The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1872-03-30
A Claiborne Reviewer Answered.

ilotiSc Vi Sapt. bl;ickiIldll cIltIy lOI
the gubernatoriaf stake, using our name
freely as editor and as Il citizen, and
atfiNcs to his article only the anony-
nous appelation of " Many Voters"
Now, ifthere is anything purely Of II
hunbug character it is this thing of
publishing /, laudatory article, and;Sign-
ing it " Many Voters" If we wanted
to kill a man off, we should praise him
once Il week regularly, and sign ourself
Many Voters. If we had Il friend who
was anxious to rise in the world, and
he should ask us to publish a letter
commencing him, signed Many Voters,
we would tell him that it has been our
experience us II publisher that one man
generally writes the letters signed
Many Voters, and that, as a rule. that
man is either ashamed of himself or Of
his candidate, one Of the two, and some
times both. If any friend OF ours wants
to hurt our feelings, and make us feel
small, friendless, weak, and no-account,
let him praise us as g Many Voters"
and hold us up as Il model, and every
one else, especially those who do not
believe we are next to the sun in bril-
liancy, as selfish, head-strong dema-
even as good Il fellow as our friend
Blackman, VIC are bomb-proof and the
reading public are fools.
Now, what we said of Capt. Black
man, was CD that under his advice the
party in this district struck its flag in
1870; and ca that he was on the revi-
sorry law committee of the legislature,
whose work involved Il "fOolish ex-
pcndjturc of nearly $50, 900 of the States
money, inu "sttt'tey'Hctct get ct7,lttiitetl."
These were our only points, no matter
how many more we might have made.
The Advocates numerical corrcspon-
dent fails to sec how tho Democratic
part stuck its flag in 1870. We sup
pose he never heard of tho Bastrop
Convention, where the position was
taken boldly not to consider the mat
ter OF ability to take the Test oath, as
of amy value in the selection of II candi-
date, and that it was better to be unrcp-
resented i'll Congress, than to be repre-
scented by any but one Of our own people.
If Tic had been aware of this fact, and
that the particular friends of Capt. Black
man, and perhaps that gentleman him.
self, IL candidate for the nomi nation held
that position, he would have spared
his champion the cruel blow couclled
in the following extract from the reply
he attempts to this paper:
We remember it to have been Il pop
ular doctrine of the extremists Of the
Democratic party, not to elect any one
to Congress who could qualify, as he
would not be Il representative man. 1t
Is to these extreme men, that the people
are now indebted for all the ruinous
evils, high taxation, bad government,
&C., under which we are forced to live.
Certainly no friend of Capt. Black
mans ever wrote that. The "popular
doctrinc'' referred to, was advocated
by that gentleman, or by his especial
friends who were ut Bastrop, but Capt.
McCranic opposed it. "Many Voters
should fitmilirize himself with politics
and the use of the pen. The nomina-
ton Of Capt. McCranie placed him in
different attitude. He had to defend Il
position he had opposed, in Difference
to the will Of the majority.
In 1870, the question of eligibility
arose again. What WAS done: Did
the Convention rc-atiirm its position of
1865: 1t refused to do SO, Capt. Black
man in the lead. Did the facts Justify
the rctractiOn: We maintain that
they did not, and cite the reports and
records in the Congressional contest to
prove that the matter of Mr.. McCra-
nic's so-caIIrd incligibility, had no.
thing to do with his rejection, and to
show that, Notwithstanding, the high
Southern grounds taken by the Con-
Nrntion he had to defend, the people of
this district received f,ircr hearing
and better verdict than the people of
amy other district in the state, the
First probably excepted, where the
Democrat WAS also said to hc iucli~i-
bic. And no man in tn" Monroe Con-