The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1884-04-05

At last we began to see daylight. c

At last we began to see daylight. Ou1
new municipal bill is signed, sealed AMI
delivered. and thereby hangs TAIL or tale
year ago, when Tammany defeated tht
Governors nominee for Commissioner 0:
Emigration, the Governor resolved to ge
even; he remembered the guide auid Scotcl
motto, "We biae our time" Tammany's
power has been perpetuated even i'll defea
by series of deals which have been the
most disgraceful characteristics of oul
New York politics. A few malcontents OF
traitors allying themselves to the minority
could at any time defeat the expressed will
of the people, and the consequence has
been that every public Office, great and
small, has been prostituted to the basest
uses by set of Thugs whose proper place
would have beeESthe penitentiary or State
prison. The corner whiskey shop, the low
concert saloon, the lottery Office and the
gambling hell have had much more to do
with framing ourcity government than all
the church organizations put together. But
the Roosevelt billgis step forward, and we
breathe freer. The Mayor of this great
city is no longer puppet in the hands Of the
| Philistines. The.power placed in his hands
is tremendous for evil If we should get a
bad Mayor; and while on city affairs, I see
that the Board OF Estimate has added some
thing over S3,o90,000 to the expenses of this
unfortunate city, making the entire assess
ment for 1884 more than $3S, ,000,00O. Thir-
ty-eight millions of dollars for a single
city, when $G8, 8,00o,oo0 pay the civil and
miscellaneous expenses of the United States
government. The robbers will no doubt
make desperate fight t. control the rev.
enues of the city. They may sink all their
feuds in consideration of electing a Mayor,
so that it will behoove the tax payers to
stand by their guns if they expect to profit
by the Roosevelt bill.
Tie effect of an evil example was never
more visible than in the case of the unfor-
tunate woman who shot herself in the pres
ence Of the gambler Dunn and his wife at
the Windsor Hotel. Since then dozen
CIdLj WoIuSh oCSAiOd ~ D0 StILIISa
away with the insane disire to die in the
presence of their lovers. Scarcely aweek
passes but we have to record some tragedy
of that kind. The apparent ease with
which a German shuffied Off this mortal
coil is marvellous. 1t is only few nights
ago that a lady went to a ball and had q
good time, as Germans generally do. She
took her share of sour krout, lager and
pretzels and may possibly have destroyed
some spreck, but two hoaTs after she ar
r.ved at home she. was aaubiect for a Cor
oner's inquest. Another German, very
respectable man, loses child, and over
come by his grief, blows his brains out.
Another couple, OUT of q job, hang them
selves. And now, q young woman, dissap-
pointed in love, poisons herself, and tries
to die in the presence Of her successful
and one in which the laws of retribution
do not work, the girl who had been be-
trayed and who took the poison, had a
stomach pump applied to her, and after a
iCttG dCetl VI oiio eioSIdoeJ Will
be sent to the penitentiaTy, an unsuccess-
full attempt at suicide being deemed a mis-
delneanor. Meanwhile the heartless be-
trayer goes off with his new bride and has
good time generally.
At no time in its history has New York oc-
cupied more singular position politically.
The parties are going one way and the pa
pers are going the other. The Times and
Tribune, the acknowledged exponents of
Republicanism, are on the north side of
friendly with the administration and the
regular Republican organization, while the
World and Sun, which are supposed to give
pure Democratic milk, have pitched into
Carlisle as though he was a heather and a
publican. The visit of Mr.. Carlisle cou-
pie of weeks ago to the Free Trade club is
looked upon as a mistake. And whatever
may be our opinion about free trade or
high tariff, there is one thing certain, and |
that is, when the people fixed the salary of |
the Speaker of the House at 5000 per an
mum, which is $1,000 more than the pay Of
all ordinary member, they did it for some |
specific purpose, and that is that he should |
preside over the deliberations of the House.
For the time he is actually employed Mr..
Carlisle receives about $50 per day, and
he had no more right to absent himself |
from his duties than government clerk
Or policeman. His free trade speech might |
have done in Kentucky, bat it was Dem
ocratic failure in New York. In fact Dem
ocrats and Republicans are in the same
boat; there are dissensions in both camps.
The ripping up of our public affairs by
the Roosevelt Committee has been disas-
trous for the powers that be. It now looks
as though we might have to land our Sher-
if and number of other public officers in
the penitentiary. If we could only include
the Board of Aldermen, the Park and the
Police Commissioners, then indeed we
would have cause for public rejoicing.
Hoping that may be here to see that day,
am
Yours truly, BROADBRlM.
Baron Nordenskjold convinced himself /
last summer that he was wrong i'll suppos-
ing that the interior of Greenland was low
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