The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1865-10-25
Henry w. Allen for Governor.

Henry w. Allen for Governor.
While we were penning the Edito.
rial in the last Democrat, which we
concluded with an expression Of the
JOY with WHICH the people Of Lonisi
ana would hail the returnto the helm
Of their banished governor, Henry
Watkins Allen, We little thought that
at that very moment the news boys
in the streets of New Orleans were
crying their morning papers, contain
ing for the first time the following
simple and modest announcement:
"Ihe friends of Ex-Governor Heery Wat
k;ns Allen, anticipating his immediate return
home, announce him as q candidate for Gov.
ernor Of the State of Louisiana, at the en-
suing November election
We can well imagine that the an.
nouncement created quite a ccmIno-
tion in political circles" as The True
Delta truly says. Butstrange to say,
not a single paper in the city Of New
Orleans, for whose down.trodden and
.
people, in the time Of But;
ler's autocracy, Allen heaved many~a
sigh and sent forth many o word OF
encouragement, and promise Of re-
lief, had the courage 10 proclaim it
self for him; SO timid has the press Of
the city become. Some even went 50
far as to deprecate the movement and
to question its authority. The nearest
that any came to supporting him, was
q complimentary article from the
True Delta, which we COPY below;
the Editor, though not declaring fol
him, not being able to restrain his
enthusiastic admiration for our glori
GUS hero. For tits much We thank
him. 2
The friends Of The ex-governor
il is said, annopSce him. AS one Of
those friends we take up his name
and send it forth to our many readers
as our candidate, through thick OF
thin, regardless Of consequences.
We suppose that he was anne uncsd
by authority; but for this we care
nothing I'VE viii support him wheth-
er he wants to run or not, and if
elected, we will make him serve,
whether he will or not.
We are told that it is too late te
put o new candidate in the field. Ii
is early enough for the announcement
to reach every corner of the State,
and though it may be too late TO or
ganize all the machinery Of dema-
gognlsm and all the paraphernalia
of wire-working, yet we are proud to
know that Henry W. Allen needs no
such efforts to secure Ms election;
that his name alone is worth all the
party electioneeriDg and all the con.
temptible clap-trap by which the Sin.
pid, the mean and the corrupt sue
coed in elevating themselves to off
ces which they are incompetent to
fill. His friends only desire to know
that he will accept the Office; and
that fact being known, from the hills
and the valleys and the plains will
pour forth the gallant and patriotic
and grateful SOILS Of Louisiana to de.
post their ballots for her honored
son. Let his friends, tlIen, circulate
the announcement and, our word fol
it, he will be the next governor Of
Louisiana BY such majority as was
never before rolled up for any candi
date for that Office.
That the opposition viii resort to
many an underhanded dodge TO de
fe at him we have already had an init.
nation. They say that he cannot take
the oath, and that, therefore, his cleo.
ton would retard the work of recon
struction in this State. After all the
vacillation and dilly.dallying of the
opposition in the work of reconstruc.
ton, we should think that Mev are
the last people in the world to talk Of
delay in reconstruction. If we may
judge Of the future by the past, the
prospects Of the State ever being
"reconstructed0 are gloomy indeed.
But it is absurd to suppose that the
President would have any such objec.
ton to governor Allen. That he will
recognize as governor the man whom
the people want, is proved by his