The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-11-04
GIBSON AND ELLIS.

called upon tomorrow to select two mem
bers Of the Forty-sixth Congress. For these
positions four candidates are in the field
These are Messrs. Gibson and Ellis, the regu-
lar Democratic nominees, and Messrs. Cas-
telIanos and Cullom, the candidates of the
Native observation-disclosures Republican COM
bination However estimable these lat
ter gentlemen are in private life, it
must be remembered that they ap-
pear before the public. as they appeared
before the courts, as the indicators OF that
infamous organization, the Returning Board,
and all the bad elements composing the Re-
publican party. Their election would be re-
garded as a Republican triumph; as an evil
dence that the people of New Orleans repu-
dated the National Democratic party; that
Louisiana justified the fraudulent count OF
her vote for Hayes; as a. surrender OF
every principle for which this peo-
pie have been battling for ten years;
as complete vindication and Endorsement OF
the men and methods that have plundered
and outraged the State under Republican
rule It is to secure these objects that the
Custom-House party has been willing to
make O. trade in any direction. For these
reasons bargain was made with the Ma
tionals. The Returning Board and its friends
| will spare no efforts to accomplish these
purposes.
| The Democrats of the First and Second
Districts owe it to themselves, to the State,
and to the country that this scheme shall not
be successful. 1t behooves them to be on
their guard that they shall not appear to con-
done the frauds of 1876 by the election Of the
candidates of the Returning Board. This is o
patriotic, a sacred duty. And besides this first
and overshadowing incentive, there are
many others that commend themselves
to the voters of the two districts.
They want representatives in full accord with
the great National Democratic party, If those
representatives are to be OF any practical
benefit to their constituents. It is now GER
tain that the Democrats will control both
branches of The next Congress. They will
make the laws; they will pass the appropria-
ton bills; they will direct all the legislation.
A Congressman from the South who is not of
the dominant party will be a mere spectator
In the next House. He can do absolutely
nothing for his people. He will draw his
salary and vote 'no' upon all propositions
affecting favorably the political interests of
his section. Such would be the position Of
Messrs Cullom and Castelanos.
Messrs. Gibson and Ellis have already
given evidence OF their power for good. Their
course at Washington has met the approba-
, ton and received the Endorsement OF their
, constituents. They are entitled to and should
have the cordial support of the voters of
New Orleans. No true Democrat will vote
against them.
In connection with what has been said of
the action of Messrs. Gibson and Ellis in the
present Congress, the following extract from
Mr. Glbson's address to his constituents is
, here reproduced:
of the test or irOnclad Oaths for jurors, and to
remove all disuuaflcations. Determinations
and disabilities upon our citizens growing out
, of the war,
committee on levees and Improvement of
the Mississippi river was for the first time con
of the House. 1t was thus that the interests of
the valley of the Mississippi were first brought
in an authoritative manner to the Just cons Il
: Robertson. from The Fourth, District an expe-
rienced man, was placed at the head of this i'm;
ruts areadg IN havng nS Wise
com prehensive bill. now. pending. which. if
adopted will at the same time improve the nav;
waters. and give am pie protection against over
, flows Having been agreed UPON after long dis
ao y 3
| House mr. Randall, | regard its passage at the
next session or the next Congress as almost
) certain. Will our friends rally to its support?
| The delegation secured for our State larger
appropriations for the improvement OF our
than we're eyer mad t1d before neaEy
language Of Cant. J. B. Eads, by procuring the
passage Of bill that enabled him to meet pres
sing obligations. to maintain his credit aud TO
! | ia this most extraordinary
and benencent works Of the age destined to be
the gateway through which the. teeming mil
modities of their labor, food and clothing, to
the markets of the world, and to receive back
ngn Inc IN cbeaner and
The navigation Of Red river: it Is believe
=, with the large appropriation for Its improve;
meDt, will now be made permanently safe and
easy, and the southwestern part OF our State
aeans the ra @ N Of the
you find your harbor so long, neglected. while
millions were being expended on the harbors
| of our seabOard cities. in the hands or cOmDe-
J tent engineers, endeavoring to give security to
, your shipping. trade and com merce. Our Mint,
SO i'm portant to our commercial community and
to the credit Of our city. as the great Southern
metropolis. is again In operation. or Just going
into operation. after the lapse of nearly twenty
, The Mississippi river and its tributaries re-
ceived more attention. and nearly double the
amount In appropriations. from the present a
| expended helps New Orleans.
Bills have from the first been offered by my
) colleagues and myself for the estahl ishment of
direct trade. by lines Of steamers with the coun;
tries south of US Mexico. South and Central
America-and for the Inauguration Of recipro-
city treaties, in order to open their markets to
our surplus manufactures and commodities. In
ali this, our city has a direct interest.
Although the bill from the Committee on
Ways and Means. OF which I have the honor to
be member did not become pm la law attent bn
publican tari1 on sugar, which invites evasion
and fraud and protects the reflner by imposing
d prohibitory tax on the better grades OF sugar;
I while upon raw brown sugars. such as most OF
our planters produce. there is hardly any tax at
t ALL and consequently n protection to the agri-
g culturist; 1t is in fact combinat 10 OF tie
home refiner and the slavehold er In the tropics
:. against the planter and free laborer. AT home;
2 1t compels every pound OF sugar imported to
, | pay toll to the refner before reaching the con-
sumner. believ.. in time this discrimination
50 unjust in principle. SO contrary to a. en-
IL htenpd public policy, and SO hostile alike to
he interest of the consumer and the people OF
Louisiana-may be removed.
, We have not yet secured Southern railway
to the Pacific. Many difficulties and complica-
iii jyur Ia ipcis tn ~