The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1873-10-31
THE ELECTIONS-..LOUISIANA.
lFrom the Shreveport Times.l


Democratic gains everywhere except in
Pennsylvania. In Iowa the Republi-
! cans have lost twenty-five thousand
votes on their majority In 1871. Then
they carried the State by forty-one
thousand, and now they have 1t by but
sixteen thousand majority. Oregon,
which gave Grant u majority, now
wheels into the Democratic ranks, while
it is conceded on all hands that Mr..
Allen, the Democratic candidate, has
been elected Governor OF Ohio, and that
the Democrats have n clear majority on
joint ballot in the Legislature Of that
State.
All this has been unexpected; the
result in Ohio Is especially surprise.
There the anti-administration forces
were divided between the straightout
Democratic ticket headed by the Hon.
VIM. Allen, and tho peoples ticket
headed by I. G. Collins, giving little
hope of defeating the united Republic
cans, who expected to carry tho State
by from ten to fifteen thousand ma
iority.
There is Il significance In the result Of
these fall elections that is calculated to
inspire the hearts Of all patriotic men
with hope, and to dampen tho conf
dence of those gentlemen whose faclle
theories OF politics prompt them always
to seek the strong side, and who of late
have had so much to say of the wisdom
of expedicnty, and tho statesmanship
of constituting power and domination
into right and Justice. Tho result of
the fall elections above referred to, are
the first formidable shock the Admin
istration has met with, and it looks as
though the Credit Mobelier business,
the salary swindle, the general corrup-
ton Of the civil service and the Louisi-
ana shame, are beginning to open the
eyes of the people. 1t may be that the
official returns in Ohio will count out
Mr.. Allen, but there Is no manipulation
of the official returns that can disguise
the luminous fact that in Iowa, Oregon,
California and Ohio, tho strength of the
Administration power has been terribly
shaken.
While these facts have u general in
terest to the whole country, they have
a special interest for Louisfaninns.-
There is no doubt that the lawless and
infamous measures resorted to by the
Administration to foist Kellogg upon
this State as Governor, after he had
been defeated by decisive majority,
has provoked the Indignation of honest
men of all parties and all sections, and
W lllC CAlAil5CulallOu
of the Republican power in the States
in which elections have just been held.
In view of this fact, wo should take
courage and resolve to maintain our
hostility to the usurpation we should
show by our actions that we are not less
conscious Of the foul wrong that has
been done us, than our fellow-citizens
Of other States. If these wrongs and
insults have filled the country with in
tlignation, We should show that they
burn into and blister our very hearts,
and that we are resolved to do all that
men can do to right ourselves. The
results of tho elections In tho North
should give vigor and enthusiasm to
the movement for state Convention
in November we must feel in tho face
of the demonstrations made by our
friends there, that we are not alone,
that the spirit Of right, of justice and
law are not yet entirely dead among
our countrymen.
Let us of North Louisiana now begin
to act. 1t is time local conventions
were being held in the parishes to ap-
point delegates to the State convention.
Let IT'S act then, and let us appoint men
as delegates who have no compromise
to make with usurpers and PlundererS;
men who will contend for and be salts
fed with nothing but what is honorable
to Louisiana and just to her people. If
we organize IL convention led by craven
hearted men ready to accept any COM
promise and who fear to make n rcsO-
lutc fight, we will gain nothing but
the scorn and contempt OF America. II
VIC organize a convention led by mon
of bold thought and resolutc action,
men who will regard the honor and
interests of I.ouisinna as paramount to
tho interests of themselves and their
special friends, we will have much to
hope for. Congress will be scarcely
bold enough to give its countcnancc to
the lastardly policy OF the President in
this State confronted by n Democratic
victory in Ohio and Oregon and Il
Republican loss OF twenty y-fivc thousand
votes in Iowa, unless We, lil>o whipped
ours, are ready ourselves to give up the
contest and bow our nccks to tho shame.
Thomas II. SandidSo, near Browns
viIIc, Kinds county, Miss, put sixteen
Onc-hor5c cart loads of compost of
scrapings of the COW lot, cotton seed
and dccayed vegetables from the bot
tom of fl f8HH on one apre OF land