The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-06-29
The Candidates.
[lfrom the N. o. Republican, ]

Rouge 10 perform the self-imposed
duty OF designating candidates for the
various offices to be elected in No
vembe;w But one class of the people
of the tate, and that the lower-the
negroe participated in the primary
elections. Consequently either negroes
We're G. hosen delegates or white men
whose sole regret is that they were
not bern negroes. The lobby well
represented both classes.
Thetresult is before our readers, as
our faithful but disgusted reporter
has dORe the best he could to trans
late ii . jargon of a pow-wow into
something like orderly English.
In the first place, we are called up
on to vote for William Pitt Kellogg
for Governor. He is man. who well
answers his own description of an ad-
ventu r and a carpet Dagger, who
comes down South to make money
and sbend it at home or any where
but hdre. He is u native of Illinois,
or at Feast that State is responsible for
his early years. During the war,
when President Lincoln had but little
time ~ bestow upon small matters,
KelloE wOrmed himself in Il Nebras-
ka juf fge. But the United States gov
ernmtnt soon found out that mis-
take Bad been made, and at last sue
ceede1 in swapping him off, and send
ing h.n to shine as Collector of the
port cl' New Orleans. There has al
waysbee a dispute between us and
the y Ybraskians about the last act of
the Sg geat and good Lincoln, the latter
insisting that it was splendid piece
of craftsmanship, while our people
doggedly persist i'm declaring it to be
an egregiOus blunder. But Nebraska
gained by it, and we did not, which
accounts for the difference of senti-
ment.
The Custom House afforded kel-
logsA field for the exercise of his Pc
culia genius. While his master, An
dy j hnson, was swinging around the
circly and footing Democratic music
ON tile constitution, rolled up after the
fashion of a penny trumpet, Pitt swore
royal oath that the only employment
lie would give the negroes was u job
to whitewash official water closets, and
we Believe he at one time seriously
contemplated offering such situation
to tie Baton Rouge nominee for Con-
gresham Mt large.
Bat time passed on, and Andy faded
awa5. As the last expiring notes of
his footing-horn died out ON the air,
our 'enterprising adyenturer opened
his eyes and looked around him. Grant
was President, which he interpreted
to mean, My dear Pitt, you must
git!,N He was probably correct this
time, but happening to cast his eye
upon our newly-elected Legislature
i'll 1865, he suddenly. conceived a
brilliant idea. He invented the post
roll i'm the CustOm-Hous coralled a
majority of the members in the gran
ite building for thirty or sixty days,
and was elected to the United States
Senate for four years by the grateful
"extra inspectors There was no
talk of whitewashing then. The time
for fhat passed away with Andy John
son and his toOting-horn. His next
move was to swap off his influence in
the Senate to get the imperial infiu-
ence to make him Governor, with the
last year of his term of service thrown
in, If he succeeds in this, he will un-
doubtedly begin to lay his wires to
swap off his four years as Governor
for six years in the Senate, and COM
init his executive duties into the un-
certain and incompetent hands of
Caesar Cato Antoine. Since he was
elected Senator, this denouncer of
carnet-baggers and adventures has
speht his time in this State as follows:
In 1860, he was here fonr weeks; in
1870. the year of the general election,
he came and fitted away in ten days; ;
in 1871, he showed himself around for
seven days, and then hied away to
California. And he arrived in New
Orleans just four days before he was
nominated for Governor. 1t can hard
IL be that his well-known mortal fear
of yellow fever should have kept him
away SD much of the time, us during
all those years we have had little or
uone, and people equally or nearly as
timfd have braved it out.
Antoine, the pretentious candidate
for the second place ON the ticket, is
of an exceedingly small pattern. Rear
ed d slave, and frequently bought and
sold, he came at last to consider HIM
self human merchandise, with the
ownership vested in himself by the
fifteenth amendment. As Senator
he sold his votes right and left in ut
ter disregard of the wants of his con-
stit9ents. He did not even know
where his constituents lived, or wheth-
er he was appointed TO look after the
interests of Cadtlo or Orleans. We
have no objection to him or any other
man on account of his color; but his
skin is not half black enough or large
enough to hide his shortcomings and
political deformities.
Mr.. Charles Clinton, the candidate
for Auditor, is the United States As
sistant Treasurer at New Orleans.
Colonel A. P. Field, the choice OF
the convention for Attorney General