New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1878-11-03
NATIONAL PARTY OF LOUISIANA
TO THE PEOPLE.

FsIoto Caizens-The time is at hand
when you will be called upon to deposit
your ballots and declare your sentiments
upon the political condition Of our ma
tional, State and municipal affairs. 81.
The National party owes it's origin to
the necessities of our financial condition,
and proposes the restoration of our former
prosperity. .... aE
The desire of effscting reforms in our
State and municipal affairs has rendered
it necessary to place candidates before the
people who stand pledged to its platform.
hRt i hnJtorf6us CESf 1ths d6icailed Demo
cratic and Conservative party Of Louisi-
ana came iuso pawer with the most posi-
tive assurances that all the abuses, cor
ruptions, derelicions and malpractices
in the administration of our public affairs,
the stagnation in business, depreciation
of property, all Of which were charged
upon the Republican party, were to dis
appear, and we were to enjoy the inestim-
able blessing of good government and
prosperity.
How have these assurances been full
filed?
We ask all candid and dispassionate
men to answer this question. s -
With the exception Of spasmodic ef-
fort made at the frat session of the Legis-
lature representing the Democratic and
Conservative party, nothing has been done,
and the second session was extended ten
days to enable its members to draw addi-
tional pay and mileage.
The State and city governments have
been run in the same manner as hereto
fore, and all the alledged abuses havsbeen
retained, to which others have been added
for the benefit Of greedy officials to enable
them to accumulate fortunes while the
masses of the people are in q state Of des-
titution. . ..-..... ...... r.r. .... -
Let any citizen reflect upon the condi-
ton of our city affairs. An unpaid police,
unpaid teachers of the public schools, uu-
paid subaltern officers and laborers, an
unlimited public debt of millions OF dol
lars, the depreciation Of real estate that
renders its possession burden, general
want amongst all classes of citizens, the
visitation Of an epidemic which has swept
away thousands of our people, and the
positive knowledge that the filthy condi.
ton of our thourOughfares filled with gar.
bage may have been the cause Of that atfec-
; ton, owing to the delinquency of our city
administration the responsibility must
. rest on all of them and not upou the Ad-
ministrator of Improvements alone-Ont
: we ask what other conclusion can b,
? reached than that the men and party wh'
. have been entrusted with the direction o
: our city affairs, have forfeited all claim
/ to public confidence.
: The same influences which produced
r the recent nominations at the so-calleC
r Democratic and Conservative Convention
b prevailed in the election of the presen
y city officials, and we have too much rea
Q son to believe that the same course viii
d be pursued by the nominees now chosen
It if elected, as has been pursued by th
present 1ncumbents We shall be burdens
It with the same heavy licenses upon bus
n mess and labor, with the same. mode G
; selling the public markets to the highef
n bidders, by which the whole people ar
n indirectly taxed and which affects NOR
/. particularly the poorer classes, in pul
chasing food necessary to their existenc'
with the same absorption Of the city re1
ennes to the payment of interest on pr
MUM bonds, many of which were issue
:. on claims without any legal orlmoral obi
d cation; we shall have the same bankruI
g treasury, unpaid police, unpaid scho'
y y teachers, filthy streets, produc tive Of ep
% denies and the same spoliations in Il
le contract system.
,r To the intelligent people of New o
= leans it is scarcely necessary to say th
i the regular Democratic nominees hay
sprung from the most irresponsible el
1t ment of that party; that they are Il
expression of a ring of ward, politician
q. who controlled both the State and paril
convention Of that party; that some
1. the candidates presented by the ring a
III men spawned in the school Of Warmo
= :, and Kellogg, and having fed and fAtten,
~ I. on the frauds that impoverished both 4
to State and city treasures, finally glid
ts into the Democratic camp and have o
l- tained control of the machinery Of th
al party, intending to work in their oy
al interest. These truths are patent;
n Democrats know them; they can not n
will not be denied uuless by perso
and henchmen whose interests are wi
bt the ring, nor need the people be told Il
50 the ring ticket was cooked and "hxst
beyond the reach Of the great body
=. that party at least four months ago. 4
10 method by which this domination v
or accomplished is well understood. a
y, places of employment under the ofaciA
bs which the ring expects to elect have be
tn given in pledge to the fractional or int
its viduals composing the rinG. Every a
'I pointee. there is reason to believe, has
= ready been selected to the exclusion Of
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