The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1872-03-23

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payment of any further taxes to
the State, except under judicial
compulsion; and we are assured
that a mass meeting will be called
at an early day to set the ball in
motion. We hail the movement
with satisfaction, and believe it is
the wisest course the peOpl can
take in opposition TO corruption
and ruinous misrule. II the peo
pie want reform, let them go to
work and have it. The rings have
had the swing toe long already.
Ouachita Telegraph.
And now comes Mr.. Lewis Tim,
editor of the Franklin Sun, Dem
cratic plaintiff, and says:
The getting rid of Warmoth and
bis pack of robbers is of the first
consideration to the people OF
Louisiana. The best, indeed we
expect the only way to do it. is
for the good people of Louisiana,
either to ignore National politics
altogether at the next election, or
make a virtue of necessity, and 60
for Grant. We urge this matter
upon tile consideration of the peo-
pie. @
From all tile information we can
get the ''people" are perfectly in
different to politics, party names
and party principles. Very few
of them expect to ever hold Office,
aud they don't care a cent who
does and who don't. They are in
terested in but one thing connect
ed with the machine of Govern.
ment, an that is inoney-taxation.
Their crops we're short last year.
and their money is consequently
short this year, and as they have
to foot the bill of costs, they want
the machine run cheap.
fOpelousas Journal.
We endorse the following from
the Mansfield Reporter. Our chief
aim is to beat Warmoth, and
thereby redeem Louisiana, aud
we are willing to make all honor
able concessions that can be re-.
quired, to secure that object:
If the name of tile Democratic
party be objectionable, it might,
for the occasion, be laid aside in
favor of that of "Reforlners.r
This, however, We merely throw
out by way of suggestion, because
it belongs to che Convention to
take action upon the subject
shonld they consider it to be ex-
pedient to do so. Their object not
being partisan they may regard it
as unimpOrtaBt to retain the par
tisan name, especially if by so do
ing they CAN remove the obiec-
tons of those who wish to hight
with them. We think, then, that
in the election next fall there
should be but one set of candi-
dates on the Reform side, and
they should represent the opposi
ton to Warmoth. And to this
end we ardently desire co-opera
ton and harmony betweenparties
struggling for victory in a com.
mon cause. Let the honest men
of all parties present a united
front to the common enemy, and
when the battle has been fought,
they can, if need be, resume the
positions and re.establish the lines
they have formerly occupied.
COURSE OF rHE DEMoCRAT.-
Now that the important elections
in our State are soon to take place,
and that the patriots, who have
been fighting with their graves,
when they should have been fac.
ing other music, are again wiping
the dew drops from their names
we are already in receipt of CON-
munications marking out our
course and making use of the
Democrat generally. We may as
we'll now and for the balance of
the campaign, lay down our plat
form, which Wa intend to stand OH
or burst i'll the attempt. The
Democrat is ours and belongs to
no party or set of men or clique,
and we intend to manage and di-
rect its course accordingly. Since
the late unple;ssantness, we have
carried it on, without the aid or
assistance, directly or indirectly,
of the Democratic party of Ra-
pides, or even its moral support.
Its leaders have not taken the trou