New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1878-10-26
SECOND SENATORIAL DTsTRTCr.
Letter Of HOn. W. N. BRrweII, Declining
the NatiOnaI NemInatIOu.
No. 1855 DERBreNY STREET,
New Orleans, October 25, 1878.

c1G1zens who have rendered me the nom1-
nation as the National candidate for the
Sscord Senatorial District. To have been
thus honored, without solicitation, and,
indeed, without participation in the can
vass, as the representative, if elected, of
ten thousand voters, is an evidence of
your esteem which merits my sincere
gratitude, and will command my services
in any capacity in which they can be rem
dered. 1t is, however, with regret that I
decline the nomination you have rendered
me. Your object, as my own, is to ex-
clude from the administration Of your af-
fairs adventurers on the one hand and
men of unscrupulous violence on ths
other. ours is a city depFiyed of much
cemmercs By the oompetitioR Of rival
lines of transportation, and suffering from
the periodical recurrence Of q scourge
from which other competing ports are
exempt. We are indebted TO people Of
an opposite section for much of the capi-
tai with which our business is conducted,
and for generous contribution to our
relief in the midst of the sorrow which
has afflicted US. This dependence upon
the kindly cooperation of others, would
impose an honorable and prudent tolera-
ton of all differences among ourselves.
The perpetual political warfare which di-
vides parties into factions and arrays them
in armed hostility and constant suspicion
cannot be favorable TO commerce, whose
sceptre is the olive. 1t is not necessary
to say more upon the deplorable decline
Of our city than that its taxable values
have declined one-fourth within eight
years, and that while its rate Of increase
was inferior to that Of no city in the
Union before the competition adverted to,
it is the only city in the Union that is now
declining. 1t would be useless to charge
upon the misgovernment Of one party the
responsibility for this decline, since itt
steady progress has not been arrested
under a change Of government. Fellow
citizens, this decline is beyond the reach
or remedy Of party politics. 1t rests with
yourselves. Popular ,sagacity has seer
that the first act in saving sinking shiI
is to stop the leaks. These organizations
have been simultaneously impressed Will
this practical fact The Citizens, Tax
payers and Worklngmen's Association
the Citizens Conservative Association
and your own, the National party, thes,
three associations have 80 concurred tina
nothing except the past preiudices o
party could separate them. have ex
amined your own platform carefully. l
is limited in its object to the reform o
abuses, and the adoption of measures cal
culated to counteract the embarrassment
which surround and threaten our city.
/. No special legislation.
2. No monopolies.
8. No tax on labor or on comm cree.
4. No excessive salaries.
5. No unequal assessments. ..
6. The repeal of executive patronage.
z. The election Of all officers by th
people. .-.
8. A demand of Federal appropriation
for the internal improvement of Louisiana
This schedule meets my cordial ap
proval and will secure my earnest sur
! port. But It has been adopted and ampli
fed by the kindred associations adyerte
to and forms an unconcious and instinctiv
impulse among separate orga nizations {
the mass of people to attain the same enc
It is the worship Of the same divine truth
by scots of different modes of faith.
The cause of the turbulence adverted {
is two fold. II is the low and oppressiv
! rates of personal industry, contraste
! with the extraordinary profits of oficit
employment. It is the provoking sight {
, a man whose services were not worth
! support to himself, waited into eonspie,
/. GUS afluence by the breath Of the starvin
1 thEongs that have contributed to his o
5 cension. This difference between a life
! public luxury, and the patient, often pr
carious, acquisitions of private toll shoul
be abolished. The compensation of of
GERS should harmonic with the wages
industry. The scale Of this compensate
should comprehend the salary of IL
!, magistrate with the wages of the mechani
This done, and the temptation offered
: successful fraud to Audaeioas rapacity I
moved, your government would be long
:, o prey to attract adventurers from eve
: quarter and cultivate the preeocious 9
o pidity Of our own people. Your State
city treasury would not BE- worth the q
Il pensive Legislative combinations necessA
e 10 reach them. As you attain this Objs
d you will find the bitterness and violen
. Of party warfare abAte, our citizens "
- gradually resume the legitimate pursui
Of industry and commerce. Society be
will, as elsewhere, cultivate the ameniti
g Of business and the most important
, tslligsnce from orr city will cease to
y tsud fights Of faction.
can not avoid the remark that IL
q Citizens Conservative party has {
y an excellent example in their pI
posed alliance between capital and labC
They have rebaked the intolerance wi
vAinh khe ooloFAd olement haa been hal