The Ouachita telegraph., 1872-02-10
TRIUMPHANT MEDICATION OF THE
DEMOCRACY.

tee. whereof Gleni w. Schofield, good
Radical congressman of Pennsylvania,
is chairman. We very greatly feared,
when Mr.. Dawes first asked the House
to send us court of inquisition, and |
the Democrats, acting upon the state |
rights doctrine, opposed the resolution,
that the Republican majority would
for once take good Democratic ground
and not send the committee asked for
for, in truth, there is nothing connec-
ted with the government of Louisiana,
since April, 1868, that the Republicans
had rather not the world should re-
main ignorant OF. But there was, for
tunately, in this case Il wheel within a
wheel in fact, there We're several small
inner wheels. Gen. Grants appointees
were formally arraigned, and, neces-
sarily, his administration too. 1t was
important for his denomination that
he should not avoid an inquiry into
their acts, which was urged by some
congressman not friendly to his re-elec-
tion. 1t was equally important, and
much more agreeable, that Grants en-
emies in this State, headed by War
moth, should also be Investigated, and
their power, if possible, broken before
tho meeting of the Tsa dical nominating
Convention next June. If it could be
shown that the enemies of Grant We're
the real conspirat ors-the consistent en-
emies of a republican State govern
ment-and they We're exposed by Il
committee which he had had appoint
ceive all the credit for such an expo
sure, and appear as the champion of
local republican government. War
moths friends, the opponents of Grant,
were too weak to defeat the investi-
cation, and thus the committee was
raised and has gone to work.
1t is needless to say, regarding the
labors of the committee, that we are
profoundly happy at the success it has
SO far met with. It has manipulated
the witnesses, nearly all Republicans,
in a way peculiar to Republican in
4uisitors, bent upon Il purpose, leaving
them exhausted, deformed and politi-
cally hideous. They have gone for
the "heathen Chinese" in way that
would extort praise from the lips of
Truthful James, or his confederate,
Bill Nyc.
Mortimer Carr is an illustration of
inuuistiorial fiabbincss. He was forced
to confess that he represented Il parish
he had sojourned i'll only q few days;
that his wife had newer been there
that the only "property'' he owned
there was II vulgar fraction of an Off
cial journal, no longer published ; that
he could not tell how many votes he
received; that he did not think it an
insult to be offered Il bribc, and, finally
was made the object of insulting ridi
culc by being ask cdhyScloticld ifhc ever
had Il shirt washed in tho parish he
represented, and by Smith who begged
him (Carr) to let him know in what
parish he would run when the next
election came on!
Another specimen OF Il helpless, un-
done trickstcr, is Henry Clay Dibble,
the Judge of thcSth District. 1t was quite
natural for him to say he thought it
no harm in him to dabblc in politics,
and so, also, it was for him to frame Il
bill organizing II new court and then
become its Judge. Thcsc things are
Radically natural, and we do not Won
der at them. But what manner of
Judge is that, who swcars he was un-
successful as Il lawyer, and yet ueclin-
cd an office, because the salary of $4,000
did not justify him in leaving his prac-
tice? And he dealt in stocks, the spawn
of IL corrupt legislature, leaving his
bench and doifing the crminc, to en-
gage in the huckstcring Of Slaughter
house, bogus railroad, or wutcr-"loSet
bonds! This Judge, on his solemn
oath, declared that the bank ruptcy of
the State is preferable to the success of
of the Democracy; and yet swcars he
could do justice i'll II contest for office
between Il Republican and Dcmo-
crat. His declaration that Warmoth
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