The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-10-31
OUR CONGRESSMAN.

: The importance of the election of our 81.
!, Representatives to Congress should not b.
und erestimated. Whatever may be the re
suit OF the election in this State, our final sub
starital relief must come from the Congress o
the United States. It is the Federal Govern
ment that has fastened upon us the presen
usurpation, first by recognizing its fraudulen
exist ence and subsequently by sustaining it b.
force Of arms; and it is the Federal Govern
ment that must give US that relief for which
the whole people are clamorous.
The result of the recent election in thu
North and West plainly indicate the over
throw of the Republican party. Its adherents,
aided by the Administration. are making
gigantic efforts everywhere to avert the i'm.
peniling ruin and to check the political revo.
luti2n that is sweeping over the country.
II is for this purpose that the Radicals
cling with such tenacity to Louisiana. The
six members Of the House of Representatives
to which we are entitled, may decide the fate
of the Republican party in this country. The
most extreme and sanguine leaders and jour-
nails of Radicalism, frankly admit that if they
succeed at all in securing the control of the
next House Of Congress, it will be by SO small
majority that six votes will make very i'm
portant difference. Hence the zeal, the des-
perate struggle, and the INSCRIPTIONS con-
duct of the Radical chief in Louisiana to
carry the election at all hazards and regard.
less of all consequences.
Our people, then, should readily perceive
the vital importance Of securing for the Demo-
cratic party in Congress the six votes of the
Louisiana members. They should resolve
that in future their State shall be represented
by men Of character, of ability, of integrity,
and not by such creatures as Sypher, Darral,
Morey, Smith, Dibble and Nash.
Already We hear it currently reported, and
we believe there is no doubt of the fact, that
Sypher is resorting to the same plan of bri-
berry and corruption which he practiced with
SO much success during the last campaign |
In the Third Ward he has deposited with |
well known party in this city the sum of $1,000
to be paid for the casting of five hundred
Democratic tickets with the name of Sypher
substituted for that of Gen. Gibson. On the
counting of these scratched tickets, Sypher
mas agreed to pay the additional sum of $1,000,
making $4,000 that he is to pay a Democrat
or deceiving five hundred Democratic voters
y putting upon them ticket scratched in
avor of the carpet-bagger, back pay grabber
md civil rights champion, J. H. Sypher
1t is only necessary to caution the people of
his ward and elsewhere Of the contemplated
rauds of Sypher and his paid minions. The
ctive parties to this nefarious transaction are {
lot only known, but their movements are
nder close surveillance, and they are sure to
e detected, exposed and thwarted Let {
very one be on the qui uive for such political |
aitors who would sell their State and barter !
heir own freedom for the greenbacks of a
adical impostor, who cannot boast of the
ossession of an honest dollar.
In every district, it behooves the Democracy
} look well to the election of our Congress- !,
en-. With voice in the National hall Of -
gislation, one that can portray to the coun- o
y true picture of the condition of Louisi- 81
Ia under Radical domination, and can hold 9
, to view the despicable set of men who have s,
cked from the State its life-blood and have p
over the people with an unrelent- II
6 and savage cruelty, without parallel in
history. When We can have such a cham Il
on to fight for US the battle is won and the al
Glory will be ours. ft