The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1872-11-16
The InteIligencer and the Editor OF
tho Telegraph.

tho Telegraph.
Our neighbor Of tho Intelligenccr has
found regular squealing worm, ana
no old hen ever made more noise than
he over the discovery. The election
Of his former pal, we know very we'll,
is not half 80 acceptable to him as the
defeat Of Capt. AcCranie. or that gen.
tlenaau he has published a hundred
lines to where he has ono for Senator
Kellogg or against Col. McEnery.
Aud even set the Intelligencer does
not appear to know that any one has
been defeated or was running for Office,
but the editor OF this paper. In that
paper of Wednesday u labored effort is
made to chow that Capt. McCranie was
not tho choice of the people and run
behind his ticket in the parishes OF
Caldwell, Ouachita and Richland. 1t
seems that this is the very sweetest
morsel our contemporary can possibly
gather from the results Of Mondays
route. 1t appears to console him for
the loss Of the Governor, other State
Assembly.
And the editor OF the Intelligencer is
probably not the only one who has
fattened and battened on misrule in
this parish and State who rcjoiccs, not
without cause, at Capt. McCranie's
failure to be elected to Congress. None
Of them, we can say truly, wanted him
elected. Week by week and year by
year he has been watching them and
warning upon them, and his position
necessarily placed him in the front.
He never expected their support, or
sympathy, and he is not aware that in
failing to receive both he is any the
less entitled to the confidence Of the
friends Of Reform, or weakened par
ticle in his future efforts to aid the
overthrow Of bad men in the State.
But why does not our neighbor take
his own physic? He ran farther be-
hind his ticket IN this parish than Capt.
N1cCranIe did behind his. And why
did no not inform his readers that
Capt. NcCranic led the ticket in Bien-
Vile? That he toll behind in Cald-
well, because, voters, i'll tearing off the
Greeley electors, tore of also the names
of Sheridan and McCranie? That all
over the State the candidates for Con-
grees on tho Fusion ticket ran behind
the candidates for State Offices? Is the
Lieutenant Governor, ran ahead Of his
ticket in Ouachita and in New Orleans
any evidence that he is stronger man
than Col. NcEnery, or that hc has
more Of the confidence of the people, or
has accomplished more for them =
What is such a test worth, except to
show that men in public stations and
actively engaged in politics arc Lcu1d
to make enemies?
Now, II our neighbor intended to
make point against Capt. NcCranie,
he ought to have given Il valid reason
for his failure to get tho full Fusion
vote. Granted that no was q Bourbon,
what hope OF success was there for the
Fusion without the Bourbons: What
act in Capt. McCranie's political life
can tho Intelligencer point to that has
not looked to good government and the
prosperity of tho people?
On the Radical ticket, both State and
parish, there were men who have been
denounced In their own party organ
4zation for almost every Imaginable
political sin. Before tho election one
would have supposed they were, nc
cording to Republican estimates, the
very worst men to be found. 1t is usc-
less to deny the fact that some Of them
GU both tickets We're forced upon their
party. And yet they received the full
party vote. Does the fact that these
men were thus supported alter tho
character Of their standing antcccden?
Certainly not, hut the fact show. the
power Of principles and ot organizations.
It shows that 4 candidate may receive
full party vote, although he may
be dial!R"i., What hct.rni.,. then of
the arguut:ut, ,i!at, because another