The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1876-11-02

before she would be a profitable con-
sumner of northern manufactures, and
give profitable employment to northern
shipping, and become a rich contributor
to the national revenue, and, more than
all, become thoroughly identified in feel
ing and interest with the feeling and
interest of the whole country. But this
does not suit or promote the political
fortunes Of the BoutWells, the Msrtons,
the Wheelers and the Camerons, ct id
OUrne genus.-PhiIadetDbia Times.
Grants fifty odd thousand useless
ofice-hOlders-half those now employed
in the civil service-will be dismissed
by Tilden, for he will be under no obi
CATION to them. Hayes can not touch
them, for they are all republicans, and
they are working like beavers for his
success. Fifty million dollars per annum
will be saved to the people by this single
measure of reform, and fifty thousand
able-bodied men will have a chance to
produce something. They are now liy-
ing upon the labor of Others. The worst
possible democrat can do better than the
best possible republican under the cir
cumstances, and hence when the people
say, we want a change, they sum up
pretty well the whole political situation
.-Brooklyn Eagle.
The republican Boston Advertisers
judgment of Hayes, that he was infrm
of purpose, a friend Of " the rings" and
weak man who would never institute
any reforms to hurt" is sustained by
the language of Mr.. Bolies, editor of the
republican Norwich Bulletin, who, on
returning from the Cincinnati conven-
ton, expressed his disappointment over
such mediocre candidate in this pointed
style. We quote from the Norwich Bull
letin of June II: The nomination in
itself is no guarantee of administrative
reform, a principle for which the people
and many influential leaders of current
opinion have this year developed a Won
derful enthusiasm. There will be
a widespread feeling of regret that a
higher standard was not reached that q
man was not nominated for president
who has had an active hand in purifying
the party Hartford Times.
Under Mr.. Tilden there can be no
interference with the supreme court.
No more enforcement laws. No more
military laws for states, No hostility to
whites or blacks. No further hostility
to states. No more sectional legislation
No Tatts; no Camerons. No RObesons;
no Chambers. No Belknaps, DeIanos,
nor Babcocks. The negative aGvan-
tages will be immense to the country,
besides an honest peace and just hopes of
greater prosperity by improved business.
The affirmative blessings will be:
Economy of administration. Honestyot
administration. Official responsibility
More order and accountability. The re-
mOval of drones and imbeciles. A cur
rency of gold, silver, and paper. No
union of church and state. No more
whisky rings. Under Mr.. Tilden, in q
word, we shall look not for a perfect
government, but for better government,
truer union of the states, a larger con-
idence among the people, and every
where in Washington u wiser admins
tration OF public affairs.-Nelo Y0rk En-
press.
, We live in an epoch in which the
legal profession has attained astonishing
power and importance. Both candidates
for the presidency are lawyers. Mr.. Til
den is ranked as one of the keenest, most
prominent and successful lawyers in the
country. Mr.. Hayes, As in all other
things, so also is he in his special calling
almost II cipher. 1t is quite plain that
the instructions which Mr.. Tilden could
give to his attorney general; that the
way in which he could manage the
claims of the United States government
on the railroads in which the govern
ment has an interest, and that his hand
in all other business matters requiring
legal knowledge for adjustment, would
be worth millions upon millions to the
United States treasury. All these
things the &" refOrmers" that were to be,