New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-08-24
THE DISCONNECTED DEMOCRACY.

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merit than President Grant.
THE DISCONTINUED DEMOCRACY.
When we saw the total rejection O
every Democratic demand upon a Dem
ocratic Congress, with the poor come Of
Of Falstaf, Il shall be sent for in pri
vate, " at the next session, we anticipated
some small let up in the enthusiasm 0
the Louisiana Democracy We did no
conceive that, with the woes of Louisiana
treated as the rage Of spoiled child, he
real wants Of levees, railroads and min
rejected, and the moderate protection 0,
her sugar and rice open by tariff amend
ment of the House to direct and contra
band competition, the Louisiana De
mocracy would have the assurance tc
promise that either the wants or the woes
of the State would be relieved by the
election of Democratic President.
These blows, sufficient to shake the
faith or chill the zeal of most reasonable
people, were followed by one far more Sc
rious and astounding. The Democratic
House of Representatives passed an en-
forcement resolution in which, adverting
to the imputed disturbances in the South,
the President was exhorted to execute the
law enacted by Republican administra-
ton. The Democratic press has at
tempted to distinguish between the order
and the executive. This is impossible.
The man who pulls the trigger has dis
charged the gun, and may be tried for the
homicide that results. We hold that the
Democratic Congress has given an orisr
that was as unnecessary now as when the
Democratic President Pierce announced
his duty to enforce the law with the
whole regular and militia force of the gov.
eminent without waiting for any congress
sional resolution about it. But with all this
demonstrated indifference to the demands
of the Louisiana Democrats, their poll.
teal confidence seems unimpaired. Their
papers flare away with a whiz and pop
like SO many penny rockets. They alarm
no one. for their range is so short and
their power so Insignificant that they are
never seen beyond the narrow horizon of
their circulation.
The theory of the party is that all the
evils which aflict our State and city have
been caused by radical misgovernment,
and that they can be relieved by the cleo
ton of Democratic President and State
government. They see that the State of
Louisiana il blessed with regular labor
and favorable seasons. The sugar and
rice crops, if not blasted by the free trade
bill of the Democratic Congress, will be
most prosperous. Still, but for the
kellogg usurpation" these crops 'would
be greater, and would bring much more
money in market"
The workingmen of New Orleans come
forward and say to the Democratic Ad-
"We want work, and the
Administrators say: "You can go to work
on the streets if you will, but We have no
other work to bestow, and no money to
pay for that" The citizens go through
he dirty streets holding their noses, and
beg that the nuisances will be removed.
The Democratic Council convenes the
bankers and merchants, and the Admin
Istrator of cutters, with his feet on the
iesk and cigar in his mouth, may say:
'Gentlemen-We have spent all the
money applicable to street cleaning. The |
Weather is very hot, and We may have an
pidemic. If you expect customers at |
our counters it will be we'll for you to
ONE down with the money to clean these
treets, otherwise you may suffer from the
consequences of further neglect. We
ave spoken
Then the Democratic organs and ora
ors denounce the Republican State gov
rnment, and tell the workmen hold on
ntll Tilden shall have been elected, and
on will have plenty to do. And they
xplain how it is that while the State,
ultivated by Repub lican laoorers, is
the city, under the same
Governor, has been destroyed by the Rad
al usurpation.
With this statement of disappointed ex-
ectations of forlorn .destitution under q
ty Democratic rule, the Democracy still
sglect all attention to domestic inter-
its, and hurrah for a New Yorker for
resident. With such domestic destitu-
on in the city, and such patent impos-
bility of obtaining any aid either from
lie ability or disposition of the nation,
N it be doubted that we have among us
most disconnected Democracy?
ULLIs AT HOME ARE OFTEN EYPO-
critics ABROAD.