San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-03-21
A FAIR OFFER.
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS
St. Patrick's Day at the Crescent
City--The Louisiana Pot Political
--Mississippi River Rising.
NEW ORLEANS, March 30.

--Mississippi River Rising.
NEW ORLEANS, March 30.
Daily LIGHT:
The procession OF the Irish In honor Of
st. Patriok's birthday, on March II, was
exceedingly oreditable and imposing,
and was composed Of as fine a body Of
men 40 one would wish to see. They
were not effeminate dudes, but men with
thews and muscles, and with stout
hearts. l wish we now had a saint OF
the stamp of St. Patrick, upon the earth,
to eXterminate all the snakes in the
United States. There are more snakes
to the square yard In Louisiana than In
any part OF the United States; mecca
sins simply abound in the swamps,
are also quite plentiful enough
Politics are approaching a white heat
in the state, but there seems to be no
probability that there will be fair cleo
ton and an honest count OF the votes. as
that would Dust the democrats from
power. In recent speech at Shreve
Port, Gov. Mckinney declared, that be-
fore the republicans should carry the
state, every parish in il should be revo-
lutioniZed, which means that fraud and
bull-dozing may be safely practised.
The entire election machinery is in the
hands OF the democrats control
the whole thing, and. moreover, the
grand and petty juries and the courts are
but "cities OF refuge" for such as perpe-
trate bull-dozing and ballot box stuffing
in the interest Of the democratic party.
Why do they not take manly course
and deprive negroes of the right of suf-
frage? Oh, no; that would cut off some
forty congressman and presidential cleo
tors from the south. 1t is not honest to
claim representation for the negroes.
and then not to count their votes, or to
prevent their voting.
Politics In this city means trickery,
jobbery. dickering and tuckering, brib-
cry and frauds. Each ward has its boss
and he trades of his influence to his own
profit. Just now there ia hot struggle
going on In most of the wards for the DO
sition OF boss, and rumors are rife that
two state officers have bought the influ-
euce of,five ward bosses and will put In
their creatures. The corruption that
perm Gates the city politics of American
cities is . menace to the perpetuity of
our free institutions, and what is more
portentous, 1t is on the increase. To
arrest IL really appears TO De impossible,
unless the real people would forget party
names and cordially combine against
tne corrupt element-a thing hard to be
erected so long as men are the slaves
of party leaders.
The river continues to rise, and ten
feet additional rise would deluge the
state. The river needs a new outlet into
the gulf through which II can empty it's
waters, and the levae system never can
be depended upon to hold the water In
the channel-how can an embankment
forty feet at its base, hold back such
stream as the Mississippi when at it's
flood? The pressure of such a volume Of
water is immense, and, moreover, the
dirt In the leVee becomes saturated with
water and loses all consciousness. Capt
COndon's plan Of opening new outlet
into the gulf would be the salvation Of