The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-08-22
COMMUNICATION.
Mr.. EDITOR

Mr.. EDIToR-
Our good friends of the Town
Council, against whom the people
have been complaining, and against
whose little official .faar pas / have
been directing public attad:ion, are
losing tepner. getting foriously mad,
and are actually forgetting that they
are Servants Of the people, and that
after all, public opinion, well directed
public option, is master Of us all.
AS they recover their good humor
and good sqse, I hope they will see
the errors Of their ways, will sin no
more, and will fall in line squarely
to their neglected duties as good off,
cials and good men.
As I have roamed around Town
last week, / heard a great deal of lip
service wasted by their friends, or
rather by those fawning friends who
always side with wrong when they
think it is on top; but Of course, as
you well know, some favored locali-
ties in Alexandria have their corner
heroes, critics, hangmen and tattlers.
Just what heard one of them, who
l know talks by the card and instruc-
|tion, state with assumed airs of deep
knowledge, must be my excuse for
this third communication. Big an.
thority in defense of the parties in
dicted by me said, that the present
Street Commissioners had done more
work and better work than was ever
done before, and that the Town new
er was in such good fix. Right here
I answer all this bombast by reitera-
ting all l have said, in my two last
communications, in regard to bad
management, looseness, and by tell
ing him and his hackers, that at the
commencement, of the year, when the
new Commissioners were appointed,
they found the Streets of the Town
in good fix, having been worked on
late in the Fall; and by this / mean
the streets of all the five Wards Of
the Town. Well, / now meet the
defence in stating that the present
Street Commissioners, though they
have done excellent and awfully ex.
pensive work, have done it altogether
in two Wards, in favored and interes-
ted localities, and that they had the
sum of twelve hundred dollars, more
in the Treasury, than ever before at
the disposal of their predecessors,
and that they actually spent the mo-
ney Of the Corporation in repairing
the property of the Parish, plaaked
with ties its Ferry, and started to
build the States levee in front Of
this same property, when they were
stopped and forced to desist. And
further, as I have twice written, the
Street Commissioners have confined
all these expensive, and in some re-
spect useless, internal improvements
solely to two Wards, whereas the old
Street Commissioners worked .hc3
whole Town, and had the whole Of it.
in tolerable good order, according to-
the money at their disposal, and be-
| it remembered without the proceeds
of a special tax on the real estate OF
the Town.
Now, Mr.. Editor, let me state that
all these little excuses and wrang-s
filings are strangers to all the past
Boards, and should at once cease
And I here for one fall back on our
present Mayor, who is of the people,
one of the taxpayers Of the Town,
elected almost unanimously, to come
at once TO the front, and at the very
next meeting of the Board take the
Councilmen in hand, and use his au !.
thority and practical experience in
guiding them to the right, and COM
pei them by reason and good will, to
act once more wisely, courteously
and like decent deliberative body.
He is the man to do this; 80 let him
mature the subject, and lead his
"erring brethren" once more in the
good road. / know he is the man
and official to do it, and it is expect.
ed'of him by the true people Of the
Town, and that he will take the mat.
ter in hand, with will and his
usual energy and good sense, is firm.
lily believed by
THIRD WARD TAX PAYER.
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