The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-11-15
NEW ORLEANS AT THE CHICAGO CON
VENTTON.

The Chicago convention has indOrsed at
least two of the three great projects In which
Now Orleans Is vitality Interested, to wit
the proposed steamship connection with
South America and the railroad through
Texas to tho Pacific Ocean. The formal
designation of tho Texas Pacific Railway
Company as'the one to which Congress should
grant material aid very clearly indicates
that the West is favorable to the line in
which New Orleans Is most deeply Interested
The Texas Pacific is already completed and
in full operation from Shreveport to Fort
Worth. From this point to the Pacific gov
eminent aid Is needed and this, we have no
doubt. can be secured by the united efforts of
the Mississippi valley States and of those
lying, east and west Of IFS, along the thirty
second parallel, to all OF WHICH t this, trapS
Orleans cannot afford to be idle The imnno
dlate question for us to consider Is what can
be done to secure the completion of the road
from New Orleans to Shreveport p? In orr
efforts to push forward the completion of the
Iexas Pacific beyond Fort Worth, we should
not forget that we can derive no ADVANTAGE
from that route unless we first complete orr
road to Shreveport. We should go to work.
llrst, to Xix on our stem to the main trunk
without delay, and then we can all the more
efficiently cooperate in the other great wor,
OF extending that road west from Fort Worth
to the Pacific
AS TO the other project Endorsed by the
Chicago convention, the establishment, If
direct steamship service between this port
ana South America, we have, during the mast
twelve months, written column after column
IN It's advocacy, and our readers are fullv
posted In regard to the manifold advantages
to be derived from it, both by New Orleans
and the country at large We have also
shown and denounced the manner in which
Ihls measure was defeated at the last session
d Congress and left hung up between the
senate and the House.
The unfair and arbitrary action of Sam
Randall upon this very question of subsidiz-
ng the Brazil mail line Of steamers. and tho
rick he resorted to in order to defeat tho
lear and manifest will Of Congress will on
urthcr than any other one circumstance in
lis congressional career to lose him tho
'peakership of the next House. This meas
re- we trust, will be vigorously pressed at
ne approaching session and the Endorsement
u such convention as that which met at
jhlcagO, comprising as it did men of great in
luence from all the great States Of the West
VIII go very far towards securing it's passage
ne impetus given it will be simultaneous
"a by the action OF the convention which is
onVened TO meet in this city on December 3
ext.
by the way, let us say o word before we
loso III regard to the proposition to post
one the meeting of our convention. Shorld
he time OF the meeting OF the convention be
Xcd for a later date in December will it. not
lterfere with the arrangements already
lade by delegations who have notified us of ,
1e1r intention Of being here on the third
roNmo? Will it not encroach upon the ,
hrlStmas holidays, q season which most I
ZEN love to consecrate to home and which G
ICY prefer to spend with their families IF 7
'ferred until January Or February, will it g
1T leave too short q time for effective work 7
the part OF committees appointed to 90 to G
ashlngton and speed the good work ? T
ls entirely probable that the Bra a
liam subsidy at least, can be put
rough by the present Congress, which l.
certainly better prepared to dispose of it q
III dispatch, and will be freer from poiti- D
ex1genctes in respect thereto, than the b.
Il Will be. which will be controlled in all It
important actions by prayerful regard ia
puG!lc opinion at the next election. We In
leFe That large naiority Of the American w