The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-09-29


ADMINISTRATION OF FLANDERS RADICAL MAYOR.
1871, 1872
Expenses General
r. Fund .'.'..... sa.o92.7oo os s3,o41,e8e q
s95is9 s ssseSo 90 90 5slSoo 90
Interest and Re-
demptlon Bond
ed Debt. ......... 1,714.40O 90 1914 A9S 80
Total Budget Ex-
penditures -. eo1s.eo4 o3 $685., ss7 70
Assessments. ,2o4 90 1888 4l35S2 90
Rate OF taxation. az p cont. "a u cent.
Total tax. 1921 1914 81 $500, 1878 30
ADMINISTRATION OF p1LsBUgY, DEMoCRRTIC-Co
SENTATIVE MAYOR.
1877. 1878.
Expenses General
Fund. .............. s1.as4.154 SO s1,25e,12o 90
Police ..........:,... 36S.171 90 325. 900 90
Schools .....;. .:... 225.ooo 90 225, 900 90
demption Bond
Tt 5tif Budget L.
Asse sments; .....- 109,7oo789 90 III 1855 90
Kae Of taxation. X y cent: ~ y cent t.
The Wrtor invites to tbs oo n gi abs
the attention Of every competent gentleman
who has tho leisure to contrast these, figures.
each with the other, aud see how they brand as
yved .Warmoth- Kellogg Radical organ. But
there is another and more important. political
studied by every Democratic-C Conservative voter.
1t is that he may by 1t see the measure OF sue
cess which has attended the management of the
HalF' by our own people. while laboring under
great difficulties and most discouraging mis-
conceptions by some on whom they naturally
relied for apPreclath i and supp3Tt When one
what an augean stable was consigned to him by
the flying Flanders, the wonder is, not that be
anyhn a M aean al e re
figures. How the millions upon millions pile
up against US. Three million dollars an
interest
demption, $4,000 900 total budget, $40, 1000, 900
assessment and $4.oooooo total tax Consider
modern millionaires, but recently previous
had to borrow their board money from week to
week, or dine at fifteen cent lunch. there Is no
side of the Arabian Tales or the history of Col.
Sci ers., In these days Of contraction 1t sounds
Incredible that men pretending to be the sworn
schemes OF plumber. outrage and falsehood as
these facts reveal. And yet some of the iden-
teal men who :, perpetrated them, would
give us moro and newer specimens Of their
work, Many of them, If they were at their true
work. would be assisting MAJOR James.
Wi tz' name having been introduced as lead |
ing Of our Democratic administrations In the
arduous task Of restoration from Radical mis- |
was able to do against the bitter opposition OF
Warmoth and q So called General Assembly of
lgnoramuses and frauds, He pulled down the
50 O92 200 to s2l77 S55. He pulled down the hire
ling fund from ss1sso4 to s5s7 600; the extrava-
CANT school expenditures from S3ss.0Oo to $780,
l0o the interest and redemp tion of bonded debt |
fund from S1sl449s to 5lS.8os; the total budget
expenses from s6ol3,9A & to s4,629888: the
the total tax from s3sO6,37s to 50 25s, 1888. Ali
honor to Mayor Witt for the noble stand he
took, and tor his skill. prudence and success. |
encountered by any mayor of New Orleans. from
The first oneJ Watkins in 1904, to E. Pilsbury.
IN 1878. Some unrefecting citizens, who neg
wrong and shame bequeathed to Witt by the |
Chambers crowd, have uni Justly stigmatized our
overthrow of municipal Radicalism as q fall !
lre. The facts. however, show the reverse and |
reflect great credit upon. Wilt and his col |
leagues in the City Council Of 1854, of whom |
heir worst detractors can only say that they |
Jailed to accomplish impossibilities. and that
he'll, administration, If not an absolutely good
one. had in 1t a number Of as good men as will |
aver be found in ticket elected by the masses
0f the people. CITIZEN. |