The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-08-18

Burke's course as Administrator Of Improve
mlents l. can be said without fsar Of contra
| vast retrenchment ON the amount spent in pre-
| vlous years, there were more laborsrs employed
| and more work actually done than Mt any time
| under the bureau system. The difference was
INT a Burke only gave the public money for hon
nd s5aoed re9a for
O. shown by the official accounts mt the City
| Hall were:
For 1915 S34t D5g
For 1876 4o8. $50
Making the outlay during the first eighteen
| months Of his admit istration, to wits From
January !, 1872, to July |, 1876, s57G,75s q. IN
forea corresponding period of time
in 1 o. the @
eighteen months under previous administers
tons Were ns follows:
1866 TO 1869. 81 500 90
1870 to 2,O2G 541 81
an average difference In favor Of Burke's ad-
ministrution against
1866 to 1863 Of S7gG 74t 80
1870 to 1874 ,449,783 q
| in each eighteea months.
Rather brilliant showing for Major Burke
when one considers the notorious fact that this
ynst retrenchment Represented an equally great
Increase OF actual visb 10 work and reparatlon
unpn the utlbiic property.
Major Burke retired ut the end OF his
term without one single supported COM
en OF b If n S Or exa
been made against him. 1t was universally
conceded that bis conduct of the Bureau hnnd
! cheney; that the city had expended less money
| and obtained greater. results than under any
preceding administration. He has every right
e be proud Of the name he made, and Is justi-
fed in pointing to 1t rs an eloquent indorse-
ment OF his claim to popular support
CAMPAIGN or 1876.
y ls hardly necessary to say that a man who
ma developed such tremendous executive
ability, and who throughout two preceding
campaigns had sustained the burden Of organ-
ling and conducting the practical. programme
labor of the groat struggle OF 1876. Burke was
never one TO figure upon the stump and turn
eae oows e tine vp psd bs ard 9n an
! honely Work-fhr more necessary, far more Of
feetual, but never, conspicuous: md upon him
by taeit consent. devolved The management of
| the executive department of the campaign.
That he discharged this trust with oil his char
hcterlstic fidelity and ability. and that he WINS
| recognized ns pre-eminentfy fitted to speak HIS
ffnlly DEMONSTRATED by tho fact that Gov,
Ing the oventful Tobrua ry"'" 1s77. The
record Of his performanee in that capacity has
been SO recently laid before the country that it
hgnh. The Gorresuondeuce which he submit
ted in evidence before the Potter sub. committee
| that he was regarded rs the genuine represen-
tatiye Of Louisiana in The negotiations. the man
| mOat ntteu 70 speak Tor ana TO be treated with
| on behalf Of the Democratic purity Of tho state.
| Burke has been content to hold bis peace while
/ others were alluded to MS prime movers in the
| events OF that time. yet be Of oil of them Is
| chiefly entitled to look back upon that episode
with the ref|aactiun-"all Of which saw; most OF
| Which | VAS
| CANDIDATE FOR TREASURER.
| And now, MS the legitimate elimination OF
| this brilliant and honorable record, Major
/ Burke is before the people rs the regular nomi-
| nee Of the mOcrntic party for Stats Trsus-
urer. He received the nomination after con-
| two Of the most formidable rivals that any man
could encounter In a Louisiana convention,
| His success WIS u tribute to his coolness self-
control sagactty, and to the absolute confidence
and fidelity q bis supporters All that Is ask cd
| for him is that his claims. may be fairly aud
dispassionutely considered by the voters Of the
| State. No exaggeration of his good qualities
is required. but his friends deprecate the
wiiful and unfounded detraotfon which he
| has, suffered in the past and from which
| future. IF It be possible to find IN his record
either as g public official or as the conductor Of
great private enterprises, aDyt hing which ar
CUES his unfitness for an office Of such delieaey
and res possibility MS the Troasurership the dis
coverer. of the objection il invited to bring II
! forward and make the most of it. If Major
Burke hns over been false to any obligation to-
wards either the public or bis fellow man his
friends, court the fullest Identification and
proof OF that shortening. But If not-unless
the proud an abundant record which he
now submits can be Offset by equally serioue
and significant facts. his friends feel that they
out the State TO- unite upon hl m In common
with the rest Of the ticket. and to lend theiu
henrtiest corporation in securing to the Demo.
cratic purity that harmonious ascendeney for
which no ono has labored more earnestly. more
unBelfselv or moro effectively than E. A. Burke
| ANXIOUS.