The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1870-11-02
THE ELECTION.

This is the last Issue OF the DEM
ocrat before the election on Monday
next. We hope we have been able
to prove to all our readers that the
safety, honor and welfare of the
State depend on the success OF the
Democratic ticket. We have ex-
hausted all the arguments which
90 to show that the perpetuation OF
the present Radical rule for two
years longer would bankrupt the
State, and paralyse every species
of industry within its limits.
We wish the voters of the Parish
to weigh well the arguments in IA
vor Of change of government, and
thus enable themselves to vote in
telligently at the election on Mon
day, the most important that was
ever held in the State of Louisiana.
An infamous government has been
fastened on our people, which is
not only an object Of scorn and ha-
tired to them, but an object OF dis
gust even to those who were lnstru-
mental in it's establishment. Com
posed of foreigners, who have no
residence or interest in the State
it's sole object seems to have been
to inhict the greatest injury on the
people, provided the pockets ofcor-
rupt Radical officials can be filled
from the public crib. Hence sys-
ten of ruinous taxation has been
inaugurated, which no people can
stand for any length of time, and
which will be doubled within the
next two years if the Radicals shall
again triumph at the polls. The
ax-gatherer is abroad among the
people; and their hard-earnings
are extorted from them to feed a
+ lazy and corrupt foreign govern
ment. 1t wovld have been much
better il the State had been gov
q erned as conquered province, thar
to have thus been robbed unde
the forms of a Constitutional gov
: eminent. The immense IN
O wrung from an impoverished PEG
4 pie are squandered in brides t.
q Radical officials and in O'Opolle
p and other Radical measures. Al
O end must be put to all this corrup
!, ton and waste of the peoples mon
J. ey.
If If any one class more than anoth
o er is interested in Kidding the Stat
n of the present Radi al government
t. it. is the colored voters. They hav
h been so often deceived by Radica
a professions that surely their eve
k have at last been opened. All tn
II Radical promises of assistance hav
t. been broken, until one would thin
g that no faith could any longer b
,, attached to them. In the mea
le time the real residents of the Stat
l. have put within the reach of color
lie ed men the means Of making liz
If Iihood for themselves and thei
families. The colorcd voters should
therefore, understand that it is
T. their interest to cultivate friendl
i relations with those whom the
~ have known all their lives. All til
Z efforts to estrange one from til
a other, that have been made by Raj
at cal carpet-baggers will only T
IL dound to the injury of the colore
he men long after these 1ncendial
lie Radical adventurers have left tt
IN country. We hope, therefore, TIL
is colored men have already Ia
tn enough of carpet baggery and tn
r. they are prepared to cast in the
is lot with those who have pledge
n themselves to secure to them
'ic their political rights.
nj On Monday, then, let all the v
De tiers repair to the polls and quiet
gu deposit their ballots in favor of t
'm Democratic candidates. In tt
way, and only in this, can they
ur cure the peace, harmony and pr
10 petty of all classes of our Peep
,is v When the Radical governor
Louisiana was waited on by comm
tee of Conservative Citizens who I
,rd deavored to put stop to the iniq
VS. tous legislation of the Radical par
: 4 the governor admitted that his frieI
,ss in the Legislature took brides, but
a. cused it on the ground that they W
" so ignorant as not to know that it ,
'.' wrong. He even stated that many
M. tempts were made to bribe his Ext
TX lency himself, but intimated that
GUS had found ready barrier against i
red his superior Intelligence. Now we