The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1870-11-23

D. CADY STANToN.-Ths distinguished gentleman
was appointed to the responsible position of supervi
sor of registration in Bessie. parish, and with what
oman fortitude and Spartan virtue he discharged
bis duties is clearly set forth by the Banner of the
l2th We learn from article in that paper that be
kept open Office at Bellevue ten days. and then
advertised to register the voters at Mrs. Canes and al
Benton At the former place he kept "open office
till the close of the registration with the exception oil
day and half spent at Benton, and two or three
days at Atkins In other words he confined his oper
atoms to Red River where colored voters are largely
in excess of white oLea. He did not visit all that
large scope Of country north of Bellevue, where there
is majority Of whites To the north Of the regsra
ton and voting places. the parish extends thirty
miles The Banner is confident that there fully
six hundred voters the uplands who did not regis
ter for want of due notice and convenience The ar
ticle thus continues:
Just day or so before election day. We learned
that Stanton ordered the Commissioners of Election
to keep no list of voters although the law positively
required it, They consequently kept none at Bellevue
and Benton.
By this means the public could not know how many
votes had been polled and the Commissioners any
one of them the Supervisor, might stuff the boxes
at pleasure.
The Radical candidates given out to be l. NJ
Galloway for Senate, and c. S. Abel and Percy Ba
ker for the House, when 10 on election day, and not
till then, we find Wiggin, the Supervisors clerk on
the ticket for Senator and the Supervisor himself in
the place of Baker Now can't easily account for
the hole in the cocoanut and also for the milk therein!
Mr. Supervisor Stanton comes from the city of New
Orleans with the patriotic intention of representing
u.s. He takes the oath faithfully to perform his duties
as Supervisor, and doubtless keeps tin his es
timation He is beaten before the public after all his
fnesse but nevertheless another hard oath or two will
put him in the House. Oh, what mistake made
when we voted ourselves out of military rule! Bet
ter far, that we had no rights at all, than to have
them and not be able to profit by them.
This man is the of Mrs. E. Cady Stanton, lady
at the head of the woman rights movement. How
ever much the majority may oppose her politics. yet
no whisper has been breathed against her high moral
character How will her face burn with shame when
she learns that her son has SO dishonored himself
She would enfranchise all men and women he would
virtually dsfranchise free in order to enjoy an
Office that can only be made profitable by accepting
brides.
We must take issue with cur contemporary on hiE
last proposition Doubtless, Mrs. Cady like major
ty Of the Northern people, will think that her boy
his mammy's joy, has done nice and genteel thing.
We would think that Stanton, Abel and Wiggir
have been boarding in Shreveport pretty much all the
time since their advent to this region. But what o.
that? Their genius cannot be cireumscrbed by geo
graphical boundaries.