The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1873-09-26


tho office, but we were wide-awake
enough not to submit quietly to Fusion
that placed an enemy in
power.
ssBLEssED CHARITY"
''Tell the Newspapers.''---The Cham
PiOn Ikypocrite.
Perhaps the community was never
more electrified than 1t was last evening
when the Herald published the facts In
regard to that magnificent donation of
Kellogg's $1,000 to the Shreveport suf-
ferers. Some people there were who
thought the man, while equal to
almost any political trichery, how
ever disreputable, would finch from
attempting SO bold a fraud, so infinite
q piece of littleness as to arrogate to
himself the credit for donation of
money which was not his to give, but
which belonged to the State. They
thought that the man had possibly been
maligned by his political enemies and
that he was like the Devil, in not being
quite SO bad as he Is painted.
But the publication of that dispatch
just upset and forever banished any
lingering faith, even the few individu-
ais above mentioned entertained for
him. Some of Kellogg's friends, i. e.,
his appointees to Office, clustered con-
sideraby and swore SIT was all Her
aid fabrication" that "the Hearald
would be compelled to take 1t back"
etc., etc. Now, the Herald docs not
propose to take it back; on the contrary,
we reaffirm, with emphasis, our pre-
x,30r1o afafon1or1t auf1 cha 1fanOa rom
tradiction.
We dare Mr.. Clarke, the Governors
Secretary, to declare over his signature
that q dispatch, the purport OF which Is
as follows, was not received by him:
"Make out q warrant ON the contin-
gent fund; get Clinton to audit it, and
johnson, at FOlger's office, to cash it !;
pay to the Towards. Tell the neWs-
papers,"
Is that plain enough?
We have no special admiration for
Mr.. Kellogg; we never laid claim to
any, but we would not willingly or
knowingly malign him. This is simply
q matter OF fact, as Mr.. GrandgFind
would say, and we have no desire to
romance about it, or to embellish 1t In
any way whatever. It IS an act which
stands out in Its repulslve nakedness to
shock the sensibi1ities Of all honorable
and decent men-nn act which, for low
cunning and deceit, has never been sur
passed, II equalcd.-N. o. Hernld.
Commenting upon the exposures of
the Herald, tho Shreveport Times,
from the midst Of the pestllencc-the|
distresses Of tho very presence OF want,
suffering, and death wide
.lc,
which We fully endorse:
We published with some reluctance
last week, a dispatch from the columns
of tho New Orleans Times, from the
creature kellogg, donating 100000 to
this city. We published tho dispatch
reluctantly, for we regarded tho dona-
and humanity, but In reality rs Il bid
for tho good Will of the public; rs a
cheap effort to buy from a stricken peo-
plo immunity for the most shameful
and dastardly crimes against their lib
critics. AS for our part, had tho matter
been wholly In our hands, and w. Z.
Kellogg had rendered this people ono
thousand dollars, or any other sum, we
should have spurncd both him and his
gift. We should have done this, be-
cause we believe there arc higher con-
siderations than human suffering and
than life and death, and those consid-
erations arc self-respcct, public liberty
and public honor. All these and Mr..
Kellogg and his ring Of scoundrcls in
their dastardly ambition have set Mt de-
fiance and trampeled under foot, and he
deserves at our hand, only contempt,
hatred and scorn. Mr.. Kellogg and his
we regard as n worse
pestilence than tho yellow fever; In fact
all the epidemics that have over devas-
tated louisiana in the present and
years past have not done this State one
part the damage that has
been inflicted upon it by the carpet-bag-
gerry Of which Kellogg IS the vilcst rep
For these reasons we were
to publish his donation, though
we felt that after plundering the State
Of hundreds Of thousands, he could we'll
afford to give to u conscience fund one
thousand. But 1t seems by the follow
ing from the New Orleans Herald, that
he has not done this, and that oven ut
his sad moment, he has robbed the
state to dispense his charities.