Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1872-10-12
THE LIBERAL PARTY AND
LIBERAL PAPERS.

We have heretofore on several &C.
casions tried to demonstrate the incon-
sistency of the so-called Liberal Party,
and the vide difference existing be-
tween its practice and its professions,
that its ideas on the subject OF liberall-
ty closely resembled those of the little
boy on honor, who when his mother
told him he must be honorable, ana
give his little brother Charlie, the big
gest half of the cake, replied that he
had much rather Charlie should De
honorable, and so the liberals would
much rather that the Republicans
should be liberal.
Of course the press as a general
thing, follows the lead Of the party
and teens With abuse and misrepre-
seutation of Republican candidates,
though now and then we find an hon
orable exception whose course we
would be glad to see initiated by the
papers of the State generally, Repuo-
lican as well as Democratic or Liberal,
for there is nothing gained in the long
run, by vituperation and misrepresen-
tation. We referred last week-to the
manner in which the La. Democrat IS
following up this plan Of indiscrlmln-
ATE and characteristic abuse, and Bill
llingsgate denunciations OF polltlcai
adversaries, and as it the organ OF the
Democratic Liberal party here, We pre-
sume it's course is endorsed by the
members of that party. 1t commenced
the game, by applying to the coloreo
people 1.-THE nations wards, to use itS
own language), the nondescript epithe'
of Ouohoe, and on our asking an ex
PLANTATION, it has preserved a silence
not exactly we think dignifed unde
the circumstances. Neverhaving heart
of the word quahoo, and failing to tint
! it in any accessible dictionary, ant
!, knowing that Yahoo expressed I'll
pditors sentiments we naturally SUI
posed that Y in YahOo, had been mis-
taken by the compositor for Q, an
that he put after as necessity I
form a word. Here is Webster's DEF
:. milton of the word, and it must be al
kLowledged that the circumstance
Justify our suspicion, that one wor
was meant for, or to cover another.
YAHOo, N. A name given by Swift, in OF
of his imaginary voyages, to race OF pru Z
having form and all the degrading passions
man. They are set in contrast Win u
Houyhnknms, OF horses endowed with reaso
and the whole is designed as satire on o.
race.
We said above, however, that the
were exception to this general rule
defamation and inyective pursued
both parties, and which by its violen
and exageration leses most ofits. eife'
and to show that it is So we give |
low extracts from the La. Democr
and the Morehouse Conseryatl,
, showing the difference of opinion
men and measures, entertained, or
any rate expressed by two journals
longing to or supporting the sal
dolitical party.
The balance Of the speeches, particuia
those of Kellogg and Lowell, We're worthy
men and their aims, bitter, yindictlve,
truthful and vulgar.l La. Democrat Ocf 2nd'
On the other hand the candidate OF the
icals, w. P, Kellogg, is carpet-bagger "
CT. no domicil or interest in the State when
proposes to represent. He came here a
CARPET bag office-holder, armed with full p.
ers to collect the taxes from an impoveris
people. one half of which went into his Q
nockets. He made enough money to bril-
corrsapt;R Radical Legislature to ecna MN 10
Senate of the United States. where he dis
guished himself by his attempt to pass
depriving the people of Louisiana OF tne II
r. to elect their own officers. lie spehus ms 10
10 tiers in Washington and his summers III
nois where he has his legal domicil. itw
ina. be lasting disgrace to the State TO eject
q man governor.
But the election ofKeIlogg carries wit
somethina even worse than the election
carpet-bag hief. He expects 10 De retu
TO the Senate Immediately after his elect
The real prospective Radical governor OF
isiana is C. G. Antoine, a wooliy me-
Guinea niger, without brains, without
cation without honesty, nominated sil
because the Raj idals knew his election W
he distasteful to the honest men o. the >
He has never east a vote without beng
for it. He has voted for hundred oil
plumber the State, which Governor war
vetoed.-[ La. Democrat 9th au
This is the Democrats opinion,
let us see what-our contemporary OF
50 Conservative has to say ON
same subject, omiting much OF tn
ticle, and quoting those portions
particular referring to Messrs Kel
and Antoine, and a summary OF