The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1870-11-19
THE REPUBLICAN CRUSADE IN LOU.
ISIANA...1S71

EaeuIe ny IL tWO-tnlfttS majority. Inc
facts appear to more than justify the
prediction made: the Democrats will
not have more than twenty five mem
bers in the next House, and probably
not so many. The parishes Of jackson,
Bienville, Union, Claiborne, Richland
and Franklin, in North Louisiana
notably the +" Radical Democratic" par
ishes-havc returned Democratic mem
bers; while West Baton Rouge, La
fOurche and two or three other parishes
in South Louisiana, have elected mem
bers of Il similar faith. New Orleans
has chosen a solid Radical delegation,
one Democrat excepted. 1t is charged,
it is true, that in some parishes, partic-
ularly Orleans, this result was reached
through fraud, both in registration and
in the election. But whatever the
means employed, the end is the same,
and it is the end, or result, with which
we propose, as practical man, now to
deal. 1t is all the same with the Radi-
cals-they have control Of the State, by
what means they do not care.
The possession of the State in their
hands, the Republican leaders expect
to keep it there. We do not suppose
that, in furtherance Of this object, they
will alter or amend the present excel
lent and most efficacious Election law.
That splendid triumph of the genius of
John Ray, assisted by all the election
codes in the Union, will be permitted
to stand as it is, as Il tribute to undis-
puted merit.
But these leaders will turn their at
tention to building up Il party based
upon the solid interests of the State
The individuals who have magnani-
mously placed them in power are not
such citizens as are calculated to stand a
political seige. To-day they are with
one party: tomorrow they act with
another. They are vascillating, timid
and uncertain. One cause of this polit-
zeal inefficiency is the impecuniosity
and ignorance of this class of sutiragans.
Ambitious to be well-off, they are new
ertheless poor, and with their prodigal
views of life must remain so. Yet, the
carpet-bagger and the scalawag have a
direct interest in these people becoming
the owners of stock, lands and money,
and this class of politicians are pledged
to use their power to bring that result
about.
These two influences combined, point
clearly to the highway the Radical
leaders Of this State will take. They
are now canvassing, we dare say, the
best means of inaugurating successful
warfare upon the property-holders,-
the influential and intellectual voters
of the State. This class of citizens
own too much land-grow too much,
cotton-have too many mules, hogs and
wagons, ever to be finally subserVieAt
to the negro and the Radical party;
while the negro himself cannot hold out
against the preponderating weight and
influence of this governing class, unless
some means are successfully employed
to transfer the property from the we'll
TODD and intelligent to the poor and
ignorant from the Democrat to the
Radical.
Here, then, we have the problem the
Radicals propose, and will attempt, to
solve, and it is simply and purely IL war
upon property and the rights of the
citizen. Their Willingness to restrict
the State debt to $4,000, 900, amounts
to nothing;-in fact, only furnishes
them Il plausible preteXt to hasten the
work of confiscation. And this is the |
trouble with which the people, in the
form of taxation for levees, for schools,
for railroads, printing, &c, have now
to contend.
In two years more there will be an
other rccl> oning of the voices of the
people. 1t is Il long way off, it is true,
but November, 1872, will come, and to
that day and hour only can we look for
reformation and succor. Preparatory
to the election then, our people must
maintain their buoyancy of spirits and {
their confidence in Democratic rule, and
when the National Democracy sounds i,
the rallying cry our hearts must respond :
with thrilling emotions and our talents ,
be given to the cause. Meanwhile, we 1
must resist the seductions and agrees \
sions of the Radicals at home, as best =
we can, and as the occasion and our own :,
interests and ingenuity-which are gen. V
orally efiicacious-may suggest. We jt
can and must maintain an unbroke en- Il
front, and brand the comrade who ADAM .. q:
iOnS us as a traitor and a cOwardt Sol -