The weekly echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1868-1876, 1874-08-29


we heard very Startling gepoE1
on DE streets Yesterday ana eN
pa1encea such 4 thrill of delight
Nh lisEeeing thereto that Nesean
not refrain from permitting ON
readers to share our pleasure.
Ma we're eravelv told that there
was a movement on foot, the ob-
iect Of which was 70 induce
hi. Kellogg @ resign bis position
as de Joeio Executive, position
which he psurped, and which he
has administered with So little
discretion and Judgment as tea
plunge tie Stale into virtual bank
ruptcY
THUS movement, we are assured
had it's inception among our very
best and most conservative citi-
zens and taxpayers, members Of
wealthy aud respectable mercan-
tile firms. presidents of banks, I'M
surance Companies and other cor
porations, and that it has been
brought about not only by the
fact that MI. Kellogg is distaste-
ful to the people by reason of his
having usurped q p0sitionto which
another was elected, but by reason
Of the disasters which the usurpa~
ton has brought upon tie State
I ~
and city, and the ruinous effect
which it has had upon the credit
OF the State. Bonds, that even
under the Warmoth administra-
ton brought, readily, eighty
cents in the New York market,
to-day are Stunned BIZ capitalists
at 90 and even l5 cents on She
dollar He has placed over the
| parishes a set Of thieves and low
fellows who have pIundered right
and left ID the most barefaced ard
shocking name and SO far from
restoring peace and quiet has re-
ally been the cause of most OF
the trouble in the country, and iii
u T <
one notable instance was The prime
mover liz d dreadful riot ia which
numbers, both white and black,
were killed. He has failed to in
spire confidence ia anybody, and
stands to-day detested by the more
decent men id bis own party as
we'll as By the whole White popu-
lation.
He lobbied through his mongrel
Legislature, acts which are oppres-
siye and outrageous, and which
never can gain the sanction of The
people. He has, in short, exbib-
tied such a marked incapacity for
the Office and developed SO many
objectionable traits, and has sue
ceeled ID SIS brief a time i'll max
ing Louisiana d word and REL
proach, not only among the Suites
of the Union, but abroad, that we
conceive there can Be NO impEo-
| priety ia asking him i'll the name
Of the people to step down and
ont.
| The admirable results which have
attended the action Of the people
in the parishes, and the readiness
with which the objectionable Off
cials havo handedin their resigna-
tions, leads us to hope that Kel-
logg will follow the excellent ex.
amples set him BIZ his own snbor
| dinates, and yield q cheerful ae-
| quiescence to the very reasonable
demand for his resignation, when
i it shall be presented.
The absence of several promi-
nent men from the city AZ this
time is thought to be significant.
Some have gone To Washington
to.bolster MP Kellogg, while others
have gone to show the ruin he has
wrought and the absolute neces-
sitY for d change.
We would suggest 70 The persons
4 who may have this matter in
charge. the advisability Of asking
not only Kellogg but All the OBJ
I leotionuble men who hold appoint-
ments under him to retire.
SUdAR ToWN, LOUISIANA,
August 25. 1874