The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-08-03
NEW ORLEANS AND THE RIOT.


The New Orleans States very properly !
and very vigorously resents the criticism
which in SOHO Northern quarters has
taken a political form in touching upon
the recent disturbances in that city and
the action Of the municipal aud State au-
thorftaes
1t appears that some rabd republican
journals are pointing to the rayages OF
the mob as the results Of inefficient dem
ocra,ic" control The states points out
that the mob formed so suddenly and was
composed OF such a low element that for
the first day ana night no city could have
done more, probably, than New orleans
did, but it asserts that SO soon as the au-
thorites recovered from the first shock
/ they proceeded with "a vigor, concert Of
action and promptness that are conepicu-
Gus by contrast with the corrective
methods adopted in the attempted sup
preston OF mobs in some Of the North =
.ern clties-notably in Chicago and in
St. Louis under republican administra-
ton. We quote from the States
In tbs whole line, from the mayor down
to the most unpretentOus citizen who re-
sponded TO the call to suppress the rioters,
there was not a point OF weakness except in
the police force, and the democratic ad-
!mnistre ton OF the city had no hand in the
appointment Of that body. The police force
, was in existence Tor years before the cleo
ton OF the present administration ana us Inn
: projections were well known. This admin
a istruuOn has no responsibility for the BODY
whatever. Indeed, II was largely constitut-
. ed under the "merit system" so much Landed
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the democratic Legislature and men who seek
TO abust the democratic party should hold
their foolish mouths. II anything, New Or
LEANS has risen to glory in this riot in her
streets OF the recent mob It was composed
G OF the most dangerous clements OF u great
, cosmopolitan population recruited from every
qunrtcr Of the world and It WIS by the demo-
i cratic administration more promptly and ef-
,iectiycly crushed utterly out Of existence than
- any considerable riot We have read OF in any
. lAmcriCan city since the foundation OF the
republic, ana our business men were chiefly
instrumental IN controlling and crushing IT,
The Post is glad 10 read this explanation
: and defense by the States. In common
u with many others we had referred to the
striking ineffciency OF the police and the
- manner In which they had almost dis
graced and injured the city. but of course
no idea of politics was involved in the
Icritiosm- Now it transpires that the
present government of the Crescent City
4 Is not responsible for the composition o
a this force. Certain 1t is that the State
troops were promptly called for and al
:. promptly furnished by the democrats,
a governor
y There Is no politics in any racial con
hicts that occur in the South in these
days, The last OF political race trouble
{. occurred In Month Carolina The negrt
is not now abused because he ia a re
publican-whatever may have occurred #
that direction some years ago, It is tn
negro's crimes that now precipitste thes
> indignant and stormy uprisngs OF white
! IN the South. AT the worst It Is rae
prejudice among a certain class OF whitea
8 but 1t ia no longer republican or dem
0 oerntIc politics
1 The effort OF the Northern republica
= press to turn such unfortunate affairs t
I political account Is now as ridiculous a
= It IS reprehensiblo, and while in nowis
d inGuencIng sensible or conservatiy
Q thought, either in the North or South. ye
e Is bad for the negro TO the extent tina
S white prejudice not OF the conservative
IN kind in the South may be still further in
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