF imperti-
nent boards and bureaus, interfering
Ia every right and business. however
private, that the Radicals have shown
their greatest Ingenuity. When they
found the State financially exhausted
and greater tax impossible, they went
to work to wiring secretly from the peo-
pie 10y means Of Boards Of Immigra
tion, Port Wardens. Inspectors, etc, tho
money they dared no longer take
openly. These Offices are rs much n
tax on the industry OF the people AZ the
school or police tax, but have this ad
vantege, that they do not appear so
openly nor figure In the rate OF taxation.
Some of these Boards have since died,
many Of them so hidden and disguised
in the statLe books that they will never
be discovered; but the following are IL
few Of the many in existence:
The Board Of Health with secretaries,
clerks, surgeons, physicians, sanitary
inspectors, quarantine officers. nurses,
boatmen and other employees;
The Board OF State Engineers with
engineers, daughtSmen, axemen, chain
bearers, ct al;
The Commission OF Engineers to watch
the Board OF State Engineers.
The Commission OF Persons" to watch
the mission Of Engineers.
The Board OF Public Works;
The Board Of State Assessors;
The Board Of Harbor Master;
The Board OF Levee Commissioners;
The Board OF Drainage Commission
ers W.
dens;
The Funding Board;
The Board Of State Surveyors;
The Board of Returning Officers;
The School Board;
The Board OF Metropolitan Police:
The Board OF Tobacco Inspectors;
The Board Of Beef and Pork Inspec-
tors;
The Board Of Flour Inspectors;
The Board Of Hay Inspectors;
The Bureau of Immigration, mot to
promote the immigration. we need SO
much-don't imagine that-but to tax
all emigrants for the benefit Of certain
Radicals;
The Bureau OF Registration.
would come an equally long list OF
special officers and special board for
certain localities, such as Inspectors of
! Flour for Jefferson Insuectors of