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j tney arc “jumping jucks 5 «n- r l“ i founded. ) li- JATAU/fjCB iW TJIi: TOILS. 11f;Maurice J. Hart, Die man who is; z~ ; said to have done more than any | ls i one else to corrupt the municipal , ° 18 ! government of the Crescent city, j r] r“ j has been indicted by the grand jury i j* ls j of Orleans parish and will have to j 11 ie j answer to five charges of perjury j ° j and three of obtaining money under j 11 : false iretenses. llart has been, styled Die “father of municipal cor- |; £ t!J*u ; ruption*' and if we may judge from !.‘tthe city papers, he is despised by , a ; both honest people and rascal;;. ; w i- | He is very wealthy and has bee. 1 •« II ‘ for years identified with every iiu- : c ,e ; portant public improvement in New ; i- Orleans. He is given the credit of D r- having procured for Die city dec- j c , trie lights, rapid transit, belter’.:i * •• L pavements, streets, canals, etc. It p tl , is in the establish incut of these j, modern enterprises that he needed the aid of the City Cuncil and . tf ; bought council men's votes at whole- .! sale bargains aud with the same c ( reckless impuniLy which has char- 1( - i acterized transactions of that sort 7S ! in the Southern Metropolis.The Times-Democrat would make us believe that Hart was the victim «* j‘of circumstances and employed c j corrupt means because they were p «-* necessary to the “march of pro- t, o gross under our .shameful system of lt;g| j municipal government.” The T.-l). :■ s ; attempts to conceal its sympathy t-c j for Hart, but it says enough to a ■» ! leave no lt;loubt in the mind of thebuireader that it does not want llart -pn convicted. The sedate old l-'ic-tlayunc strays from her well-beaten• - ; path of conservatism and grows un-i- : usuaily bol*l and aggressive and ai-*- raigiis Hart and llu; municipal ad-d ministration in strong language— ii and she seems to mean what sheI v *a ! says- O'Malley's sockdcloger, t]City Item, is justly p’cmd of its j, success in bringing Mart to law, p. r ; and is deliriously happy over the p n : downfall of the smooth MauricebvvoSlband continues to heap damn: hi/ \-• - : evidence upon his dishonor. ■! h.ea I.1 j The Stales, an the T.dwells *- on the evils of municipal eorrup-C j tion, puls in a good word for llart,! ilip’oin.itica'ly straddles the rntes-tion and leaves the reader m doubt v .. as to where it stands. I tWhat the mibornc of the grand^ jury's findings will be, no one can j-,tell: but there are two wcll-eslul»-l l:--hed One i s that Maurice , .r ). llart is getting unpleasantly near ps to the present abode of his Wr.ilom , S( friend and par ter in crime. Henri 1’ier, and the other is that New Or-»:; 1.r«loans is in a pretty bad shape.
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The Lafayette Gazette
Lafayette, Louisiana, US
Sat, Aug 17, 1895
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