The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1872-07-20
Treason, Stratagem and Spells.
A TICKET CONCEIVED IN SIN AND BORN
IN INIOTTITY.
[From the New Orleans Republican,.

From the New Orleans Republican,.
II they alone were wise, the people OF
Louisiana might fall into the trap Sc
c%unningly set and temptingly batrd bv
the m~anipulatOrs of the Reform and
Democratic State committees. If tlpil
patriotic declarations could not he
proven the cloak of most unscrupulou.
ambltiOns-their appeals to stand firm
by old organizations Il cover to the
basest treachery to those organizations
and their accusations of evil motives
IN others the consequence of unh0ly
schemes of their own defeated, the
plOtterS might hope to win SYMPATHY
and support to their cause. But tho
people have learned to regard all thcil
acts with ~scrutlnlZlng suspicion, and il
this instance the serpcnt's trail is ry-
posed to the view of all.
We charge that the sO-called "u3itnd
State ticket is the result of bargair
and sale with the Grant ring in thf
Customhousc that it is an appendix t.
the contract entered into last january
between Il fragment of the Democratic
Committee and the present Reform
leaders on the one hand, and Packard
Caseyand associates Oh the other, where
by the State government was to be
overturned and the contracting parties
promoted to official station.
We charge that i'll this plot political
principles are ignored, the interests of
the people as we'll as their loudly bro
claimed wishes passed over unronSider-
ed, and that self-aggrandizcmrnt is the
sole mpelling motive in the course plr-
sued.
Ne charge that the "unitcd State
tie6ot" is the result of Il conference
with, and was formed under the an
proyal OF, the Grant Radical leaders
that, prior to announcing their pro-
gramme, representatives of the Reform
end Democratic c0mmitteeSmet Senator
Kellogg, Mayor Flanders, Colonel VIII
!lamSOn and others at the st. Louis
Hotel, for the purpose of completing its
"details.
We charge that the Trainers have no
expectation OF electing this SO-callcd
united State ticket" that it is design
not, solely to draw off votes from the
Liberal ticket in the interest of that
made ut Baton Rouge, and that the said
trainers expect their reward direct from
the hands Of the federal authorities and
OF Kellogg should their Vaccinations
make him Governor Of Louisiana.
The people will not be deceived lyy
such palpable trickery. The patriotic
impulse which swells III the hearts of all
true Americans to-day, and which found
expression yesterday at Baltimore, can
not be defeated by the fimsy devices of
political wirepullers. 1t will achieve Il
great triumph by installing an honest,
laW-lOving man in the presidential chair,
and elect reform government for Louis
lama upon the ticket which Greeley
heads. The contest lies solely between
the Liberal Republicans and the Radical
Republlcans-the one representing a
government of the people, for the
people, the other a despotism in the in
terest of one MAJ and his rings. All who
oppose the former support the latter,
This the people realize, and those who
would tempt them from the straight
path Of duty and patriotism will next
November receive the indellible seal of
their sternest condemnation. Note the
prediction!