The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-02-03
charge before the people Of Louisiana We
demand Of him that he retract or slbstantiate

charge before the people of Louisiana. We
demand Of him that he retract or substantiate
Ii.
But is Mr.. Aldige the man with hands clean
enough tocharge the DEMOCRAT with being the
representative Of q clique? Has he not been
himself the representative of q clique, and OF
q clique against whose rapaeious demands
the people of the whole country are protest
ing, and toput down whose extortionate pow
er they are organizing? Has he not been the
friend and champion of the capitalists and
bondholders In their war against the people?
We charge him with being such, and we pro-
duce the facts to sustain our charge. In the
Legislature of 1876 Mr.. Aldige was chairman
Of select committee appointed to investi-
gate the books OF the Auditor and Treasurer.
After month of assiduous labor, that gen.
tleman brought In report, signed by himself
ls chairman, in which charges OF the most
serious character were made against the then
fiscal agent, Mr.. J. FL Oglesby. From this
report we quote the following recommended
ttion:
That Hon. A. P. Field, the Attorney Gem
eral, be instructed to institute criminal pro-
ceedings against ]. FL. uglesby, for ayolation,
as pdrticeps criminis, Of section 7 Of act OF
means be devised to compel j. II. Ogleshy to
restore to the Metropolitan Board Of Police
the sum OF S6,696 81 Illegally charged by him
MS commission and interest ON the loan OF
$4,000, made by the Treasurer out Of the in
terest hInd Of The State to the Metropolitan
Board OF Police.
In q subsequent debate, Mr.. Al3ige repeat
eddy charged the Fiscal Agent with felony,
and urged that he be criminally prosecuted
for that crime.
The high personal character. the large and
respectable business connections and the chiv-
alrous reputation Of the present chairman of
the COMMITTEES on Ways and Means gave full
and irresistible weight to the official report
and charges made personally by him against
the Fiscal Agent. In view of these recorded
and well known facts, we were perfectly
astounded when in June last, after the
Nichols government had been established.
to learn that Mr.. Aldige was strenuous
supporter of Mr.. Oglesby, whom he had
reported and denounced as q felon, for
the high and responsible position Of fiscal
agent Of the State. He not only supported Mr..
Oglesby for this position, but 1t is within our
personal knowledge that be used every posi-
BILE exertion and influence In his power to elect
him.
The manager of the DEMOCRAT, astounded
at this extraordinary course of the gentle
man, subsequently assumed TO demonstrate
with him, when Mr.. Aldige stated that he ,cas
acting after consultation rith capitalists and
bondholders ut home and abroad. and did not
care what politicians might say.
With these observations we submit tho issue
between the chairman OF the Ways and Means
Committee and the DEMOCRAT to the people.
We have proved that he is the representative
Of the clique OF bopdholders and capitalists
We are ready to submit our record as shown
IL our files to him or any Other man, and we
defy any one to prove that we have repre-
sented any clique save the clique when Is
Of the people Of Louisiana. We
have never. and we thank God for it, been the
of either pondhoders or CAPT
talists, politicians, rtngs or monopolists, and II
the gentleman Gesires to leave it to this test,
we ehalleZge him In his place in the House to
PROVE, against the DEMOCRAT in its field
Of journalism, during the next thirty days,
which Of us is the representative of a clique
and which the friend Of the great mass Of the
people of the State With these rem arks we,
for the present, dispose Of Mr.. Aldige.