The Opelousas courier., 1872-12-07
SATURDAY, DECEMBER ?, 1a
The Same Old Dodge.


1.-THE election is over, but the Courier con-
tinues the fight after the battle Snarling,
swapping, abusing, and calling hard names, at
this stage, will not change the result of an
election which they could not influence in ad-
vance; and such exhibitions of tepmer at dis
appointment, by nerspdper, will not tend to
raise it in the estimation Of the public. "What
can't be cured must be endured, )" is good phil
Osophy which the Courier would ido well to
practice cheerfully instead of abusing, over
the shoulders of Senator Anderson, Supervi-
sor Hawkins, the Journal, and others, the
great body of voters in this parish who would
not do its bidding and elect the convention
tieket."-Opetousas Journal, Nor. 30th.
Now here is another one of the Journals at
tempts to create false impression Oh the pub
lie mind in regard to facts transpiring in our
community-another one of those attempts to
impose upon the people of our Parish.
The CoURIER's articles which the Journal
asserts to be continuation of the fight after
the election" were not written with any design
or desire to continue the fight" they were
written in order to deny and refute the ground
less assertions made by the Journal in it's ar
tiele Tritten after The election, that the printed
circular containing statement of Senator
Justification, distortion and perversion, and it
was not written in vain, as any one who feels
sufficient interest in the matter may ascer-
tain by reference to the pages of the Senate
Journal referred to in our circular, and as ap-
pears from the tone of the Journals articles in
answer to ours. We think it clear that the
bungling, obscure and disjointed articles,
r1,n1n nf - nj
intended as refutation to our answer, shows
conclusively that our Gallant neighbor has Gig
nally failed to maintain the false position as
sumed by him in his famous leader written
latter the election One of our articles, q
very short one, was written to show to the
public how unreliable are the statements of
our neighbor, in regard to events. that happen
ed before and during the election, when his
partisan bias was uiQn him. The Journal un-
dertook to state that ''the Supervisor of Reg
istratIon for this Parish had performed his
delicate and arduous duties in d most credita-
BILE MANNER" and to eulogize him for it-when
the Journal must have known the contrary.
lit must have known, for it was matter of no.
toriety, that the Supervisor had refused and
failed to 60 to Vile Plate to register voters,
though there was in and around that village
l62 persons entitled to registration; that he
refused and failed to 60 to Pointe-aux-Loups,
Plaquemine, Mermentau, etc.; that he refus-
ed to keep the books of registration open at
Queu Tortue longer than half day, though
several hundred voters there, and for many
miles distant, were entitled to register there,
and had no other facilities afforded them by
the Supervisor; that he refused to give either
Coul6e Croche or Bellevue q voting place or
poll, though nearly zoe voters resided at those
places; that he gave to the whole Mermentau
and Queu Tortue but one poll or voting place,
though it must have been known to him that
there were on the MermentaH and Queu Tortae
$50 persons entitled to register and vote,
mostly poor men who could not conveniently
attend at the poll given an account Of its dis
tance.
The JoarRal pretends to be well informed
about the necessities, rights, &C., of the peo-
pie of this Parish and also in respect of their
number, location and political opinions, there
fore it must have known, as the result of the
election has proven, that the Large majority of
the voters of these several localities were OPP
posed to the rule of the clique to which it be-
longs, and to their candidates at the last cleo
tion. The Supervisor must have been equally
we'll informed ON this point; therefore we
have concluded that his failure to afford proper
facilities to register and to vote to those peo-
pie, when he was requested by several gentle
men to do 80, was intentional, and a failure to
do his plain duty under the law. We have al
90 concluded that the Journal was willingly
blind to this fact, and desired to "blind" others
to it, when it pronounced it's eulogy ON the
Supervisor of Registration"
So neighbor, We are not in the least respon.
sible for the Continuation of the fight after
the election, we were simply fencing Off
against your attacks, which you always think
irresistible and overwhelming, until You are
met and forced to test the virtues that lie in
activity as well as ''audacity' in retreat.