New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1877-04-07

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stitution Of 1852, and accumulated in the
hands of the executive an amount and
character of patronage surprising that of
any or of all the Republican States in the
Union. 1t adopted a system Of wasteful
appropriations and monopoly of grants,
of which the larger share fell into the
hands of its Democratic opponents, while
the whole reproach fell upon the act OF
emancipation.
2. The Republican party arrested this
debt, refused these appropriations, denied
those monopolies and repudiated their Re-
publican authors.
8. In this desperate struggle for reform
from 1872 to the present, those reforms
have divided the party and thrown over
to the Democracy those recreant kepub-
icans whose sole quarrel with the party
has been the vengeance of defeated ra-
pacity.
From this recital it is proper that the
REPUBLICAN shall, as the representative
of the reforms perfected and projected by
the Republican administration, offer such
suggestions to the commission as will en-
able them within the limit of their con-
stitutional authority to establish the rights
of the people the government has eman-
cipated and to lay the foundations of a
paeihcation between tho races and the in
terests now in conflict in Louisiana. This
schedule of suggestions will be as follows:
l. The President should demonstrate q
sufficient military force to enforce obedi-
ence to his acts. He should order the
disarmament and disbanding of all armed
organizations, whether "troops" of the
State or insurrectionary bands threaten
ing the authority of the State and national
forces.
2. He should install, when necessary,
and maintain in all cases, the officers and
Representatives, State and municipal,
certified according to law by the Return
ing Board of 1876.
8. He should employ the ''infuence'
of the government "to establish this right
of the people" it has emancipated, by con-
ferring all Federal appointments, prin-
cipal and subordinates, upon Republicans
qualified according to the terms of his in
augural, but with the additional and in
dispensable condition that they shall be
bound by ties of investment, business,
kindred and evident purpose to abide in
the State during and after the term Of
their official service.
4. The President has well said:
The material development of that section
of the Countrywide Southern States-hst
been arrested by the social and politics
revolutions through which it has passed,
and now needs and deserves the consideratC
care of the national government within the
just limits prescribed by the constitution
and wise public economy.
Let, then, the commission be authorized
to say that the President will recommend
to Congress and to the Republican part!
such an equalization of Federal sppropr1a
tons as will give to the Southern State
the railroad through Texas to the Pacific
the levee for the protection of the natura
industries of cotton, sugar and rice, ant
the grant of sufficient subsidies for sucl
steam postal service as will connect tn
Mississippi valley and the lakes, through
the port and city of New Orleans, witt
the principal tropical ports of this cont
nent.
8. Governor Packard should co-operat
with this policy by recommending to tn
Legislature the repeal of all laws confer
ring power of State or municipal appoint
ment upon the executive, and remittinI
all such elections to the people. Il
should also recommend the popular ex
tension of amendments to the conslitu
ton, having for its object the restoration
of the constitutional provisions of 1921
regard to the elective choice Of officers.
6. The Governor should also adopt tn
inaugural principle of appointment t
Office, with the added condition of HON
interest in the welfare Of the State i
every incumbent.
| Z. All Republican applicants for az
pointments to State or municipal Office il
Louisiana who may be wanting in th
home qualification, as stated, are properl
subjects for consideration at the hands Q
the national Republican party, and ma
be assigned appropriate positions at HON
or abroad elsewhere than in Louisiana.