New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-12-19

b nay do = applaudsd by Democracy.
Nothing that Republican can do viii
commend hinfto the Democracy, nor can
any act escape obloquy and condemnation.
A Republican administration Of this
State viii leave tho State House in few
days and resume its private station among
the people. It has during period Of
unprecedented agitation maintained it.
self; it has recommended many reforms
and effected some of much importance;
it has reduced the obligations of the
State and cut down State taxation and
expenditures; it has INDUCED and accom-
modated the taxpayers throughout the
State which it has governed; the rewards
Of capital and compensation for labor
have been increased; the crops are larger
and their values have advanced. In
stead Of having to invest the entire pro-
ceeds Of the crop in the purchase of the
laborer, as previously, the planter sp-
plies portion of those proceeds to the
compensation of the laborer. There has
been, therefore, more added to accumula-
ton, and there is, perhaps. less indebted
ness among the producers than ever be-
fore. Yet, notwithstanding the valedic-
tory Of Governor Kellogg will disclose
these facts, his administration will retire
amid the excavations of its political oppo-
nents, with no word of acknowledgment
for the difficulties it has experienced or
or for the good it has done. At the same
time the Democratic administration of
the city will conclude its term Of service.
It has expended the revenues Of the
city in patronage and in tho inefi-
Gent execution of its duties. It has
left the city as it found it, without sup
ply of water or protection from fire;
the streets are unpaved, undrained and
the bridges in q state of un-
paralleled dilapidation, the ditching and
dredging stands incomplete; the duties of |
the wharf officers have been sublet to . |
the revenues Of the markets |
have been enacted to the last farthipg, and
he tariff on food has continued to en-
nance the privations Of an impoverished
people. Some of the members Of that !
administration relaxed their attention to
he exclusive duties Of Office and devoted
themselves exclusively to the conduct of
he election on behalf Of the Democratic
,arty. |
We do not know any claim to,public
approval set up by the city administra-
ion, save that by Withholding, OF threat
ming to withhold, the revenues levied for
'ayment of interest on the public debt,
has compelled the seedy creditors to go
nto lottery based upon their own money.
The financial glory Of this administration
GEMS to consist in having forced the pub
10 creditor to compound for 90 many
ents on the dollar estimated few days
ince at thirty to thirty-one and half.
'or having done this are they ap-
lauded, while all that they have failed
0 do has been condoned and forgotten in
be fact that they are Democrats. The
uccessors of these gentlemen who retire
0 their original obscurity have been
hosen b, parish convention of the most
character. Taking what
he candidates Of the delegations said IF |
ach other, we are authorized to infer both
and force in the selection of
lany names on the city ticket.
Happy Democrats! They may have
cen born, with the city Mayor and many
his colleagues, north of Mason and
ixons line. They may hold any opin-
n, civil or religious. They may draw
'laries in person and perform duty by
equity. They are held to no consistency
opinion, and no intelligence of action
required by them. They constitute,
ke the nobility of other lands, privi- I
sed order. whose acts are oil right and :
bose motives are all Honorable. None
q controvert their opinions or question
cir political virtue. They are the true
LEVERS; all others are heretlcs, against
ION all the agencies of temporal pun
lment may be lawfully and laudably d
lployed. Happy, thrice happy Democ-
y! Yet, with all those advantages the =
is not happy because it has O
all the Offices, salaries, contracts and
.unisifea in fhn land Oh &ho oo.,.a |