The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1872-03-09
A Reply to Senator John Ray.

q We copied, last week, the remarks
of Senator Ray relative to the '1ittlc
knot of men" in this parish, who hold
nearly all the Offices. 1t appears that
the Senator's remarks struck the editor
of the Intclligcnccr in Il vulnerable spot,
and he has accordingly responded i'll
the following paragraphs clipped from
that paper, which we copy, in order TO
sec that fair play is shown by tho Tt:t.-
ECEAPiI.
Not to interfere too much in Il family
quarrel, we beg to be allowed to say
that the difference between Senator Ray
and his late friend and adn,ircr, Ennc-
moscr, consists i'll The fact that Mr.. Ray
did not cross the Atlantic to devote
l,imsclf to the high and sclf-sacritcing
calling of taking all the Offices he could
| ssssett %4tt- thai, it seems, the gentleman
from one of the Icssian Provinces of
Germany, did. \ man who will thus
consccr,tc himself to otiicc-holuing,a and
will take an office whether it has emo
lumcnts or not, is certainly II greater
hero and patriot than he who was born
here and had some little distinction in
u profession and Il settled home in 4
country in which he was expected nat
Offices. y great many short-sightcd
foreigners cross the ocean to earn Il
subsistence at Il trade, or by mcrchan-
dizing, or by investing capital; but the
man who will take that risk to be a
Confederate postmaster, or Il school
director, or Il revenue clerk, or assessor,
which over comes handy--in short who
will take any little Office that lies around
| lOosc-is 4 man almost without Il par
allel. But We forget our duty, which is
to copy the annexed paragraphs from
Wednesdays Intclligencer, disowning
explicitly any personal responsibility
for reproducing the comments of that
journal, or the punctuation or gram
NAUTICAL construction Of the sentences:
| We still believe that before next fall,
our party can be reunited and can now
tell the leaders Of the Customhouse
| wing, that when they have known
Hon. John Ray as long as the people
of North Louisiana, they will have less
confidence in him than now.
Can anybody inform us whether
since Hon. John Ray has joined the
Republican party, he has ever applied
for or held any office where there was
no money in.
Hon. John Ray says there is one
man i'll Ouachit;t parish who holds five
offices. Wen, that man can say, he is
capable Of holding as many offices
alone as it takes four of the Ray f;,mi-
~ to fill.
We learn, on good authority, that
the only one OF the Rays in Cuachita
parish capable Of holding ot1iceand not
yet supplied, WA; u candidate for L. $.
Mail Agent on the North Louisiana
and Texas Railroad. For some season
he failed to get it.
! The five offices held by that one man
in ouachita parish, alluded to by Hon.
John Ray, pay him annually the sun
of two hundred and twenty-five dol
lars while the five offices held by four
members of the Ray family, cost the
Federal, State and City governments,
between seven and eight thousand dol
lars per annun; "and yet Mr.. Ray
| is not happS.n
Will Hon. John Ray please state
whether he did or did not endorse the
| present Public Administrator for APP
| pointmCnt to the Governor Did he
or did nc not consent to the appOint-
| fmcnt of the liictubcr of the Police Jury
| from the Monroe ward" Did on did
not the Ray family vote for the same
gentleman for member OF the City
! Council? Was not this same gentle
man appointed u member of the City
! Board School directors after one Of the
patriotic Rays had rcsiGncu-(wc do
not know whether it was because there
| WAS no money in the office or not.D
|
We publish elsewhere Il letter taken
from the W.;,rnoth Republican, which
l In, /, L..